[AMV] President Trump #270 Even geen schandalen

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 05:41 schreef Beathoven het volgende:
Ik krijg steeds meer de indruk dat Trump als stormram en bliksemafleider voor de republikeinen fungeert en de meest controversiele beslissingen neemt, zodat wanneer hij afgezet wordt een Pence de rest van de tijd uit kan zitten zonder al teveel tegenwind.

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 05:51 schreef Beathoven het volgende:

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Je zit op ballenbakniveau te raaskallen, kleuter.

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 05:25 schreef WhiteBeard het volgende:
Leuk, we zijn dus inmiddels zo ver dat de moderator van deze draad een anti Trumper is.

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 06:24 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Ja, welk verstandig mens niet?

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 06:25 schreef WhiteBeard het volgende:

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Geen enkel verstandig mens

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 06:22 schreef WhiteBeard het volgende:

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Gauw gaan klagen bij de moderator, krijg je vast gelijk, Pro Trump berichten hier? Achtung Verboten!!!

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 07:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Een wapenwedloop? Waarom niet? Ik denk trouwens wel dat Nederland ook maar een twintigtal tactische nukes moet gaan maken, just in case.

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Op donderdag 23 februari 2017 23:49 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Trump’s EPA Chief May Have Received Work Emails On His Personal Email Account

Tijd om dat maar ns een aantal jaar te onderzoeken.

Oja, lock him up!!

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 00:24 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories

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The White House Thursday night confirmed the conversation having taken place on Feb. 15, but said that McCabe initiated the discussion with Priebus to communicate that a New York Times report a day earlier about the FBI investigating conversations between Trump campaign staffers and Russian officials was, in the FBI's view, overstating the nature of their investigation.

"To be clear, it was the FBI that contacted the White House to rebut the New York Times' story," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday night. "We merely asked them to inform journalists of the same point that they were making to us."

However, according to the CNN report, Priebus reached out later to FBI Director James Comey after McCabe explained the agency couldn't make such a public statement amid an ongoing investigation. Comey, CNN reports, also rejected Priebus' subsequent request.

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Air Force Stumped by Trump's Claim of $1 Billion Savings on Jet

Cost estimates for a new Air Force One still being refined
Service awards next contracts for design, aircraft by June 30

The Air Force can’t account for $1 billion in savings that President Donald Trump said he’s negotiated for the program to develop, purchase and operate two new Boeing Co. jets to serve as Air Force One.

“To my knowledge I have not been told that we have that information,” Colonel Pat Ryder, an Air Force spokesman, told reporters Wednesday when asked how Trump had managed to reduce the price for the new presidential plane. “I refer you to the White House,” Ryder said. A White House spokesman didn’t respond to repeated inquiries about Trump’s comments.

Trump has boasted that he’s personally intervened to cut costs of two military aircraft -- the F-35, the fighter jet built by Lockheed Martin Corp., and Boeing’s Air Force One.

“They were close to signing a $4.2 billion deal to have a new Air Force One,” Trump said at a rally on Saturday in Florida. “Can you believe this? I said, ‘No way.’ I said, ‘I refuse to fly in a $4.2 billion airplane. I refuse.’”

Instead, Trump said, “we got that price down by over $1 billion, and I probably haven’t spoken, to be honest with you, for more than an hour on the project. I got the generals in, who are fantastic. I got Boeing in. But I told Boeing it’s not good enough. We’re not going to do it. The price is still too high.”

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The program to replace the aging Air Force One is in its early stages, and the service is still working to refine its “Acquisition Program Baseline” -- the metrics needed to say how much the program may cost.

Ryder said Boeing is now operating under an initial $172 million contract to work on “risk reduction activities.” The service expects to award contracts by June 30 for preliminary aircraft design and for the two unmodified 747-8 aircraft that will be adapted as Air Force One.

In January, Defense Secretary James Mattis ordered a review of how to “substantially reduce the program’s costs.”

Boeing spokesman Todd Blecher said in an e-mail, “We are committed to working the Trump administration and Defense Department on innovative approaches to affordably provide the capabilities America’s military needs.”

The White House Military Office, not the Air Force, will set the aircraft’s requirements for advanced security, communications and accommodations, Ryder said. The presidential plane is a flying fortress, equipped with advanced electronic countermeasures and able to refuel in midair to remain aloft in a national emergency.

Its communications systems can securely place the president in contact with virtually anyone in the world and command the U.S. military, including its nuclear arsenal, while in flight.

So far, the Air Force has budgeted about $1.6 billion through 2019 for the Air Force One program. It decided in 2015 to let Boeing build the jets without competition because it had the only U.S.-built passenger plane that could be adapted for the purpose. But the service said it would provide for bidding on specialized equipment such as advanced electronics and communications.

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Justice Department reverses directive to phase out private prisons

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Thursday the Justice Department would “rescind” the department’s previous directive to scale back the use of private prisons.

“I hereby rescind the memorandum dated August 18, 2016, sent to you by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, entitled ‘Reducing our Use of Private Prisons.’” Sessions wrote in a directive sent to the acting Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Thomas Kane.

“The memorandum changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system,” Sessions added.

The new directive withdraws Yates’ memo, which had asked the prisons bureau to “substantially reduce” its use of private prisons “in a manner consistent with law and the overall decline of the Bureau’s inmate population.”

"Private prisons served an important role during a difficult period, but time has shown that they compare poorly to our own Bureau facilities," Yates wrote in her memo.

She highlighted that private prisons no longer “provide the same level of correctional services, programs and resources.”

“They do not save substantially on costs, and as noted in a recent report by the Department's Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” she added.

A Justice Department spokesman explained Sessions' action by saying the new instructions would give the prisons bureau greater “flexibility.”

“This will restore BOP's flexibility to manage the federal prison inmate population based on capacity needs,” the spokesman said in a statement.

Under President Barack Obama, the Department of Homeland Security made a similar move to wind down the use of private detention facilities. The actions adversely affected the stock prices of leading companies in the private prison industry.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) said the move was a "reward" to private-prison companies who had "invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Donald Trump's presidential campaign."

"At a time when we already have more people behind bars than any other country, Trump just opened the floodgates for private prisons to make huge profits by building more prisons and keeping even more Americans in jail," Sanders said in a statement. "We must end private prisons in America."

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ.) said the decision "is a major setback to restoring justice in our criminal justice system."

"Attaching a profit motive to imprisonment undermines the cause of justice and fairness," Booker said. "This damaging decision cuts against our deeply held values of justice and liberty, while creating vast wealth for private prison operators."

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This is how our corrupt political and campaign finance system works. Private prison companies invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and today they got their reward: The Trump administration reversed the Obama administration’s directive to reduce the Justice Department’s use of private prisons. At a time when we already have more people behind bars than any other country, Trump just opened the flood gates for private prisons to make huge profits by building more prisons and keeping even more Americans in jail. Our job: Invest in education and jobs, not jails and incarceration. Further, we must end private prisons in America. Corporations should not be profiting by incarcerating our fellow Americans.

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US factory CEOs to Trump: Jobs exist; skills don't
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One executive said in discussions with White House officials that his company has 50 participants in a factory apprenticeship program, but could take 500 if enough were qualified. But he said that in his experience, most students coming out of high school lack the math and English skills to absorb technical manuals.
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While policy shifts on taxes and health care are months or years from taking effect -- much less having a broad influence on the world's largest economy -- farms and their workers may provide a more real-time look at the impact of a signature Trump action. Other industries with a significant proportion of undocumented workers include construction and hospitality, with one study suggesting that unauthorized immigrants contribute about 3 percent of private-sector gross domestic product.
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"The farm labor discussion is around whether or not our country wants to import our labor or whether they want to import their food,"

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Obamacare “Repeal and Replace” No Longer a Slam Dunk

House Republicans grapple with party divisions
Ever since the GOP got down to the business of repealing and replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), rebellious Senate Republicans have been singled out as the likely roadblock to plans passed by the House. But now it seems that a consensus in the House might be just as hard to reach, according to an article in The New York Times.

The most-conservative House members are pushing for a quick repeal of the PPACA with a bare-bones replacement to follow, while other Republicans want to craft a replacement plan before repeal.

Republicans are likely to win the 218 votes needed in the House to get the ball rolling, the Times notes, but gathering those votes is no longer the “slam dunk” that they had with previous bills to repeal the PPACA, when lawmakers knew their efforts would die in the Senate or on President Obama’s desk.

“If 25 conservative hard-liners oppose any robust replacement plan, and 30 swing-district House members demand a more generous plan, passage of a compromise bill will be in jeopardy,” according to the Times.

Some Republicans are now talking about “repairing” the PPACA rather than repealing it outright.

“When you talk about ‘repeal,’ you have just used a word that is very polarizing,” Representative Tom MacArthur (R-New Jersey) told the Times. “When you go to Democrats and say, ‘Help us repeal,’ that puts them in a box. If you say, ‘Would you help us repair something?’ people start listening in a whole other way.”

MacArthur was one of nine Republicans who voted against the initial bill to start the repeal process last month.

Republicans have been grappling with the divisions in their ranks for some time. Shortly after the election, during a GOP retreat in Pennsylvania, many members privately complained about repealing the PPACA without a clear replacement plan and about using the repeal effort as an avenue to defund Planned Parenthood, according to an unauthorized recording of the meeting anonymously supplied to the Times and other newspapers.

Source: The New York Times; February 23, 2017.

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Mr. Mnuchin, in his first interview since his confirmation last week as Treasury secretary, said slower economic growth since the financial crisis had primarily been an anomaly and a result of Obama administration policies that can be reversed. He said President Donald Trump’s administration is aiming for a sustained 3% or higher annual growth rate, a projection not widely shared by other forecasters.

“We think it’s critical that we get back to more normalized economic growth. More normalized economic growth is 3% or higher,” Mr. Mnuchin said.

Sustained growth at rates above 3% could be difficult to achieve. The Federal Reserve projects a long-run annual growth rate of 1.8%, and the Congressional Budget Office has a similar view.
The U.S. faces slower economic growth in part because the labor force is expanding less briskly than in the past as baby boomers retire. Slow worker productivity growth has also held back the economy. Output has grown about 2% on average annually over the past decade, and other wealthy economies facing similar demographic challenges have seen slower growth rates.

Still, a strong reversal of weak productivity growth or an upturn in labor force growth could send output growth higher. Mr. Trump’s administration is betting tax and regulatory overhauls could spark such changes.

Stronger growth would make it easier for the Trump administration to balance competing goals of cutting taxes and boosting spending on the military and infrastructure without sending deficits much higher. The new administration is working on a budget blueprint due out next month that would be a first step toward reconciling its objectives.

“We will have our own set of financial projections,” he said.

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 09:20 schreef nostra het volgende:
Zo, de financiering is ook gevonden, 'we have our own set of projections' en klaar is kees.

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 09:23 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Mooi is dat, zelf voorspellen dat er veel groei komt, op grond daarvan een budget opstellen en na vier jaar wegwezen als de gebakken peren tevoorschijn komen.

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 09:20 schreef nostra het volgende:
Zo, de financiering is ook gevonden, 'we have our own set of projections' en klaar is kees.

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 09:31 schreef Re het volgende:

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en dan die 5 miljoen illegale potentieel arbeiders eruit flikkeren en de echte jonge amerikaan kan eindelijk aan het werk centjes verdienen voor de miljardairs van trump

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 09:23 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Mooi is dat, zelf voorspellen dat er veel groei komt, op grond daarvan een budget opstellen en na vier jaar wegwezen als de gebakken peren tevoorschijn komen.