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Bennet: Trump should donate profits from other facets of business empire
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is challenging President Donald Trump’s pledge to donate all profits from foreign governments patronizing his hotels to the U.S. Treasury, noting all the businesses bearing the president’s name should fall under the commitment. In a letter sent last week to White House Counsel Donald McGahn, his third to the Trump administration…
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Denver’s school board makes clear it’s no friend of Trump, DeVos
The board of Denver Public Schools is nonpartisan by definition, and pro-education reform by inclination. Some of its key policy positions, like its support for charter schools, originally hailed from the right of center in their political evolution. Yet, none of that is about to smooth over the board’s displeasure with the Republican administration of President…
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Sean Spicer ‘needs to go’ says Rep. Mike Coffman at town hall
Showing no partisan love for embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, told the sometimes angry, confrontational audience in his first Trump-era town hall meeting Wednesday night that Spicer should step down. “He needs to go,” Coffman said of Spicer. The comment arrived like a crescendo in the nearly two-hour long town…
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May: Trump’s pivot to North Korea
It’s high time the United States deals with the most imminent nuclear threat America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president – any American president – needs to prioritize. In 2011, President Obama decided that the Muslim world should no…
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Smith: U.S. ties with Mexico matter now more than ever
With all the excitement, chaos, turmoil – whatever you want to call it – that has filled Donald Trump’s first days in office, it’s easy to forget that Joaquín Guzmán, “El Chapo,” the world’s most notorious criminal and drug cartel leader was extradited from Mexico to the United States the same day as Trump’s inauguration.…