President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2012 was declared dead on arrival by Republicans in Congress and with good reason. It contains massive new spending, new taxes and more debt for our children and grandchildren. The President failed to provide a roadmap to balance the budget and reneged on his State of the Union promise to “freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years.”
Ratings firm Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S.'s sterling credit rating on Friday for the first time in history, as it blasted the Washington political process and the inability of lawmakers to properly reduce national deficits.
Even before he was president, Donald Trump was clear about how he would prioritize putting constitutionalists on the courts. And now, at the end of 2017, we can see how his presidency is already having an effect on the courts.