WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump faces a critical challenge in grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak: Asking Americans to believe him after he and top advisers have contradicted federal scientists in playing down the threat. The stakes could be enormous from a public health and economic perspective, and also for Trump’s personal credibility. As Americans… Read More »
House Democrats are backing legislation that would gut abortion restrictions just over one week after President Trump called on Congress to pass a 20-week abortion ban. If the bill Democrats will review in a hearing Wednesday, the Women’s Health Protection Act, were to become law, then no states would be able to pass bans based… Read More »
President Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the deadly coronavirus as officials look to determine its source and how to contain it. “Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus,” Trump said… Read More »
WASHINGTON, DC JANUARY 9: U.S. President Trump appeared to suggest that his administration was in … [+] some way responsible for the recent drop in U.S. cancer death rates. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images Yesterday, the American Cancer Society released a report showing that the overall death rate from cancer in the U.S.… Read More »
The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it would move forward with plans to allow states to safely import prescription drugs from Canada, for the first time. The decision is an unusual one for a Republican administration. Progressives have long supported such a policy, but the pharmaceutical industry vehemently opposed drug imports by claiming they… Read More »
Trump compares proposed ban on flavored e-cigarettes to the Prohibition and warns restrictions could fuel a black market of dangerous products President Trump held a White House meeting with the American Vaping Association, lawmakers, and US health officials on Friday Previously, Trump proposed a ban on flavored e-cigs to combat the youth vaping epidemic and… Read More »