By canceling the Taliban meeting, Trump sent a message that he willing to negotiate — even bucking his own party — but he will not do so from a position of weakness, or under fire.
Pete Buttigieg said he would not withdraw the U.S. embassy from Jerusalem, even if he disagreed with the Trump administration about how the decision was made.
A new and somewhat unexpected consensus is emerging in support of President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
President Donald Trump seems to have scored a significant political win with the announcement Thursday that he will sign Congress’s deal on border security — while at the same time declaring a national emergency to build the portion of the “wall” that the deal would not fund.
China and the U.S. are at a “critically important stage” in their relations, according to a letter from the President of China to President Donald Trump which was read aloud in the Oval Office Thursday.
Nancy Pelosi says Democrats don’t want to set a precedent of using shutdowns as leverage. The problem: one year ago today, Democrats ended their shutdown for DACA amnesty.
Sen. Linsdey Graham (R-SC) met with President Donald Trump over lunch on Sunday and suggested a new deal in which the president would renew 700,000 work permits in exchange for $5 billion towards border security.
President Donald Trump heralded “big” trade progress from a long Saturday call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
As long as he holds firm on the policy priorities most important to his base — especially border security — Trump will have flexibility to negotiate on other issues.
Democrats are said to be confident that they will win the shutdown over border security — that President Donald Trump will cave to their demands and sign a spending bill to re-open all federal government departments without receiving any funding for his border wall.
President Donald Trump described the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections as the best possible outcome for the country on Wednesday morning, noting that a slim Democratic majority in the U.S. House would make it easier for him to achieve deals on big issues.
Trump’s offer to talk with Iran was a shrewd, albeit high-risk move made in a complex and highly dynamic and dangerous standoff.
President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday that any deal with North Korea must be approved by Congress.
President Donald Trump showed Thursday that sometimes the “art of the deal” is walking away from negotiations, as he suddenly canceled a highly anticipated June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
Sen. Dick Durbin released a statement rejecting the deal — but accepting Trump’s concession on 1.8 million “Dreamers” and the “path to citizenship.”
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) called President Donald Trump’s new proposals for legalizing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program “an extension of the white supremacist agenda” on Sunday.
The rough terms are that DACA beneficiaries can stay in the U.S., in exchange for “border security.” That is not a good deal for Trump.
President Donald Trump’s supporters are increasingly concerned that he is going to capitulate to Democrats’ demands as Congress wrestles with the canceled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Trump enters future negotiations with more leverage over the “spoilers” in the GOP, and with Democrat leaders having declared that he is a reasonable person who can be dealt with, not a crazy dictator who must be removed.
By showing he can deal with Pelosi and Schumer, Trump may have found the one way of making Republicans unite.
Whatever caused Tuesday evening’s DACA tweet — perhaps a loss of nerve in a Bannon-less West Wing — it was an error from which Trump must extricate himself, and soon.
Republicans, fearful of a shutdown, are already trying to walk back his threat. They do not realize Trump has just taught them how to face down the media and the Democrats, and to fight for their core policy priorities and the wishes of their own voters — and win.
North Korea backed down Monday from a threat to fire missiles at the U.S. territory of Guam, according to a North Korean state media report cited by the Wall Street Journal.
President Donald Trump is threatening to cancel $7 billion in reimbursements to insurers. Even if the president decides to keep the subsidies, they may disappear anyway — because of an ongoing court challenge.
This week, the Palestinian leadership met with President Donald Trump’s envoys to the Middle East and refused, point blank, to stop paying terrorists and their families.
There is only one way to change Congress’s incentives, and that is to change the default option — to make sure Obamacare is repealed, whether or not Congress comes up with a plan to replace it.
Former British ambassador to North Korea John Everard writes at CNN.com on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s assertive strategy towards the rogue nuclear power may have actually worked, despite domestic criticism.
When the conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus reunite in Washington, D.C. this week, they will have an unprecedented opportunity. It is the legislative equivalent of an empty net in hockey — when the opposing team brings its goalie into the attack, leaving its own goal undefended.
The Beltway consensus is that President Donald Trump lost so badly by pulling the American Health Care Act last Friday that he has permanently crippled his presidency. He may not achieve anything in his first 100 days (as if he hasn’t already); he may not even last a full term.
Exactly two weeks ago, this author predicted the defeat of the American Health Care Act — and explained that it was a step towards the final, actual deal that will repeal and replace Obamacare.
WIBC’s Greg Garrison posed an interesting question: why couldn’t Congress and the White House propose a better Obamacare replacement on day one?
President Trump has used the struggles of the American Health Care Act to improve his leverage to prepare a better Obamacare replacement.
Hillary Clinton has not done one good thing for Israel. And while Donald Trump is a newcomer to politics and foreign policy, his positions already make him a far better candidate.
Corey Lewandowski, campaign manager for billionaire Donald Trump, tells Breitbart News Daily Americans are “sick of being lied to” by people in Washington, D.C.
The Iran deal will “likely and necessarily” lead to war, according to Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It might seem odd that 15 years after 9/11, the U.S. seems determined to surrender to terrorists and the radical regimes that support them. Yet that is what the Iran deal represents–the latest in a string of lopsided deals, from the Bergdahl swap with the Taliban to the one-sided détènte with the Castro regime.
