If the past is prologue, the strategy is still a setup for an economically bruising impasse that ends with some budget concessions. As Congress prepares for another debt-limit standoff, a look into the past — at the 1src such deadlines lawmakers have confronted over the last 13 years — offers three shared truths. Those same
Report: Apple Is Lobbying To Soften Bill That Fights Forced Labor In China
November 22, 2020 by
Apple, the $2 trillion tech company, has lobbied Congress to soften the language in a bill aimed at preventing American companies from relying on forced labor in China for its products, according to a report from The Washington Post. Two congressional staffers told The Post that lobbyists with the firm Fierce Government Relations have sought…
CHINA STRIKES BACK: Fights Trump’s Tariffs With Tariffs On 120 American Products.
April 2, 2018 by
Weeks ago, President Trump announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, supposedly in an effort to jog the American economy. At the time, he also announced that trade wars were “good, and easy to win.” His economic rivals reminded him that this had not proven true at any point in American history. His economic rivals […]
Benghazi survivor fights radical Islam, counters Obama’s ‘lies’ on terrorist threat
June 27, 2016 by
One of the heroic survivors of the 2012 Benghazi attack, who held off invading Islamists until rescuers reached the besieged CIA base, has begun a national campaign to counter President Obama’s narrative on the terrorist threat. Former Army Ranger Kris “Tanto” Paronto has started a nonprofit called Leading From the Front, which he hopes will […]