Founders Broadsheet

Republican Congressional leaders yesterday released the details of its tax reform proposal, prepared in conjunction with the Trump administration. The tax bill makes good on the middle-class tax cut promised by the President and Congressional leaders. Although not as ambitious as it might have been, its business tax cuts should promote growth. But the bill […]

Confirmation spree Under Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s leadership, Republicans in the Senate have been handing the Trump administration a “confirmation spree” of judicial confirmations. This despite full-time attempts by Democrats to obstruct the confirmations. Facebook and Democratic Party identity politics Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that “Russian operatives targeted users on Facebook by race, religion […]

The pro-ISIS terrorist who killed eight bicyclists yesterday in Lower Manhattan is an Uzbek green card holder admitted to the US under the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery. In the wake of the incident, President Trump, Fox News, and other conservatives are blaming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for playing a leading role in creating the […]

Former U.S. attorney Andrew C. McCarthy isn’t overly impressed by Special Counsel Mueller’s multiple indictments of Paul Manafort yesterday, describing them as “a dubious case of disclosure violations and money movement that would never have been brought had [Manafort] not drawn attention to himself by temporarily joining the Trump campaign….[T]the president can continue to portray […]

Faced with a Russian collusion story intended to bring down the Trump administration but that had explosively turned against the Clintons, the Democratic Party, and the FBI, former FBI director and now Special Counsel Mueller moved up indictments against former Trump officials to today. To insure maximum impact, someone on Mueller’s investigative team — composed […]