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For the first time I don't 100% disagree with something trump did
Although I think that's kind of a heavy handed way of reducing federal regs, it's not a completely bad idea

>>106202
>by requiring agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced.

Wow, I didn't think Trump could get any more retarded and he comes out with this.

>>106202

One of the things Trump talked about on the campaign trail is that small businesses dont care too much about the tax rate, they see little benefit from tax cuts.

But regulations and red tape are a real killer for small business and Trump promised he would cut regulations for business.

> and now he's doing it

>>106249
there's more than one way to skin a cat

Trump often explains things in layman's terms, then writes it out differently on paper.

For example the wall issue, he explained on his website if mexico doesnt pay for the wall he's going to use the Patriot Act to halt all remittances to mexico through the money transfer agencies.

> that means the illegals that were sent up here to make money to send back home Wont be able to send it back home
> it means mom&dad and the brothers back in mexico will starve, suddenly and unexpectedly

So thats some hardball right there, downright cold, but it takes brains to come up with a plan like that.

Trump did it so it's automatically bad even though if anyone else did it it would be good.

>>105603
How does this get around the right to pettition?Anyways, who do people dislike lobbying? I wonder if people think every lobbyist is Remy Danton or something? Most lobbyists work for trade associations

>ahahah he's not going to build the wall you fucking drumpfkins
>WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS HE FUCKING WITH NAFTA MEXICOS PRECIOUS ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE IF IT DOESN'T GO THROUGH THE WALL ISN'T THAT IMPORTANT

>you helpful idiots of course he can't ban muslim immigrants.
>THAT FUCKING ISLAMAPHOBIC PIECE OF SHIT I AM LITERALLY SHAKING ALL THOSE POOR PEOPLE TRAPPED AT THE AIRPORT I HATE HIM SO MUCH

>did you nazis actually think he was going to drain the swamp? look at who he hired you morons.
>WHAT FUCKING BAD DOES LOBBYING EVEN DO? WHY DOES HE KEEP PROVING US WRONG? STOP DIVIDING US.

>The makings of a Mexican strategy for defending its interests started coming into focus on Monday, when President Enrique Peña Nieto declared that negotiations for a future relationship with the United States would not be limited to trade.

>“We will bring to the table all themes,” he said in a speech. “Trade, yes, but also migration and the themes of security, including border security, terrorist threats and the traffic of illegal drugs, weapons and cash.”

>His hope is that by introducing broader uncertainty about the bilateral relationship — Will Mexico still cooperate in the fight against drug trafficking? Will it stop foreign terrorists from using Mexico as a way station into the United States? — Mexico can raise the stakes enough for Mr. Trump to reconsider his “America first” approach to commerce.

>“Mexico has a lot of chips to play,” said Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign secretary who has staked out a combative approach.

>Let Mr. Trump pull the United States out of Nafta, he argues. Instead of stopping Central American migrants at its southern border, Mexico should let them through on their way to the United States. “And let’s see if his wall keeps the terrorists out, because we won’t,” Mr. Castañeda added.

>The view from Mexico City is not uniformly bleak. Some analysts believe there is a potential for a situation in which a new Nafta benefits all. “I have always believed one should never let a good crisis go to waste,” said Arturo Sarukhán, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States. “There is an opportunity that we could end up modernizing and improving Nafta.”
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>The view that there is a potential silver lining to Mr. Trump’s hostility toward Nafta is also popular in some Washington circles. The quarter-century-old agreement is due for some modernization anyway, if only to deal with things like data protection, online crime and e-commerce — which were not around in the early 1990s. Nafta’s weak provisions on labor and environmental standards could also be improved.

>Many aspects of Nafta could be upgraded, trade experts say. It could do with new rules to open up government projects to bidders from all three Nafta partners. Allowing long-haul trucking companies from Mexico and the United States into each other’s markets could make trade between the two more efficient. What’s more, the Mexican-American border could benefit from more infrastructure investments to integrate energy networks, reduce clogged lines at border crossings and the like.

>Now that Mr. Trump has formally nixed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have tied North America and nine other nations from the Pacific Rim into one large trade bloc, some of its provisions could be drafted into a new North American deal.

>Gary Hufbauer of the pro-trade Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington suggests that the name “Nafta” be retired — it has a bad reputation. But a lot of its substance could remain, perhaps in the form of separate bilateral agreements with Canada and Mexico.
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>“Trump wants some easy victories,” Mr. Hufbauer pointed out. If he can score political points using his Twitter feed to persuade a few companies to keep jobs in the United States, why risk hurting the American economy by abandoning the North American trade deal? “Maybe that’s the reconciliation,” Mr. Hufbauer said.

>Still, it’s hard to reconcile the proposal for an improved, more effective trading pact in North America with Mr. Trump’s frequent portrayal of trade as a zero-sum game that inevitably shortchanges the United States.

>In Mr. Trump’s eyes, improving Nafta seems to mean eliminating Mexico’s trade surplus with the United States and limiting investment by American multinationals in Mexico. But one can’t quickly eliminate a $60 billion trade surplus with a new Nafta — not unless it has some incredibly draconian limits on imports or local content requirements that could be as damaging to Mexico as abandoning the pact altogether.

>Many Mexican officials fear that it is precisely this kind of draconian change that Mr. Trump has in mind. It would be politically profitable, at least in the short term. And it would signal toughness to China — a more formidable rival that is next on Mr. Trump’s list. If Canada stays out of the fray, cutting a separate deal with the United States to replace Nafta, Mexico would be left alone in an existential fight for its future.

>In this case, Mexico may have no choice but to raise the stakes and hope to arrive at the negotiating table with a threat at least as credible as Mr. Trump’s promise to pull out of the deal.
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>As a candidate, Trump promised to build a wall along the border with Mexico and deport far more of the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, especially those with criminal records.

>“Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities,” he said during an immigration speech in Phoenix. “These are individuals encountered or identified by ICE, but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn’t have been politically correct.”

>But Kim Propeack, communications director for CASA, saw it differently.

>“Wendy’s situation illustrates our failure as a country in not creating an immigration system based on family unity and the best interests of children,” said Propeack, who helped Uruchi with her appeal.

>“Wendy will contribute to society wherever she is,” Propeack added. “Her deportation is a loss to us.”

>Uruchi came to the United States from Spain in 2002 under the United States’ visa waiver program, which allows visitors from 38 countries to stay for up to 90 days without a visa.

>She and Jimenez had chatted online, but only saw each other for the first time when he picked her up at Dulles International Airport. At the end of her three months, Uruchi decided to stay illegally in America with Jimenez rather than return to Madrid, where she feared an abusive stepfather.

>She and Jimenez, who is also undocumented, got married, had two kids and settled in Virginia. He worked as a trucker; she cleaned hotel rooms. She began volunteering with Casa in 2013 and was hired full time as a Virginia community organizer the following year.

>Even as she helped undocumented immigrants fight deportation, Uruchi managed to hide her own status.

>Friends and co-workers were stunned when, after pleading guilty to a May 28 DUI charge in Stafford County, Uruchi was transferred to ICE custody and told she would be deported.

>Because she had entered under the visa waiver program, Uruchi was not entitled to a hearing with an immigration judge. Instead, her fate lay in the hands of ICE officials.

>Gonzalez prepared a motion for stay of deportation, arguing that sending Uruchi to Spain would be a blow to her two children. Alex needed his mother’s help to deal with Asperger’s syndrome. Lucia woke up in the middle of the night crying for her mom.

>On Halloween, a month after The Washington Post reported on Uruchi’s case, ICE officials rejected her motion for a stay of deportation.

>Uruchi’s appeal was denied on Nov. 14. A week later, CASA held a protest outside of ICE headquarters in the District, and Jimenez publicly begged immigration officials to reunite his family in time for Christmas.

>“My wife is not a criminal,” said Jimenez, calling his wife’s arrest “something that can happen to anybody.”

>Last week, officials told Jimenez that his wife would be imminently deported, he said. On Sunday, he and the kids went to see her one last time at Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail in Williamsburg.

>Uruchi, usually the defiant activist, broke down.

>“She began to cry,” Jimenez said. “She said she was very sorry, but that soon we would all be together.”

>Jimenez said he and the kids would stay in the United States until at least the end of the school year. He held out hope that his wife somehow would be allowed to return quickly. If not, he said, then he, Alex and Lucia would move to Madrid this summer.

>“We would have no jobs, no place to live. My kids would have to learn Spanish,” he said. “We would have to start from zero.”

Anyone else finding this whole situation hilarious? They keep breaking law after law, while trying to act like they're not criminals by doing it.

>>103449
Oh no, they get to go back to the hellhole called Europe, where they enjoy some of the highest qualities of life in the world. The injustice of it all.

I just want to point out that it's not hard to apply legally for citizenship in the US. I see all these illegals and they don't even try.

>>106113

> EO still in place and bubbling up courts
> "victory"

shit thread

>>106113
And now our northern neighbor has a refugee terrorist attack they're dealing with. Looks like trump can't stop winning

What statement? Nice thread, genius.

>>105724
>feed me mama

>Honors and remembers all victims of the holocaust
>"OY VEY HE DIDN'T EXPLICITLY MENTION DA JEWS, IT'S ANNUDAH SHOAH"

Hitler was right.

MSM will be Trump's worst enemy for the duration of his tenure. He proved them to be trivial, fictional, and liberally biased. Putting the The American People first in deciding their government's matters, challenges their domination agenda.

It doesn't matter what the media report.

Die hard fans will deny even the obvious if their heroes say so.

>>102383
>How does /news/ feel about this all together?
First big blunder of the administration. Main point is that the Trump Administration is not going to be different from previous administrations with respect to blatantly telling lies in press conferences.

> The media is generally leaving out the point of general media bias called out for in this press conference, but do you think the media should be worrying about retweeting crowd sizes and using "slightly" misrepresenting photos to further a narrative?
The point Spicer was trying to make was dwarfed by his blatant lies. Additionally, the angry and combative attitude of Spicer is very uncommon in press conferences. Even using this platform for discussing such things is uncommon. I don't think the press should have initially ran with stories about these crowd comparison photos (especially since Obama's first inaug crowd size was record breaking so future crowds were bound to regress towards the mean). It's true that the press ran with these stories to further the narrative that "no one likes trump", but it's also true that the press covers topics that are being discussed on social media and these comparison photos were among the most popular topics on social media.

> Do you think it wise of the Trump administration to fire back like this in a press briefing?
No. If the Trump administration didn't fire back I would have thought that the press was in the wrong for reporting on such an obviously agenda driven story. However, since the administration did respond in such a weird/dishonest way they are now the rightful subjects of negative reporting.

>How do you feel about the Trump team making overstated claims such as this?
It's childish, focus on bigger things. I know that "going to war with the media" is a political tool to gain public support but I mean come on.

>Thoughts, feelings, and predictions on the administration vs the media for the next 4 years?
I don't think anyone can predict what will happen.

ABC claims he was greek.

>>101613

source please. This is critical. Police are on the investigation for the suspect. They think its a Greek Muslim

kek its not a terrorist attack, just some ice addict off his face

Is this it anons? Ww3?

>>105939

yep. Merkel refuses to make any forign politics so now such fucks pop up and decide what to do with the world instead.

i wonder why this fuck came up with this shit out now. reminding Trump, he has to pay Lithuanians bills?

>>105923
I looked this up.

Why are only Russian and non-MSM news outlets reporting it? Why isn't it all over the internet?

Additionally, what the fuck is Lithuania really going to do to Russia? The EU and US would drop them so fast if they decide to provoke a war with a somewhat unstable nuclear state.

I'm rather skeptical of the whole story.

Toward the bottom of the page is a reference to preserving natural resources.

“Lastly, our need for energy must go hand-in-hand with responsible stewardship of the environment,” the statement reads. “Protecting clean air and clean water, conserving our natural habitats, and preserving our natural reserves and resources will remain a high priority.”

David Yarnold, president and chief executive of the National Audubon Society, was not reassured.

“It will take a lot more than the stroke of a key to erase the effects of climate change, it will take a plan,” Yarnold said in a statement. “As with the healthcare millions of Americans depend on, we expect President Trump to have a science-based replacement in hand to make progress toward confronting the climate crisis threatening our birds and our communities.”

Sam Adams, U.S. director of the World Resources Institute, agreed.

“It’s truly disturbing that one of the first actions by the Trump administration is to remove nearly all references to climate change from the White House website,” he said in a statement. “The website’s lone climate reference is to eliminate the Climate Action Plan, which is a wholesale attack that flies in the face of common sense and would do harm to all Americans.”

>>101941
if we pretend it doesn't exist it will go away, right?

>>101954

Just kicking the can down the road.

Good job he can only set the policy for at most 8 years.

>>104473

Thanks for copy-pasting the entire article here in the thread, where everybody can easily read it and quote relevant sections in their replies.

Oh wait, you didn't do that....

>>104517
Don't worry pal, I'll tell you what it said.

Thieves stole a couple of statues from Japanese monasteries took them to Korea and sold them.

Now they're known to be stolen but the Koreans are keeping one because they say it's originally Korean, stolen ages ago and taken to Japan.

>>104528
Considering what Japan did to Koreans (and Asia & Europeans) and what they plundered, to get one back is more than Japan deserves.

The only caveat I would put on that is, if you asked, US, Australian, New Zealand & Dutch pows & civilian prisoners enslaved building the Burma railroad, they would tell you that the Korean conscript guards were the worst.

Proposals are being solicited until February 8, after which time, the chosen contractors will produce the biodegradable bullets as part of a three-phase process. In phase one, the contractor will focus on making 40 mm to 120 mm training rounds. "Bullets" might be a bit of an understatement here. Even the smaller 40 mm rounds, which are essentially grenades, are pretty hefty (see image below). The 120 mm rounds are even bigger; they're used in tanks.

Phase II includes developing a prototype and the means to manufacture it and phase III has the biodegradable round transitioning to use at the Army training facilities.

The plants that grow from the seeds could also help remove soil contaminants or feed local wildlife. According to the proposal, "Animals should be able to consume the plants without any ill effects."

In other words, these bullets won't kill.

>>103179
It's good way to mark up prices for ammunition. Awesome way to gouge the tax payer some more.

>>103179
instead of wasting millions on a daydream why not switch to pure iron/steel shells/bullets they'll just rust, FeO isn't that toxic and every lifeform has some way of dealing with it biochemically

or SiO2, hard & strong, non-bioactive and it erodes into sand

>>104385
Those Canadians have had it too good for too long anyways. They will turn over their milk bagging technology or we will commence the building of a syrup pipeline from the American northeast to the rest of the country.

>The Keystone Pipeline is back on the table now that Trump is in charge and is going to be given "priority" to be completed
>Cancelled the TPP, which would have assguttered our economy further, forcing us to back out
Hmm... Really makes one activate their almonds.

>>104385
Trump turned against everyone at the point of his conception. His type only uses (employs) people and especially cheats them for greed, without shame in not paying contractors. Everyone he would cheat and cheat on.

>Trump
>Using intelligence

Don't make me laugh

>>101438
>CIA destroying data because Trump could use it
Lets be real
>...as evidence of criminal and unethical activity in his attempt to shut them down

Unless you think the CIA dosing hookers with LSD and observing them in a small room with a one way mirror is important to national security.

So nobody minded these wide-sweeping powers to spy on Americans until someone from the other party got in? This is why we have a Constitution. Rights lost are lost forever.

>Cohn will also be able to defer significant taxes as he sells, assuming he plows proceeds into government securities or certain mutual funds. The extent of that benefit will become clearer when authorities release his financial disclosures for joining the government. He didn’t respond to a telephone message left at his home.

>Cohn, 56, stepped down as Goldman’s president and chief operating officer last month after agreeing to lead Trump’s National Economic Council. He had started at the bank in 1990, becoming co-president in 2006, and then sole president. He was long seen as the heir apparent to CEO Lloyd Blankfein. For 2016, the bank awarded Cohn $20 million in pay.

>A Tuesday filing shows the bank lifted restrictions or accelerated delivery on a total of about $123.7 million in stock and cash awards. That includes $47 million to settle outstanding awards he received each year since 2011 under the bank’s long-term incentive program. And he got an $18 million cash payment in exchange for outstanding performance shares.

>The bank accelerated more than 96,000 restricted shares that were outstanding from earlier awards scheduled to be delivered over time. It also lifted restrictions on almost 100,000 shares that Cohn had already earned but was unable to sell.

>He didn’t receive all of the restricted stock because Goldman Sachs withheld an unspecified portion of it for taxes, according to the filing.

#draintheswamp

I though it was Hillary that was in the pocket of Goldman Sachs.