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Pennsylvanians went a different direction in 2016, voting Republican for president for the first time since 1984. They have been rewarded mightily for that decision.

The Democrat Party used to dominate presidential politics in the Keystone State, but times have changed millions of forgotten Pennsylvania workers turned to Donald Trump after being let down by Democrat politicians who consistently failed to keep their promises. For almost 10 years, our state suffered one of the weakest economic recoveries in history. President Obama told us to accept economic decline as the new normal.

But President Trump has given the Commonwealth hope it hasnt felt in decades. We are now in the midst of a blue-collar boom that has lifted our friends and neighbors out of poverty and restored their dignity through work. Our economic engine is roaring because President Trump and Congressional Republicans cut taxes for the middle class, saving Pennsylvania workers an average of $1,427 on their federal income taxes in 2018. Moreover, the presidents elimination of Obama-era regulations have led to massive growth, especially in the energy sector.

At the tail end of Obamas presidency, the number of jobs in the oil and gas industries had shrunk by 32 percent, but things quickly turned around when Donald Trump took office. By 2018, Pennsylvanias natural gas production was once again setting all-time highs. As a result, Pennsylvanians no longer depend on foreign nations to heat their homes, and theyre back to work producing natural gas for sale abroad, because America is now the worlds largest energy exporter.

Other sectors of the energy industry are also booming. Fracking, which supports thousands of jobs and generates tens of billions of dollars in economic activity in our state, has particularly benefited from this the presidents commitment to eliminating harmful regulations.

Speaking of exports, President Trump has successfully negotiated better trade deals that promote American workers with some of our largest trading partners. He promised to end the failed North American Free Trade Agreement that shipped so many Pennsylvania jobs to Mexico and Canada, and the ink is now dry on its replacement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The president also committed to standing up to China for its unfair trade practices, and he recently signed the Phase One agreement that is a first step toward re-balancing the U.S.-China trade relationship. Future trade deals with Great Britain and the European Union will yield even more gains for working families.

Predictably, all of these economic successes have had a transformative effect on the Keystone State. Pennsylvanias unemployment rate has plummeted. In fact, our manufacturing, construction, and mining sectors are all better off today than they were just three short years ago a clear sign that the economic policies of this administration are getting the results the president promised.

Of course, the ongoing blue-collar boom extends far beyond the Commonwealth. Nationwide, the bottom 50 percent of wage-earners have enjoyed a 47 percent increase in their net worth since 2017, outpacing net wealth accumulation of the richest 1 percent. The median household income has increased by more than $5,000, an all-time high. Workers are now experiencing greater wage growth than their managers and supervisors. The president noted this in a recent rally when he said: Under the Trump economy, the lowest paid earners are reaping the fastest gains of anybody!

Furthermore, the Council of Economic Advisers recently highlighted that real total nonprofit and household net wealth in America has increased by more than $12 trillion in the first 11 quarters under President Trump yet another economic record.

Remarkably, Democrats are telling workers that they arent really better off. Nancy Pelosi tore up a copy of the presidents recent State of the Union Address, calling it a manifesto of mistruths. Her desire for power and disdain for this president have led her party to deny the obvious fact that this is the best American economy in half a century.

Instead of working with Republicans to build on this success, they want to repeal and rescind the policies that got us here, throwing tantrums along the way. We cant let that happen. Americans finally have a president that keeps his promises and believes in them, and he is promising now that the best is yet to come.

If we continue these policies, he will be right. We must keep Pennsylvania red and re-elect President Donald Trump in November. He is standing up for our values and fighting harder than any previous president to make America - and the Keystone State - great again.

Mike Kelly is a U.S. Representative for Pennsylvanias 16th congressional district and is running for re-election.

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Pence, meanwhile, took time out from overseeing the administrations response to the coronavirus outbreak to address the conference Thursday afternoon.

It is no accident that CPAC has become a stomping ground for those with presidential ambitions: Many believe the confab helped to catapult Trump to the White House. The New York businessman first started attending the event in 2011, long before he was taken seriously as a presidential candidate. Trump became a regular, bringing a large entourage and a celebrity aura that over time helped turn him into a conservative favorite.

Trump was just the latest in a long line of Republican figures who made presidential forays at CPAC. Then-California Governor Ronald Reagan made his first appearance at the conference in 1974, and as president more than a decade later, he would remark that returning to the conference was an opportunity to dance with the one that brung ya.

Andy Surabian, a Republican strategist who worked on Trumps 2016 campaign, said the conference gives potential future candidates a rare opportunity to make a lasting impression on the GOP base.

Just ask President Donald Trump, Surabian added.

When Trump first started showing up at the conference, it seemed like a novelty act," said Seat, the former George W. Bush aide. But here we are. Hes not Mr. Trump. Hes President Donald J. Trump and it started here at CPAC.

The early 2024 activity hasnt been limited to CPAC. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton is set to headline a New Hampshire political dinner in May. Pence has made several trips to South Carolina over the past year, even though the state has scrapped its 2020 Republican presidential primary and wont have another one until 2024.

And before last months Iowa caucuses, Florida Sen. Rick Scott raised eyebrows when he ran an unusual face-to-camera TV ad in the state in which he savaged Joe Biden and defended Trump.

Matt Mowers, a Republican congressional candidate from New Hampshire making the rounds at CPAC, said hes been in touch with some potential 2024 contenders. He said he wouldnt be surprised if early-state activity ramps up soon after the 2020 election.

Mowers, a longtime operative in the state who for a time served in the Trump administration, said his advice to would-be candidates is to focus on the presidents reelection first.

But he added: Its never too early to make friends.

Former Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, a conservative radio show host who waged a short-lived 2012 White House bid, offered a word of caution for those making the 2024 rounds. You dont want to look too eager while a sitting president is still running for reelection, he said.

The former congressman recalled some advice he once heard from a friend.

If youre gonna campaign, he said, dont look like youre campaigning.

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Donald Trump may be the most erratic and intemperate man ever to occupy the Presidency, but, when it comes to protecting the public health of Americans, his actions have been unfailingly consistent. Since the day he took office, Trump has worked tirelessly to limit funding, dismantle teams of experts, and interrupt nearly any strategic-planning initiative necessary to defend the country against the type of inevitable biological assault that we now face.

Viruses are infinitely more abundant than humans; they have no interest in politics or geography, nor do they have any respect for Trumps assertions of American exceptionalism or his desire to build walls. Sharply limiting our ability to inhibit the spread of organisms that first appeared on earth at least a billion years ago, and that, collectively, have always presented the most persistent threat to humanity, can most generously be described as an act of radical myopia. (Most estimates suggest that smallpox, the only human virus that we have eradicated, killed up to half a billion people in the twentieth century alone.)

The President knows so little about infectious disease that, on Wednesday, during a news conference in which he named Vice-President Mike Pence as his coronavirus czar, Trump acknowledged that he was shocked to learn that influenza kills between roughly thirty to seventy thousand people a year in the United States. Trump said that in public, while standing next to Anthony S. Fauci, who, for decades, as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been the governments most prominent and reliable authority on subjects ranging from AIDS to SARS, Ebola, and influenza. Fauci is a discreet man, but the look on his face could not hide his shock at hearing the President, a self-described germaphobe, brag that he knows nothing about the diseases that constantly threaten the people he was elected to lead. (Always a calm but honest spokesman, Fauci was booked to appear this Sunday on all the major television news shows. On Friday, Pences office told him to withdraw from each of them. In response to a question at a press conference on Saturday, Fauci said that he had resubmitted for clearance, and could now go on the shows.)

Neither warnings about future biological threats or evidence of those that we have already faced, such as SARS, MERS, and influenza, have limited the Trump Administrations compulsion to end health programs designed to protect the public. Less than a month ago, and weeks after COVID-19 had been recognized as a virus with pandemic potential, the Administration proposed a budget that called for the Department of Health and Human Services to cut twenty-five million dollars from the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, and also eighteen million dollars from the Hospital Preparedness Program.

Most notably, the Administration is also attempting to cut more than eighty-five million dollars in funding for the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19, SARS, and MERS are caused by viruses that jump from animals to humans. Novel viruses are particularly threatening because we have no antibodies to defend against them. This week, I asked three senior public-health officials about the cuts to these programs. None would speak on the record, for fear of retribution, but each readily agreed that the programs are both essential and already severely underfunded. Even on those occasions when the White House has earmarked small amounts of money for global health security, it has taken those funds from other essential programs. (In 2019, for example, the Administration cut fifty-eight million dollars from the basic U.S. AIDS funding mechanism, the Ryan White program, to add funds for the opioid epidemic.)

Fighting epidemics is not a zero-sum game; you cannot ignore one to defend against another. Such a response is dangerous but, from this Administration, not unusual. In 2018, as Laurie Garrett points out in an informative essay in the current issue of Foreign Policy, the Trump Administration fired the governments entire pandemic-response chain of command, including the White House management staff. In fact, one of John Boltons first acts, upon becoming the national-security adviser, wasto dismissthe National Security Councils global health team, led by Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, a widely respected public-health expert. A new outbreak of Ebola was declared in Congo on May 8, 2018, his last day in office. He has not been replaced.

That same year, the Trump Administration began to tear down a foreign-disease-surveillance program that the Obama Administration had established in response to outbreaks of Ebola in Africa. That program serves as an early-warning system for detecting global pandemic threats, and it helped limit the extent of the 2017 Ebola outbreak in Congo, which, along with China, was one of the countries that the Trump Administration decided its no longer necessary to monitor. As with many public-health programs, preparedness requires policymakers to focus on the future. Naturally, such investments do not generate immediate returns or obvious results. But neither do missile-defense systems. Nonethelessand this does not apply solely to the current Administrationwe are continually caught between our theoretical need to protect against future risks and our very real indifference to things that do not seem to threaten us now.

The Trump Administrations response has been both remarkable and unsurprising. Vice-President Pence, the man now in charge, has a well-documented history of scientific denialism. The public-health action that he is best known for occurred in 2015, when he was the governor of Indiana. Facing the worst H.I.V. outbreak in that states history, which was being spread by intravenous-drug users, Pence rejected federal health officials advice to introduce a clean-needle exchange program. It wasnt until more than two months later, during which time the epidemic became more serious, that he finally authorized a program.

On Friday, in a particularly callous act of political indifference to the epidemic in our midst, the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, characterized the medias reporting on the coronavirus as an attempt to bring down the President. At some point, a member of the Trump Administration will have to acknowledge that scientific factssuch as the number of people infected, sick, or dyingare not the creation of a media cabal. Until then, and as long as Trump and his team continue to lie about our ability to contain a virus that we do not yet even fully understand, the number of people who fall ill and die can only grow.

This piece has been updated to include Faucis comment at a press conference on Saturday.

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According to the Daily Record, Ramsay said "thank you but no thank you" to an invitation to prepare a banquet during an official visit to the UK earlier this year.

In response, Trump supporters have slammed the silver-tongued chef online, calling him a "f**king idiot" for turning down the opportunity.

"This guy is rude and mean," wrote one Facebook user.

"Why would the president or any president want him at the White House? I wouldn't want this foul mouth at my home."

Trump is infamous for using coarse language himself, both before and after he became US president. There are easily found videos online of the former Celebrity Apprentice host using the C-word and F-word, along with the notorious audio of him bragging about grabbing women by their genitals.

But it's not just Ramsay's language Trump fans have lashed out at. Another upset commenter attacked his culinary skills, saying: "Chef Ramsey [sic] refuses to cook a steak passed [sic] medium-rare."

"So he will never cook for me I will not eat his trashy raw meat. He does have the right to refuse to serve any but that should also be with a good reason."

Some three years ago, Ramsay proclaimed he would like to cook dinner for Trump's then-political rival, Hilary Clinton.

One self-proclaimed chef and "anti-feminist" on Twitter wrote of Ramsay: "Such a shame and disappointment".

"I still respect his status as a chef, but as a person.. I just can't anymore... anyone who believes Hillary is a more worthy person to serve food to than our great president, or anyone for that matter, is a f**king idiot."

Meanwhile, fans of the Kitchen Nightmares star have praised the decision, claiming Trump would "rather have McDonald's than have a gourmet meal made by a world-class chef".

"I knew I liked his foul mouth for more than one reason," one tweet read.

Last week, reports surfaced claiming Trump had cauliflower hidden in his mashed potatoes according to the doctor who used to be charged with his health.

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Rep.John Garamendi(D-Calif.) on Friday threatened a serious altercation if he came face to face with Donald Trump Jr. after the presidents son suggested Democrats wanted the coronavirus to kill millions of Americans to end his fathers streak of winning.

He should not be near me when he says that. There would be a serious altercation, Garamendi told MSNBCs Hallie Jackson.That is just totally outrageous. That is totally outrageous. I can assure you theres not a Democrat or Republican in Congress that wants anybody to be sick.

What we are concerned about is the administrations response to this illness, Garamendi explained, before criticizing the messy way in which the Trump White House has handled the developing crisis.

Don Jr. better not get anyplace close to me. It would not be a healthy situation, concluded Garamendi, whose district reportedly contains what health officials believe isthe first so-called community spread example of the virus in America. The virus causes the flu-like respiratory disease COVID-19.

Andy Surabian, a spokesman for Trump Jr., condemned Garamendis comments, describing them to Fox News as outrageous and beyond the pale, also criticizing Jacksons lack of pushback or condemnation.

By threatening Don Jr. with physical violence on national TV, Congressman Garamendi made clear to everyone watching that he is better suited to represent Antifa than the people of Californias 3rd Congressional District, Surabian added, demanding an immediate apology from the lawmaker.

Garamendi later clarified his comments on Twitter, saying there is no threat of physical violence but he can expect a strong verbal altercation.

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