President Trump Was Right: Transparency a Good Thing in Border Wall Debate with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer

In the Washington Examiner, Philip Klein writes that “when House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York tried to move their Oval Office debate with President Trump over border wall funding behind closed doors, Trump had the right response.” “It’s not bad, Nancy,” the President said. “It’s called transparency.” Click here to read more.

In Fox News, Brooke Singman reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed to bring the criminal justice reform bill endorsed by President Trump to the Senate floor. “Criminal Justice Reform is something people have been working on for many years. It looks like it is going to be passing in a bipartisan way,” President Trump said in the Oval Office yesterday.

“The 2018 Farm Bill that includes expanded safety-net programs for farmers could be voted on as early as Wednesday or Thursday after joint House-Senate negotiators released the final version of the legislation,” Jeff Daniels reports for CNBC. “President Donald Trump said the farm bill has bipartisan support and ‘is in very good shape,’” adding that our “farmers are well taken care of.”

In The Kansas City Star, EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler writes that the Trump Administration’s proposed Waters of the United States rule “would end years of uncertainty over where federal jurisdiction begins and ends”—thus undoing a power grab by the previous Administration and bureaucrats in Washington.

“In Judaism, following the loss of a loved one, family and neighbors come to visit and comfort the mourners for a period of seven days, known as the shiva period. The second stage of mourning, called the shloshim period, lasts for 30 days,” Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt writes in Fox News. “The families of the 11 Jews murdered in the heinous attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh Oct. 27 have now marked the end of this 30-day period.”