Washington Post (October 1)
The U.S. “federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, after Democrats in Congress failed to reach a deal with Republicans and President Donald Trump to extend funding for federal agencies.” While many “crucial government functions” will cease, “federal work vital to national security will continue, though employees…will go unpaid.” This marks the first shut down “since January 2019, and the fourth of Trump’s two terms.”
Tags: 2019, Congress, Democrats, Employees, Federal government, Functions, Funding, National security, Republicans, Shut down, Trump, U.S., Unpaid
Institutional Investor (June 4)
The U.S. deficit “is now set to explode, according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Michael Cembalest, who derided the Republicans for their new budget bill that will add trillions of dollars to the deficit in coming years.” His recent note to institutional investors estimated that the Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House will increase the deficit by “$2.8 to $3.4 trillion… over the next ten years” and, “if certain temporary provisions become permanent, the cost could reach $5 trillion.”
Tags: Budget, Cembalest, Cost, Deficit, Derided, Explode, House, Institutional investors, J.P. Morgan AM, Provisions, Republicans, Trillions, U.S.
Washington Post (December 24)
“Congressional Republicans have a new headache: Elon Musk.” Republicans have grown “used to the drawbacks of working with Trump,” especially the need “to anticipate what would draw the president’s wrath.” Now, however, they need to anticipate “what will bring them negative attention from Musk. They can’t count on either man to telegraph his views well ahead of time or privately; they will just have to keep a social media tab open.”
Tags: Congress, Drawbacks, Headache, Musk, Negative attention, Republicans, Social media, Telegraph, Trump, Wrath
Wall Street Journal (November 28)
“Mr. Trump isn’t going to change, and the next two years will inevitably feature many more such damaging episodes. Republicans who continue to go along for the ride with Mr. Trump are teeing themselves up for disaster in 2024.”
Tags: Change, Damaging, Disaster, Inevitably, Republicans, Trump
Wall Street Journal (November 10)
“If Donald Trump announces he’s running for president again, the 2024 election is over.” He is “the Republican Party’s biggest loser” having “flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.” Donald Trump “has led Republicans into one political fiasco after another.” Perhaps now that “Mr. Trump has botched the 2022 elections,” Republicans will finally be “sick and tired of losing.”
Tags: 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, Biggest loser, Botched, Election, Elections, Fiasco, Flopped, Losing, Republicans, Sick and tired, Trump
The Week (November 9)
“Republicans were expecting a ‘red wave’ on Election Day, with the typical gains for the out-of-power party turbo-charged by high inflation and economic malaise. That wave did not materialize, and ‘many pundits and journalists across the spectrum pointed their fingers at former President [Donald] Trump.’”
Tags: Economic malaise, Election day, Inflation, Journalists, Materialize, Out-of-power, Pundits, Red wave, Republicans, Trump, Typical gains
Reuters (January 14)
“Firms from JPMorgan to AT&T are rethinking political donations after last week’s Capitol violence…. The storming of the seat of U.S. government has spurred a sea change in corporate America. AT&T, the biggest company spender in the last election cycle… is suspending political donations to Republican lawmakers who objected without evidence to the November presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. Others, like JPMorgan, paused their giving altogether to reassess their strategy.”
Tags: AT&T, Biden, Capitol, Donations, Election cycle, Government, JPMorgan, Republicans, Rethinking, Trump, U.S., Violence
USA Today (January 6)
“Trump is a danger to his own country. He shouldn’t be president for one more minute,” It is “time for Republicans to help Democrats impeach Trump. He must be punished for unleashing a mob on lawmakers in his quest to reverse an election he lost.”
Tags: Danger, Democrats, Election, Impeach, Lawmakers, Mob, Punished, Republicans, Trump, Unleashing
Wall Street Journal (December 14)
The Supreme Court loss means “President Trump’s legal challenges have run their course.” With “no remaining legal alternatives,” both the President and “the rest of the Republican Party can help the country and themselves by acknowledging the result and moving on.” Unfortunately, “there’s no predicting how Mr. Trump will behave.” He may very well “continue his ‘stolen’ election claims past Jan. 20.”
Tags: Alternatives, Claims, Election, Legal challenges, Loss, Moving on, Republicans, Result, Stolen, Supreme Court, Trump
Financial Times (February 14)
The Climate Leadership Council relaunched a carbon tax initiative “with support from ten energy companies (including BP), JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and MetLife. “If nothing else, this shows the pressure that Wall Street leaders feel on the issue from investors and their own employees.” It could also mark an important shift where “the concept might gain traction with Republicans.”
Tags: BP, Carbon tax, Climate Leadership Council, Concept, Employees, Energy companies, Goldman Sachs, Initiative, Investors, JPMorgan, MetLife, Republicans, Wall Street
