". . .Violent crime has been dropping in El Paso since its modern-day peak in 1993 and was at historic lows before a fence was authorized by Congress in 2006. Violent crime actually ticked up during the border fence's construction and after its completion, according to police data collected by the FBI. . . Democratic officials immediately took issue with the picture Trump painted Tuesday night, saying the president was using their city to justify a pointless and unnecessary wall. . ."The facts are clear. While it is true that El Paso is one of the safest cities in the nation, it has never been '...considered one of our Nation’s most dangerous cities,'" the city's sheriff, Richard Wiles, an Democrat, said in a statement after Trump concluded his address. "And, El Paso was a safe city long before any wall was built.”. . ."
". . . Trump, in Nixon-esque fashion, attacked the ongoing investigations he faces during his State of the Union address. . ."If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation," he said. "It just doesn't work that way!" In his last State of the Union address, in 1974, President Richard Nixon called for an end to the Watergate probe. He would resign as a result of it later that year. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters after a Democratic Caucus meeting on Wednesday that Trump's comment "was a threat." "The president should not bring threats to the floor of the House," she said, adding, "He said he wasn’t going to cooperate unless we didn’t exercise our constitutional responsibility to oversight." "The bottom line is that we are as a country, we've always had Congress do oversight over the executive branch," (Chuck) Schumer said. "That's how the Founding Fathers set it up.". . . "And the president says if you investigate me I'm not going to make progress," he said. "That's already doing what he did with the shutdown. Holding the American people hostage. He's got something to hide. Because if he had nothing to hide, he'd just shrug his shoulders and let these investigations go forward. He's afraid of them.". . . "
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(from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/state-of-union-nancy-pelosi-clap-trump-sarcastic-democrat-republican-speech-a8765366.htm)
". . . His calls for political unity seemed particularly hollow given reports Mr Trump had mocked former vice president Joe Biden, and the late Republican Senator John McCain and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer just hours earlier during the State of the Union lunch, which was attended by several news reporters. . . Mr Trump said: “When I say something that you might think is a gaffe, it’s on purpose; it’s not a gaffe. When Biden says something dumb, it’s because he’s dumb.” . . He also reportedly described Mr Schumer as a “nasty son of a bitch”, and talking about Mr McCain, he said: “He wrote a book and the book bombed.” . . .Responding to Ms Pelosi’s standing ovation, US journalist Mark Gongloff wrote: “You could power Cleveland for weeks on this pure sarcasm energy”. . ."
. . . by Sarah Huckabee Sanders . . . 'cause there's no readily available evidence of her statement's veracity . . .
(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/nearly-60-percent-trump-s-schedule-executive-time-report-says-n966376)
"While he spends much of his average day in scheduled meetings, events, and calls, there is time to allow for a more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive President in modern history," she said. "President Trump has ignited a booming economy with lower taxes and higher wages, established the USA as the #1 producer of oil and gas in the world, remade our judiciary, rebuilt our military, and renegotiated better trade deals. It’s indisputable that our country has never been stronger than it is today under the leadership of President Trump."
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Productivity should be on the next president's agenda
https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-to-rev-up-productivity/
Oct 6, 2016 - The simplest measure of productivity is output per hour worked (labor productivity) and it has increased at only 1.3 percent a year from 2004 through 2015, in contrast to the pace of 3.2 percent a year from 1995 to 2004.
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Oct 28, 2015 - Former Republican President Ronald Reagan is widely recognized ... worker productivity and ultimately help drive both economic growth and wage gains. ... inherit problems without enough time to take preventive measures.
[PDF]Presidents and the US Economy: An ... - Princeton University
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The U.S. economy has performed better when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance. For many measures, including real GDP growth (on which we focus), the performance gap is large and significant.
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Apr 29, 2017 - When presidents take office, they have the most political capital to enact their agenda. Studies have found that it's the most productive time for legislative action. ... from a study that measured laws passed during Congress's first 100 days, ... to the American Presidency Project, while FDR penned over 3,700.
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Jan 25, 2019 - Three decades of legislative productivity in U.S. Congress ... Congress and President Donald Trump to agree on a temporary funding measure ...
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Jan 17, 2017 - during their first 100 days using the U.S. Statutes at Large: .... Another hurdle to measuring presidential effectiveness: Productivity isn't just ...
What America's latest GDP figures reveal - Economic growth
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Dec 21, 2017 - GovTrack.us to track exactly what Congress is up to. As of today ... Counting bills is not a measurement of legislative productivity. There are ...
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Jan 25, 2017 - U.S. productivity gains were almost halved in the past decade compared ... This led to a more complex measure called total-factor or multi-factor productivity, ... U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to invest at least $1 ...
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(from Thomas Jefferson; The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . Both Federalists and Republicans believed the fate of the United States could turn on the confrontation of the hour. In the broad public discourse, driven by partisan editors publishing partisan newspapers, there seemed no middle ground, only extremes of opinion or of outcome . . . "
(from Thomas Jefferson; The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . the beginning of wisdom, Jefferson thought, might lie in a meeting of the principals out of the public eye. Se he convened a dinner. Jefferson believed things could be worked out, he said, for :men of sound heads and honest views needed nothing more than explanation and mutual understanding to enable them to unite in some measures which might enable us to get along. . . No deal meant disaster. It was clear, Jefferson wrote, "that if everyone retains inflexibly his present opinion, there will be no bill passed at all for funding the public debts, and ... without funding there is an end of the government . . ."
