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Rose Garden event added to schedule; trade deal with Canada is the likely subject. The deal forged late last night comes as a major surprise given recent tensions - and would allow Canada to join the U.S.-Mexican accord reached in August
Just last week, Trump was bashing Canada and his chief trade guy - Lighthizer - said the differences between Washington and Ottawa on trade were too great
Beyond this likely - and surprising - news on a Canadian trade deal, President today heads to Tennessee for fundraising and a 2020 campaign rally
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As a new year begins, there is a gulf in this country between what some people want to believe and what the truth really is. At some point these two things—truth and untruth—will be reconciled. Perhaps this year, perhaps not. But in the end, truth always wins /1
Last year, we were told by the president that the economy is great. In fact, he boasted, it has never been so great. And yet the 4.2% growth rate of the second quarter faded almost immediately. The Federal Reserve predicts 2.3% growth this year and slightly under 2.0% in 2020. /2
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We were told that Americans have never had it so good. And yet 40% of us don’t have even $400 to deal with an unexpected expense.
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First film screened in the new White House movie theater - this day in 1942 - and it was a good one
Times Square, New Year's Eve, 1945
World War II was over and America stood astride the world like a colossus; never again would it be so utterly dominant: half the world's GDP, untouched by the war itself - the only country with the bomb
The Johnson Ranch, New Year's Eve, 1968
One of the worst years in American history was finally over, and Lyndon Johnson - his five-year presidency also at an end - celebrated. That awful year easily remains the worst America has endured in the last half-century
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Two Presidents died on this day. Modest men from the Midwest, each had been VP for just a few months before ascending to the top job. Harry Truman, the 33d POTUS (1945-53), died in 1972; Gerald Ford, the 38th (1974-77) in 2006
President for just three months when Franklin D. Roosevelt died, Truman became president just as World War II was ending in Europe. He made the grave decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, which brought the Pacific war to an end /2
Truman oversaw the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Korean War and creation of NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—a pillar of global peace and order for nearly 3/4 of a century - but is now threatened /3
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Late last night, Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman @repkevinbrady introduced a new tax proposal that once again furthers the GOP agenda of putting the interests of the wealthy first.
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For generations, the @GOP has made it their priority to rig the economy in favor of the wealthy at the expense of working and middle-class Americans.
Last year, the @GOP lied about who the #GOPTaxScam would benefit.

A year later we know that the #GOPTaxScam was nothing but a MASSIVE tax giveaway to the wealthy and corporations.

This tax proposal is no different.
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Late last night during an assembly the caravan decided to change route and head to Matias Romero, Oaxaca because the lack of buses made the previous route difficult given the number of sick kids and limited resources on the route.
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Late last night Grassley’s chief counsel, who’d question Ford in a staff interview & prep Grassley’s questioning in a hearing, tweeted that he’s “unfazed” & “determined” to “confirm Kavanaugh,” then confirmed he personally conducted Kavanguah’s questioning & attacked Ford’s camp.
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This silences the voice of duly-elected members like me. I wasn’t on the committee. I don’t get a chance to even suggest changes. #ncpol 2/
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