Betsy McCaughey
Since President Trump ousted Veterans Administration Secretary David Shulkin, the question reverberating in Washington is whether Trump’s new pick, Admiral Ronny Jackson, is capable of heading a department with 360,000 employees and 9 million vets under its care. Senate Democrats carp he lacks experience…
President Trump is freezing pay for civilian federal workers, canceling their automatic 2.1% raise for 2019. Disregard the howls from union bosses and Democratic politicians. It’s the right decision. Federal workers already collect bigger salaries, on average, than private sector…
President Trump is freezing pay for civilian federal workers, canceling their automatic 2.1% raise for 2019. Disregard the howls from union bosses and Democratic politicians. It’s the right decision. Federal workers already collect bigger salaries, on average, than private sector…
A federal district judge struck down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional on Friday, in a lawsuit brought by Republican officials from twenty states. They want their residents to have more insurance choices and lower premiums. Though technically the suing states won…
Congressional Democrats are butting heads with President Trump over his demand for $5 billion to continue building a wall along the southern border. Rep. Nancy Pelosi vows not one dollar will go for a wall. She calls the idea of…
Auto tariffs were the big takeaway from this weekend’s meeting between President Trump and Chinese leaders to de-escalate their trade war. But don’t be misled. The real threat to American auto jobs isn’t Chinese tariffs on American made cars. It’s…
President Trump is putting the economic screws to Mexico to control the flood of Central American migrants storming our southern border. Unlike prior presidents, Trump is driving a hard bargain. Exports are Mexico’s economic lifeblood. A staggering 81% of those…
President Trump’s critics are belittling him for not buying the politically correct narrative that global warming is to blame for the California wildfires. Instead Trump correctly points to decades of mistakes by state and federal forest agencies that caused the…
If Americans are losing confidence in elections, don’t blame Russian hackers. The damage is self-inflicted. A week after polls closed, Americans still don’t know who won major races: Gubernatorial races in Florida and Georgia, a Florida Senate race, and many…
