“The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda,” Trump said, opening his speech on a conventionally presidential note Tuesday. At the weekly Republican Senate lunch held in the Capitol held a few hours before Trump’s speech, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the majority whip, was asked about the likelihood of the president’s invoking emergency powers. In response, he invoked two issues that have been used to rally divided conservatives for decades — the fights against abortion and socialism. “Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” Trump said. “America was founded on liberty and independence — and not government coercion, domination and control.”He defended his record on women’s issues.

Source: bd News24 February 06, 2019 08:26 UTC