The Trump administration claims that it has proof that the Syrian government dropped chemical weapons from an airplane on April 4th.
But a top missile and chemical weapons expert told Washington’s Blog today that the weapon was not delivered by an airplane at all …
In an unexpected statement made by the former COO of Goldman Sachs and current director of Trump's National Economic Council, Gary Cohn told a private meeting with lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday evening that he could support legislation breaking up the largest U.S.
Ed Murray, the Mayor of the city of Seattle, has just launched yet another federal lawsuit against the Trump administration's threat to withhold federal grants to so-called "sanctuary cities," citing the 10th Amendment that deals with states' rights. Murray also took to his bully pulpit to blast the Trump administration's "war on cities" while simultaneously declaring that Seattle isn't "breaking any laws" by simply choosing to ignore certain federal mandates. Per NBC News:
Coming off a brutal Trumpcare defeat, delivered by members of his own party no less, Trump has decided to return to a strategy of progressing his policy initiatives through executive order. As such, later today President Trump is set to sign a sweeping new "Energy Independence" executive order aimed at promoting domestic oil, coal and natural gas production by reversing much of Obama's efforts to address climate change via his "Clean Power Plan".
President Donald Trump has now laid out exactly what he wants in the "big, beautiful wall" that he's promised to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. But, as AP's Alicia Caldwell reports, his effort to build a huge hurdle to those entering the U.S. illegally faces impediments of its own.