In a few weeks, Donald Trump has done what his prevaricating predecessor declared to be impossible: he has brought the border under control. Those of us who watch the goings and comings of illegal border crossings are familiar that Donald Trump 45 did a stellar job of taking a border crisis and bringing it within appropriate management. For instance, in the Yuma sector alone, Trump 45 brought encounters with illegal aliens to a previously unheard of 8600 in the last year of Trump’s first...

President Trump delivered the first congressional address of his second term on Tuesday evening. It was a chance for the president to underscore the sweeping changes he has wrought in the six weeks since he returned to the White House – and to defend those moves from his many critics. The days preceding the address were dominated by two issues – Ukraine and the economy. The first topic is in a state of flux amid reverberations from last week’s fractious meeting between Trump, Vice...

When the 2024 election turned an ex-president into the next president, most Americans — no matter their feelings about Donald Trump — must have quite reasonably assumed they knew exactly what they were getting. It turns out they didn’t know — not exactly. The 43 days of his second term have revealed a president in the grip of a set of large ideas that were an occasional but far from a paramount feature of his first term. This version of Trump is more serious — determined to dismember...

President Trump had a lot to boast about in his first speech to a joint session of Congress in his new term, and he was not shy about doing so. He continued to exult in the breadth of his electoral victory. He then touted his executive orders against DEI and transgender madness, which are worth celebrating, and especially his restoration of order at the border. That subject drew his best line of the night: We didn’t need new legislation to secure the border, “all we really...

In his first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term, President Donald Trump distorted the facts on fraud, immigration, aid to Ukraine, the economy, autism and more. Trump claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has “found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.” However, the DOGE website currently states that the department has only generated $105 billion in savings, and only purports to provide evidence to support $19.8 billion of that total....

In the first major speech to Congress of his second term, President Donald Trump made clear that he intends to barrel ahead with the MAGA agenda. Unsurprisingly, he cast the past 43 days of disruption and controversy as filled with historic wins, the greatest of any president in history (George Washington was number two, he said). And while he offered few new details on what he planned going forward, it’s obvious we should expect more of the same. For instance, Trump sounded enthusiastic...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said his GOP majority is likely to censure Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting President Trump’s joint address to Congress.  Mr. Green, Texas Democrat, stood up during the first few minutes of the address Tuesday night and shook his cane at the president in response to Mr. Trump declaring he has a mandate from voters to carry out his agenda. “You have no mandate,” Mr. Green shouted.  His...

In his address to Congress, which ran for more than an hour and a half, President Donald Trump made a series of claims about the state of the US under his predecessor Joe Biden and the achievements of his first weeks in office. He returned to key campaign themes including illegal immigration, rising prices and what he called "appalling waste" in government spending. BBC Verify has looked into the facts behind some of his key claims.

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Orbán also bemoaned the delay in North Macedonia becoming a member of the EU, noting that every enlargement has boosted competitiveness.