By Zachary Stieber and Jan Jelielek Former President Donald Trump’s policies helped improve the environment, his former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator said over the weekend. “All the environmental indicators under President Trump improved. Our air today is seven percent cleaner than it was when President Trump took office. Our water quality is highest it’s ever been. On […]
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Trump Mulls White House Bid in CPAC Speech: ‘I May Even Decide to Beat Them for Third Time’
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump delivered his first major speech after leaving office, charting a path forward for the Republican Party and conservatives but suggested that he might run in 2024. “I may even decide to beat them for the third time,” he said. Trump said the conservative movement he created “is far from being over” […]
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Former Trump Adviser Says Biden’s Immigration Bill Could ‘Erase the Very Essence of America’s Nationhood’
By Li Hai Stephen Miller, former senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, told Fox News on Sunday that a new immigration bill proposed by Democrats would “fundamentally erase the very essence of America’s nationhood.” On Feb. 18, Democrats formally introduced President Joe Biden’s new immigration bill that provides an eight-year pathway to citizenship for about 11 […]
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Critics Say $1.9 Trillion COVID Bill Larded With Special-Interest Spending
By Mark Tapscott Buried on page 305 of the $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” is a provision that awards federal employees with kids as much as $21,000 for each household to stay home. The “Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund” provision includes $570 million for government workers who remain home to care for children because […]
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Biden’s AG Pick Says He Would Support White House’s Push to Restrict Gun Ownership
By Jack Phillips Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general, said Monday that he would align the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) with the White House’s push to restrict gun ownership. “The president is a strong supporter of gun control and has been an advocate all his professional life on this question,” Garland said during […]
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Donald Trump ‘Probably’ Interested in 2024 Presidential Run: Lara Trump
By Isabel Van Brugen Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and former senior adviser Lara Trump indicated that he is “probably” interested in running for office in 2024. “He has told us to stay tuned and that this is not over for him, and he has indicated that he probably would be interested in running again in 2024,” she […]
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Trump to Talk About the Future of Republican Party at CPAC: Senior Adviser
By Janita Kan Former President Donald Trump will talk about the future of the Republican party and lessons learned in 2020 during his upcoming speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump senior adviser Jason Miller has said. CPAC Communications Director Ian Walters told The Epoch Times on Saturday that the former president will be a keynote speaker at […]
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Republican House Whip Scalise Meets With Donald Trump
By Zachary Stieber The No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives met with former President Donald Trump this week, his office confirmed to The Epoch Times. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) met with Trump as he traveled in Florida. “Rep. Scalise is in Florida this week on political travel and had meetings at Mar a Lago on […]
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Opinion: A Quieter, More Focused Donald Trump Will Defeat the Never Trumpers
By Conrad Black Commentary The battle lines were drawn within a couple of hours following the acquittal of former President Trump in his second impeachment case, between Trump and his followers and the recently returned ghost of the Never Trump movement. The ex-president’s Republican enemies are pale and malnourished after four years skulking in the […]
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Biden Calls on Congress to Restrict Gun Ownership
By Zachary Stieber President Joe Biden on Feb. 14 urged Congress to strengthen existing laws concerning gun ownership on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. “The Parkland students and so many other young people across the country who have experienced gun violence are carrying forward the history of the […]
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Impeachment Managers Admitted Trump Was Not Impeached for His Words: Sen. Rand Paul
By Samuel Allegri Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that the House Democrats conducting the impeachment of former President Donald Trump were not able to prove that he incited the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Paul, in response to a Fox News interviewer asking him what he would recommend to Trump’s defense lawyers, said […]
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States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow
By Tom Ozimek States are moving with urgency in seeking to rein in alleged abuses by Big Tech companies, while the federal government is preoccupied with COVID-19 relief and former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Spurred by various motivations, like fighting censorship, shoring up data privacy protections of constituents, or looking to punish or raise revenue from cash-flush […]
