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Jerome Adams clung to older, faulty narratives in the crucial early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
Keeping up maximum pressure is a dangerous distraction for the United States and catastrophic for the Iranian people.
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It's almost like Americans are paying for them, and like Trump doesn't actually believe in free trade.
Politicians are merely using COVID-19 to push for policies they already wanted.
Robert Lighthizer, head of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, says tariffs aren't hurting America's response to the virus. He's also lifting those tariffs to help with the response.
The administration has been quietly escalating against Iran and its allies using a selection of counterterrorism laws that allowed it to act without going through Congress or the public.
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
Some of Trump's tariffs hit medical equipment and supplies from China. We need more trade, not less, to be prepared for pandemics.
Americans and those traveling from the U.K. will be exempted.
It hampers transparency and means that relevant health officials who lack clearance can't participate.
Actually, it's a bailout.
Your coronavirus prepping would be a lot tougher in a world without free markets. Libertarians might be the only ones who recognize that.
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While the 2017 tax cuts didn't deliver the results promised by Trump and his magical-thinking supporters, the administration has delivered some economic expansion, some job creation, and some investment growth.
The FDA has finally approved commercial diagnostic tests.
An important and thoughtful opinion that potentially invalidates Trump Administration refugee and asylum policies.
Coronavirus misinformation is spreading faster than the disease itself.
No matter how bad the outbreak might turn out to be, politicians will find a way to make it worse.
Barr's big complaint is that the president is so overt with the sleazy pressure.
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The administration also plans to move $2.2 billion originally earmarked for purchasing vehicles, ships, and aircraft to cover wall construction costs.
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If the only way to beat China is to become like China, then we've already lost.
And whether it balances at all depends on some creative accounting. Meanwhile, it proposes $2 billion in new spending on the border wall.
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American manufacturing has been in a recession for the past year.
The president likes things big, so that apparently applies to government budgets too.
The framers of the Constitution were quite right that wars should be difficult to start and easy to end.
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Civilian deaths are also on the rise, and it's increasingly obvious that there is no clear strategy for the U.S. to "win" its longest military conflict.
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The Trump administration is trying to make it harder for pregnant women to enter the country as tourists since they might give birth while here.
Republicans might rue that mistake when Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders inherits Trump's beefed-up trade authority.
Few people are buying the U.S. government's unconvincing explanations about "imminent" threats.
Unless the tariffs are lifted, the "Phase One" trade deal might not accomplish much beyond empowering China's communist regime to tighten its grip on free markets.
The Trump administration's "phase one" deal with China will keep many tariffs in place, but Democrats don't seem to have the guts to stand up for freer trade.
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Robert Wetherbee says steel tariffs might force his business to shutter. But instead of asking for the tariffs to be lifted, he wants special treatment.
But what has the saber-rattling of the past week accomplished for the United States?
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