President Trump Embraces Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Legislation

USA Today reports that President Donald J. Trump put his full support behind criminal justice reform in an announcement from the White House yesterday. “The ‘First Step Act,’ developed by [Jared] Kushner and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, is designed to improve rehabilitation programs for former prisoners and give judges more discretion in sentencing offenders for nonviolent crime, particularly drug offenders,” David Jackson, Deborah Barfield Berry, and John Fritze report. Click here to read more.

The Investor’s Business Daily editorial board writes that former President Obama was “determined to force the country to dump billions of taxpayer subsidies on ‘renewable’ energy, and needed a reason to justify it. Yet all along, the truth was that the U.S. could be a global energy powerhouse. Now, with President Donald Trump in the White House calling for U.S. energy dominance, everyone knows that to be the case.”

“The booming U.S. economy, jump-started by the 2017 GOP tax cut, has created 878,000 more millionaires in just the last 12 months, according to an international wealth report from Credit Suisse,” Paul Bedard reports for the Washington Examiner. “’The boom goes on,’ cheers the Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report.”

President Trump’s announcement yesterday on prison reform shows he is ready and willing to work with Democrats on a bipartisan basis, Kayleigh McEnany reports for Fox News. “White House Senior Advisers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are among top Trump administration officials who have laid the groundwork for bipartisanship in an era of divided government – a rare feat indeed.”