Donald Lambro

The problem with tariffs

Donald Trump won the presidency, in large part, by promising working class voters that he would create lots of new jobs by imposing tariff taxes on imported goods.

January 5, 2017

Praying for peace in an age of terror

In this season of joy when we pray for peace on earth and good will toward men, there seems to be precious little of either nowadays.

December 22, 2016

Why Donald Trump needs intelligence briefings

President-elect Donald Trump doesn't seem to like doing some of the work that is a critical part of the most powerful government job in the free world.

December 15, 2016

Obama going out with a whimper

Barack Obama's presidency is going out with a whimper and Donald Trump is coming in with a roar of economic approval.

December 8, 2016

Donald Trump staffing a new government

President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to staff a new government aren't going as smoothly as he hoped on election day.

November 17, 2016

Donald Trump’s election the great rebuke

Tuesday's stunning presidential election was, first and foremost, a devastating rebuke of Barack Obama's presidency, especially his economic record.

November 10, 2016

Unhappy election choices lead to a weak economy

Donald Trump was promoting business this week, his own, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for his newest luxury hotel, a few blocks from the White House.

October 27, 2016

Attention on Obama’s failed economy would have helped Republicans

The presidential debates are mercifully over in an election that may long be remembered as a lost opportunity for Republicans to take control of the nation's government for the next four to eight years.

October 20, 2016

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton more concerned with sex scandals than issues

If the tawdry, tasteless, and utterly classless 2016 presidential campaign is remembered for anything, it will be its failure to deal with significant political issues that matter most to the American people.

October 13, 2016

Donald Trump resuming war against illegal immigrants

Donald Trump resumed his war on immigrants with a vengeance this week, broadening his mass deportation plan for illegal Hispanics and promising to build a massive wall along our border with Mexico.

September 1, 2016

Immigration is not the ‘top problem’

The chief problems in our country that voters worry about most are jobs, the economy, healthcare and the government's mismanagement.

August 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s bad tax plan

Hillary Clinton handed Donald Trump the best campaign issue he could hope for this week, and he ignored it.

July 28, 2016

The Republican Party after the convention

The Republican National Convention ended the way Donald Trump wanted it to, by nominating him for president, but well short of uniting his party for the divisive general election to come.

July 21, 2016

Paul Ryan’s battle plan

House Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled a pro-growth, pro-job agenda this week that Republicans will run on in the fall to get the American economy moving again.

June 23, 2016

Janet Yellen charts gloomy expectations for economy

Tighten your seat belts because the U.S. economy is in for another frightening bumpy ride that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen calls the "new normal."

June 16, 2016

FBI under the gun after Orlando massacre

The Orlando massacre by a homegrown American Muslim who wanted to die a martyr for al Qaeda raises a host of deeply disturbing questions about keeping America safe.

June 14, 2016

DONALD LAMBRO: When the law chases the front-runners

This may be the very first time in U.S. presidential election history when both of our major party candidates were in trouble with the law.

June 2, 2016

DONALD LAMBRO: Trump, Clinton can improve odds by focusing on economy

The 2016 election may go down in U.S. political history as a time when a majority of voters disliked both of their major party choices for president. Indeed, it's hard to remember in the modern polling era when so many Americans have disapproved of even their own party's presumptive nominees.

May 24, 2016

DONALD LAMBRO: Donald Trump economic policies not the way to make America great again

Donald Trump has been "walking back" major economic policy positions he has taken, suggesting that he either hasn't thought them through or will abandon them under political pressure.

May 10, 2016

DONALD LAMBRO: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton’s volatile battle for a majority

Could the 2016 presidential election be decided by a single state, as it was in 2008 when George Bush edged out Al Gore in Florida's disputed vote tally?

May 3, 2016