President Donald Trump says he’s willing to close down the government over border security issues. The statement has made most GOP lawmakers anxious as we head to the midterms later this year.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says that he will not back the effort of his conservative house colleagues to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein is overseeing Mueller’s investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
President Trump is considering revoking the security clearance of former Obama-era intelligence officials in a move announced by the White House. If Trump moves forward with this decision, it will most likely be interpreted by analysts as a power abuse to lash out against his critics.
President Trump attacked the Federal Reserve on Thursday saying that he disagreed with a number of policy decisions made by the central bank and its chairman Jerome Powell. Powell was nominated to the position by Trump just a few months ago. The president said that he didn’t “necessarily” agree with the two interest rate hikes so far this year.
President Donald Trump met on Monday with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Trump publicly sided with Putin against US intelligence agencies refusing to condemn Moscow for its interference in the 2016 election. Trump said that he sees no reason to believe that Russia was behind the hacking of the DNC servers.
President Donald Trump referred to Germany as a “captive of Russia” during the NATO summit in Brussels. The president also requested from NATO allies to double up defense spending as part of their commitment to the military alliance.
