Conservative Orthodoxy News Today

Retired Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Trump had deviated from conservatism and the party shouldn't nominate him in 2024.

>> and it is surprising because of their lack of willingness to stand up to the president, but this goes against conservative orthodoxy. we could not get sean duffy to break on if they are taxings on consumers, but consumers would say say of course they are. we are losing money on the tariffs. . the other thing is the law that was used to justify these tariffs is wrong. are they going to allow all of these delegations of responsibility to the president. he uses it time even time again.

Because in this toxic whos worse battle, there is an opportunity for someone who says im just going to get something done. trump comes up with these easy, quick answers. this is a solution. and off they dont work out. people will learn this about the tax plan when it goes on. thats what tariffs are. he said i told you id help you. here i am. this will hurt people, they just wont know it for a while. >> the presidents negotiating and political strategy is to take extreme positions and then someti...

Going? it certainly has divided the west wing. i cant overstate how much chaos was surrounding this decision yesterday and how it was going back and forth and nobody knew what was going to happen until the president called them into the room. >> its the first time he really substantively challenged conservative orthodoxy in the year of being president. >> except the day before when he was talking about guns. >> substantively orthodoxy. him floating ideas with diane feinstein about guns. trump be...

>> jen, t means democrats will start making a picy argument against trump, not a character argument anymore? >> i think what you have to do is both of them. what we found in the campaign was what most concerned people actually was making a character argument but now that -- i mean i think if you look at where this week started where we thought what was supposed to happen this week the house is supposed to pass their repeal and replace bill on health care. they were supposed to have a budget well...

I really wonder what donald trump is saying on this phone call and what donald trump decides over the next few days. >> and robert costa, the point kasie hunt made, how would trump, how was donald trump square some of the things he said on the campaign trail where he separated himself from some of the paul ryan conservative orthodoxy, saying hey, i dont to want touch medicaid. i dont to want touch medicare. i dont to want touch social security. social security not really a part of this, but just...

Nasty tweets. i think thats progress. as you noted, it didnt include much detail, didnt include guidance for congress. i dont think it accomplished much on the bipartisan front though thats also a result of democrats not responding there in the hall. yes, its better. but lets remember a speech is just a speech. this is a "state of the union" speech for all practical purposes. they generally get positive reviews, mainly as you noted because the audience is heavily tilted to the party of the presi...

Burr, the republican from north carolina, over the weekend, there had been very strong corporation on the senate side in this inquiry. well see if it continues to hold. chuck schumer said today that senator burr is on notice, steve. >> all right, kasie hunt on capitol hill, thanks for that. there is also another major story coming out of the nations capitol. this involved new priorities and the rebuke by the president of conservative orthodoxy. the trump administration today laying out its bluep...

Earlier in the show, that is the new budget blueprint that the white house put out today. this is interesting. we talked about this with one of your republican colleagues there. a break here by this white house, by this president, with conservative orthodoxy. with paul ryan, on the issue of medicare, social security spending. this budget blueprint not calling for any cuts in medicare, any cuts in social security, of course, paul ryan and the republicans were on board with that the last several y...

It was about half young people, which is usually the case. but the other half were kind of the excluded wing of the republican party and the wing that put president trump over the top. >> this is now donald trumps republican party, but it is, in terms of like conservative orthodoxy, economic nationalism, against free trade, thats heresy. >> it is interesting, because i was there last year and i was there with ted cruz, and it was hiss home audience, it was his home court. ted cruz was third in t...