Draining the Swamp: Health and Human Services Cuts: Decrease Budgets, Increase Efficiency


TOTAL CUTS to HHS: 17.9% Decrease ($15.1 billion)
 Note: Over the past day, you have no doubt have read some pretty outlandish claims about Trump’s budget: everything from “no more public transit!!” to “no more disaster relief!!” to “everyone will be homeless have to move to the beach!” With how much hair media on the left is pulling out over the budget proposal, it’s easy to get lost in the headlines and have no idea what exactly is being cut and what effects that will have.

Fed Increases Fed Funds Rate Twice Since Trump Elected President – Only Once in Obama’s 8 Years

Guest post by Joe Hoft In the past 10 years there have been only three Fed Funds rate increases.  Two of those increases have occurred since President Trump won the election on November 8th, 2016.  No Fed Funds Rate increases took place between June 2006 and December 2015.  CNBC reported in December 2015 that President Obama oversaw “seven years of the most accommodative monetary policy in U.S.

Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu: ‘Holy Wars Will Soon Begin in Europe’

In one of the first reactions from Ankara to the Dutch election result, Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, warned that Europe was heading towards the abyss and that ‘holy wars’ would soon begin on the continent – this coming despite the fact that nationalist Geert Wilders, a vocal critic of Islam, was pushed into second place by the center right Prime Minister, Mark Rutte.

Optimism Among US CEOs Sees Its Largest Increase Since 2009

Guest post by Joe Hoft Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that – The Business Roundtable’s CEO Economic Outlook Index — a measure of expectations for revenue, capital spending and employment — jumped 19.1 points to 93.3, according to the group’s survey released Tuesday.

Based Wikileaker Julian Assange Joins Deplorable Camp

Based Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted this out on Wednesday: Assange leaked several CIA documents last week that that revealed the CIA can mimic Russian hackers and the US government was secretly paying to keep software vulnerable.