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The Most Significant Accomplishments of Trump’s First 100 Days
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Since Franklin D. Roosevelt ushered in the New Deal in 1933 in just three months, historians have measured a president’s success or failure by its first 100 days. As we reach President Trump’s 100th day in office, the 47th president’s second administration has taken a whirlwind of decisive actions to protect […]
EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance To Tout First 100 Days At USA Steel Plant
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Vice President JD Vance will mark the administration’s first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term with a factory tour of the U.S.’s largest manufacturer of steel, the Daily Caller has learned. Vance, alongside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, will travel to Huger, South Carolina, on Thursday to visit a Nucor […]
Trump’s Wants Tariffs to Eliminate Income Tax for Earners Under 200K
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report President Donald Trump said that some people’s income taxes will be lowered or perhaps even completely eliminated due to tariffs. Trump is trying to move us from an income tax to tariffs. I love it. “When Tariffs cut in, many people’s Income Taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. […]
Trump Has Given ‘Significant Hope To Our Industry’ Car Part Manufacturers Say, Ask For Time To Implement Tariffs
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Politics, Regulation, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), representing over 7,500 American automotive businesses, delivered a message of support to President Donald Trump’s trade agenda. In a letter sent Monday, SEMA praised Trump’s leadership and commitment to restoring America’s industrial strength. “We write to commend you and your administration for your commitment to restoring the […]
Harvard Should Emulate Hillsdale College, Reject Federal Money
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Harvard has until recently been receiving $2.2 billion in federal funding, largely for research grants for medical research. The Trump administration has now withheld that amount, and promises it will continue to withhold that sum as long as Harvard does not explain how it is now, and how it intends in the […]
Trump Admin Gets Serious About Collecting Defaulted Student Loans After Borrowers Got A Pass Under Biden
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Department of Education (ED) Monday announced it will begin involuntary collection efforts for student loans after a five year pause. A senior department official told the Daily Caller News Foundation the effort is aimed at removing the burden from taxpayers since involuntary collections were put on pause during the pandemic […]
Trump Blocks Social Security Benefits for Illegal Aliens
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Royal A. Brown III Illegals should never have been given our taxpayer funded Social Security dollars of any kind in first place, no thanks to Obama 3/Biden administration. “Taxpayer-funded benefits should be provided only to eligible persons and must not encourage or reward illegal immigration to the United States.” – President Donald J. Trump. Trump Blocks […]
President Trump by Executive Order Restored Commercial Fishing Once Blocked By Obama and Biden
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Geoff Ross USN retired Surface Warfare/Air Warfare In 2008 the Communist dictatorship of the Great Mufty, Barack Hussein Obama closed all commercial fishing in state waters around the United States for our fishermen. The commercial fishermen then were told they would lose their federal fishing licenses if they fished in state waters with their […]
GOP Introduces Transparency Bill After Uncovering Millions Of Secret Spending On China
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report We shouldn’t need such bills but the wealth, our wealth, that has been transferred to America’s worst adversaries is galling. It is especially galling today, tax day, when tens of millions of Americans are forced to turn over obscenely high tax checks of our hard earned money to the government. No […]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s Trip To El Salvador Likely Paid For By Taxpayers, Senate Aides Say
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador to try to secure the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a deported illegal alien, was likely funded by taxpayers, six individuals familiar with congressional travel tell the Daily Caller. Three Senate aides and one former aide told the Caller that they […]
U.S. State Department Mulls Closing 27 Embassies and Consulates
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The U.S. State Department is formulating plans to close 10 embassies and 17 consulates, reported The New York Times, based upon an internal memo. The plan, which expands on one circulated in an earlier March memo, is part of an internal budget-cutting campaign, which aims to reduce the State Department operations budget by as much […]
DOGE Exposes Millions in Blue-State Unemployment Fraud
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has revealed that it has found close to $400 million worth of fraudulent unemployment claims that have been paid out by the federal government since 2020. The revelation comes as the overall cost-cutting goals of the Trump administration initiative have become much more modest, but […]
U.S. Should Not Fund United Nations’ ‘Food Programs’ in Islamic Terror States
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Dismantling USAID is worth little if we continue sending money to some of its biggest contractors. I will have a more extensive article on this subject later in the week, but suffice it to say that the UN’s World Food Program headed by Cindy McCain is a deeply dishonest and dangerous organization. […]
10 Beautiful Bills for a Better America
/in Budget and Finance, Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council As Congress debates major issues regarding taxes, tariffs, and trade, it would be heartening for faith, family, and freedom Americans if it found time to pass topical bills that address other pressing concerns such as protecting unborn life, dismantling taxpayer-funded abortion, conscience protections, and more. A number of these measures have […]
‘I Told You Not to Doubt Us’: Johnson Celebrates Another Improbable Win for Trump’s Agenda
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Joy comes in the morning, the Psalmist promised, and for House leadership, that’s never been truer. After a grueling week of negotiations, and at times very bleak odds, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was able to hold a press conference Thursday with news that very few thought possible just 24 hours earlier: […]
MARKET SOARS: Trump Raises Tariffs on China to 125% But Announces 90-Day Pause For Countries Who Reached Out to Negotiate
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report President Trump issues a 90-day pause on tariffs “and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period of 10%,” except for China. Isolating China. Checkmate. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded. So every country in the world wants to come and negotiate. We are willing […]
104% China Tariffs Take Effect at 12:01 a.m. April 9th, 2025 EST
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The 104% tariff on China took effect at 12:01 a.m. April 9, 2025 after China failed to lift its 34% retaliatory tariff by the deadline. I am glad. China has been ripping us off for decades. And stealing all of our intellectual property. Enough. Anyone crying for China is ought to […]
VIDEO: Karoline Leavitt Brings Receipts Of Dems Echoing Trump’s Concerns About Trade Policy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brought receipts of prominent Democrats making the same critiques about trade policy as President Donald Trump during Tuesday’s press briefing. Trump has come under Democratic scrutiny for imposing reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports in order to create fairer trade practices and return manufacturing to the […]
HUGE WIN: U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Trump, Allows Halt in DEI Grants
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court order from Massachusetts, allowing the administration to continue halting approximately $250 million in Department of Education grants intended for teacher training programs in eight states. These grants were previously used for programs related to […]
Playing The ‘Long Game’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kenneth R. Timmerman Donald Trump is playing the long game with tariffs. His goal is to restore our industrial base by revolutionizing the way the United States trades with the rest of the world. We no longer make antiobiotics, and import much of our steel, computer chips, and our cars. We must even import titanium […]
Luna, Johnson Strike a Truce on Proxy Voting That Gets the House Back to Business
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council After a few unexpected days off, the House is back in D.C. to resolve a family feud that’s grabbed headlines from coast to coast. For Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), the spat was an unfortunate return to normal after weeks of surprising unity. And while it was inevitable that the harmonious spell […]
Senate GOP Advances Tax Cuts, Border Security Spending After Marathon Session
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Senate voted largely along party lines early Saturday morning to pass a budget blueprint encompassing many of President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities, including a permanent extension of the president’s 2017 tax cuts and $175 billion in new spending on border security. Senators voted 51 to 48 to advance the Trump-backed budget resolution to the […]
Senate Overnighter Sets the Stage for GOP to Clear ‘One, Big, Beautiful’ Hurdle
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council When President Trump coined the phrase “one, big, beautiful bill” to describe his legislative strategy, there’s one word he left out: “complicated.” For House and Senate leaders, it’s been a two-month dance just to get on the same page about the broad strokes of a plan to implement Trump’s agenda. It’s like writing […]
Transparency: The Biblical Impulse Underpinning DOGE’s Mission
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Regulation, Religion, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Nothing in the second Trump administration has divided Washington more sharply than the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. The frenetic effort has featured foibles, but it has also uncovered shocking wastes of taxpayer dollars — discoveries which may have earned DOGE more detractors than its […]
A Message from Holland: When taxes are high in a country, the economy stalls!
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Matthys van Raalten When taxes are high in a country, the economy stalls. Many companies go bankrupt or move abroad. In the supermarket, products become more and more expensive. That is why I advocate lower taxes. Then entrepreneurs can do business again. Then business will flourish again. The Netherlands currently has an unprecedentedly high […]
Trump Declares National Emergency To Impose ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller THE WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Wednesday to impose a wave of reciprocal tariffs across the nation in what the White House has deemed “Liberation Day.” WATCH: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers ‘Liberation Day’ speech at the White House Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on nations charging […]
New Bill Gives Trump the Legal Power to ‘Reform Our Government and Drain the Swamp’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Two congressional conservatives have introduced a bill that would give legal authorization for President Donald Trump to slash the federal workforce, stop harmful government programs, and even close entire executive departments without fear an activist judge will stop his money-saving reforms by judicial fiat. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced the Reorganizing […]
VIDEO: Tariff Facts
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report And the Democrat fearmongering and lies continue unabated…. Tariffs are a necessary corrective to decades of globalist exploitation. The United States Reciprocal Trade Act (H.R. 735) empowers the executive branch to level the playing field against predatory practices like the EU’s 50% dairy tax and Japan’s 700% rice barrier. These distortions […]
PERKINS: Taxpayer Funds Should Respect the Will of the People
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council A House DOGE subcommittee put a magnifying glass to NPR and PBS, funded in part with federal tax dollars through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The most recent budget shows that the two left-leaning media outlets rake in just shy of $550 million a year from taxpayers. DOGE’s triad is waste, […]
Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Imported Cars While England Collects 20% VAT Taxes on its Own Citizens
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Geoff Ross USN retired Surface Warfare/Air Warfare The Socialist-Marxist government of the United Kingdom is crying its “Woke” tears into its toxic soup of tyranny over President Trump’s outstanding 25% tariff on ALL imported cars and foreign made parts shipped into the United States. British newspaper reporters whose names are certainly not British much […]