Poor Little Marco should be prepared for awkward conversations at the G7 Summit in Quebec this week. However he is one of the more presentable faces of the Trump Administration and knows enough to cool the 51st state rhetoric.
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The Vances’ visit to Greenland now being restricted to visiting the US Air Force base there. No Greenlanders wanted to see them. I expect they would get the same sort of reception in Canada.
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Speculation that I’ve seen is that they are worried about losing her seat in the special election.
I’d take this with a few grains of salt, but I did verify that the records shown do appear in LeakPeek:
Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Hegseth, has been present at two meetings where sensitive information was discussed, according to the Journal, citing multiple people who were present at the meetings or have knowledge of her presence at them.
A defense secretary has the discretion to invite anyone to meetings with foreign counterparts, but officials cited by the Journal said that those attending these types of meetings usually have high-level security clearances. While the spouses of defense officials sometimes receive low-level security clearances, it is unclear whether Hegseth’s wife has any clearance.
Is she tagging along to be Pete’s designated driver?
I would have thought that his position came with a staff driver, if they haven’t all been let go by Elmo.
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Very Hitlery of him.
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You should be very scared of Miller.
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He sounds like a raging lunatic, because he is one, but also comes across articulate and i suspect that gets him a lot of runway with Trump.
As does Navarro whose claims can easily be refuted.
Well that would more than pay for the $4T cost of extending the Trump tax cuts. Of course, keeping them in place and how that affects importing patterns might lower the revenue. And the inflation cause by the tariffs would probably cost tax payers more than the extension of the tax cuts would save them.
Look on the bright side: the national debt won’t be so bad once we inflate it away.
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The bad news is your standard of living will decline. See that lonely gray bar on the far right. That is money that won’t be spent. It will be invested.
And the stated goal is to privatize more, reducing the size of government. Which means those investments will include things like k-12 schools, postal services, and anything they can pick up.
Those functions will no longer be tax payer supported. They will be rents to those in the gray bar. The rent will be more than the tax subsidy, without question. First is the profit, but second is the cost of capital. That latter one is easy to see. None of those families has a lowerer borrow rate than the US federal govt…costs gonna rise. It’s simple arithmetic.
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Yes, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you say you are using the tariffs to dramatically reduce the level of imports your tariff revenue is going to go down.