[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #455 Fired, but Backed Off

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 16:13 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Ja, Wilders was een slecht voorbeeld, maar ik kon geen betere bedenken

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 16:13 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Ja, Wilders was een slecht voorbeeld, maar ik kon geen betere bedenken

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 15:51 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Juist de evangelicals zullen dit goedpraten. Dat is de groep die ook Moore bleef verdedigen. De gematige republikeinen zullen degenen zijn van wie nog enige logica verwacht kan worden.

Rev. Graham: Trump is a changed person

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 16:16 schreef Tchock het volgende:
Prins Bernhard is de enige die bij me opkomt. Al was dat vergeleken met Trump natuurlijk een super lieve knuffelopa.

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 17:18 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Nee, dat was ie zeker niet.
Zijn positie als Prins der Nederlanden was alleen een stukje onbeduidender.

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The U.S. gross domestic product, a broad measure of the economy, increased by 2.3 percent in 2017, federal economists reported Friday.

GDP growth slowed in the year’s fourth quarter to an annualized rate of 2.6 percent, breaking a two-quarter streak of growth of more than 3 percent.

The economy grew far faster in 2017 than during the year before, but the slowed fourth quarter growth underscores the challenge President Trump’s administration will have in delivering the growth rates he has promised. Officials had focused on 3 percent GDP growth as proof his economic policies were working, and Trump has said it could go far beyond that target.

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 17:30 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
U.S. economic growth slowed in 2017’s fourth quarter, missing Trump’s targets

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JavierBlas2 twitterde op vrijdag 26-01-2018 om 13:09:15 The waiting line for Trump's speech in #Davos (still nearly one hour to go). Has the feeling of teenagers queuing for a concert, but this are billionaires and CEOs #tictocnews @tictoc #Davos2018 https://t.co/yxoNQ3uXCP reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 17:30 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
U.S. economic growth slowed in 2017’s fourth quarter, missing Trump’s targets

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EPA Withdraws Air Pollution Policy (WSJ)
Agency reverses decades-old emissions policy that environmentalists and congressional critics called one of its bedrock regulations

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is withdrawing a decades-old air policy aimed at reining in some of the largest sources of hazardous pollutants like mercury and lead.

The Environmental Protection Agency said late Thursday it is getting rid of requirements that it forever keep sites classified as “major sources” of hazardous air pollution once they meet that classification. This “once-in always-in” policy punished industry by keeping factories and other sites under heavy regulation even if they made improvements that would prevent them from being major sources of pollution, according to the EPA and lawmakers who had requested the move.

Environmentalists and congressional critics decried the change, saying it is one of the EPA’s bedrock environmental regulations that keeps polluters from trimming back to just below the major-source classification cutoff to avoid requirements that could further lower their emissions.

President Donald Trump has made a rollback of environmental regulations one of his signature issues, carrying out a main campaign promise by withdrawing or rewriting rules designed to fight climate change, coal-ash pollution and coastal flooding, among many others. It is part of a broad attempt to make oil companies, power plants and manufacturers, among several different industries, more competitive by lowering their costs.

The latest change “will reduce regulatory burden for industries and the states, while continuing to ensure stringent and effective controls on hazardous air pollutants,” Bill Wehrum, assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, said in a statement.

The policy, dating back to 1995, requires facilities that annually emit 10 tons or more of a single air pollutant or 25 tons or more of a group of pollutants to use the maximum achievable technology controls to lower their pollution. Deploying the technology required by that standard can lower pollution by as much as 95%. It applies to nearly 200 pollutants, including arsenic, dioxins, lead and mercury.

Republicans Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, both from heavy coal-producing states, sent a letter to the EPA earlier this month asking for the change. They said the inability of plants to escape from being classified as a major source removed an incentive to invest and make further improvements.

Environmentalists argue that the opposite is the case, and they have been successful in blocking the rule’s withdrawal in the past. The EPA tried to withdraw the rule during President George W. Bush’s administration, too—when Mr. Wehrum last worked at the EPA in the same office—and Congress blocked the effort. At the time, the Natural Resources Defense Council leaked an EPA internal memo in which regional EPA officials criticized the proposal. They said industrial facilities could “backslide” from having to use the stricter technology controls, which would allow them to increase pollution and still meet the standard.

Thursday’s move, “drastically weakens protective limits on air pollutants…that cause cancer, brain damage, infertility, developmental problems and even death,” John Walke, the NRDC’s clean air director, said in a statement. “And those harmed most would be nearby communities already suffering a legacy of pollution.”

The change will primarily help steel, paper and chemical makers among other manufacturing sites, said Jeff Holmstead, a partner at law and lobbying firm Bracewell LLP, who led the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation during Mr. Bush’s first term. NRDC says hundreds of plants could be affected. The number is unclear, Mr. Holmstead said, and they would all need to go through a recertification process to benefit, he added.

“It certainly does give manufacturing plants more flexibility in terms of how they reduce their pollution,” he added. “It certainly does reduce the regulatory burden.”

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Deriding the "nasty, mean, and fake" news media, Trump drew boos and hisses from the crowd of global elites, a break from the otherwise polite reception he received here at the yearly summit for the world's ultra-wealthy.

Crowd boos as Trump calls media 'fake' in Davos

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Heading back from a very exciting two days in Davos, Switzerland. Speech on America’s economic revival was well received. Many of the people I met will be investing in the U.S.A.! #MAGA

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 19:54 schreef Jano9 het volgende:
Steve Wynn, Finance Chair of the RNC in opspraak gekomen:

https://www.wsj.com/artic(...)teve-wynn-1516985953

Misschien al gepost?

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 18:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://www.politico.com/(...)oreign-policy-370851

Nikky Haley ontkent relatie met Trump. Disgusting is het woord dat ze gebruikt.

Ze zaten wel alleen in Airforce One volgens geruchten.

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 20:24 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het was natuurlijk wel weer een mooie zet van die Wolff.

Trump en Hope Hicks werd eerder al geroepen, maar de kans dat zij ongezien met Trump kan flikflooien als vriendin van Ivanka is heel klein. Er waren ook nog geruchten over een assistente van Flynn o.i.d. . Haley is natuurlijk vreemd als Trump affaire, maar net geloofwaardig genoeg, omdat ze redelijk onverwachts in de Trump cirkel terecht is gekomen. Dat maakt mensen nieuwsgierig.

Je moet Michael een ding nageven, hij weet hoe hij zijn boekjes moet slijten.

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Op vrijdag 26 januari 2018 21:25 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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Vooral omdat hij alleen maar hint dat hij zeker weet dat Trump een affaire heeft, en het aan anderen overlaat er namen bij te zoeken.