What does the new tax law do? It drastically reduces the tax burden on really rich people, including a lot of lawmakers who wedged in provisions that help their particular financial situations. That seems pretty evident and we do not seem to have heard from many real economists — maybe even any — who think it won't drive the deficit way, way up. Remember when Republicans thought that was a horrible, disastrous thing to do? Kevin Drum has many of the bad features of this bill in easy-to-comprehend lingo.
Hey, what about those women who claim that Donald Trump sexually abused them? It seems to be the position of the Trump Administration that since he won, that means the nation is fine with whatever he did. William Saletan quotes a whole mess of polls that say that the country is in no way fine with it.
Trump is now claiming that the new tax bill fulfills his campaign promise to repeal Obamacare. Jonathan Chait explains why that's a lie.
And Trump claims that Republicans were 5-0 in Congressional elections before Alabama when in fact, as the A.P. notes, they were 4-1. I think there's a rule in his White House which is to never admit defeat. When you lose, just lie and say you won.
FactCheck.org lists some of the biggest lies of 2017…from Trump and others.
Fred Kaplan explains about Trump's new National Security Strategy. You may be shocked to hear that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense and, of course, make us less secure.