President Trump late Sunday said he will rally in Georgia on Monday on behalf of two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, ahead of races that could determine control of the Senate in the new year.
He changed Americaâs approach to trade. He transformed the nationâs relationship with China. He altered the countryâs role in international institutions. He remolded the nationâs alliances. He reshaped American views about immigration. He modified decades-old customs of politics. He weaponized social media.
He recast ancient notions of how leaders behave, speak and relate to one another. He spawned a debate about whether he endangered democratic values, undermined the Constitution and stirred racial tensions.
But most significant of all: He remade two of the three branches of government.
As a result, Donald J. Trump may be pilloried by contemporary scholars even as he is remembered in history as the most consequential president in three-quarters of a century and the most significant one-term president in nearly 175 years.
House Democrats quickly spurn Trump s request for budget recissions Follow Us
Question of the Day By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Monday, December 28, 2020
House Democrats are quickly rejecting President Trump’s request to cut spending in the coronavirus relief and government funding package that he signed into law on Sunday night.
House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey, New York Democrat, rebuffed the president’s call for “recissions” in the $2.3 trillion measure. She said Democrats want to keep the higher spending levels as President-elect Joseph R. Biden prepares to take office in three weeks.
“Our Democratic majority will reject any rescissions submitted by President Trump,” Ms. Lowey said in a statement. “By turning the page on this request, we will allow the Biden-Harris administration to begin to ‘Build Back Better.’”
Saudi Activist Who Fought for Women’s Right to Drive Is Sentenced to Prison
Loujain al-Hathloul, who was arrested just before the driving ban was lifted, was charged with undermining the kingdom in a case that supporters decried as a political persecution.
Dec. 28, 2020
CAIRO One of Saudi Arabia’s best-known prisoners, the women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, was sentenced on Monday to five years and eight months in prison, capping a two-and-a-half-year legal ordeal that rights groups and her supporters called punishment for her political advocacy.
Ms. al-Hathloul was first arrested in May 2018 along with others who had pushed to end a ban on women driving. She was later charged with undermining the kingdom and its political system by communicating with foreign diplomats, journalists and rights organizations and pushing for women’s rights.
Democrats are essentially daring Republicans to vote against the effort and defy the president.Credit.Al Drago for The New York Times
The House voted on Monday evening to increase the size of individual stimulus checks to $2,000 from $600, endorsing a measure demanded by President Trump and daring Senate Republicans to either approve the heftier sum or defy the president, whose demands for bigger checks nearly scuttled the entire stimulus package.
The vote, which just reached the two-thirds majority needed to pass the House, came a day after Mr. Trump finally signed off on a $900 billion pandemic relief package he initially denounced as a âdisgraceâ and refused to sign, unexpectedly demanding that lawmakers more than triple the direct payments.