President Trump Signs ‘Right to Try,’ Says It Will Save ‘Tremendous Number of Lives’

“President Trump on Wednesday signed into law a bill that would allow those with potentially terminal diseases to try experimental treatments and bypass the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,” Brooke Singman reports for Fox News.

“As I proudly sign this bill, thousands of terminally ill Americans will have the help, the hope, and the fighting chance -- and I think it’s going to be better than chance -- that they will be cured, that they will be helped, that they will be able to be with their families for a long time,” the President said.

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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross writes in Financial Times that the Trump Administration “supports the new General Data Protection Regulation’s goal of protecting personal online data while continuing to enable transatlantic data exchange.” Secretary Ross underscores that “we must find a way to implement GDPR without creating undue barriers.”

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President Trump’s tax cuts, “which prompted hundreds of companies to dole out $2,000 bonuses and wage hikes,” has now also prompted several states to propose reducing taxes, Paul Bedard reports for the Washington Examiner. “According to the annual ‘State of the States Report’ from the American Legislative Exchange Council, 11 governors proposed tax cuts, a sizable shift from past years,” Bedard writes.

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“President Trump's trade team is returning to our founding fathers' approach to economic development. They view national strength as measured by what we can produce, not just what we can consume,” writes Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, via Syracuse.com.