President Trump keeps on winning

If you depend on the national media for your news, you probably think that President Trump is suffering a beating at every turn in his second administration.

In fact, he’s leading the fight to win back America from the entrenched Washington, D.C., left by a score of 10 to one at this point.

The most recent example was passage of the budget bill, which was described as a “Big, Beautiful” bill by President Trump in his usual effusive style.

It passed by a single vote, 215-214, but that’s enough to secure a number of President Trump’s campaign promises, including extending his first-term tax cuts and funding border security.

It now goes to the Senate where another close vote is likely.

House Speaker Mike Johnson was walking a tight rope to get this legislation passed and deserves plaudits.

There are surely portions of the bill most of us won’t like but they were necessary to get the bill passed so the president can continue his drive to cut out the wasteful spending, corruption and anti-American practices that had become commonplace in the nation’s capitol.

Johnson said after the vote that he has asked Senate Republicans “to modify this as little as possible, because it will make it easier for us to get it over the line ultimately and finished and get it to the president’s desk by July 4.”

The bill meets a target of $880 billion in savings in the Energy and Commerce Committee’s section, which encompasses Medicare and Medicaid funding.

Townhall’s staff points out those spending cuts, which made some moderate, swing state members, such as Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., nervous, were carried out by instituting a number of reforms, such as initiating “community engagement” requirements for Medicaid.

However, many fiscal hawks felt that the reforms did not go far enough, as they were not set to go into effect until 2029—after the next presidential election.

Changes to the national attitude will have to be achieved by degree. Compromise is the key to success in this political chess game.

One issue in the reconciliation process was the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions. A SALT deduction allows residents in high-tax states to deduct their state and local taxes on their federal tax returns.

Pro-SALT Republicans, such as Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., made it clear they wouldn’t vote yes for any bill that didn’t include a major increase in that cap. Late in the process, they rejected an offer from Speaker Johnson, R-La., to raise the cap on deductions from $10,000 to $30,000. Johnson later upped the offer to $40,000.

Democrats and the national media (There I go repeating myself) are cheering for Trump to lose every battle but he has been winning the legal challenges to his agenda when the district court challenges are overturned regularly by higher courts, including the Supreme Court. Those wins get minute mention in the major media.

The Left is aiming for a takeover of Congress in the 2026 mid-term elections, which they would use to begin new impeachment proceedings, thus destroying the efforts to corral the wasteful spending, which has become an expected perk by the clever leftist machine.

Americans – a majority, at least – have become tired of the propaganda – not news – screamed at them by the elite media and more and more have quit listening to it.

Those media outlets have a trick to cover up news they don’t like.

For instance, when cover-ups about the Biden presidency are revealed, they find something to turn their attention elsewhere, such as the report that Biden has advanced cancer.

Nobody is glad Biden has cancer but his illness strikes a sympathetic chord with most. Most importantly, to the left, it gets them off the subject of Trump’s wins and the awful Biden presidency in which senility and its cover-up by his staff and the media played such a part.

Columnist Ben Shapiro points out: “This week, we found out that Biden also has stage four prostate cancer, which has already metastasized to his bones. There is virtually no way that nobody knew about the cancer until this week; prostate cancer is a slow-moving cancer that is easily detected by routine PSA tests.

“This is, to put it mildly, one of the biggest scandals in American history.”

Then Shapiro asks the obvious question: “Who was running the White House while Joe Biden’s brain wasn’t working?”

Practically every person with half a brain knew before the fateful presidential debate with Trump that Biden was experiencing advanced senility.

An elected leader wasn’t making decisions affecting national security and the public was shielded from knowing it.

It seems to me that a loving family would have been concerned about the effects a pressure-packed public life – even if greatly reduced – could have on an ill person.

Shapiro also commented: “How long did the Biden family know about Biden’s in- firmity? Where … was Dr. Jill? Where was Hunter? Or were they all so focused on grifting off the family name that they couldn’t be bothered to truly care for their ailing patriarch? That question turns extraordinarily dark when we consider the question of Biden’s cancer. Was Biden deprived of necessary treatment? Did he go undiagnosed because the family didn’t want to know the answer? We do know that the Biden family has covered up cancer before: when Beau Biden, then the attorney general of Delaware, was suffering from brain cancer, the family worked to lie about it.”

There is a third question related to this situation: Where was the media? Isn’t its job to inform the public?

The answer: Yes. Shapiro points out this glaring truth: “The greatest sign of an imperial presidency is that the president is so unanswerable that he can be nearly clinically dead in public without serious repercussion.”

••• Democrats lost the last election because they left the people.

They continue to do so, clambering to support worthless causes and reproachable actions.

Last week provided another example as examined by columnist Derek Hunter… “Ever heard of LaMonica McIver? Probably not. She only assumed office after her predecessor, another Democrat, died last year. She won the special election to replace Donald Payne Jr, then the general election in November with 74.4 percent of the vote, so you know you’re dealing with someone elected because of their party, not their intellect.

“Here is where I would list her accomplishments, but she doesn’t have any. She hasn’t been in Congress long enough to have done anything, and she hasn’t. She’s not likely to, either. I mean, she’s a Democrat from Newark who served on the city council. Has anything good come out of Newark?

“But she hit and shoved an ICE agent, which makes her wildly popular among Democrats.

“How does this idiot, who is on video assaulting a federal officer, become someone a political party elevates as a hero?”

McIver pretended she and a couple other congresspersons visited a federal detention facility, accompanied by a camera crew, to record the action along with the mayor of Newark. Members of Congress can enter detention facilities to do oversight, but not mayors or camera crews.

There, LaMonica shoved a prison officer, a punishable offense, then she emailed this: “The Trump administration just charged me with crimes for engaging in congressional oversight. This is a first – and it’s a flashing red light for our democracy. I conducted oversight at an ICE facility in my district to do my job and my lawful right as a member of Congress. It’s clear: Trump and his administration are more concerned with punishing anyone who dares to speak up than transparency or oversight.”

Derek Hunter observed: “Literally nothing she wrote there is true, but it doesn’t matter to Democrats. She was the aggressor, the Democrats there deliberately instigated the confrontation by trying to bring in the Mayor of Newark, who has no right or authority to enter a federal facility. Either the three Democrat Members of Congress there knew that and wanted a confrontation on video or they are collectively too stupid to know their jobs and the difference between Congress and a local mayor.

“While I believe the first point is the most true, the second is undeniably true too.”