President visits swing state to promote ‘Trump accounts’ and says high prices lingering from Joe Biden’s presidency Donald Trump scoffed at the word “affordability” as a political message, describing it at a campaign rally on Wednesday as a term concocted by Democratic political consultants to criticize his presidency. Yet even as the president dismissed the notion of affordability, he devoted much of his speech at Wheeler high school to touting the bread-and-butter benefits of his economic policies. “So I just want you to remember that if you’re paying a little bit more – a lot of it’s come down now, we got it coming down very rapidly actually,” Trump said in Marietta, an Atlanta suburb, casting higher prices today as a lingering effect of the Biden administration. Americans are broadly disappointed with Trump’s handling of the economy, with just 33% of voters approving in a recent Washington Post-Ipsos poll, an assessment that could hurt his party’s hopes of bucking historical precedent and retaining control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. The president was in Georgia, a politically divided state where high-profile contests for governor and
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President Donald Trump in a new interview declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency as a means to try to assert more control over the 2026 midterm elections. It’s merely the latest warning sign that Trump could try to…
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President Donald Trump in a new interview declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency as a means to try to assert more control over the 2026 midterm elections. It’s merely the latest warning sign that…
Read original at CNN →President Donald Trump has dug himself a hole. The future of construction on his sprawling East Wing ballroom is uncertain after a divided appeals court ruled Friday that he is unlawfully constructing the project. What…
Read original at CNN →A divided federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump is unlawfully constructing a massive new ballroom at the White House, teeing up a high-stakes showdown over the issue before the Supreme Court.…
Read original at CNN →Kamala Harris thinks Joe Biden had too much faith in Republicans, and she’s jabbing at him for it. “We cannot sit around hoping Republicans will have an ‘epiphany’ and do the right thing,” the former vice president will…
Read original at CNN →The Federal Communications Commission voted to eliminate a rule Thursday that stopped any one company from owning so many TV stations that they reach more than 39% of American households. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a…
Read original at Gizmodo →As Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, Donald Trump threw his "Make America Affordable Again" promise in the trash at a recent campaign rally, with the president mocking "affordability" during his speech —…
Read original at Mashable →Judge rejects administration’s request to lift injunction secured by several Democratic-led states on 25 June A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to allow Donald Trump’s administration to implement in 23 states…
Read original at The Guardian →President Donald Trump’s rambling address at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner on Friday was filled with far more insults than assertions of fact. Even some of those insults were patently…
Read original at CNN →A new report shows more Senate-confirmed staffers have left their jobs this time around than in his first term Donald Trump loves a construction project. He’s building a ballroom, revamping a reflecting pool, and…
Read original at The Guardian →The raffles were posted to Facebook with enticing prizes for winners – PlayStations, NBA tickets and even guns from a local shop. But the man running the contests, authorities later learned, wasn’t licensed to deal…
Read original at CNN →President visits swing state to promote ‘Trump accounts’ and says high prices lingering from Joe Biden’s presidency Donald Trump scoffed at the word “affordability” as a political message, describing it at a campaign…
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President Donald Trump in a new interview declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency as a means to try to assert more control over the 2026 midterm elections. It’s merely the latest warning sign that Trump could try to…
View source →President Donald Trump has dug himself a hole. The future of construction on his sprawling East Wing ballroom is uncertain after a divided appeals court ruled Friday that he is unlawfully constructing the project. What happens next could…
View source →A divided federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump is unlawfully constructing a massive new ballroom at the White House, teeing up a high-stakes showdown over the issue before the Supreme Court. “Whether or not a…
View source →Kamala Harris thinks Joe Biden had too much faith in Republicans, and she’s jabbing at him for it. “We cannot sit around hoping Republicans will have an ‘epiphany’ and do the right thing,” the former vice president will say in a speech…
View source →The Federal Communications Commission voted to eliminate a rule Thursday that stopped any one company from owning so many TV stations that they reach more than 39% of American households. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a close ally of…
View source →As Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, Donald Trump threw his "Make America Affordable Again" promise in the trash at a recent campaign rally, with the president mocking "affordability" during his speech — even saying aloud,…
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The inaugural VivaTech x Bloomberg Awards ceremony, hosted by Bloomberg Television’s Francine Lacqua and Tom Mackenzie, was held on June 18, 2026, at the VivaTech conference in…
