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Donald Lambro was a columnist for The Washington Times.

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A television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange headlines the day's trading, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. Stocks plunged on Wall Street Monday on worries about how much President Donald Trump's escalating trade war with China will damage the economy. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trump’s trade war economy

President Trump's trade war economy is tanking, with growth rates sinking into Obama-era levels and the U.S. stock market in a nose dive.

August 15, 2019
In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, center, sits between Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto as they sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is replacing the NAFTA trade deal, during a ceremony at a hotel before the start of the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mr. Trump’s new North America trade agreement would give the U.S. economy only a modest boost, an independent federal agency finds. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Economy grows at a robust rate

America is going through a period of deep contradictions. The economy grew at a robust rate of 3.2 percent in the first three months of 2019. But a recent voter poll found that a majority of voters believe it's mainly benefiting the people in power, not them.

May 2, 2019
This June 24, 2018, photo shows unsold 2018 Suburbans at a Chevrolet dealership in Englewood, Colo. Automobile sales in the U.S. fell 2% in the first quarter, another sign the nation's economy is starting to slow. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Eyes on U.S. economy

The U.S. economy has been slowing down since last year, growing at a minuscule 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018.

April 4, 2019
Economy Boost Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

U.S. economy loses steam

When President Trump signed the tax cut bill around the end of 2017, the most significant pro-growth legislation since the 1980s, the U.S. economy took off like an Atlas rocket.

March 14, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., joined at right by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks about reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act which provides funding and grants for a variety of programs that tackle domestic abuse, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Nadler, a key chairman in Pelosi's Democratic majority, has sent 81 letters to President Donald Trump's family and associates seeking documents and information to investigate possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Trump investigation

The Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee launched a sweeping investigation this week to determine if there are grounds for President Trump's impeachment.

March 7, 2019
In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. The Senate resoundingly approved a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of President Donald Trump's demands for building a wall with Mexico but would prevent a new government shutdown. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Amid shutdown deadline, Trump embraces the wall

President Trump appeared by mid-week to be edging closer to accepting a scaled-down bill, at least momentarily, in the bitter war with Congress over his long-promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

February 14, 2019
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Washington. The Federal Reserve is keeping its key interest rate unchanged and signaling that it could leave rates alone in coming months given economic pressures and mild inflation. The Fed also says it's prepared to slow the reduction of its bond holdings if needed to help the economy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Federal Reserve signals caution

The Federal Reserve decided not to raise interest rates this week in the midst of declining consumer confidence, and a sharply volatile stock market.

January 31, 2019
A GM employee with 17 years at the Lordstown plant who only identify himself as Matthew, prays during a vigil outside the Lordstown GM plant 11-29-18. There are more than jobs riding on the fate of Ohio's Lordstown assembly plant. Ohio and much of the rest of the industrial Midwest were vital to President Donald Trump's campaign in 2016 and probably will be again in 2020. (William D. Lewis/The Vindicator via AP)

Trump tariffs deliver U.S. blowback

President Trump's 2016 campaign pledge to bring back U.S. manufacturing jobs suffered a big setback this week when General Motors announced it will close five factories and lay off nearly 15,000 workers.

November 29, 2018
In this Oct. 11, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump listens to a question during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. The Trump administrations ongoing courtship of Saudi Arabia is on pause over allegations that the key U.S. ally is involved in the mysterious disappearance of a Saudi writer and dissident who went into his nations consulate in Turkey but never came out. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Pulling out the stops ahead of the midterms

President Trump and Republican leaders are pulling out all the stops in a last ditch effort to keep control of Congress in next month's midterm elections.

October 25, 2018
Illustration on government overspending by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Midterms to give Congress failing grade

Voters go to the polls next month to send members of Congress their own report card about the way our lawmakers are running our country. And it's not going to be a pretty picture.

October 18, 2018
In this July 14, 2018, photo, computer mouse pads with Secure the Vote logo on them are seen on a vendor's table at a convention of state secretaries of state in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) **FILE**

Predicting midterm elections winners

The game of predicting which party will win the midterm elections is a wilderness of numbers, with one set of statistics standing out above all the others.

August 16, 2018
President Donald Trump walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump-Kim agreement short on details

The vague, detail-free agreement that President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un signed this week raises more questions than answers.

June 14, 2018
Illustration on Trump’s choices on immigration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Congress can meld immigration, Dreamers issue

President Trump continued to soften a few of his hard-core positions on immigration Tuesday at an extraordinary, bipartisan, deal-cutting meeting with lawmakers at the White House.

January 11, 2018