When President Donald Trump addresses Congress March 4, he will describe a rapid-fire effort to deliver on his campaign promises to make Americans safer and wealthier. By the numbers, Trump has been very busy; he signed more than 70 executive orders in about six weeks. But many of his policies on immigration, tariffs, consumer prices, […]
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One month since President Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the White House is touting the administrations’ successes, including a sharp drop in illegal immigration. “Daily illegal alien encounters plummet 95% under President Trump,” read a graphic posted Feb. 15 on the White House’s Instagram account. An accompanying bar graph showed the number “20,086” […]
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President Donald Trump’s administration has begun its mass deportation campaign, carrying out raids and arrests in cities across the U.S. But a crucial part of Trump’s promise to carry out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history — the deportations — has faced hurdles. To deport the people immigration agents arrest and detain, deportees’ home […]
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President Donald Trump set in motion some of his most controversial immigration promises during his first week back in office, declaring a national emergency at the U.S. southern border, ordering his administration to reinstate some of his first-term policies and ending programs that allowed people to legally enter the U.S. Some of Trump’s actions took […]
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump se juramento como el presidente número 47 de los Estados Unidos el 20 de enero en la Rotonda del Capitolio, donde habló sobre el comienzo de una nueva “América” bajo su mandato. Trump criticó al Departamento de Justicia, y la frontera bajo la administración del expresidente Joe Biden, resaltando que su […]
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his second oath of office Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, offering an agenda heavily foreshadowed by his campaign promises. Speaking from inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda because of the subfreezing temperatures, Trump said, “The golden age of America begins right now.” He vowed to […]
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Although the person suspected of ramming a pickup truck into a New Orleans crowd on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people, was born and raised in the U.S., Republican politicians have sought to tie the attack to U.S. border security. Talking with anchor Jake Tapper on Jan. 5 on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. […]
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When Jimmy Carter entered the national political scene in the 1970s, the peanut-farmer-turned-Georgia-governor touted his status as a relative political unknown. But nearly 50 years after winning the U.S. presidency, serving a single, troubled term and engaging in more than four decades of postpresidential work to promote global democracy, eradicate disease and build homes for […]
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See Figure 5 on PolitiFact.com SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Underlying 2024’s most outrageous political lie was a truth — some might even argue a confession — voiced by an accomplice: To get media attention, then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance acknowledged, sometimes “I have to create stories.” And so, with a brazen disregard for facts, Donald Trump […]
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El presidente electo Donald Trump dedicó gran parte de su campaña a atacar a la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris por su rol en un cargo que ni ella ni nadie de la administración Biden ocupó: “zar de la frontera”. Ahora, Trump creó ese puesto para su nueva administración. En una publicación el 10 de noviembre en […]
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President-elect Donald Trump spent a large part of his campaign attacking Vice President Kamala Harris for her performance in a role neither she nor anyone in the Biden administration held: “border czar.” Now, Trump has created and filled the position for his new administration. In a Nov. 10 Truth Social post, Trump announced that Tom […]
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After two impeachments during his first term, a 2020 election loss, two assassination attempts and four criminal cases, Donald Trump has won back the presidency in 2024. The Associated Press officially called the race for Trump at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday after he won Wisconsin and secured 277 electoral votes. Polls had shown close margins between Trump […]
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