
Aaron Blake
Senior Political Reporter at CNN
Senior political reporter at @CNN. Ex-@washingtonpost.
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1 week ago |
aol.com | Aaron Blake
President Donald Trump isn’t asking Congress to do much these days. In fact, it often seems like he’d rather he didn’t have to bother with the legislative branch at all. But despite all of his power grabs – and congressional Republicans’ acquiescence to them – there are certain things he needs lawmakers to do. And perhaps the biggest one is to pass a bill extending his 2017 tax cuts. The president’s asking a lot.
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1 week ago |
aol.com | Aaron Blake
When Sen. Ted Cruz went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show in 2022, he was there to make amends. The Texas Republican’s offense was having called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol a “violent terrorist attack.” This kind of view was quickly falling out of favor as Donald Trump moved to sanitize January 6. So Cruz disowned what he had said the day before to a cable host who had just savaged him for it.
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yahoo.com | Aaron Blake
For years now, Americans have been trending in a more isolationist, anti-war direction. Particularly on the right, the ascendant view is that the world’s problems are not necessarily ours. Iran could be about to test that. President Donald Trump has in recent hours employed increasingly bold rhetoric about involving the United States in Israel’s attacks on Iran.
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1 week ago |
cnnespanol.cnn.com | Aaron Blake
Donald Trump sube por una escalera mecánica a un evento de prensa para anunciar su candidatura a la presidencia en la Torre Trump el 16 de junio de 2015, en la ciudad de Nueva York. Christopher Gregory/Getty Images CNN — Han pasado 10 años desde que Donald Trump bajó por esa escalera dorada y lanzó su campaña presidencial de 2016. Muchos –me incluyo– lo descartaron al principio como una novedad pasajera.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Aaron Blake
This past weekend’s nationwide “No Kings” protests were the strongest signal yet that many Americans are concerned about their government drifting toward authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. This was greeted by ridicule from the right, which accused the left of being characteristically melodramatic.
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