WASHINGTON (AP) — Beset by poor poll numbers and the grind of the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump will look to reset his term with his first State of the Union address, arguing that his tax cut and economic policies will benefit all Americans. The theme of his Tuesday night address to Congress and the […]
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Cal Thomas: Republicans should offer a path to wealth
Editor’s note: This column was submitted Tuesday, before President Obama’s State of the Union address. Here’s a suggestion for Joni Ernst, the new Republican senator from Iowa, who will deliver the GOP response to the State of the Union address Tuesday night. Get a chorus together and open with this old Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne number: […]
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Auburn Manufacturing president to attend State of the Union speech
AUGUSTA — Independent Sen. Angus King has invited the head of an Auburn-based manufacturing company to next week’s State of the Union Address in Washington. Kathie Leonard, the president and co-founder of Auburn Manufacturing, Inc., will sit in the House gallery for President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday. King says that Leonard’s hard work, innovation […]
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Cal Thomas: Obama’s speech simply more misinformation
Suppose a president of the United States delivered a State of the Union address and nobody cared? Isn’t that what happened Tuesday night when the increasingly irrelevant — and, yes, boring Barack Obama — droned on about predictable things in a predictable way? We have been forced to listen to him so many times (often […]
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Fact Check: Do President Obama’s claims add up?
WASHINGTON — It seems to be something of an occupational hazard for President Barack Obama: When he talks about his health care law, he’s bound to hit a fact bump sooner or later. So it went Tuesday night, when he declared Medicare premiums have stayed flat thanks to the law, when they’ve gone up. As […]
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Analysis: Obama’s agenda more bite-sized than bold
The president’s State of the Union address Tuesday was an amalgam of modest proposals designed to chip away at some of the same problems he’s been working on all along: persistent unemployment, middle-class insecurity, lagging schools and more. “Let’s make this a year of action,” Obama exhorted members of Congress arrayed before him. “That’s what […]
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Obama speech: Big new theme, some familiar content
His message to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday will identify measures where he and Congress can cooperate, and he will press issues that will distinguish him and Democrats from Republicans. He’ll also make a case for acting alone. Illustrating his willingness to act on his own, the White House says Obama will announce […]
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In address, Obama to focus on economic opportunity
WASHINGTON — Struggling to generate second-term momentum, President Barack Obama will use Tuesday’s State of the Union address to announce new executive actions on job training and retirement security, while prodding a divided Congress to work harder on expanding economic mobility for middle class Americans. Obama’s broad themes — described by the White House as […]