Trump Administration Updates

dpic73

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  • The X post exaggerates a US trade deficit drop to $29.4 billion in October 2025 as a $100+ billion crash from $136 billion in one month, but BEA data shows it fell from a revised $48.1 billion in September, marking the lowest level since June 2009 amid Trump's tariffs.
  • Attached CNBC video shows an anchor discussing falling initial jobless claims to 208k and productivity trends, not trade data, indicating the clip does not support the post's claim of stunned anchors reacting to deficit numbers.
  • Economists attribute the October narrowing mainly to temporary swings in gold, pharmaceuticals, and imports, while noting the year-to-date deficit rose 7.7% and later figures like June 2026's $73.3 billion reflect ongoing monthly volatility rather than a sustained "Reagan-level" shift.
 
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  • The X post exaggerates a US trade deficit drop to $29.4 billion in October 2025 as a $100+ billion crash from $136 billion in one month, but BEA data shows it fell from a revised $48.1 billion in September, marking the lowest level since June 2009 amid Trump's tariffs.
  • Attached CNBC video shows an anchor discussing falling initial jobless claims to 208k and productivity trends, not trade data, indicating the clip does not support the post's claim of stunned anchors reacting to deficit numbers.
  • Economists attribute the October narrowing mainly to temporary swings in gold, pharmaceuticals, and imports, while noting the year-to-date deficit rose 7.7% and later figures like June 2026's $73.3 billion reflect ongoing monthly volatility rather than a sustained "Reagan-level" shift.
Lib excuses.
 
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baltimorened

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I would have to spend an hour writing a treatise to respond to all these questions and I'm not interested in investing that much time right now but if tens of millions of Americans are unable to pay for or obtain health insurance, then we have a problem that only the government can fix. A government of the people would try to find a solution to that problem, a selfish, incompetent government would not. Only one side is interested in making things better for those that can't afford healthcare coverage, the other side is only interested in hoarding wealth for themselves. I'll let you figure out who's who.
didn't we pass something called the affordable care act?

Look, I'm not some heartless soul who wants people to die or go bankrupt because of an illness. And I'm all for the Medicaid program for those that truly can't afford medical coverage, and we all know that there are some in that category.

But you make it sound as if the government is the solution to the problem. If that were the case, wouldn't the affordable care act have solved it? yea, I know, republicans "dismantled" it....

Like I said yesterday, you have a tendency to look through "blue colored glasses" on your resolution of issues. Only one party seems to be interested in caring for the people....but I don't think that's an accurate statement. Both parties have had the opportunity to fix the problems and haven't....and I'm not giving you a "but" anybody, but you're telling me that "but" for trump and republicans we'd all be in healthcare utopia. It's not that simple.

Sometimes I think you overlook, or forget the baseline goal for the ACA - provide affordable healthcare for 41 million uninsured Americans. Are you suggesting that before 2017 when Trump became president all 41 million had health insurance....why not? All 41 million uninsured had 6 years to sign up prior to "Darth Vader" becoming president.....

So, I'm all for fixing healthcare that we fixed in 2010.....we tried the "one party" plan in 2010, and we're complaining that healthcare is broken?? I have posted before that republicans "sh*t the bed" by not participating in developing the ACA, and they're not being extremely helpful now, but healthcare problems are not all on them.
 

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🚨 MAJOR WIN!

The Trump DOJ just took down one of the largest marriage fraud schemes in U.S. history.

11 people charged.

Over 1,000 sham marriages.

Chinese nationals paying up to $100,000 each to buy fake marriages and green cards.

This wasn’t some small-time operation. It was a multi-year, multi-million dollar criminal industry designed to game the immigration system.

Under the last administration, this kind of fraud ran wild.

Under this one, they’re finally getting arrested.

Enforce the law. End the scams.
 

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Can someone on the right explain why the Treasury Department removed the requirement for companies to report who actually owns them? And deleted the current database?

Was a policy/rule to help prevent money laundering and foreign adversaries and criminal networks from hiding assets.
 

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Can someone on the right explain why the Treasury Department removed the requirement for companies to report who actually owns them? And deleted the current database?

Was a policy/rule to help prevent money laundering and foreign adversaries and criminal networks from hiding assets.
 

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Ok, there are so many conversations going it's hard to keep up, haha.
100%.

I had asked because on it's face, particularly after the Capital One case, seemed exactly like your post mentioned. But some good points were brought up in the other thread, and I don't know enough personally to know either way.
 
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🚨 TRUMP IS WINNING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Iran claims no ship can pass without their permission.

Reality:

Oil flowing out of the Gulf is now higher than before the conflict.

U.S. Navy is running escorts.

Pipelines in the UAE and Saudi Arabia are expanding fast.

American energy exports are at record levels.

Iran played its last leverage card too soon… and it’s not working.

The “line of steel” is holding.
 

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🚨 BREAKING: VP Vance and Secretary RFK Jr. announce they’ve made CRIMINAL REFERRALS to the DOJ after discovering hospitals and doctors likely ILLEGALLY billed taxpayers and insurance for gender mutilation for minors

Up to 225 HOSPITALS could be involved.

The hospitals used FALSE billing codes like “Endocrine Disorder, unspecified” for puberty blockers, to the tune of over $50 MILLION from 2015-2025

Another $11 MILLION was billed as “precocious puberty” for kids 13-17

Gender mutilation is EVIL. Lock them up! x.com/JDVance/status…
 
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BREAKING: 15 Democratic Attorneys General are attempting to block Trump’s FERC energy reforms that would streamline infrastructure approvals and lower electricity costs, even as the states they represent have seen prices rise between 20% and 73% since 2020 due to left-wing green energy policies.
 

TigerGrowls

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Great information!!!



MEDIA NOT COVERING ANY OF THIS.
This is probably the most important information you will hear today.

Oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz region are now 15-20 MILLION barrels per day -- which is now ABOVE pre-Iran War levels because . . .

1) 5-7 MILLION barrels per day are bypassing the Strait via expanded pipeline capacity;

2) The U.S. Navy is escorting oil tankers (12-15 MILLION Barrels per day) through the Strait at night without transponders turned on (so we don't see the ships going through).

Soon the Strait will become irrelevant because new PIPELINE capacity to bypass the Strait is being added at warp speed.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy has completely blocked Strait use to Iran. We have also destroyed bridges, railroads, and transport arteries so the Iran Regime can't move anything in or out of Iran.

Iran is being completely strangled economically.

The Regime needs some money to operate.

The IRGC can't pay its soldiers and police. So Iran's soldiers and security personnel are quitting in droves.

The IRGC is using 12 year-olds at security checkpoints.

Inflation in Iran is now more than 300%.

The U.S. can maintain this posture indefinitely, and quite cheaply. The U.S. Navy has to be somewhere. Might as well be in the Gulf of Oman blocking the Strait and conducting occasional target practice.

Meanwhile, the United States and Israel will continue to kill IRGC leaders when they pop their heads out of their bunkers.

I assume we are also arming the Iranian people. The Kurds are already armed. Trump used the Kurds to great effect to eliminate ISIS in 2019.

So at some point, the Iranians will be able to rise up and overthrow this Regime.

85% of Iranians detest the Regime. 80% of Iranians are not even practicing Muslims.

Isn't worth paying a bit more for gas at the pump temporarily to eliminate the most evil and dangerous regime on earth . . . and to permanently eliminate the Strait of Hormuz as a chokepoint for the world economy?

Meanwhile, thanks to Trump's arrest of Venezuela's Communist dictator Nicolas Maduro, Trump's oil production partnership with Venezuela's new government will yield more and more results.

Venezuela has the world's largest known untapped oil reserves -- untapped because Communist economics is inept. And the USA is producing more and more oil, thanks to Trump's "Drill Baby, Drill" policies.

Soon the world will be awash in oil and prices will come down to $2 a gallon.

The stock market can see this, which is why the stock market keeps hitting new record highs. Meanwhile, the Producer Price Index (PPI) rose just 0.03 in July.

The PPI has seen near zero increase over the last 3 months.

PPI is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation because it predicts future CPI readings. Now imagine what happens to cost of living when the price of oil drops. We will then have deflation, cost of living coming down.

Meanwhile, approximately 3.5 Million illegal migrants have been removed from the country under Trump -- either via deportation or self-deportation.

This puts downward pressure on rents, and increases wages for American workers who are no longer competing for jobs with these illegal migrants.

I do wish President Trump would do a better job explaining all this.
 
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I don't want throw water on this parade, but back just a few years we criticized celebrations like this because various police organizations changed the variables used to determine the actual crime statistics. I don't know what we might have done on just 20 months or so to reverse that and come up with the "honest" method to gather the data or did we just revise the collection system?

I'm happy to hear that things are better, but TBH, I didn't trust the numbers then, and I don't really trust them now.
 
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TigerGrowls

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I don't want throw water on this parade, but back just a few years we criticized celebrations like this because various police organizations changed the variables used to determine the actual crime statistics. I don't know what we might have done on just 20 months or so to reverse that and come up with the "honest" method to gather the data or did we just revise the collection system?

I'm happy to hear that things are better, but TBH, I didn't trust the numbers then, and I don't really trust them now.

Good point but trust in Trump. 😉
 

dpic73

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Thanks Biden!

  • The IRA is a real factor. The first round of Medicare-negotiated prices (from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act) took effect January 1, 2026, cutting prices 38–79% on 10 costly drugs. Richard Frank, a Brookings health economist, told the Washington Post he believes the IRA and Medicare negotiation are more directly responsible than Trump's current policies. USC health economist Geoffrey Joyce told Axios "if you were going to give policy credit, you'd have to say the IRA." Axios
  • But it's not just the IRA. Economists also point to two other forces that have nothing to do with either administration's policy: a wave of patent expirations driving generic competition, and intense competition between Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly in the GLP-1 (Ozempic/Wegovy/Zepbound) market pushing cash prices down sharply on their own.
  • Trump's team disputes the IRA framing. White House spokesman Kush Desai called crediting the IRA "idiotic and unfounded." The administration points to its Most Favored Nation drug-pricing agreements and the TrumpRx platform, though even sympathetic experts note it's unclear how many people are actually using TrumpRx, and many of its "deals" are prices that already existed elsewhere.
The strongest, most defensible line isn't "it's Biden's IRA, not Trump" — it's that multiple independent forces converged, and the one policy lever with the clearest direct mechanism (price caps taking effect Jan 1, 2026) traces to the IRA, not to anything Trump signed this year. The Leavitt post isn't fabricating the underlying BLS number, but it's claiming sole credit for a drop that health economists attribute mainly to policy set in motion three years earlier plus market dynamics unrelated to either administration.

 
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