Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
01.28.2017
This week in politics:
The United States Senate votes
to repeal and not replace key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, at a point
in time that enrollment is at record high levels.
Donald Trump issues
executive orders banning immigration and refugee status to people from: Iran, Iraq,
Libya, Somalia,, Sudan, Syria, Yemen (unless they are Christians, in which
case they receive expedited consideration.
The United States has not
experienced a terrorist assault from a citizens of these countries.
Countries whose citizens
have attacked the united States; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey they are not on
the list.
Donald Trump has nosiness
interests in those countries.
Donald Trump issues an
executive order initiating preliminary work on the T-Rump Wall.
The House of Representatives
offers to fund the T-Rump Wall to the tune of 15 Billion dollars.
Donald Trump tells the
President of Mexico via Twitter, to cancel his planned visit to the United
States of he is not interested in talking about how Mexico will pay for the
wall.
The President of Mexico cancels
his planned visit.
Trump threatens a 20%
tariff on all Mexican goods to pay for the wall, but that billed would be paid
for by the purchaser (consumers in the United States), not the Mexican
government.
Donald Trump issues an
executive order putting in place a gag order restricting doctors serving in
United States foreign missions from discussing abortion services with their
patients.
Mike Pence speaks to a
gathering of anti-choice activists in Washington D.C..
The House of
Representatives introduces legislation guaranteeing the rights of personhood to
a fertilized ovum, which, if enacted, would outlaw most forms of birth control,
inclusing the pill, and IUDs.
The House of
Representatives closes its investigation into the lead poisoning of Flynt Michigan’s
water supply.
Russia decriminalizes
domestic violence.
Donald Trump issues
executive orders implementing a federal hiring freeze, restricting official
communications, and access to reports from the Environmental Protection Agency,
NASA, The United States Parks Service.
Donald Trump calls for a
national investigation into voter fraud, asserting that 3 million votes were
cast for his opponent by non-citizens. He offers no proof for his claim.
Donald Trump suggests
that there should be criminal penalties for protesting.
The State of North Dakota
considers a law decriminalizing the act of hitting a protester with your
vehicle.
The beginning of the end…
