Judd Gregg: Trump gets his sea legs
No president in our time has gotten off to a more disruptive start than Donald Trump.The Trump presidency began with an inaugural speech that was a proclamation of pessimism. Its only redeeming quality...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: An American Parliament
In Federalist Paper No. 58, James Madison defined our form of government, writing: “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for: but one in which the powers of government should be so...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Dems embrace irrelevance
It takes a great deal of effort and personal sacrifice, especially if one has a family, to get elected to the House of Representatives or the Senate. It also takes a great deal of money and, unless you...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: How the GOP can win on healthcare
Ted Kennedy must be looking down and chuckling as he watches how the Republicans in the House have headed into a box canyon with their healthcare bill.The original ObamaCare bill had its genesis in the...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Trump and the chaos theory
The chaos theory of mathematics — to the extent I understand it, math not being my strongest subject — in essence holds that a small event can lead to many really big events.The same idea applies to...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Throw the Hail Mary on taxes
Tax reform is taking center stage. It is the gravamen of success for this Congress and president. If tax reform is not accomplished, then the whole rationale for the disruption that this administration...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Trump the rebel must learn to govern
The more President Trump says “make America great again,” the less we seem to be headed in that direction.It seems that, as in Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol, a ghost visits the president in the...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: A rogue agency at risk
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is under attack.House Republicans have passed language that would significantly adjust the bureau’s structure as part of their bank reform bill.The Trump...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Ax the August recess
Washington politics has its own particular and controlling calendar, just as the lives that swirl around it do.Every two years, there is a major election that determines the make up of the House and...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: The Fed leaps into the unknown
The Trump administration does not seem to consider the deficit or the federal debt to be much of a concern.In May, it sent up a budget that was so filled with mystical numbers that it would not have...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: The GOP's healthcare conundrum
Very little is going well for Republicans when it comes to healthcare.But this was a predictable predicament.When ObamaCare was conceived and written, mostly by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.)...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: For Trump, reaching out would pay off
How could President Trump and the Republican Congress have so far failed to execute on one of their primary goals? How could they not have come up with a healthcare plan that repeals and replaces...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Democrats' banal deal
With little gusto and virtually no discernible enthusiasm, Democratic congressional leaders presented their manifesto of purpose last week. They called it “The Better Deal.” They should have called it...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: The complex path to tax simplification
There is nothing simple about simplifying our tax laws, especially when the goal is to make them fairer, more rational and more oriented toward economic growth.This fall, as the Congress and the White...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Trump is the almost, occasionally, pretty close to socialist...
It is difficult to know what the president’s philosophy is.It changes constantly, with the only constant being his self-indulgence.A strong case could be made that he has no ideological consistency;...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Honey, I Shrunk The Party
President Trump’s campaign has announced that it is beginning a series of outreach initiatives.They are having a special effort committed to outreach to the African-American community.They have...
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