Politics

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that President Trump really cares about how coronavirus impacts the stock market. Radio host Buck Sexton asked, “Do you think he wants zero deaths from this on U.S. soil?”

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, denied a report by the New York Times that he was told to not make any statements

President Trump can shore up jobs for American professionals and graduates by ending the H-4 visa program and the Optional Practical Training (OPT) that gives away thousands of U.S. jobs to foreign nationals every year. 

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Friday vowed to hold people “accountable” for spying on the Trump campaign in 2016, saying GOP lawmakers will do everything in their power to provide the U.S. Department of Justice with the evidence needed to convict anyone responsible.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has decided to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, DC, next week — several days after it was reported that she would not attend.

A plan to give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens failed to pass out of committee in the Oklahoma state House, with lawmakers overwhelmingly rejecting the measure. 

The White House won its appeal Friday against a lower court ruling that would have allowed the Democrat-run the U.S. House of Representatives to compel the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn.

Rich Middle School in Laketown, Utah, has gained national attention from a policy that forbids children to decline dances with other students.

Network host Al Sharpton said Friday on MSNBC the danger of President Donald Trump was he had no compassion, which Sharpton claimed was evidenced in the Trump’s administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Republicans will continue fighting to keep the Electoral College, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Thursday in National Harbor, Maryland. 

House Democrats blocked a Republican amendment that would have saved infants who survive abortion from infanticide.

The ACLU has persuaded three judges in the far-left Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to block the hugely successful ‘Migrant Protection Protocols’ border policy, even though the policy has played a critical role in reducing the inflow of migrants. 

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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that the environment in the U.S. is the best it has ever been since its initial tracking 50 years ago.

Andrew Surabian, a former White House official and spokesman for Donald Trump Jr., released a statement Friday after Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) threatened Trump Jr. on MSNBC.

President Donald Trump on Friday renominated Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), a prominent member of the House Judiciary Committee, to serve as the next director of national intelligence.

Former congresswoman and New York 22nd Republican congressional candidate Claudia Tenney told Breitbart News on Friday that Republicans will take back the House in 2020.

An editorial published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine speculated that the coronavirus currently causing panic in world markets could turn out no worse than “a severe seasonal influenza” in terms of mortality.

Project Vertias founder James O’Keefe argued on Friday that mainstream media outlets claiming to be arbiters of truth have actually sacrificed their objectivity in order to cater to “woke” audiences. 

The New York Post editorial board unleashed on socialist senator and Democrat frontrunner Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Friday, ripping his grandiose plans to spend trillions and drastically expand the size of government and mocking his recently released fact sheet — which supposedly addresses cost concerns of his various proposals — as not even passing the “laugh test.”

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer spoke with Breitbart News on Friday at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)  and discussed “what’s at stake” this election year and the Republican Party’s transformation.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is booming in the Lone Star state, taking a six-point lead just days ahead of its Super Tuesday primary, Univision/University of Houston poll showed.

Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) got into a heated exchange with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a House hearing on Friday over the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

“The virus is not going to sink the American economy,” Kudlow said. “What is, or could, sink the American economy is the socialism coming from our friends on the other side of the aisle.”

Senior Trump campaign advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle told the crowd at Friday’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that, whether Democrats choose “Mini Mike’s Nanny State or Bernie’s communist revolution,” it will all lead to the same place — skyrocketing taxes, open borders, sanctuary cities, stagnant wages, less job opportunities, and the destruction of America’s health care.

“You should know that different secretaries kind of roll different,” Pompeo said. “I’m not in it for the fancy dinners in Paris, or Switzerland or Vienna.”

A pathogens expert praised CDC for expanding coronavirus testing beyond only recent travelers to China or those in contact with a traveler.

“He didn’t adapt to Washington; he’s forcing Washington to adapt to him,” Kushner said, “which is good.”

The supply of extra workers doesn’t have much effect on wages, so the government should import the foreign workers demanded by investors, says a February 27 New York Times  article, titled “Why a Top Trump Aide Said ‘We Are Desperate’ for More Immigrants.”

Actress Debra Messing is the latest prominent liberal to blame President Donald Trump for the coronavirus by repeating false allegations that the president enacted drastic budgetary cuts on the Centers for Disease Control.

Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday, claiming then-President Barack Obama was “much better prepared” during the 2014 Ebola outbreak than President Trump is during the coronavirus threat.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously upheld the Trump administration’s policy of blocking sanctuary cities from receiving grant monies if they flout our immigration laws.

Joe Grogan, White House Assistant to the President and director of the Domestic Policy Council, spoke about President Trump’s economic accomplishments and his devotion to blue collar workers, declaring that America is in the midst of a “Trump blue collar boom” and slamming arrogant, typical left-wing views about working-class people” during an appearance on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily at CPAC’s radio row.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Breitbart News Daily on Friday that big tech’s free ride is over and that conservatives are fighting back against censorship and Silicon Valley’s control of the Internet.

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace argued Friday on “America’s Newsroom” that President Donald Trump’s coronavirus press conference “clearly didn’t” ease concerns.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Donald Trump Jr. joined Breitbart News Washington Political Editor and Breitbart News Daily host Matthew Boyle on CPAC’s radio row on Friday and discussed the state of the Democrat Party, which they say has morphed into the “Socialist Democratic Party.”