President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and named his replacement on Twitter Wednesday night — in a set of moves that seems to be coming a habit.
Debra J. Saunders
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Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
The Trump administration’s decision to add a question to the 2020 census has met with fierce opposition from critics who argue that it will discourage immigrants — legal and undocumented — from participating in the 2020 count of the country’s population.
In past White Houses, the removal of a national security adviser would be the culmination of much drama and hand-wringing. Yet President Donald Trump’s decision Thursday to replace H.R. McMaster with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was only Act III in another week at the Trump White House.
The Trump White House reached out to millennials Thursday during a “Generation Next” summit for some 200 young voters, many from college Republican groups and conservative think tanks.
A report that the president ignored a warning from national security aides not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin for winning re-election set off dueling narratives about what happened and why it occurred.
During a GOP debate in the 2016 election, Donald Trump repeated a frequent boast. “I don’t settle cases. I don’t do it because that’s why I don’t get sued very often.” Stormy Daniels, a porn actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has put a lie to all that.
President Donald Trump saw his own words thrown back at him Monday after the White House released a list of actions to improve school safety that does not include raising the legal age to purchase a long gun — a measure opposed by the National Rifle Association.
The schoolyard taunts made by President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un of North Korea have spawned countless comedy opportunities, even though their relationship could not be more serious for the world around them.
President Donald Trump moved to ban bump stocks Saturday as his Department of Justice sent a proposed regulation to define the devices as machine guns under the National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act.
As President Donald Trump prepares to visit California next week, his pokes at California have been mounting. And it looks as if he may be preparing to give the Golden State the same treatment he has reserved for the #fakenews media.
Donald Trump’s family hires and financial entanglements make the opportunistic Clinton Foundation look like, well, a charity.
Behind the front-page indictments issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, there have been quiet movements in the courts on another front.
One year ago, when the Conservative Political Action Conference convened for its annual gathering, participants were positive about Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, gleeful that Hillary Clinton did not win, but unsure about what the future would bring. So they danced around their new leader’s ascent gingerly.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney would not allow cameras into the briefing room as he outlined President Donald Trump’s budget to reporters. He explained, “This is going to be really, really boring and really, really hard.”
In the last two weeks, cable news has been consumed with the feud between Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
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