That strategy may now have to be tossed aside with the debt limit deadline approaching faster than expected.” More: “The GOP is torn over whether to combine spending cuts with the debt ceiling lift, and Senate Democrats are already signaling they may push for their own concessions because their votes are going to be needed to avoid a devastating government default.” And: “The request will also scramble the congressional calendar. Lawmakers in both parties thought they’d have until the fall to act, and they had planned to roll the always-difficult vote into a broader spending package that could be more easily swallowed. And Congress is totally unprepared to do so. Politico: “President Donald Trump’s top economic aides are urging Capitol Hill leaders to raise the debt ceiling by the end of July. The next debt-ceiling battle is coming sooner than you might think Rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we embrace it.” If you want an example of how Trump is not only different than Barack Obama - but also Bush 43 and Bush 41 - it’s that paragraph above, which is more “Hunger Games” than John Locke. We bring to this forum unmatched military, political, economic, cultural and moral strength. “The world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage”: The McMaster-Cohn op-ed also contains this striking paragraph, which was flagged by foreign-policy professor Dan Drezner: “The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a clear-eyed outlook that the world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage. Team Trump’s “Hunger Games” view of international relations ![]() The problem? His speech at NATO last week never explicitly reconfirmed his commitment to Article 5, which states that an attack on one NATO ally is an attack on all. “While reconfirming America’s commitment to NATO and Article 5, the president challenged our allies to share equitably the responsibility for our mutual defense,” the two write in the Wall Street Journal. And it’s not every day when they assert something the president never said. It’s not every day when two of Trump’s top advisers - National Security Adviser HR McMaster and chief economic aide Gary Cohn - pen an op-ed to tout the president’s recent trip overseas. But he never did so while overseas last week Trump’s top advisers say the president reconfirmed NATO’s Article 5. It’s hard to have a government that works when you can’t find people willing to serve in it. It’s hard to have a government that works when you can’t find people willing to serve in it: Outside of the West Wing staffing challenges, the Partnership for Public Service notes that Trump has had just 39 members of his administration confirmed by the GOP-controlled Senate, while another 63 have been formally nominated 442 confirmable positions have yet to have a single nominee. Add them all up, and you have more uncertainty than action. And then there’s the entire matter of Jared Kushner, which has kept the White House in permanent crisis mode. ![]() Trump who like others asked not to be identified discussing internal matters,” the Times adds. “our possible successors contacted by the White House declined to be considered, according to an associate of Mr. ![]() In addition, the Trump White House hasn’t found someone to take over for the recently departed communications director, Mike Dubke.
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