President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th
anniversary of D-Day at The Normandy American Cemetery, Thursday, June
6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Alex
Brandon)
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President Trump says Twitter is making a ‘giant mistake’ by quieting conservative users.
In a Tweet Sunday, the President said Twitter has violated freedom of
speech and should lift its recent bans on conservative activists.
Twitter has been under fire from conservatives who allege the site pushes a left-leaning bias.
These claims came after his after conservative actor, James Woods,
and Info Wars’ host, Alex Jones were banned on the site in addition to
several other social media platforms.
Twitter has denied a left-leaning bias on its platform and disputes all allegations.
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The President’s latest breakthrough on immigration with Mexico could bode well for trade talks with China.
FILE
– In this May 10, 2019, file photo China Shipping Company containers
are stacked at the Virginia International’s terminal in Portsmouth, Va.
Over the past month, President Donald Trump has rolled the dice on the
economy. He has more than doubled tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese
imports. He’s preparing to target another $300 billion, extending his
import taxes to everything China ships to the United States. (AP
Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Economist Stephen Moore predicts, the latest immigration deal between
the United States and Mexico may push China to reach a trade agreement
with the U.S.
This comes amid largely stalled trade negotiations between the two nations.
Speaking to Breitbart News Saturday, Moore said the U.S. Mexico deal
serves as an example to show President Trump is a good negotiator who
could lead China to make concessions and reach a deal.
If a trade agreement is reached, China may avoid additional tariffs
which Treasury Secretary Steve Munichin warned would come if China
didn’t return to the negotiating table.
Moore also predicts, the U.S. economy will soar.
President Trump says he will decide whether to enact tariffs on china after the G-20 summit in Japan.
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
turned tail on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to avoid a potential Republican
challenger as they both marched in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade
on Sunday, her political opponent said.
Talk-radio producer Rich
Valdes told The Post that he tried to challenge the freshman Democratic
congresswoman to a debate on the merits of capitalism versus socialism
when he spotted her near West 47th Street.
But Ocasio-Cortez “cut her handshaking short, jerked her hand back and jetted to the other side of the street,” Valdes said.
“She literally ran!” he said.
“I
thought this was a good time to try and get a response but I honestly
only saw the back of her head as she trotted across the street.”
Valdes’
account was echoed by Guardian Angels founder and radio host Curtis
Sliwa, who said the incident unfolded when Valdes approached the
progressive firebrand about 12:30 p.m.
“As soon as she saw him she
did a pirouette — a spin — and she ran north on Fifth Avenue, ahead of
her delegation, just to get away from Rich,” he said.
“I heard Rich yelling after her, ‘OK, AOC. You can run — but you can’t hide!'”
Sliwa’s
wife, lawyer Nancy Sliwa, also snapped photos that show Valdes walking
several steps behind Ocasio-Cortez, then facing the camera with a look
of exasperation.
On
Thursday, Valdes told members of the Queens Village Republican Club
that he would move from New Jersey to Ocasio-Cortez’ district, which
covers parts of The Bronx and Queens, in an effort to unseat her.
In a stance to distance itself from President Trump’s administration, California is set to become the first state in the country to pay for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to have full health benefits.
Under
an agreement between Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the state
legislature, low-income adults between the ages of 19 and 25 living in
California illegally would be eligible for California’s Medicaid
program, known as Medi-Cal. The deal emerged as part of a broader $213
billion budget.
The plan would take effect in January 2020, the Sacramento Bee reported.
State
officials have estimated the benefits would be available to about
90,000 low-income illegal immigrants at a cost of $98 million per year.
“While
it’s not all we sought, it will provide a real tangible difference for
people, especially for those around and below poverty and for middle
income families who don’t get any help under the federal law,” Anthony
Wright, executive director of advocacy group Health Access, said.
Indeed, a family of four earning as much as six times the federal
poverty level -- or more than $150,000 a year -- would be eligible to
get about $100 a month from the government to help pay their monthly
health insurance premiums.
To pay for part of it, the state agreed
to start taxing people who don’t have health insurance. It’s a revival
of the individual-mandate penalty that had been on the books nationwide
under former President Barack Obama’s health-care law until Republicans
in Congress eliminated it as part of the 2017 overhaul to the tax code.
The
budget agreement still must be approved by the full state legislature; a
vote is expected this week. State law requires lawmakers to enact a
budget by midnight on June 15. If they don’t, lawmakers would lose their
pay. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump waves as he steps off Air Force One after
arriving, Friday, June 7, 2019, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Trump thanks Mexico for its cooperation, in coming to an agreement on immigration.
On twitter Saturday, the president thanked the Mexican president, the
Mexican foreign minister, and all the country’s representatives for
working long and hard on the agreement.
I would like to thank the President of Mexico,
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and his foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard,
together with all of the many representatives of both the United States
and Mexico, for working so long and hard to get our agreement on
immigration completed!
The president’s remarks come after the two nations reached an
agreement to help reduce the surge of illegal immigration on Friday.
On Saturday, President Trump blasted the Left-wing media such as,
Comcast, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post for
publishing false reports on his border immigration plan, saying
threatening to raise tariffs on Mexico has already yielded results.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders weighed in on the
successful agreement, saying President Trump’s work with Mexico is a win
for America. On Twitter, Sanders said despite no help from what she
calls the “do-nothing Democrats,” the president secured billions of
dollars of funding to build the wall.
Despite no help from the do-nothing Democrats in Congress, President @realDonaldTrump
secured billions in funding to build the wall and an unprecedented
commitment from Mexico to stem the tide of illegal immigration. That’s
leadership and another historic win for America.
She also said President Trump secured an unprecedented commitment
from Mexico to stem of the tide of illegal immigration, calling it an
example of leadership for the nation.
Pete Buttigieg (left) with husband Chasten. Next president and 1st lady? What the hell??
Pete Buttigieg slammed both President Trump and Joe Biden in one comment at a gay pride event in Iowa on Saturday.
“Don’t
listen to anybody in either party who says we can just go back to what
we were doing,” Buttigieg told the Des Moines crowd, according to the
Washington Examiner. “We in the LGBT community know that when we hear
phrases like ‘Make America Great Again,’ that that American past was
never quite as great as advertised.”
It’s a usual refrain for
Buttigieg to criticize Trump’s "Make America Great Again" slogan, but by
including “both parties” he seemed to reference Biden -- who is running
on his decades-long political career and on Democrats' nostalgia for
the Barack Obama presidency.
In fact, Biden posted a tweet Saturday, reminding his followers of his close association with his former boss.
But Biden has recently come under scrutiny over issues like his reversal on the Hyde Amendment on abortion funding and the 1994 crime bill, according to the Examiner.
The former
vice president has consistently led the pack of 2020 Democratic
contenders, and his rivals have struggled to tread the fine line between
standing out from Biden and avoiding alienating his supporters.
Despite
the dig, Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., balked at the idea
that he should see the other candidates as the enemy.
"I don't
even view us as having opponents so much as competitors. You would be
surprised how often we are in dialogue with each other,” he said. “We
might as well carpool,” he joked about the large number of candidates in
Iowa over the weekend.
A
new poll of likely Democratic caucus goers in Iowa that came out
Saturday shows Biden’s support in the first caucus state has gone down
by nearly a third since last fall and Buttigieg is now in a statistical
tie for second place with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
A new poll out Saturday of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa shows Joe Biden in the lead, but with softer support than last December, and a virtual tie for second place among Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Biden
garnered 24 percent of those polled, Sanders got 16 percent, Warren
held 15 percent and Buttigieg received 14 percent. Kamala Harris trailed
with 7 percent, Beto O'Rourke and Amy Klobuchar got 2 percent each and
the other candidates barely registered.
“We’re
starting to see the people who are planning to caucus start to
solidify,” said J. Ann Selzer, president of the Des Moines company that
conducted the poll, according to the Des Moines Register. “There’s a lot
more commitment than we normally see this early. And some of these
candidates who’ve been under the radar start to surface and compete with
Joe Biden.”
“We’re starting to see the people who are
planning to caucus start to solidify. There’s a lot more commitment
than we normally see this early. And some of these candidates who’ve
been under the radar start to surface and compete with Joe Biden.” — J. Ann Selzer, pollster
Buttigieg
has surged in the state, the Register reported. In March, the first
time he appeared in an Iowa poll, he barely caused a blip among voters.
“It’s
like with the vitriol and the hatred and all the bad things people say —
he seems to be coming out fresh,” a Buttigieg backer in Cedar Rapids
told the Register.
Nineteen
candidates crisscrossed the state over the weekend in an effort to
garner support in the much-hyped first-caucus state. “There’s always
been a question mark as to how many can get any real traction,” Selzer
told the Register.
The Iowa caucuses are on Feb. 3, 2020.
The poll was conducted June 2-5 by the Des Moines Register, Mediacom and CNN.
FUKUOKA, Japan – President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping plan to meet at a Group of 20 summit late this month, the U.S. treasury secretary said, offering a prospective break in trade hostilities that are weighing on global growth.
Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking to reporters Saturday, said that the
two presidents will meet while attending the June 28-29 summit of
leaders of major economies in Japan, though he declined to provide other
details.
China’s government didn’t respond to requests to confirm
plans for a Trump-Xi meeting. If it materializes, the face-to-face
meeting would offer a chance to put negotiations back on track after talks hit an impasse a
month ago and both sides have since then increased punitive tariffs and
taken other actions that raised tensions and complicate a resolution.
President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, seen in an
undated photo, are scheduled to meet later this month in Japan.
Mr. Mnuchin’s remarks show how tentative any
rapprochement is. In Fukuoka, Japan, for a weekend gathering of G-20
finance ministers and central bankers, Mr. Mnuchin played down a
scheduled chat with People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang. It would be
the first high-level meeting since the negotiations stumbled.
Mr.
Mnuchin said of his talk with Mr. Yi: “This is not a negotiating
meeting.” He also said that, as of Saturday, there were no plans for
cabinet-level officials to travel to Beijing or Washington to prepare
for the two presidents’ summit. And he urged Beijing to return to the
terms under discussion a month ago or face further tariffs.
“If
China wants to come back to the table and negotiate on the basis that we
were negotiating, we can get a great historic deal,” he said. “If they
don’t, we’ll proceed with our tariffs.”
“If China
wants to come back to the table and negotiate on the basis that we were
negotiating, we can get a great historic deal. If they don’t, we’ll
proceed with our tariffs.” — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Negotiations
fell apart last month amid U.S. accusations that China backtracked on
terms already agreed upon. China denies it did so. Since then, apart
from increasing punitive tariffs, the U.S. has restricted Chinese tech
giant Huawei Technologies Co.’s access to American technology on
national-security concerns, and President Trump has ordered plans be
drawn up to impose tariffs of up to 25% on the rest of the $300 billion
in imports of Chinese goods not yet hit with levies.
President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, seen in an
undated photo, are scheduled to meet later this month in Japan.
