Fiscal Cliff Talks: Bickering Trumps Bargaining On Looming Issue

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Normally, far-right politicians in Europe have been pretty friendly to Trump, but Anders Vistisen, a right-wing lawmaker from Denmark whose party, Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF), sometimes espouses similar populist rhetoric to Trump, draws the line at Trump's comments to take over Greenland. Source: Huffington Post A member of the European Parliament didn’t mince words when he offered a public message to President Donald Trump this week about his wish to make Greenland part of the United States. “Dear President Trump, listen very carefully,” Anders Vistisen, a right-wing lawmaker from Denmark, said on Tuesday in Parliament.

Shortly after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump set out to fulfill many of his campaign promises, signing a flurry of executive orders and pardoning roughly 1,500 people convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U. S. Capitol. While many of these moves have earned him plaudits from both members of the media and his base, polling shows they’re divisive, if not outright unpopular, with the American electorate. Mass deportationsread more

And so The Gilded Rage begins. And the thing to take away from all the executive orders and unforgivable pardons is that convicted felon and career criminal The Orange ? meant what he said. He never kids around, he has no sense of humor. Hair Füror’s most consistent campaign promise was to govern as a dictator on his first day of office and he showed everyone that he intends to keep that promise. If anyone was surprised by what happened yesterday, they need to check their credulity by the door.

"Border czar" Tom Homan vowed to snatch undocumented immigrants from schools if he deemed them a threat to national security. During a Tuesday interview on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney noted that the Department of Homeland Security "issued a memo to repeal limits on ICE agents." "Am I right in saying that this frees up ICE agents to go into schools, hospitals, and other institutions to arrest illegals?" Varney asked Homan. "Well, again, the officers have a great deal of discretion depending on the location," Homan confirmed.

With respiratory-disease season in full swing and a bird flu outbreak rapidly evolving, the new Trump Administration has ordered federal health agencies to secure White House approval before communicating with the public. “As the new Administration considers its plan for managing the federal policy and public communications processes, it is important that the President’s appointees and designees have the opportunity to review and approve any regulations, guidance documents, and other public documents and communications (including social media),” through Feb.