President-elect Donald Trump vowed to work with Congress to pass a bill implementing reciprocal trade protections with other nations as part of his economic plan.
The bill called the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act would empower the president to impose reciprocal tariffs on goods from foreign countries if those countries’ tariffs on American-made goods are higher than the tariff imposed by the U.S.
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Lara Trump, President-elect Trump’s daughter-in-law, announced she’s stepping down as Republican National Committee co-chair while her name remains in the mix for to fill the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) met with billionaire Elon Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy on Capitol Hill on Thursday to discuss how the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will work to root out and cut unnecessary spending within the federal government.
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Pollster John McLaughlin said president-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election stemmed from Americans having “buyers remorse” from the policies and actions taken by the Biden-Harris administration over the course of four years.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Democratic lawmakers and members of the FBI “deep state” are in a panic mode over President-elect Donald Trump nominating Kash Patel to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) due to Patel’s past callings for the full release of major classified documents.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, discussed his thoughts on author Walter Isaacson’s biography “Elon Musk” on Monday’s edition of his radio show. He explained how Musk is a unique American icon due to his lifelong work to “advance the cause of humanity” through his business ventures.
On Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Leahy said he read Isaacson’s biography on Musk over the Thanksgiving holiday, which increased his admiration for the richest man in the world since the billionaire began publicly supporting Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election.
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, stressed that the next U.S. senator appointed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to succeed Vice President-elect JD Vance must be a strong enough candidate to defend the seat in the 2026 special election.
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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to create a special Presidential Commission to investigate the “sharp rise in chronic illnesses and health problems, especially among children.”
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President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to “protect children from left-wing gender insanity” includes signing executive orders, working with Congress to pass multiple laws, and instructing his administration to investigate entities that receive federal funding that promote gender transitions.
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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to ban ESG (environmental, social, or governance) investments during his second presidential term through executive order and negotiations with Congress.
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Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official and current executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, said he is “cautiously optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to serve as U.S. Attorney General, given Bondi’s shortcomings while she served as Florida’s chief legal officer.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump announced his nomination of Bondi as attorney general just hours after the president-elect’s initial choice, former Florida U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, withdrew his nomination.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said employees at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appear to be in a panic mode to destroy evidence that could become problematic under the incoming Trump administration in an effort to save themselves from being terminated or possibly from facing prosecution.
On Tuesday, the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found a document and product destruction truck outside of the DOJ’s headquarters in Washington D.C. – just days after the Justice Department reported a “division-wide system outage” that prevented its access to certain network files.
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President-elect Donald Trump said his incoming administration will work to “revolutionize” America’s standard of living by “building new cities, investing in transportation, lowering the cost of living for everyone, and modernizing public spaces across the country.”
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Aaron Gulbransen, executive director of the Tennessee Faith and Freedom Coalition, said former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz withdrawing his nomination by president-elect Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Attorney General signals his future ambitions to run in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial election.
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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., on Thursday withdrew his name from consideration to serve as attorney general, saying he believed the confirmation fight would needlessly distract from the Trump agenda.
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to end the drug addiction crisis in America during his second term by approaching the issue from multiple avenues, specifically when it comes to targeting the import of drugs and drug precursors and providing those who are struggling with addiction additional resources to help with recovery.
The most recent data published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) shows that 107,941 Americans died by drug overdose in 2022 which is double the number of individuals in 2015 that died from overdoses.
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President-elect Donald Trump said his incoming administration will be a “champion” for homeschool families by working to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts when it comes to costs associated with education.
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Solidarity HealthShare is calling on the incoming Trump Administration to fix the “nation’s broken healthcare system” with widespread changes to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Recovering journalist and Nashville-area public policy expert Clint Brewer said last week’s general election proved that Americans no longer trust and are choosing not to believe information put out by “legacy media” outlets.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his appointment of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, is not confident that Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will appoint a MAGA Republican to Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance’s seat once he is sworn in as U.S. Vice President on January 20, 2025.
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President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly expected to nominate Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as Commerce secretary, according to several news reports Tuesday morning.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that Fox Business host and former Republican Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy is his pick to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
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The forthcoming Trump-Vance administration has the opportunity to protect pro-life pregnancy resource centers that have been targeted, ignored, and undermined by the Biden-Harris Justice Department.
“President Trump, more than almost anyone, understands what it’s like to have the entire weight of the federal law and investigatory power of the federal law against him,” said Chelsey Youman of Human Coalition, which supports pregnancy help centers. “The pro-life movement feels that weight, that burden, as well.”
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said president-elect Donald Trump’s strong border security message is being heard around the world and is already having an impact when it comes to deterring migrants from illegally making their way to the U.S. southern border.
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U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said the presence of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in Tennessee is a “consequence” of the Biden-Harris administration’s “destructive open-borders policies.”
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Pollster John McLaughlin said president-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election can be attributed to his character contrast from his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and his gut instinct about the overall needs of the American people.
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National political reporter Neil W. McCabe applauded president-elect Donald Trump’s nominations of combat veteran Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and U.S. Representative Matt Gatez (R-FL-01) as Attorney General, explaining how the men are expected to bring about a new atmosphere in their respective roles.
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The new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under the incoming Trump administration is accepting applications for individuals looking to root out unnecessary spending in government.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in sending a letter to Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis demanding that their offices’ prosecutions of President Donald Trump end “immediately.”
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to crackdown on Chinese espionage during his incoming administration by directing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to “hunt down Chinese spies.”
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to assist the nation’s population without a college degree by creating the online “American Academy” which would make higher education available to all U.S. citizens for free.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that he has nominated Fox News host and Army combat veteran Pete Hegseth to serve in his cabinet as Secretary of Defense.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced Tuesday evening she will be supporting Florida U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) for Senate Majority Leader.
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Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote detailed how he would advise the incoming Trump-Vance administration to approach Haiti and work to reform the country and reclaim it from violent gangs.
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Tom Basile, host of the Newsmax show “America Right Now,” discussed how critical it is for Republicans to “stick together” and “get stuff done” quickly during the incoming Trump administration, explaining how the Democratic Party is “already plotting to make a comeback” in the next election.
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Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino said he is “strongly considering” running for New York’s 21st congressional district, which is currently held by U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) who was tapped by president-elect Donald Trump to serve in his cabinet.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said he believes President-elect Donald Trump made a “brilliant” choice in tapping U.S. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) and former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan to be a part of his administration.
On Monday, Trump announced that he is nominating Stefanik to serve in his cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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President-elect Donald Trump said he would work to end veteran homelessness on the first day of his administration by signing an executive order to redirect funds previously spent by the Biden-Harris administration on illegal aliens to be instead used to shelter and treat homeless U.S. veterans.
Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, sanctuary cities such as Chicago and New York have made headlines for housing illegal aliens in luxury hotel rooms at the cost of taxpayers.
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“I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.”
Cast off by a drug-addled mother, raised by a discipline-demanding, f-bomb-wielding Mamaw, J.D. Vance’s inspirational story is one of lost potential reclaimed. If Vance is elected and remembers where he came from, this country has much to look forward to – because his redemptive story envelopes millions of Americans.
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