INTERVIEW - AMBER ATHEY - White House correspondent, The Daily Caller – discussed the latest White House news: Trump sues Cummings over subpoena and Fed picks trouble.
VISA OVERSTAYS: Trump Signing Memo Cracking Down On Visa Overstays. (Daily Caller/Amber Athey) -- President Donald Trump will be signing a memorandum recommending severe sanctions on countries with high rates of visa overstays in the United States. The memorandum recommends, among other measures, placing travel restrictions on citizens of the 20 countries who have higher than 10% visa overstay rates, including Chad, Yemen, Syria, Angola and others. Over 415,000 individuals were suspected of overstaying their short-term visitor visas in FY 2018, according to Department of Homeland Security data as of March 2019.
SUBPOENAS: TRUMP SUES TOP DEMOCRAT TO BLOCK A SUBPOENA FOR HIS FINANCIAL RECORDS. (Daily Caller) -- President Donald Trump is suing a top Democrat in order to block a subpoena that demands an accounting firm hand over the president’s financial records to Congress. The lawsuit, filed in a D.C. federal court Monday by Trump’s legal team, referred to the subpoena as a “weapon” in a “political war” being waged against the president by Democrats. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings and chief investigative counsel Peter Kenny are named as defendants in the suit, CNBC reported.
House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Ex-White House Counsel Don McGahn
FED PICKS: TRUMP FED PICK STEPHEN MOORE RESPONDS TO ‘CHARACTER ASSASSINATION’ BY CNN. Stephen Moore, one of President Donald Trump’s recent picks to join the Federal Reserve Board, slammed the media on Monday for attacks over old columns he wrote about women in sports. CNN published an article Monday quoting four columns Moore, a former economic adviser to the Trump campaign, wrote in the early 2000s for National Review magazine. The columns included pithy jokes and commentary about banning female announcers and referees from NCAA basketball games and questioning why ESPN would ever air women’s basketball. “How outrageous is this? This year they allowed a woman ref a men’s NCAA game. Liberals celebrate this breakthrough as a triumph for gender equity,” Moore “Is there no area in life where men can take vacation from women? What’s next? Women invited to bachelor parties?”
Herman Cain withdraws from consideration for the Federal Reserve. Trump says he won't nominate Herman Cain for Fed seat."My friend Herman Cain, a truly wonderful man, has asked me not to nominate him for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board," Trump tweeted. "I will respect his wishes. Herman is a great American who truly loves our Country!"