Tag: Ronald Reagan

President Trump on Wednesday began the national campaign to reform and reduce the federal income tax. Now. This year. It has been 31 years since President Ronald Reagan reformed and reduced taxes. Lower taxes can restore America's historic growth rate of 3.5 percent or higher. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Grover Norquist: Trump’s tax reform campaign is a huge deal

Grover Norquist · August 30, 2017 7:33 pm

House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former first lady Nancy Reagan pause at a portrait of former President Ronald Reagan during a Gingrich visit to the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, on Friday, July 21, 1995. Gingrich toured the museum and spoke to a gathering of library patrons. Former President Reagan did not attend. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Washington Secrets

Book: Gingrich is America’s top conservative, heir to Reagan, Goldwater

Paul Bedard · August 29, 2017 1:19 pm

President Trump's campaign rally in Phoenix last month cost the city more than $450,000, according to a report. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Beltway Confidential

Democratic playbook 101: When all else fails, play the ‘crazy’ card against Trump and the Republicans

Jennifer Kerns · August 25, 2017 9:19 pm

Former President Ronald Reagan will be inducted into the Labor Department's Hall of Fame, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced Thursday. Acosta noted that the late Republican president had the unique distinction of being the only president of a labor organization to also sit in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)

Ronald Reagan to go into Labor Department’s Hall of Fame

Sean Higgins · August 24, 2017 5:52 pm

Collins said a major problem for her is that the bill lets states waive pre-existing condition protections in Obamacare plans. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

National Security

Susan Collins: ‘Too difficult to say’ if Trump will win the Republican nomination in 2020

Joel Gehrke · August 21, 2017 3:23 pm

Current tax proposals by Republican leadership include separate tax rates for small business income, capital gains, and dividends. That idea is contrary to President Ronald Reagan's tax reform principles of adding simplicity and fairness to the tax system. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Don’t throw Reagan’s tax reform principles under the bus

David Nelson · August 20, 2017 4:01 am

Afternoon Links: McLaughlin Group Returns, Everybody Hates Shkreli, and Uber Uses Charlottesville for PR Purposes

Jim Swift · August 17, 2017 8:32 pm

Kevin Brady, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, told reporters Tuesday that he planned to continue advocating for border adjustment in negotiations with the White House and Senate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kevin Brady promises tax reform: ‘We cannot let the status quo win’

Joseph Lawler · August 16, 2017 10:43 pm

Roy Moore, one of the Republicans running in the primary for the Alabama special Senate election, said it's possible to make the argument that America is the "focus of evil in the modern world," as former President Ronald Reagan characterized Soviet Russia during the Cold War. (Mickey Welsh /The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Roy Moore: ‘You could say’ America is the ‘focus of evil in the modern world’

Melissa Quinn · August 10, 2017 6:17 pm

President Trump's draft budget would cut the renewable office from $762 million for fiscal 2017 to $160 million. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ignoring the lessons of effective presidents

Michael Barone · August 3, 2017 12:00 pm

"We are trying too hard to govern for just 35 to 40 percent of the country and it just isn't working," said a Republican strategist who advises mainly centrist candidates. "You can't win with just 35 to 40 percent of the vote." (Illustration by Nate Beeler for the Washington Examiner)

How Washington forgot how to govern

W. James Antle III · July 23, 2017 4:01 am

Republicans Have Overlooked Reagan’s Origin Story

Jay Cost · July 22, 2017 12:00 pm