Senator Rand Paul: You Can’t Hide Inflation Forever
As Congress debates the outlines for a new pandemic relief package, conservatives like Senator Rand Paul have taken an outspoken stand against what they see as a lack of fiscal discipline. Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats stalled after McConnell pledged to keep the size of the aid package...
Gordon Chang: Biden Has Made It Clear He Has Pro-China Views
Hong Kong’s leader announced Friday that it will postpone legislative elections for a year because of the coronavirus outbreak. Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s decision, which has the support of the Chinese central government, drew international criticism, with commentators like Gordon Chang concerned Beijing is using the pandemic...
Representative Scalise: “Game-changer” Vaccine Could Come in a Few Weeks
This past week Congress shifted into high gear to pass a second coronavirus relief bill, and the Trump administration awarded a $3 billion contract to Pfizer and a German biotech firm to deliver over 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine. The news from Washington coincided with a rise in...
Representative Peter King: America Rises to Meet Every Challenge
With unprecedented news in the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine, Senate Republicans announced this past week that they have agreed to a framework for a second pandemic aid package. This as the U.S. closed a Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas following a series of digital attacks on American intellectual...
Congressman Tom Emmer: Hypocrisy Must Be Voted Out
Trump entered the White House promising to “drain the swamp,” and following growing calls from Democrats to defund the police in response to social unrest across the country, the President and GOP lawmakers are again echoing the President’s 2016 slogan. Democratic critics say a radical status-quo has set over the...
John McLaughlin: Polls Don’t Count “Hidden Trump Vote”
There’s no debate that the 2020 Presidential Election is shaping up to be a historical one. Polls showing President Trump trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has supporters of the President saying, “not so fast.” With many days between now and November, pollsters like John McLaughlin say that the recent...
Gordon Chang: We Need to Send a Strong Message to China
This past Tuesday, FBI Director Wray warned that China posed the “greatest threat” to the U.S., adding that over half of the bureau’s 5,000 counterintelligence cases were linked to China. But the Director’s warning isn’t just out of the blue. Gordon Chang joined The Cats Roundtable to navigate where the...
Ambassador Patrick Theros: Importance of The Mediterranean To U.S. Foreign Policy
From oil collapse to civil war, the events on the Mediterranean over the past decade have echoed across the world, and have often found themselves in America’s backyard. Ambassador Patrick Theros, the former ambassador to Qatar, joined The Cats Roundtable to untangle the paradoxes of a region that has played...
