Given the passage of the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in the House last week, one might have thought that health care would dominate the headlines this week. But news moves fast in the Trump administration.
Few Americans see Mother’s Day as the nation's most important holiday, and the number who consider motherhood the most important job for a woman is at its lowest level yet.
For the World War II generation there was clarity.
Once hot sentiments on the direction of the economy and personal finances following President Trump’s inauguration are now cooling, and so is consumer spending.
Why did President Donald Trump fire FBI Director James Comey now? The answer, as my Washington Examiner colleague Byron York has argued, is that he waited until after his impeccably apolitical deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, was in place as Comey's direct superior. Rosenstein was confirmed April 25, and his memorandum titled "Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI" was appended to Trump's firing letter exactly two weeks later.
While most Americans still say they know someone out of a job, that number has fallen to its lowest level yet, as has the number who know someone who has given up on the job market. But even though the national unemployment rate has fallen to a 10-year low, adults aren’t totally convinced the job market is better than it was a year ago.
This is what happens if you mess with the swamp. All the swamp creatures begin snapping and writhing and yowling like angry cats in the dark.
For the better part of a year now, the only thing everyone in Washington could agree upon was that now-ex FBI Director Jim Comey was an overreaching, underperforming dolt.
Democrats are hopeful that Republicans’ vote last week to pass the American Health Care Act provides them an argument to use in next year’s election. Only 20 House Republicans voted against the bill, which is not polling well and which Democrats are angling to use as a cudgel against the GOP.
As tensions rise with North Korea and Russia, Americans suspect a nuclear war is coming, but they’re also more confident than they have been in years that the United States will still be the world’s dominant power at the end of the century.
As President Trump and the Republicans’ new health care plan makes its way through the Senate, voters admit they like the health care they’re currently receiving but still see the need to fix Obamacare.
Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert:
Support for a single-payer health care system reached a new high despite voters’ views that it will increase health care costs and hurt the quality of care.
President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order that seeks to overturn the Johnson Amendment barring tax-exempt organizations like churches from participating in politics or political campaigns. Many worry this blurs the line between church and state, but most voters feel churches and other similar organizations should have a proverbial seat at the political table.
Voters tend to believe it’s the government job to make sure Americans have health care, even though they doubt the government will do it fairly and question whether taxpayers can afford it.
Voters are more convinced that outside forces cost Hillary Clinton the election, but despite the finger-pointing at FBI Director James Comey as one of those forces, Comey is more trusted than Clinton.
For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending May 4.
As the United States prepares to sit down with high-level Russian diplomats this week, disdain among U.S. voters for Russian leader Vladimir Putin has reached a new high.
Voters are not likely to say the average congressional representative shares their views. They’re not even convinced their own representative does.
