Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) lashed out at House Democrats who have been critical of the Senate Democrats who voted last week to end the longest government shutdown in history, saying that the pain a longer shutdown would have inflicted on the American people was not worth it.
Kaine joined anchor Kristen Welker on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; and he responded to comments from House members like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) — some of whom have gone so far as to call for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to step down from his leadership role or retire altogether — by effectively telling them to mind their own business.
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Tim Kaine lashes out at AOC after NBC plays a clip of her saying Senate Democrats look weak.
KAINE: &#8220;Would it have been another week of SNAP recipients losing their benefits? Another month of air travelers enduring chaos and even danger?” <a href="https://t.co/gL4uvto4hi">pic.twitter.com/gL4uvto4hi</a>
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Welker began with a clip of Ocasio-Cortez, who claimed that the Democrats who voted to end the shutdown were sending a message to voters that &#8220;Democrats are weak&#8221; and then — ignoring the fact that Democrats had been the ones keeping the government from reopening from the start — argued that all Republicans had to do to make them cave was &#8220;hurt working people.&#8221;
Kaine was not having any of that, however, and he said so. &#8220;I have 320,000 federal employees in Virginia, and together with their families that&#8217;s probably 700,000 dependents. Getting them all back to work with two paychecks that they&#8217;ve missed restored, with protections against future firings, you know, some folks like AOC may think that&#8217;s nothing. Virginians think that&#8217;s an awful lot.&#8221;
Kaine went on to ask what some of the others who voted to end the shutdown had asked themselves before changing their votes: &#8220;Would it have been another week of SNAP recipients losing their benefits? Another month of air travelers enduring chaos and even danger?&#8221;
Others in the House, like Khanna, have argued that because the Senate Democrats did not hold out longer, that proved it was time for Schumer to step down. He also suggested that Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) would be good replacements.
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Dem Rep Ro Khanna goes scorched earth on Chuck Schumer&#8230;
…then names Chris Murphy, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren as &#8220;dynamic&#8221; talents that could lead the party forward.
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Kaine was clearly unimpressed with Khanna as well, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t tell Ro Khanna or AOC or anybody else who you should pick as your House leader, because I got a full time job being a senator. I don&#8217;t need to freelance opinions about House leadership. They should focus on their own leadership and let senators do what we need to do to keep this country moving forward.&#8221;
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Tim Kaine: &#8220;I don&#8217;t tell Ro Khanna or AOC or anybody else who you should pick as your House leader, because I got a full time job being a senator. I don&#8217;t need to freelance opinions about House leadership. They should focus on their own leadership and let senators do what we need… <a href="https://t.co/tN4N1Xe50w">pic.twitter.com/tN4N1Xe50w</a>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1990084380140667347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senate Hearing Held For Foreign Ambassador Nominees

Dem Senator Lays Into House Dems Over Shutdown Fallout, Tells Them To Mind Their Business

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) apologized on Sunday for her role in &#8220;toxic politics,&#8221; saying that heated political rhetoric was something she&#8217;d been giving a lot more thought to in the wake of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination.
CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed the Georgia congresswoman on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; in the wake of a series of attacks she&#8217;d received from President Donald Trump, asking why she&#8217;d never spoken up for others who found themselves the target of Trump&#8217;s outbursts in the past.
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BASH: “We have seen these kinds of attacks or criticism from the President at other people. It&#8217;s not new. And with respect, I haven&#8217;t heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.”
GREENE: “Dana, I think that&#8217;s fair criticism, and I would like to say humbly, I&#8217;m… <a href="https://t.co/mEURshZcfI">pic.twitter.com/mEURshZcfI</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1990068687055851867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We have seen these kinds of attacks or criticism from the President at other people. It&#8217;s not new. And with respect, I haven&#8217;t heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you,&#8221; Bash prompted.
&#8220;Dana, I think that&#8217;s fair criticism,&#8221; Greene replied. &#8220;And I would like to say humbly, I&#8217;m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It&#8217;s very bad for our country. And it&#8217;s been something I&#8217;ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.&#8221;
Greene went on to say that she was trying to be more intentional about choosing her words and wanted to &#8220;put down the knives in politics&#8221; moving forward. &#8220;I really just want to see people be kind to one another,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And we need to figure out a new path forward that is focused on the American people because as Americans, no matter what side of the aisle we&#8217;re on, we have far more in common than we have differences.&#8221;
Bash went through a list of objectionable social media comments then, including some from as far back as 2020 that had promoted violent imagery, and asked Greene if she was saying she disavowed such statements. Greene noted that she had addressed those posts in the past and stood by her prior assessment.
Greene also said during the same interview that she hoped her relationship with President Trump could still be repaired.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on whether she can fix her relationship with President Trump:
&#8220;Well, I certainly hope that we can make up. And there&#8217;s you know, again, I can only speak for myself. I&#8217;m a Christian and one of the most important parts of our faith is forgiveness. And… <a href="https://t.co/GH4qT2uoHt">pic.twitter.com/GH4qT2uoHt</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1990068053803991093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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House Oversight Committee Holds Biden Impeachment Hearing

‘That’s Fair Criticism’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes For Her Role In ‘Toxic Politics’

'That's Fair Criticism': Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes For Her Role In 'Toxic Politics'

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden admitted on a recent podcast that President Donald Trump is not, in fact, the next incarnation of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — but then he claimed that was only because Hitler, unlike Trump, had a &#8220;plan.&#8221;
Biden, during an interview on the &#8220;<a href="https://youtu.be/YRfS0YrKGRc?si=XrvxnaZYKJyHn_z1&amp;t=2143">Wide Awake Podcast</a>,&#8221; claimed that Trump differed from the German dictator largely because Hitler had been driven by &#8220;ideology&#8221; — whereas he believed Trump was only driven by &#8220;corruption&#8221; and a &#8220;white nationalist&#8221; world view.
Biden began with a question — namely, how did the German people allow Hitler&#8217;s rise to power — and he suggested that the United States might be going through a similar situation.
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🚨NEW: Hunter Biden: &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that Donald Trump is Hitler — because Hitler had an ideology. And he had a grand plan.&#8221;
🤦‍♂️<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/a78K2Q12Ne">pic.twitter.com/a78K2Q12Ne</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1989740465105862895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I’m not saying that there is a Holocaust, and by the way, I’m not saying that Donald Trump is Hitler. Because Hitler had an ideology. And he had a grand plan,&#8221; Biden claimed, adding, &#8220;Donald Trump is purely corrupt.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who only cares about one thing, and that’s Donald Trump. And he is a clown in that respect,&#8221; he added, saying Trump was actually more like the &#8220;Butcher of Uganda,&#8221; Idi Amin.
Biden, who has spent most of his adult life profiting from his father&#8217;s political positions, went on to complain that President Trump&#8217;s family has continued to make money while he served as president. His comments echoed those of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-send-hunter-bidens-father-to-lecture-americans-on-trump-profiting-from-presidency">his father</a>, the former president, who made almost the same complaint days earlier.
&#8220;Has anyone noticed how much the Trump family has made while he’s been president? A reported $1.8 billion,” Biden began, his tone soft. He abruptly began shouting as he added, “Can you imagine if any other president in American history did that? Can you imagine what would happen?&#8221;
Grok provided the perfect response to the former president: &#8220;Biden’s claim overlooks his family’s multimillion-dollar deals with foreign entities during and after his VP tenure, per House investigations and bank records. Trump’s family businesses operated separately, with him donating his full presidential salary to charity—hardly equivalent profiteering.&#8221;
In addition to the fact that President Trump has donated his salary the entire time that he has been president, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/chart-shows-net-worth-us-presidents-before-after-office-1992975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports indicate</a> that Trump is the only president in recent history to see his net worth drop after a term or two in the Oval Office, as The Daily Wire previously reported. When Trump first took office in 2017, he had an estimated net worth of $3 billion — and when he left office in early 2021, his net worth had fallen to $2.3 billion.

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Hunter Biden Admits Trump Isn’t Hitler, But It’s All Downhill From There

Hunter Biden Admits Trump Isn't Hitler, But It's All Downhill From There

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Saturday evening that he&#8217;s made a &#8220;full recovery&#8221; after taking a nasty fall at his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, this past week.
&#8220;[Twenty] stitches later and a full recovery, I’m back home with [Gisele Letterman] and the kids,&#8221; the Democrat posted to X, captioning a photo of himself. &#8220;I’m overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes. Truly.&#8221; 
&#8220;Grateful for the [University of Pittsburgh Medical Center] for the incredible medical care that put me back together,&#8221; he added. &#8220;THANK YOU SO MUCH. See you back in DC.&#8221;
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20 stitches later and a full recovery, I’m back home with <a href="https://twitter.com/giselefetterman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@giselefetterman</a> and the kids.
I’m overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes.
Truly.
Grateful for <a href="https://twitter.com/UPMC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UPMC</a> for the incredible medical care that put me back together.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
See you back in DC. <a href="https://t.co/j81LXZGLBx">pic.twitter.com/j81LXZGLBx</a>
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1989784336170684880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Fetterman’s team announced Thursday that the senator suffered a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up&#8221; and subsequently fell as he was light-headed, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-rally-around-fetterman-after-fall-lefties-cant-get-the-knives-out-fast-enough?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Conservatives+Rally+Around+Fetterman+After+Fall%2C+Lefties+Can’t+Get+The+Knives+Out+Fast+Enough">The Daily Wire</a> reported. He sustained minor injuries to his face, as Fetterman&#8217;s attached photo on Saturday showcased.
At the time, Fetterman quipped, “If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!”
Conservatives rallied around Fetterman when they heard of his fall, but the tone from leftists on X-alternative Bluesky was far different. As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-rally-around-fetterman-after-fall-lefties-cant-get-the-knives-out-fast-enough?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Conservatives+Rally+Around+Fetterman+After+Fall%2C+Lefties+Can%E2%80%99t+Get+The+Knives+Out+Fast+Enough">The Daily Wire</a>, leftists mocked Fetterman for falling and complained that he lived.
Just before his fall, Fetterman said on CNN airwaves that the most vicious attacks aimed at him have not come from conservatives, but rather those on the Left. The Democrat has strayed from his party on numerous occasions, like supporting the reopening of the government and giving nuanced takes on the Israel and Gaza conflict.
“I asked my digital team, I said, ‘We’re on all the platforms, you know, what’s kind of the harshest? What’s kind of the most personal?” Fetterman recalled. “And the answer was immediate. They said, ‘Oh, Bluesky. It’s Bluesky.'&#8221;
“And the difference is the Right would say really rough things and names, some names I won’t repeat on TV,” he continued. “But on the Left, it was like, they want me to die, or that, ‘We’re cheering for your next stroke’ or, that’s terrible that depression — ‘Why couldn’t the depression won?’ And, ‘I hope your kids find you.’&#8221;
“I remember one that they claimed, ‘Oh, the doctor let us down,’ and ‘Why did they have to save his life?&#8217;” Fetterman added. “I mean, just really — I just can’t imagine people are wishing, ‘I wish he dies,’ or ‘I want him to die,’ you know, literally cheering for a stroke. And I don’t know &#8230; the kind of a place where that comes from.”
“That’s much different from calling me a name,” he explained. “And that’s really been consistent in that community online.”
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🚨NEW: John Fetterman *STUNS* CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash by telling her how Left crueler than Right🚨
FETTERMAN: &#8220;The Right would say really rough things and names &#8230; but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that &#8216;We&#8217;re cheering for your next stroke&#8217; &#8230; they even have a gif… <a href="https://t.co/iMRyVTssgs">pic.twitter.com/iMRyVTssgs</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1988670736924336374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
Virginia Kruta contributed to this report 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-rally-around-fetterman-after-fall-lefties-cant-get-the-knives-out-fast-enough?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Conservatives+Rally+Around+Fetterman+After+Fall%2C+Lefties+Can’t+Get+The+Knives+Out+Fast+Enough">Conservatives Rally Around Fetterman After Fall, Lefties Can’t Get The Knives Out Fast Enough</a>

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John Fetterman Shares Photo, Medical Update After Fall Lands Him In Hospital

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President Donald Trump seems to be workshopping new nicknames for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), following his Friday announcement that he would support a primary challenge against the former ally.
Over the last month or so, Greene has publicly attacked Trump for supposedly being &#8220;America Last&#8221; and spending too much time tending to global matters. She&#8217;s also claimed the president has made missteps when it comes to documents concerning late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a post published Saturday, Trump referred to MTG as a &#8220;traitor.&#8221; &#8220;Marjorie &#8216;Traitor&#8217; Green[e] is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!&#8221; he wrote.
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In a previous post, Trump called MTG a &#8220;lightweight&#8221; and tried out the nickname &#8220;Marjorie Taylor Brown.&#8221;
&#8220;Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was,&#8221; the president wrote. &#8220;Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul Jr. (Thomas Massie), who got caught being a full fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!&#8221;
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In Trump&#8217;s Friday post, he referred to Greene as &#8220;&#8216;wacky&#8217; Marjorie&#8221; and a &#8220;ranting Lunatic&#8221; who turned on him publicly after he stopped taking most of her calls and sent her a poll showing how poorly she&#8217;d fare if she were to run for the Senate or to be Georgia&#8217;s governor.
As for Greene, she claims the fallout is because she&#8217;s remained &#8220;America First&#8221; and the president has not. She also claimed on Saturday that she&#8217;s being victimized by Trump, comparing the fear she feels to female victims of Epstein.
&#8220;I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world,&#8221; MTG said. &#8220;The man I supported and helped get elected.&#8221;
&#8220;Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type rhetoric being directed at me right now,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This time by the President of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;As a woman I take threats from men seriously,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I now have a small understanding of the fear and pressure the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, must feel. As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump&#8217;s bills and agenda, his aggression against me which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone.&#8221;
&#8220;My phone is blowing up with constant amazing support. I’m so thankful!&#8221; Greene added. &#8220;The Political Industrial Complex and the toxic violent nature of American politics must end. Our country is worth saving and it can only be done if we pull together and save ourselves.&#8221;
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I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.
The man I supported and helped get elected.
Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1989735360524345421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-goes-nuclear-on-two-former-allies-says-hell-back-primary-challengers?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Goes+Nuclear+On+Two+Former+Allies%2C+Says+He’ll+Back+Primary+Challengers">Trump Goes Nuclear On Two Former Allies, Says He’ll Back Primary Challengers</a>

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Trump Floats New Nicknames For Marjorie Taylor Greene Amid Fallout

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher predicted on Friday that New York City&#8217;s mayor-elect — who identifies as a Democratic socialist — may be &#8220;the future of the party,&#8221; just not the party most people might think.
Maher argued that Mamdani, who ran for office and was elected as a Democrat, would likely promote policies that would ultimately do more to boost the Republican Party than the Democratic Party.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheDemocrats</a> must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the party&#8217;s future, but unfortunately, it&#8217;s the Republican Party. <a href="https://t.co/XTgr0YNULa">pic.twitter.com/XTgr0YNULa</a>
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1989549473601880067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;New rule,&#8221; Maher began. &#8220;Democrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party — unfortunately, it&#8217;s the Republican Party.&#8221;
There was a long pause then, followed by uncomfortable laughter.
&#8220;Get it?&#8221; Maher asked, and the laughs picked up volume. &#8220;And if you missed his victory speech in last week&#8217;s mayoral election in New York, don&#8217;t worry: you&#8217;ll see it in every attack ad for the next two years.&#8221;
Maher went on to say that he did not have any personal beef with the democratic socialist — but he wasn&#8217;t so keen on joining his party in its increasingly-rapid slide into the full-on embrace of socialism, and he didn&#8217;t see it succeeding in the United States.
&#8220;But before the whole left side of the country catches socialism fever, let&#8217;s listen to the other big winner in last Tuesday&#8217;s election, Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger — who, before the &#8217;24 election, said things like, &#8216;If the party didn&#8217;t shift to the center, we will get f***ing torn apart,'&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;And, &#8216;We need to never use the word socialist or socialism ever again.&#8217; Well, she was right, but they didn&#8217;t listen. Typical. Am I right, ladies?&#8221;
Maher then pointed out that the younger generations felt like they&#8217;d been failed by capitalism. &#8220;They&#8217;re quiet-quitting capitalism and texting socialism that they&#8217;re &#8216;down to f***.&#8217; The thing is, socialism will f*** you because socialism, to put it simply, just doesn&#8217;t work and has never worked. Like Kevin Federline.&#8221;
&#8220;I know the kids think that stuff that happened before their appearance on the planet didn&#8217;t really happen, but it did,&#8221; Maher added, referencing the failures and accompanying death toll of socialism. &#8220;We&#8217;ve run this experiment many times, and the results are always obvious.&#8221;
The results, he explained by citing Venezuela as an example, were almost always the same: wealthy, developed nations rapidly descending into chaos and widespread poverty.
&#8220;If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you&#8217;re in for a rude awokening,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Zohran can&#8217;t make your wishes come true. You&#8217;re thinking of Zoltar. Democratic socialism is like a dating profile: things look great until you meet up in the real world.&#8221;

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Bill Maher: Zohran Mamdani Is The Party’s Future. The Republican Party, That Is.

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Author Barry Levine claimed on Saturday that he believed the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s ties to President Donald Trump were rooted in animosity rather than in any shared illegal activities.
Levine, author of &#8220;The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,&#8221; spoke with CNN host Michael Smerconish about the recently released emails — held up by Democrats as proof the Trump and Epstein were cut from the same cloth — which he said did not necessarily mean what Trump&#8217;s critics claim they did.
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🚨NEW: Epstein Book Author Barry Levine tells CNN what he thinks Epstein meant in 2011 email about TRUMP🚨
SMERCONISH: &#8220;The &#8216;dog that hasn&#8217;t barked is trump.&#8217; What do you think he&#8217;s referring to?&#8221;
LEVINE: &#8220;I think Jeffrey Epstein is referring to the fact that he believes that… <a href="https://t.co/aCRhvzBjX3">pic.twitter.com/aCRhvzBjX3</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1989704803388215738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The &#8216;dog that hasn&#8217;t barked is trump.&#8217; What do you think he&#8217;s referring to?&#8221; Smerconish referenced an email Epstein sent in 2011.
&#8220;I think Jeffrey Epstein is referring to the fact that he believes that Donald Trump talked to Michael Ryder, who was the Palm Beach police chief in 2004 and began the first investigation into Jeffrey Epstein,&#8221; Levine said. That investigation began in earnest in 2005, and Trump officially banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007.
&#8220;I suspect that Jeffrey Epstein was saying he was &#8216;75% there,&#8217; believing that Trump might have been the whistleblower at the time,&#8221; Levine continued. &#8220;That particular year, the 2 men had a falling out — not only over the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell was taking young women from his spa at Mar-a-Lago for Jeffrey Epstein — but they also had a nasty real estate deal that both men were trying to get &#8230; So there was bad blood between the two of them.&#8221;
Levine seems an unlikely figure to defend President Trump, however, as his statements come against the backdrop of another book he wrote in 2019 — &#8220;All the President&#8217;s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator&#8221; — in which he delved into the accusations of sexual misconduct made against Trump. It should noted that those accusations, described in detail in the book, involved women who were not underage at the time they supposedly interacted with Trump.

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Photos posted online show Democrat Congressman Brad Sherman (CA) looking at what appears to be pornographic images of women on his tablet during a recent flight.
Sherman, who is <a href="https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hres438/BILLS-115hres438ih.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com">fiercely anti-Trump</a>, has denied that he was looking at pornography, while admitting to looking at the suggestive photos and blaming the X algorithm.
“If I see a picture of a woman, might I look at it longer than a sunset? Yeah,&#8221; Sherman told reporter John Bresnahan in the aftermath of the scandal. He also said what he was doing was &#8220;inappropriate.&#8221;
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The images went viral after they were posted by an X account called @dearwhitestaff. With his mouth agape, Sherman is seen viewing four to five sexually suggestive photos.
&#8220;Why did California Congressman Brad Sherman feel it was appropriate to look at porn on his iPad during a flight today?&#8221; the post was captioned. &#8220;His district deserves better representation than this!!&#8221;
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Why did California Congressman Brad Sherman feel it was appropriate to look at porn on his iPad during a flight today? His district deserves better representation than this!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CA32?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CA32</a> <a href="https://t.co/gAYZ82tyr2">pic.twitter.com/gAYZ82tyr2</a>
— Dear White Staffers (@dearwhitestaff) <a href="https://twitter.com/dearwhitestaff/status/1989451791650402708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
When interviewed about the images, Sherman &#8220;denied repeatedly that he was looking or pornography or has a problem with pornography,&#8221; Bresnahan said. &#8220;Sherman said these photos came up in &#8216;Twitter feed&#8217; under the &#8216;For You&#8217; heading.&#8221;
“This was on Twitter,&#8221; Sherman said. &#8220;These pictures came up on ‘For You.&#8217; &#8230; I must’ve looked at more than 1,000 posts.&#8221;
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3/ Sherman: “This was on Twitter. These pictures came up on ‘For You.’”
“I must’ve looked at more than 1000 posts” during his flight, Sherman said.
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) <a href="https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1989498459217694773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Democrat admitted that what he did was not appropriate, but again denied that it was pornography he was viewing.
“Is it pornography? I don’t think [X owner] Elon Musk thinks so,&#8221; he said. “Is it appropriate? No.”
Bresnahan also pressed Sherman about a possible addiction to pornography. “No, I don’t have a problem,” he said. “It’s all about the algorithms.&#8221;
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5/ Q. “Do you have a problem with pornography?”
Sherman: “No, I don’t have a problem.”
Sherman said “It’s all about the algorithms,” and asserted these pictures came up in his feed “because of the algorithms.”
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) <a href="https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1989501984433647802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
“If I see a picture of a woman, might I look at it longer than a sunset? Yeah,&#8221; he admitted. “If you have to fly across the country, you look at a lot of stuff on your tablet.”
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7/ Sherman: “If you have to fly across the country, you look at a lot of stuff on your tablet.”
&#8211; 30 &#8211;
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) <a href="https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1989502732903022690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Dem Congressman Denies Looking At Porn Mid-Flight With Bizarre Defense

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President Donald Trump says he&#8217;s done supporting GOP Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) and Thomas Massie (KY), and will give his endorsement to those who would offer primary challenges to his former allies.
Trump took to Truth Social on Friday night to tear into both Greene and Massie &#8212; serving up particular ire for Greene, who was a strong supporter of Trump before launching numerous criticisms at the president over the last month or so.
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In his post on Greene, Trump suggested the congresswoman started to publicly criticize him after he sent her a poll showing she&#8217;d fare poorly if she made a run for the Senate or governorship in Georgia, adding that she&#8217;s also upset that he doesn&#8217;t have time to return her phone calls anymore.
&#8220;It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!),&#8221; POTUS said. &#8220;She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day.&#8221;
&#8220;She has gone Far Left, even doing &#8216;The View,&#8217; with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors,&#8221; Trump added. Greene notably trashed Republicans and criticized Trump&#8217;s agenda during her recent appearance on &#8220;The View,&#8221; earning some praise from the liberal anti-Trump co-hosts.
&#8220;I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support,&#8221; the president added.
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Greene has recently <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/17/mtg-republicans-trump-america-first">accused</a> Trump of being &#8220;America Last&#8221; for meeting with foreign leaders and has routinely criticized Republican leadership. She&#8217;s also suggested Trump has made missteps concerning the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein documents.
Before Trump posted his comments on Greene to Truth Social, he criticized Greene&#8217;s complaints about him going overseas.
&#8220;She&#8217;s lost a wonderful conservative reputation,&#8221; the president told the press. &#8220;She says, &#8216;Don&#8217;t go overseas?&#8217; If I didn&#8217;t, we may be in a war right now with China!&#8221;
&#8220;Something happened to her over the last period of a month or two,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think her constituents aren&#8217;t gonna be happy. Already, I have people calling me, they want to challenge her in her district in Georgia. That&#8217;s too bad.&#8221;
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🚨 BREAKING: Moments before he withdrew his endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene, President Trump FIRED BACK at her criticism that he spends too much time overseas
&#8220;She&#8217;s lost a wonderful conservative reputation. She says don&#8217;t go overseas? If I didn&#8217;t, we may be in a WAR right… <a href="https://t.co/UYku0nZwVh">pic.twitter.com/UYku0nZwVh</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1989513947871879169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
Greene responded on X, suggesting Trump is trying to keep information about Epstein from the public and is no longer &#8220;America First.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next week&#8217;s vote to release the Epstein files,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.&#8221;
&#8220;But really most Americans wish he would fight this hard to help the forgotten men and women of America who are fed up with foreign wars and foreign causes, are going broke trying to feed their families, and are losing hope of ever achieving the American dream,&#8221; MTG added.
&#8220;I don’t worship or serve Donald Trump,&#8221; Greene wrote. &#8220;I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people. &#8230; For me, I remain America First and America Only!!!&#8221;
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President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today. Apparently this is what sent him over the edge.
The Epstein files.
And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other… <a href="https://t.co/EcUzaohZZs">pic.twitter.com/EcUzaohZZs</a>
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1989518703507963940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
The president also unleashed on Massie, with whom he&#8217;s had a more volatile relationship. However, in 2022, Trump endorsed Massie and called him a “Conservative Warrior” and “first-rate Defender of the Constitution.&#8221;
&#8220;Did Thomas Massie, sometimes referred to as Rand Paul Jr., because of the fact that he always votes against the Republican Party, get married already???&#8221; Trump posted to Truth Social. &#8220;Boy, that was quick!&#8221;
Massie&#8217;s wife of over 35 years died in June 2024. Sixteen months after her passing, Massie married Carolyn Grace Moffa, 36, a former agriculture policy staffer for Senator Rand Paul.
&#8220;No wonder the Polls have him at less than an 8% chance of winning the Election,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Anyway, have a great life Thomas and (?). His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!&#8221;
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Trump made clear back in May that he will <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-another-grandstander-trump-backs-primary-challenge-to-thomas-massie?utm_source=chatgpt.com">back a primary challenger to Massie</a>, saying he&#8217;d &#8220;lead the charge against him.&#8221;

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Trump Goes Nuclear On Two Former Allies, Says He’ll Back Primary Challengers

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The United States and Switzerland announced a framework trade agreement on Friday that includes Washington slashing its tariffs on imported Swiss products to 15% from 39% and a pledge by Swiss companies to invest $200 billion in the U.S. by the end of 2028.
The United States and Switzerland, joined by Liechtenstein, aim to conclude negotiations to finalize their trade deal by the first quarter of 2026, the White House said in a statement.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the agreement tears down longstanding trade barriers and opens new markets for American goods. He welcomed &#8220;massive Swiss investment to help reduce our deficit in pharmaceuticals and other key sectors&#8221; that will generate thousands of jobs across the U.S.
At least $67 billion of the $200 billion in pledged Swiss investments in the United States will come in 2026, the White House said in a statement.
The total includes prior U.S. investment commitments including $50 billion from drugmaker Roche and $23 billion from Novartis along with pledges from engineering group ABB railway equipment maker Stadler.
In addition to pharmaceuticals &#8211; Switzerland&#8217;s largest export to the U.S. &#8211; the investments in U.S. production will target medical devices, aerospace and gold manufacturing, the White House said.
&#8220;This agreement puts Switzerland on an equal footing with the European Union and brings the tariff level down from 39% to 15%,&#8221; Swiss Economy Minister Guy Parmelin said in announcing the deal, which affects about 40% of Switzerland&#8217;s exports.
&#8220;Of course, we would prefer (the $200 billion) to be invested in Switzerland,&#8221; Parmelin added. &#8220;And that’s why the Federal Council in parallel is doing everything to see how we can reduce costs for our businesses.&#8221;
The lower tariff rate is likely to be activated within &#8220;days, weeks,&#8221; as soon as the U.S. customs processing systems can be adjusted, said Helene Budliger Artieda, director of Switzerland&#8217;s  State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.
The deal guarantees a 15% tariff ceiling for Swiss pharmaceutical producers, limiting the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s forthcoming Section 232 national security duties for the sector, which could reach 100% on certain patented drugs.
Parmelin said the 15% cap would also apply to other future Section 232 duties, including semiconductors, putting key sectors on the same footing as the EU.
&#8220;The risk of much higher sector-specific tariffs is therefore ruled out,&#8221; Parmelin added.
A Swiss government statement said the tariff agreement will reduce Swiss import duties on U.S. industrial products, fish and seafood and agricultural products &#8220;that Switzerland considers non-sensitive.&#8221;
Switzerland will grant the U.S. duty-free bilateral tariff quotas on 500 tons of beef, 1,000 tons of bison meat and 1,500 tons of poultry meat, the government said.
The White House statement said Switzerland agreed to remove a range of tariffs across agricultural and industrial  sectors including certain fresh and dried nuts, fruits, seafood and chemicals.
The White House also said Switzerland will recognize U.S. motor vehicle safety standards, a step toward addressing Trump&#8217;s frequent complaint that European countries do not buy American-made cars and trucks.
Swiss industrial groups welcomed the deal, saying it would put them on a level playing field with competitors from the European Union, which agreed to a 15% tariff on EU exports to the U.S.
&#8220;For the industrial sector, which was subject to a 39% tariff since August 1, this is good news. For the first time, we have the same conditions in the U.S. market as our European competitors,&#8221; said Nicola Tettamanti, president of Swissmechanic, which represents small and medium-sized manufacturers.
Switzerland&#8217;s machinery, precision instruments, watchmaking, and food sectors, which export to the U.S., would see the most relief, said Hans Gersbach, a director of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich.
KOF forecasts Swiss economic growth of 0.9% in 2026, but this would exceed 1% with the lower tariff rate, he added.
Switzerland had a $38.3 billion goods trade surplus with the U.S. in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. This rose to $55.7 billion in 2025 through July, reflecting primarily the front-loading of U.S. imports from Switzerland during the first quarter, before Trump imposed his &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs in early April.
Nadia Gharbi, an economist at Swiss bank Pictet, said the tariff reduction removed the main downside risks for the country&#8217;s economy and represents a clearly positive development for Swiss industries and for the overall growth outlook.
&#8220;Under the previous tariff regime, Switzerland suffered a significant loss of competitiveness — not only because of the strength of the Swiss franc, but also because neighboring European economies were subject to tariffs of only around 15%,&#8221; she said.
Swiss industry on Friday reported a 14% fall in exports to the U.S. during the three months through September, technology industry association Swissmem said, while machine tool makers saw shipments slump 43%.
(Reporting by John Revill in Zurich; Additional reporting by Dave Graham in Zurich, Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin in Geneva, Miranda Murray in Berlin, and Doina Chiacu, Susan Heavey and Andrea Shalal in Washington; Writing by David Lawder and John Revill, Editing by Rod Nickel and Matthew Lewis)

Switzerland Wins Tariff Rate Cut To 15%, Pledges $200 Billion In U.S. Investments

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The Trump administration notched a victory when a Kentucky federal judge temporarily blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from implementing a rule critics say puts Americans&#8217; financial data at risk.
The 1033 Rule, proposed under President Joe Biden&#8217;s CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/personal-financial-data-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires</a> banks to &#8220;make available to consumers, upon request, transaction data and other information concerning a consumer financial product or service that the consumer obtained from the covered entity.&#8221;
Forcht Bank, the Kentucky Bankers Association, and the Bank Policy Institute sued to block the rule, saying it exceeded the CFPB’s authority and would force the institutions to hand over large amounts of sensitive data, creating security and liability risks. Judge Danny C. Reeves of the United States District Court for Kentucky concluded the rule could cause more harm than good.
&#8220;The public could arguably lose some benefit from the Rule not being enforced at the set compliance deadlines,&#8221; said the judge. &#8220;However, the plaintiffs also contend that enforcement of the current Rule puts consumers at risk due to security risk as to their banking information.&#8221;
The <a href="https://bpi.com/joint-statement-on-courts-decision-to-stay-section-1033-compliance-deadline/">Bank Policy Institute</a> issued a statement saying the organization was grateful for the court&#8217;s decision.
&#8220;This is a common-sense procedural step,&#8221; said the Bank Policy Institute. It &#8220;doesn’t interfere with the rulemaking process but ensures banks won’t be forced to invest time and resources preparing for a rule that is currently being rewritten.”
&#8220;This preliminary injunction marks a pivotal moment for those who value consumer privacy and limited-government issues,&#8221; a source familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The Trump administration now has a unique opportunity to advance a new 1033 rule that gets the government out of the way and unleashes innovation.”
Under Vought&#8217;s leadership, the CFPB issued <a href="https://www.consumerfinance.gov/personal-financial-data-rights/">an advance notice of proposed rulemaking,</a> inviting the public to give input to form the basis of the final rule. Once input has been provided, the CFPB will share a draft of the rule.
The CFPB will now solicit comments and data around four key issues related to the implementation of the 1033 rule: who should be allowed to access financial data on a customer&#8217;s behalf, whether companies should be allowed to charge data sharing fees, how big are the security risks of sharing financial data, and how big are the privacy risks.
The Bank Policy Institute writes that the current rule &#8220;unlawfully mandated banks to share sensitive consumer data with third-party fintechs and aggregators; it required no oversight of third parties using bank customer data,&#8221; among other issues.
Earlier this year, Chopra was notified that he had been <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-rohit-chopra-director-of-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/">fired by the president</a> via an email from the White House. President Trump appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to lead the agency in interim before handing the reins over to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.
Rethinking the CFPB has been a priority of the Trump administration&#8217;s since the start of his term. In February, the White House issued a statement stating that the agency &#8220;has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called elites.&#8221;
The Trump administration accused the CFPB of &#8220;supporting radical advocacy groups, threatening banks for refusing to lend to illegal immigrants, targeting a Chicago small business after it complained about the city&#8217;s rampant crime, and mining American citizens&#8217; personal financial information.&#8221;
On The Charlie Kirk Show, Vought discussed the importance of putting a stop to the agency&#8217;s ability to weaponize &#8220;the tools of financial laws against small mom and pop lenders and other small financial institutions.&#8221;

The Trump Administration Just Took A Huge Step Toward Reforming The CFPB

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday modifying his so-called reciprocal tariffs to specify that certain foods and agricultural products from countries around the world &#8220;will no longer be subject to those tariffs.&#8221;
The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-following-trade-deal-announcements-president-donald-j-trump-modifies-the-scope-of-the-reciprocal-tariffs-with-respect-to-certain-agricultural-products/">announced</a> the move in a fact sheet, which stated that the president is focused on &#8220;strengthening the U.S. economy.&#8221; The tariff rollback will apply to food items that are not grown or produced in the United States in &#8220;sufficient quantities,&#8221; including beef, coffee, tea, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, and tropical fruits and fruit juices, the White House said.
&#8220;Today’s Order follows the significant progress the President has made in securing more reciprocal terms for our bilateral trade relationships,&#8221; the White House fact sheet stated. &#8220;President Trump’s deals have had and will continue to have broad impacts on domestic production and the economy as a whole, including enhanced market access for our agriculture exporters.&#8221;
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bessent-promises-major-food-import-moves-to-cut-grocery-prices-very-quickly?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bessent+Promises+Major+Food+Import+Moves+To+Cut+Grocery+Prices+%E2%80%98Very+Quickly%E2%80%99">hinted</a> at the move earlier this week, promising that the Trump administration would make some big announcements &#8220;that will bring the prices down very quickly.&#8221; The administration has recently focused its attention on addressing Americans&#8217; economic woes.
President Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3887760/oval-office-interview-trump-make-things-less-expensive/">told</a> The Washington Examiner in an interview on Friday that working to lower consumer and housing costs remains a central part of his agenda. Trump dismissed Democrats who have recently complained about an &#8220;affordability crisis,&#8221; arguing that the economy has improved since he took office.
“We’re working to make things less expensive,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We’re cutting some prices very substantially, but what is terrible is the Democrats have catchphrases.&#8221;
“They came up with a soundbite. Affordability. Affordability. Well, what we are doing is making things cost less,” he added.
Earlier on Friday, the White House announced &#8220;breakthrough trade deals&#8221; with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala that would help lower the prices of some food items. Under those deals, the Trump administration is expected to lower tariffs on some food products, which could lower the cost of items such as coffee and bananas, according to a senior Trump administration official, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-remove-tariffs-some-products-ecuador-argentina-guatemala-el-salvador-2025-11-13/">reported</a>.
Trump&#8217;s executive order marks a major turn in the president&#8217;s trade strategy, but the White House maintains that Trump&#8217;s tariff policies are working for the American people.
&#8220;President Trump’s tariff policies have delivered significant and lasting wins for the American people through fair, tough, and strategic trade negotiations, strengthening the U.S. economy and national security while breaking down unfair trade barriers that have harmed American workers for decades,&#8221; the White House said, adding, &#8220;The Administration will continue to use all available tools to protect our national security, advance our economic interests, and uphold a system of trade based in fairness and reciprocity.&#8221;

Trump Rolls Back Tariffs On Dozens Of Food Imports. Here’s What Will Be Affected.

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