Author: Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner
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Trump on thin ice with breadwinners and MAGA over lackluster economy
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With just hours before he hosts a rare prime-time address to brag on his first year achievements, new polling shows that America’s breadwinners are losing confidence in President Donald Trump‘s economy — including his MAGA base. Facing stubbornly elevated retail prices, high mortgage rates, rising unemployment, and shocking winter energy bills, a new Zogby Poll…
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Vance in runaway lead for 2028 GOP nomination
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Vice President JD Vance dominates the early race to be the 2028 Republican presidential nominee, another sign that his boss, President Donald Trump, continues to influence the GOP base greatly. With strong support from Republican women and Hispanic voters, Vance’s lead is nearly double the support for his likely competition in what could be a…
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Trump shifts on economy to ‘We feel your pain’
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Facing criticism from Main Street voters about inflated grocery prices, President Donald Trump and his team are adopting an aggressive strategy of sympathizing with the economic pain Americans feel and explaining their plan to fix it. “We are very aware of the pain,” Peter Navarro, the Trump economist and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing,…
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Voters want Trump focused on domestic, not foreign issues
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The White House, embroiled in a heated debate over the president’s plan to invite hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers into the United States, is being pressured by voters to focus more on domestic issues and less on foreign policy. In two new independent polls, majorities of likely voters and supporters of President Donald Trump…
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Trump demands agencies kill regulations faster
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President Donald Trump is doubling down on his demand that federal agencies kill Biden- and Obama-era regulations. Faced with slow action by his team, the Office of Management and Budget has just issued a nine-page demand that his government speed up deregulation efforts. “The goal of this memorandum is to offer guidance to the agencies as…
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Illegal migrants soak up SNAP and WIC benefits
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The effect on food and welfare support to the poor in the government shutdown has revealed that the noncitizen and illegal immigrant community has been benefiting from the taxpayer-funded programs more than American citizens — by far. According to newly analyzed Census Bureau data, nearly half of the immigrant community taps into the Women, Infants,…
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Democratic voters embrace shutdown, want GOP to pay
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Democratic voters, who the media claim are hurt most by the federal government shutdown, are rallying behind their party leaders who have forced the three-week closure. While they say they’d like it to be over, “deep down,” they are cheering on the funding shutdown in the hopes that their side can get more concessions from…








