President Trump doubled down Wednesday on calls to scrap the nation's debt ceiling ...
Column: This week, the bond market sent a gentle warning that the path of the national debt is a problem. But Congress is not known for heeding gentle warnings, writes our economics correspondent Victoria Guida.
-- Politico (@politico.com) May 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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OK #2 aside, I have to ask ...
What prompted Pres Trump to suddenly seem to want to work across the aisle, with the very Democrats he calls "the enemy from within?"
The enemy from within': Trump calls Democrats more dangerous than U.S. foreign adversaries (October 2024)
www.nbcnews.com
... During a pretaped interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Trump was asked by host Maria Bartiromo about how he would handle bureaucrats who might seek to undermine him in a potential second term.
"I always say, we have two enemies," Trump said, adding: "We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries."
Trump added that a "smart president" could handle outside adversaries "pretty easily," but "the thing that's tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff."
"I call him the enemy from within," he added. ...
So, what made Pres Trump seem to change his mind?
Did someone get his attention and explain the damage he is doing to the American economy?
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