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President TrumpRace to the Mid-termsPolitics· 10/15/2026Trump: Biggest Tax Cuts in History, and Drug Prices Now World’s Lowest
In Bullhead City, President Trump ran down the record: the largest tax cuts in American history, No Tax on Tips, Overtime, and Social Security, deductible car-loan interest on Made-in-America cars, and drug prices that went from the world’s highest to its lowest.
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Race to the Mid-termsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/15/2026Trump: “You Can’t Have” a Muslim Brotherhood Member in Congress
Asked about Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, President Trump said he is a Muslim Brotherhood member and “you can’t have” that on America’s security committees, then hailed Republican Mike Rogers as “all apple pie.”
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TennesseeRace to the Mid-termsPolitics· 10/15/2026Tennessee No. 1 in Election Integrity Again: Read Your Ballot First
With early voting underway, Secretary of State Tre Hargett and elections chief Mark Goins say Tennessee is No. 1 in election integrity for a fifth straight year, thanks to photo ID, SAVE citizenship checks, and watermarked absentee ballots. Their ask: read the amendments first.
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Race to the Mid-termsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/14/2026“They’ll Do It All Again”: Trump Tells Arizona the Radical Democrats Gave America Record Inflation and 25 Million Illegals
In Bullhead City Wednesday, President Trump reminded Arizona what the Radical Democrats did last time: the worst inflation, highest energy prices, and worst trade deficit in history, plus 25 million illegals. Give them the chance and they will do it all again.
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President TrumpPoliticsRace to the Mid-terms· 10/14/2026Trump Blasts Katie Hobbs: “As We’re Getting These Monsters OUT of Arizona,” She Vetoed Federal Cooperation
President Trump told Bullhead City how his Administration is removing illegal alien killers, child predators, and fentanyl traffickers from Arizona, then hammered Gov. Katie Hobbs for vetoing a bill requiring local cooperation with federal law enforcement.
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PoliticsBreaking News· 10/14/2026Biden Left the Door Open. Trump’s CMS Shut It: Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. Wipe Out Duplicate Enrollments, Saving Billions
Dr. Oz says the Biden Administration left a backlog of nearly 550,000 duplicate Medicaid and Obamacare enrollments, and clearing it saved nearly $4.4 billion. This year CMS found 189,000 more and ended the improper subsidies, about $1.5 billion a year in savings.
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Politics· 10/14/2026“It Is Bigger Than You”: The White House Honors Charlie Kirk on What Would Have Been His 33rd Birthday
On what would have been Charlie Kirk’s 33rd birthday, the White House honored him as a father, husband, Christian martyr, and titan of the conservative movement, with a tribute video in Charlie’s own words: “It is bigger than you.”
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TennesseeRace to the Mid-termsPolitics· 10/14/2026Early Voting Is OPEN, Tennessee: Polls Open Today Through Oct. 29 for the Nov. 3 Election
Early voting for Tennessee’s Nov. 3 state and federal general election starts today, Wed. Oct. 14, and runs through Thu. Oct. 29. Bring a valid photo ID and find your county’s sites and hours in the GoVoteTN app.
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TennesseePoliticsRace to the Mid-terms· 10/14/2026Three Amendments on Tennessee’s Ballot: Ban a State Property Tax, Hold Violent Offenders Without Bail, Strengthen Victims’ Rights
Tennessee voters will decide three proposed constitutional amendments this fall — a ban on any state property tax, no bail for the most violent offenses, and a stronger Victims’ Bill of Rights. Here’s what each one does and how they pass.
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TennesseePresident TrumpPolitics· 10/14/2026Harvest Relief: Gov. Bill Lee Lets Tennessee Farmers and Foresters Run Dyed Diesel on the Road Through October — and Thanks President Trump
Gov. Bill Lee suspended enforcement of Tennessee’s dyed diesel restrictions through the end of October so farmers and foresters can run cheaper, tax-exempt fuel on public roads at harvest — moving in step with President Trump’s dyed diesel executive order.
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TennesseeRace to the Mid-termsPolitics· 10/14/2026Hagerty Champions Tennessee Nuclear Dominance and Cheaper Homes as He Rallies Volunteers to Vote Early
Sen. Bill Hagerty led a nuclear-energy panel at Nashville’s Imagine IF summit spotlighting Oak Ridge, UT and TVA, is pushing his Freedom to Build Act to make homes cheaper, and is urging Tennesseans to vote early.
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Race to the Mid-termsPoliticsPresident Trump· 10/14/2026“The Proud People of Alaska Will NEVER LET THAT HAPPEN”: Trump Draws the Midterm Line in Wasilla
President Trump told Wasilla Tuesday that the last time the Radical Left held power America got the worst inflation, highest energy prices, worst trade deficit and an open border — and warned that if they win they will do it all again. Alaska’s answer, he said: never.
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President TrumpPolitics· 10/13/2026“We’re Going to Get Them There”: Dealmaker Trump Says Russia and Ukraine Both Want the War Over — and the Diesel Deal Is “for the World”
“That’s what I’ve done my whole life is deals.” President Trump said Tuesday that Putin and Zelensky both want the war to end, the U.S. is still sharing intel with Ukraine, and the diesel deal is a world-market deal that brought prices down.
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President TrumpPolitics· 10/13/2026Katie Zacharia’s Debut: New Press Secretary Runs the Golden Age Scoreboard, Keeps and Expands the New Media Seat — Trump: “I Thought She Was Very Good”
Press Secretary Katie Zacharia took the podium for the first time Tuesday: rising real wages, the biggest drug-price drop in 63 years, trillions in new investment, fentanyl trafficking down 56% — and the New Media Seat is staying. President Trump’s review: “very good.”
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President TrumpPolitics· 10/13/2026Ohio Factory Boom: Kimberly-Clark’s First New U.S. Plant in 37 Years, Vallourec Expands Youngstown, Cleveland-Cliffs Modernized
In Youngstown Monday, President Trump rolled out Ohio’s Made-in-America scoreboard: Kimberly-Clark’s $800M Warren plant — its first new U.S. plant in 37 years — Vallourec’s $48M Youngstown expansion, and $500M to modernize Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works.
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Race to the Mid-termsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/13/2026“Every Single Democrat Voted AGAINST”: Trump Lists No Tax on Tips, Overtime, Social Security — Citizenship and Border Too
In Youngstown Monday, President Trump drew the midterm contrast in neon: every Democrat in Congress voted against record tax cuts, No Tax on Tips, Overtime and Social Security — and against voter ID, proof of citizenship and securing the border.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/12/2026“Totally Crooked”: President Trump Weighs In After Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar’s D.C. Home — “That’s Really Up to the DOJ”
Homeland Security Investigations executed a judge-signed, DOJ-secured search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home Monday. Leaving the White House, President Trump said, “I understand they’re looking at her very carefully” — and left it to the DOJ.
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President TrumpPolitics· 10/12/2026Man in the Arena: White House Rolls Out President Trump’s Recent Wins — Trade Deficit Down 20%, Exports Up $267.7 Billion, Medicare Checks Flowing
The White House’s Columbus Day “Recent Wins” list: Medicare checks for 20 million seniors, a trade deficit down ~20%, exports up $267.7 billion, $175 million blocked to dead recipients, a thwarted Mall of America terror plot and billions in new investment.
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President TrumpPolitics· 10/12/2026Golden Age Factory Boom: CEA Says Manufacturing Jobs Are Up 72,000 as President Trump Brings Blue-Collar Work Home
The White House Council of Economic Advisers reports manufacturing jobs up 72,000 so far in 2026 — a full reversal of the 200,000+ Biden shipped overseas — with factory construction up 111,000 and $11 trillion in U.S. investment under President Trump.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/12/202616 Months of Zero Border Releases: President Trump’s Strongest Border Meets Minnesota Sanctuary Chaos
A new Official White House video celebrates 16 months of zero releases at the border under President Trump — while Rapid Response 47 highlights a Minnesota Somali-gang football shooting and Ilhan Omar going AWOL as sanctuary politics fail Patriots.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/11/2026“Do Not Break It!”: President Trump Declares an Immediate Energy Ceasefire Between Russia and Ukraine
President Trump announced Sunday that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an energy ceasefire, effective immediately. “Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” Within hours, Zelensky answered: “Ukraine supports the ceasefire.”
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President TrumpPolitics· 10/11/2026“Promises Made, Promises Kept”: No Tax on Overtime Puts Real Money Back in Workers’ Pockets as President Trump’s Blue-Collar Boom Roars
A new White House video lets nurses, first responders and families tell it: they are keeping their overtime pay. More than 29 million Americans claimed President Trump’s no-tax-on-overtime deduction, averaging over $3,100, as factory jobs come home.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/11/2026“They Said, ‘We Need Your Help’”: President Trump Hails the Memphis Safe Task Force as Gang Killers Are Locked Up and Murders Plunge 36%
In Clarksville Saturday, President Trump celebrated the Memphis Safe Task Force, which has put gang killers behind bars and helped drive Memphis murders down 36%, and thanked the federal agents, Memphis police and Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers who made it happen.
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President TrumpPoliticsRace to the Mid-terms· 10/11/2026“Zero” in 17 Months: President Trump Says He Turned the Worst Border in History Into the Strongest — With Soldiers From Fort Campbell’s Legendary 101st Airborne
Just miles from Fort Campbell, President Trump told Clarksville that he inherited the worst border in American history and made it the strongest, with zero illegal aliens admitted through the southern border in the past 17 months, and saluted the 101st Airborne soldiers who helped secure it.
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President TrumpPoliticsRace to the Mid-terms· 10/11/2026“$500. Congratulations”: President Trump Tells Tennessee 30,000 Families Are Getting Obamacare Refund Checks — and $50 Billion Is Saving Rural Hospitals
President Trump told Clarksville Saturday that families overcharged under Biden’s Obamacare exchanges, including 30,000 in Tennessee, are getting $500 refund checks, and that his historic $50 billion rural health investment is saving hospitals the Democrats would have closed.
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President TrumpRace to the Mid-termsPolitics· 10/10/2026“Those Stats Are Perfect”: In Tennessee, President Trump Hails Record American Incomes and Historic-Low Poverty Under Republican Leadership
In Clarksville Saturday, President Trump rolled out the numbers the fake news won’t: median household income at the highest level ever recorded, child and Hispanic poverty at historic lows, and more Americans working than ever. “Those stats are perfect.”
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President TrumpBreaking NewsPolitics· 10/10/2026“Thanks to My Tariffs”: President Trump Celebrates Korea Zinc’s $6 Billion Tennessee Smelter and 740 High-Paying American Jobs
In Clarksville, President Trump credited his tariffs for Korea Zinc’s $6.6 billion critical-minerals smelter in Montgomery County, the largest private investment in Tennessee history and America’s first new zinc smelter since the 1970s, plus GM’s $275 million.
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President TrumpPoliticsBreaking News· 10/10/2026“Time for Ukraine to Get a New President”: President Trump Tells Zelensky He’d “Better Damn Well Stop” Hitting the Refineries Driving Up Diesel
On the South Lawn Saturday, President Trump said Zelensky “could have settled this war many times” and keeps hitting Russian refineries that farmers and ranchers depend on: “He’d better damn well stop… I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”
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President TrumpRace to the Mid-termsPolitics· 10/10/2026“Our Heroes of ICE”: In Syracuse, President Trump Blasts Hochul’s Sanctuary State After Illegal Aliens Stab an Off-Duty NYPD Detective Seven Times
President Trump told Syracuse about the two illegal aliens, released under Biden with long rap sheets, accused of stabbing an off-duty NYPD detective seven times, and praised “our heroes of ICE.” His fix: elect Bruce Blakeman and a Republican Congress and ban sanctuary states.
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PoliticsPresident TrumpBreaking News· 10/10/2026“She’s Going to Be Terrific”: President Trump Names Loyal MAGA Fighter Katie Zacharia as White House Press Secretary
President Trump appointed Katie Zacharia as White House Press Secretary on Friday, calling her “a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning.” She starts Monday, taking the podium from the fabulous Karoline Leavitt.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/9/2026“He’s a Hero”: President Trump Celebrates Christopher Columbus at the White House and Demands His Statue Return to Columbus, Ohio
Ahead of Monday’s Columbus Day, President Trump hosted Italian American leaders at the White House, called the great explorer a hero, demanded his statue be returned to Columbus, Ohio, and slammed New York City for leaving Little Italy off its map.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/9/2026“Coming Down, in Record Numbers, and Fast!” Trump Strikes Diesel Deal Bringing 4 Million-Plus Tons to Market for Farmers, Ranchers and Truckers
After a call with Vladimir Putin, President Trump announced Russia will release more than 4 million tons of diesel to American and global markets, and Treasury cleared the sales through April 2027. Trump: diesel prices are coming down, “IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST!”
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President TrumpBreaking NewsPolitics· 10/9/2026“He Deserves It”: President Trump Says the Fort Hood Killer Will Face Death by Firing Squad, First Military Execution Since 1961
Seventeen years after Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people and an unborn child at Fort Hood, President Trump said Friday that the killer will face the death penalty by firing squad. The Army has set the execution for Dec. 3 at Fort Hood.
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PoliticsPresident TrumpBreaking News· 10/9/2026Keith Sonderling Sworn In as 31st Secretary of Labor in the Oval Office as President Trump Puts American Workers First
With President Trump looking on in the Oval Office Friday, Keith Sonderling was officially sworn in as the 31st U.S. Secretary of Labor. His message to employers who cheat American workers: “companies are put on notice.”
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/9/2026“Promise Made. Promise Kept.” Dell’s $250 Lands in 25 Million Trump Accounts as Kids Share Their Big Dreams
The $6.25 billion Dell family gift is hitting Trump Accounts now, $250 for each of 25 million American children. The White House marked it Friday morning with a new video of kids who plan to use their accounts for college, medical school and a first home.
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President TrumpBreaking NewsPolitics· 10/9/2026Science Runs in the Family: Trump Holds Uncle John G. Trump’s National Medal of Science at the Golden Age Summit
At Thursday’s Science: A New Golden Age Summit, the White House played a tribute to Dr. John G. Trump, the President’s uncle, the MIT scientist whose radar helped win D-Day and whose X-ray machines brought radiation cancer treatment to hospitals worldwide.
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PoliticsPresident TrumpBreaking News· 10/9/2026“You’re Finally Being Listened To”: RFK Jr. Opens Historic Vaccine Injury Clinic at NIH Under President Trump
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined NIH, CMS and CDC leaders in Bethesda this week to open a new clinic devoted to studying and caring for Americans who report vaccine injuries, and to making vaccines safer.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/8/2026Trump Awards National Medals of Science and Technology: “A New Golden Age” With Musk, Brin, Huang, Su, Dell and Nadella
At the Science: A New Golden Age Summit on Thursday, President Trump presented the nation’s highest science and technology honors to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Michael Dell and Satya Nadella — the architects of America’s super-intelligence age.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/8/2026Trump Unveils $6 Billion+ Science Push: “Most Ambitious Set of Science Initiatives This Century”
At Thursday’s Golden Age Summit, the Trump Administration launched over $6 billion in science initiatives — $2.4 billion in SI compute from industry, merit-based STEM pipelines, national missions to Mars and the Moon, and a return to excellence over DEI.
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President TrumpPoliticsBreaking News· 10/8/2026Trump Puts American Industry, Jobs and Paychecks Back on the Map: Steel, Shipyards, Nuclear and Made-Here Needles
The White House on Thursday stacked President Trump’s latest manufacturing wins: a $15 billion Iowa steel complex, Arsenal-2 shipyard jobs, up to $200 billion in Korean energy investment, BD’s American-steel needles, and AstraZeneca’s $1 billion Massachusetts expansion.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/8/2026Vance Cracks Down on Visa Fraud: Microsoft PERM Suspended, H-1B Underpayers Exposed, American Workers First
Vice President JD Vance held a White House press conference Thursday on fighting visa fraud: Microsoft’s PERM pathway suspended, H-1B workers shown earning $20,000 less than Americans in the same jobs, and a blunt rejection of the lie that Americans “aren’t good enough.”
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/7/2026“Quite Rich by the Time They’re 18”: Trump Celebrates 70 Million Trump Accounts as Every Eligible Child Is Enrolled
In the Oval Office Wednesday, President Trump announced that every eligible child in America now has a Trump Account, about 70 million in all. “This money is your child’s future,” he told parents. Claim it in the app and the money starts working.
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Race to the Mid-termsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/7/2026Trump Heads to San Antonio With a Texas Record to Match: “No Regrets at All” on Ken Paxton
Before flying to San Antonio Wednesday, President Trump said he has “no regrets at all” backing Ken Paxton. The White House laid out his Texas record: bigger refunds, crime down 13%, zero border releases for 16 months, and billions in new plants.
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President TrumpPolitics· 10/7/2026Trump Proclaims October National Energy Dominance Month: America Is “the Most Dominant Energy Superpower in the History of the World”
President Trump proclaimed October 2026 National Energy Dominance Month, citing over 6,000 drilling permits, more than 100 coal plants saved, a Venezuela deal covering 65 billion barrels, and record oil, gas and LNG output. “The best is still yet to come.”
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpRace to the Mid-termsPolitics· 10/7/2026Trump Brings the Barnstorm to San Antonio Tonight: Ken Paxton Is “Doing Much Better” Since the Rallies Began
President Trump rallies at San Antonio’s Freeman Coliseum tonight for Ken Paxton and Carlos De La Cruz. Back at the White House Tuesday night he said Paxton is “doing much better” since the rallies began, and the $5,000 dividend “will work out very easily.”
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President TrumpPoliticsBreaking News· 10/7/2026“We Get 40%”: Trump Gives American Taxpayers a Stake in the New Sparrows Point Shipyard as the Golden Fleet Rises
In his full Sparrows Point remarks, President Trump revealed that American taxpayers will own a 40% stake in Anduril’s Arsenal-2 shipyard, said this year’s defense budget is headed to $1.5 trillion, and promised: “What we see today will be nothing when you come back in one year.”
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President TrumpPoliticsRace to the Mid-terms· 10/7/2026Seniors, Check Your Bank Accounts: Trump’s $90 Medicare Rebate Starts Landing Thursday
CMS says most of the 20.8 million eligible Original Medicare Part B enrollees will get a $90 direct deposit on or around Thursday, October 8, followed by an email or letter from President Trump in mid-October. “You’ll get your money almost immediately,” the President promised.
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Breaking NewsPresident TrumpPolitics· 10/6/2026Trump Launches the Largest New American Shipyard Since World War II: “It’s Not Forgotten Any Longer”
At Sparrows Point, on the old Bethlehem Steel site, President Trump officially launched Arsenal-2: a $3.7 billion Anduril shipyard plus $2.9 billion from the Navy to build Virginia-class submarine parts. “There’s been nothing like what we’re doing today.”
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President TrumpPoliticsOperation Epic FuryRace to the Mid-terms· 10/6/2026Trump: “Our Military Is Building Like We’ve Never Built Before” as Oil Flows Through Hormuz and Iran’s Economy Collapses
On the South Lawn before flying to Baltimore, President Trump said 17 new military and munitions factories are being built, oil is moving through the Strait of Hormuz at pre-war levels, Iran’s economy “is gone,” and a strong dollar means “no inflation.”
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President TrumpPoliticsRace to the Mid-terms· 10/6/2026“Promises Made. Promises Kept.” Farmers, Truckers and Governors Thank Trump for Diesel Relief, and the Gas Tax Could Be Next
The Farm Bureau, soybean growers and governors from Missouri, Louisiana, Tennessee and Nebraska are thanking President Trump for tax-free dyed diesel on the highway. Asked Tuesday whether the federal gas tax should be suspended too, he said: “We’re thinking about that.”
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