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On his first full working day in the White House, President Trump issued an executive order implementing a hiring freeze until such time that his Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, a position now filled by Mick Mulvaney, could recommend a “long-term plan” to reduce the federal workforce.  While the initial EO allowed 90 days for such a plan to be crafted and presented, like many of Trump's other policy initiatives, that deadline proved overly aggressive and has been pushed back to the end of June, with final plans due in September...the swamp apparently doesn't drain a

In what may have been the worst day in Sean Spicer's life, the White House press secretary first drew a storm of criticism and ridicule Tuesday after butchering Godwin's law, when trying to compare Syria president Bashar al-Assad to Adolf Hitler by saying that even the Nazi leader didn’t “sink to using chemical weapons.”

Authored by Patrick Watson via MauldinEconomics.com,

Wishful thinking, as we all know, is the death knell for many investors. Getting carried away by emotion has rarely, if ever, been a recipe for accumulating vast riches.

It seems that a lot of people have missed that distinction between wishful thinking and reality lately—and I fear it’s going to hurt them badly.

Remember when Trump promised in early February that he would unveil a "phenomenal" tax plan within two to three weeks? Well, it was just scrapped, because as AP reports, Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board, hoping to find a plan that will have Republican consensus, something his current proposal has failed to achieve. In doing so, the president threatens the timetable of what many had seen as the primary driver behind his entire first year agenda, which is not in peril, and may not come until early 2018 if not later.

Authored by Robert Parry via ConsortiumNews.com,

President Trump earned neocon applause for his hasty decision to attack Syria and kill about a dozen Syrians, but his rash act has all the earmarks of a “wag the dog” moment.