Is immigration bad for America? Americans seem to increasingly agree it is. The U.S. southern border’s record-breaking immigration crisis has — for the first time in decades — led the majority of Americans to tell pollsters they would like to reduce both legal and illegal immigration. But the presidential debate focused more on whether immigrants eat dogs than on their …
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CNN reporter lectures boat-owning Trump supporter he shouldn't be complaining about economy
A CNN reporter clashed with a supporter of former President Trump over whether he should have concerns about the economy, in a CNN interview that played on the liberal network on Wednesday. CNN’s Elle Reeve interviewed Trump supporters at a MAGA boat parade in Panama City, Florida about their most important issues heading into the 2024 election. At one point, …
Read More »Why Kamala Harris’ $25,000 down payment program is just like the electric vehicle boondoggle
KamalaHarris’ $25,000downpayment planfor first-time homebuyers should remind people that we don’t want government to try to solve free-market problems. Because it can’t. In 2021, the Biden-Harris administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included $7.5 billion to build 500,000 public charging stations forelectricvehiclesacross the country to boost clean energy. And the functional charging stations have reached an eye-popping …
Read More »Biden falsely claims he's never spoken to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as president
President Biden on Thursday falsely claimed he had never spoken to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as president, despite having a meeting with him at the White House two years ago. Biden, during a speech to the Economic Club of Washington, said, “Unlike my predecessor, I respect the Federal Reserve’s independence as they pursued a mandate to bring inflation down.” …
Read More »Gavin Newsom: Critics said California's minimum wage increase would be a job killer. The opposite happened
About a year ago, I signed into law an increase in the minimum wage for fast-food workers. The legislation created new protections for these hard-working people and gave them a greater voice in establishing workplace standards. That bill, which took effect on April 1, increased the minimum wage to $20 per hour for workers at fast-food chains with 60 or …
Read More »Harris serves up word salad in DC speech: 'The children of the community are the children of the community'
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to undercut her own economic plan on Wednesday, saying her administration would crack down on companies who price gouge shoppers before admitting “very few” companies engage in price gouging. Harris delivered the remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 47thAnnual Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., providing few specific details about the policies she’s running on …
Read More »Trump says he will tax Mexican auto imports by 200% and make them 'unsellable' in the US
Former President Trump Tuesday said he would implement a 200% tariff on all Chinese auto imports from Mexico, which he said would make them “unsellable” in the U.S. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said at a town hall event in Flint, Mich., hosted by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “I took in $467 billion from China. Nobody …
Read More »New Trump website reveals how much money a Harris presidency could cost taxpayers
FIRST ON FOX: The Trump campaign unveiled a website Tuesday that tabulates how much voters in each state can expect to pay in taxes if the Trump tax cuts expire next year. “Kamala Harris voted against the Trump Tax Cuts and will let them expire if she’s elected,” the website, dubbed KamalaTaxIncrease.com, says. “Democrats in Washington don’t care about you …
Read More »WATCH: Americans frustrated with 'outrageous' high prices ahead of the presidential election
Fox Digital spoke to residents in Houston, Texas, Knoxville, TN., and Washington, D.C., about how they feel about current grocery prices as a result of inflation and if they feel better off now under the Biden-Harris administration or during the Trump administration. Kenneth in Houston did not hold back when comparing the nation under Trump versus Biden-Harris; “the country was …
Read More »The U.S. job market is booming, but only if you’re here illegally
Since Americans have started waking up to the reality of our country’s illegal immigration problem, politicians, activists and cable news pundits have tried to quell the masses with slogans like “Immigration makes us stronger,” and “Illegal immigration is a victimless crime.” While these Orwellian messages may have worked in the past, they are failing hard now as people contrast them …
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