Category: Government

President Donald Trump’s latest move declared to the world that he is not playing around in this trade war. Trump announced that he will be raising tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%. The president’s actions come in response to the governing body of Ontario raising prices on energy that is sold… Read more

Division between Republicans and Democrats continues to grow, and so do the spectacles that take place to show their disagreements with the other party. We’ve seen profanity-laced speeches, a vocal interruption of President Trump’s joint address to Congress, and House Democrats singing on the chamber floor. These disruptions of decorum are being met with punishment… Read more

President Donald Trump made history with the longest address to a joint session of Congress, and it was a speech to remember. Appointments, admission, and potential censures are only a few results of the record-breaking speech.   The first notable aspect of the joint session was the converse attitudes that Republicans and Democrats demonstrated. Republicans offered… Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told President Donald Trump, “No deal for now”, after a meeting at the White House went awry.   Zelensky, Trump, and Vice President JD Vance met in the Oval Office to discuss a minerals deal that was supposed to be signed yesterday. Talks stalled after Trump and Vance called Zelensky disrespectful for… Read more

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives just had one of their biggest wins to date. They passed a budget blueprint that President Trump has referred lovingly to as “a big, beautiful bill.”  The bill seeks to offer $4.5 trillion in tax breaks, with an additional $2 trillion in government spending cuts. Despite the proposed… Read more

A seemingly normal meeting between President Trump and an assortment of governors was anything but after a public clash with Maine’s governor, Janet Mills.   The squabble began during President Trump’s welcome to the governors when he began speaking about the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order.  “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” will… Read more

What do a smiling Shiba Inu dog, the cryptocurrency market and the United States government have in common? They all deal with DOGE.   All jokes aside, the DOGE meme has been a fixture in pop culture since the early 2010s. Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency inspired by the meme, blew up in 2021 and is still being… Read more