Bill Owens

Congresswoman Stefanik has ignored her constituents’ needs by being silent on the tariffs that are hurting her District, on Mr. Trump’s stated desire to annex Canada, both of which has caused a 30% decline in tourism in her District, on the impact of Medicaid cuts on her constituents and healthcare providers in her District, and fails to produce any evidence of waste, fraud or abuse in the healthcare industry.

It has been reported by ProPublica that the IRS is building a huge database of ALL taxpayers to share with DHS for immigration enforcement purposes. This begins to sound like J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon and others who have abused government data, and given the proclivities of the Trump administration, there is great likelihood that data will be abused and used for other than immigration enforcement.

It has been reported that there are currently 400,000 factory jobs that are going unfilled because employers cannot recruit qualified and reliable employees. It does not appear that this issue has been considered by the Trump administration as it touts the idea of reshoring.

Jordan Klepper called out President Trump for his Irish Exit on the Daily Show. As an Irishman, I am offended that Mr. Trump would be given credit for doing anything Irish.

China and the US apparently have reached a deal although it is short-term and without much in the way of specifics other than addressing the US need for rare earth minerals and establishing a 50% Chinese tariff. It is clear that what the Chinese have done is “string it out” as they make piece meal deals and essentially slow roll it.

Mr. Trump has touted the creation of a golden dome defense similar to that which Israel uses. Unfortunately, as he was on his rampage relative to Canada, he forgot that he needed locations in Canada in order to accomplish this.

Lord Stanley is 4 games from going home to Canada.

Mr. Trump was essentially rebuffed by Mr. Putin with his refusal to enter into a cease fire in the Ukraine and apparently loading up with more demands. Obviously, Mr. Putin believes he has the upper hand, and it would appear that he does. Mr. Trump is now many months into his term after a promise to end the war on day one without any indication that the war is winding down. In fact, the Russians are pounding the Ukraine even harder, essentially thumbing their nose at Mr. Trump.