Outside the Beltway

President Trump has announced that he’ll be imposing significant tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. This is an unwise decision.

You’d think after 13 months in the White House they’d start understanding that there are rules.

The White House chief of staff has downgraded the President’s son-in-law’s access to classified information. We’ll see how long that lasts.

The President’s fecklessness here is incredible. Either take these people out of sensitive posts or take the responsibility for granting them waivers. 

Whether it’s the abuse angle or the more serious issue of security clearances, the White House still can’t get the story straight on the Rob Porter case.

One of the main objections that many on the right seem to have to proposals to legalize DACA beneficiaries and other illegal immigrants is the idea that they could eventually become citizens. There’s no good reason they shouldn’t be able to do so.

President Trump is reportedly considering replacing his chief of staff. Again.

The Rob Porter story, which is quickly becoming the Rob Porter scandal, tells us a lot about the Trump White House, and none of it is good.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

John Kelly continues to throw away the good name he earned in decades of service as a Marine to serve the agenda of President Trump.

Former White House and Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon has been subpoenaed in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

New reports indicate that the President is spending more and more time watching television and tweeting. That’s not what he was elected to do.

Donald Trump spends an inordinate amount of time watching television and regurgitating what he sees on Twitter. That’s not healthy.

Mueller crosses Trump’s “red line.”

Donald Trump is without question the pettiest, most vindictive person to ever occupy the Oval Office.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

President Trump remains the most unpopular newly elected President since the end of the Second World War, and there’s no sign that will change.

The White House believes that it is ‘inappropriate’ to question Generals. This argument is not only wrong, it’s downright dangerous.

White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly publicly defended the President’s call to a military widow yesterday, but he got several facts wrong in the process.

President Trump sinks even lower.

Now Donald Trump is using the death of American soldiers to tell lies about his predecessor.

Tensions continue to rise between the White House and Foggy Bottom.

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

Donald Trump went there again, and in the process reopened a wound that was starting to heal just a little bit.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke loses out on yet another Trump Administration position thanks to Chief of Staff John Kelly.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

John Kelly has only been White House Chief of Staff for a month, but it’s already apparent that he isn’t likely to last very long in that position.

The problem with the Trump White House is the man who sits behind the Resolute Desk.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

Another one bites the dust.

White House insiders have renewed efforts to oust Presidential adviser Steve Bannon. Can they succeed?

H.R. McMaster is fighting a losing battle for control of the National Security Council staff.

In another major change announced via Twitter, late yesterday President Trump announced he’d hired a new Chief of Staff, but changes at the staff level aren’t going to fix what’s really wrong with the Trump Administration.

The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.