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The Hill
4 days ago
- Health
- The Hill
Tuberville says Trump health issues exacerbated by ‘fighting the radicals'
After President Trump was diagnosed with a chronic vein condition, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) suggested the president's health condition could be a result of his efforts in 'fighting the radicals.' 'The pressure on somebody like President Trump right now, not just from outside entities … all over the world but also fighting the radicals in this country,' Tuberville said during a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM's 'The Cats Roundtable. 'Every day it's almost like a fistfight.' The White House announced Thursday that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition where leg veins have difficulty sending blood back to the heart. It often results in ankle swelling and is common in people over the age of 70. On the show, Tuberville repeated baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump and claimed that illegal immigrants were voting in droves for Democrats. Tuberville also bashed Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor. 'He's a communist! No police? Are you kidding me?' the Alabama senator exclaimed. Mamdani called for defunding the police in 2020, but vowed not to do so during a June debate. He identifies as a Democratic socialist. Catsimatidis is leading a coalition of wealthy business leaders to back Mayor Eric Adams' bid for re-election as a way to oppose Mamdani, Politico reported in June.
The Hill
13-07-2025
- Business
- The Hill
Navarro touts ‘Trumpnomics' in rant against Powell, Federal Reserve
White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro touted 'Trumpnomics' in a recent interview during a rant against Jerome Powell, slamming the Federal Reserve chair as a 'pure partisan' actor who, in his view, is holding back the economy. 'So, here's the deal. It's like in the first term, when President Trump was in, Powell gets up to the chair, and the first thing he starts doing is raising rates, because he doesn't understand how powerful Trumpnomics is and be able to generate strong growth without generating inflation,' Navarro, a frequent critic of Powell, said during his appearance on John Catsimatidis radio show 'Cats Roundtable' on WABC 770 AM. 'He cost this country a full point of growth per year, which is just a lot of jobs, close to a million jobs,' he added. 'It's billions of dollars in tax revenues and so things. And then second, when he's in with Biden in order to get reappointed, he cozies up the Biden, pure partisan political c—, and he doesn't raise interest rates when Biden and then, God, the Democrat Congress are spending money like drunken sailors, driving the inflation rate. Not taking care of supply chains.' Trump and officials in his administration have criticized Powell in recent months over the central bank's decision to keep interest rates steady despite inflation cooling slightly. Powell has defended the decision not to reduce rates, with the Fed wanting to observe the effects of Trump's tax cut plans and trade agenda. The president has previously called for Powell, who was appointed by Trump in 2017 during his first White House term, to resign. Powell's term is set to expire in 2026. Trump said Friday that he will not fire Powell but ripped into the central bank's handling of interest rates. 'I think he's doing a terrible job. I think we should be 3 points lower, interest rates. He's costing our country a lot of money. We should be number one, and we're not and that's because of Jerome Powell,' Trump said. The White House accused Powell on Thursday of mismanaging the Fed's budget during renovations. 'We're in a situation where interest rates should be at least by now, 50 basis points or more lower than they are because what we're seeing in the data is inflation falling significantly. And Powell just doesn't get it,' Navarro said.
The Hill
06-07-2025
- Business
- The Hill
Former NY governor likens Mamdani's appeal to Trump's
Former New York Gov. David Paterson (D) on Sunday compared Zohran Mamdani's success as the city's Democratic mayoral candidate to the political rise of President Trump a decade prior. 'The support that Mamdani is receiving … the number of people he's registering, the number of people who go to his rallies … if I blinked my eyes 10 years ago, there was another person who was able to do that, and his name is Donald Trump, whose political ideology is the polar opposite of what Mamdani's might be,' Paterson told host John Catsimatidis during the radio show 'Cats Roundtable' on WABC 770 AM. 'It is demonstrating a new campaign style, where you speak as verbosely as possible … Donald Trump invented this,' he added. Mamdani beat former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in the primary and has targeted disenfranchised voters, earning a large audience with progressive policies that include proposals for free rent, city-run grocery stores and costless childcare. The measures have been heavily criticized by Republicans and establishment Democrats alike, who've all said the plans fall out of the scope of the mayorship. 'You don't lead this city from a soapbox. You lead it with action, not rhetoric,' incumbent Mayor Eric Adams (D) said while kicking off his independent reelection bid. However, Mamdani, who currently serves as a New York assemblymember, said his policies are more than possible. 'Freezing the rent, that's not something that requires any fiscal output from the city. It's something that's determined by the Rent Guidelines board, composed of nine members. The mayor picks each of those members, they determine, each year whether rents rise or whether they stay the same,' Mamdani said during an appearance on CNN. 'A previous mayoral administration froze the rent three times. So, this has clear historical precedent,' he added. While on the show, the Democratic socialist also explained how he plans to activiste city owned an operated grocery stores. 'City-run grocery stores. I proposed a pilot program of one store in each borough. These are five stores in total. The total cost of this is $60 million. This is less than half the cost of what the city is already sent to spend on a subsidy program for corporate supermarkets that has no guarantee of cheaper prices or collective bargaining agreements or even acceptance,' Mamdani said. Paterson said the proposals are gaining traction early in the race and noted that Mamdani will be 'a difficult candidate to beat' in November.
New York Post
22-06-2025
- Business
- New York Post
RFK Jr. blasts offshore windmill farms for harming marine life as he tries to save whales and ostriches: ‘Make no economic sense'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to save the whales along with the ostriches. The Secretary of Health & Human Services — who recently went to bat for nearly 400 ostriches threatened by the bird flu in Canada — doubled down Sunday on his contention that offshore windmills need to be banned because they threaten whales and other marine life. The offshore contraptions also are a costly bust as a clean-energy alternative to fossil fuels, Kennedy told WABC 770 AM's the 'Cats Roundtable' program. 7 Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down Sunday on his contention that offshore windmills need to be banned. Getty Images 'We've had 109 whale groundings in the last 22 months. And they're all in the proximity of these new offshore wind farms,' said the Kennedy scion — who once famously cut off a dead whale's head on the beach and strapped it to the roof of the family's car to bring it home to reportedly study it. 'In the 20 years before that, the average whale grounding was 2.6 per year,' he told host John Catsimatidis. 'Many of these [whales] are critically endangered species. … We are going to exterminate these whales,' RFK Jr. said. 'When you put a windmill up, the cod disappear, the groundfish disappear. The fishermen are going out of business.' 7 'In the 20 years before that, the average whale grounding was 2.6 per year,' he told host John Catsimatidis. Lois GoBe – He added that many of the offshore wind companies operating in the US are foreign-owned and partner with American firms to receive massive subsidies under former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. 'The energy that they produce is three times the cost of an onshore wind plant. They make no economic sense,' Kennedy said. President Trump has already issued an executive order blocking approval of all new offshore wind projects, which are opposed by residents and elected officials in New York and New Jersey shore communities. 7 Many of the offshore wind companies operating in the US are foreign-owned and partner with American firms to receive massive subsidies. gudkovandrey – The president did allow one controversial offshore wind project off Long Island's coast to proceed, at the behest of Gov. Kathy Hochul and Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams. It had already received all the necessary approvals and promised an estimated 1,000 local jobs. The project, known as Empire Wind 1, is just one cog in New York's grander push to become fossil fuel-free by 2050 and is set to power 500,000 homes through green energy provided by wind turbines. But it faces steep criticism from Nassau County officials, who agree with Kennedy that the project threatens marine life and the local fishing industry. Kennedy said Sunday that he speaks to Trump 'all the time' about his opposition to offshore windmills. 7 President Trump has already issued an executive order blocking approval of all new offshore wind projects. AP As an environmental lawyer, he helped block a proposed offshore wind farm near his family's compound in Cape Cod. Trump himself is a staunch opponent of offshore wind, too, saying, 'We're not going to do the wind thing. 'Big, ugly windmills, they ruin your neighborhood. 'They destroy everything, they're horrible, the most expensive energy there is,' Trump has said. 'They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.' 7 Kennedy said Sunday that he speaks to Trump 'all the time' about his opposition to offshore windmills. EcoView – 7 Trump himself is a staunch opponent of offshore wind, too, saying, 'We're not going to do the wind thing.' AP As for Kennedy and the ostriches, he has been appealing to Canadian officials to save the birds as part of a campaign with Catsimatidis. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has said it needs to kill hundreds of ostriches at the Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia to curb the spread of the avian flu there. RFK Jr., who owns an emu, stuck his neck out for the birds and is hopeful that doesn't happen. He said the ostriches survived the avian bird flu and they should be studied to determine how they became immune. 7 Kennedy has been appealing to Canadian officials to save the birds as part of a campaign with Catsimatidis. halberg – TV's Dr. Oz, who works closely with RFK as the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, even offered his Florida ranch as a refuge for the ostriches. 'We want to get antibodies out of them. They survived bird flu. Why did they survive?,' RFK Jr. said. 'We need to know that because there are a lot of other birds that died from it.' He blamed 'bureaucratic corruption' and the lust for power for wanting to cull the ostriches.
The Hill
08-06-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Tuberville accuses Zelensky of attempting to ‘lure NATO' into Russian conflict
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was undoubtedly trying to 'lure NATO' into their war with Russia. 'There is no doubt, because he cannot win this war on his own. He knows he's losing,' Tuberville said during a Sunday appearance on John Catsimatidis's radio show 'Cats Roundtable' on WABC 770 AM. However, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously mentioned that the country would never join NATO, although he later walked back the comments. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and has continued to launch deadly drone strikes on the country in an effort to gain more land. The Kremlin attacked the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Saturday, wounding 80 and killing at least six. Russia ramped up its strikes after Ukraine successfully completed a series of drone attacks to defend its sovereign borders. 'They drove trucks 2,000 miles into Russia. They had drones that were covered up in the backs of these trucks. They got close to the targets, opened up these trucks, the drones flew out and destroyed somewhere around 40 major airplanes that Russia uses in their nuclear arsenal,' Tuberville said. 'It was devastating. Then again, both sides are at fault. Let's get this thing over with. And President Trump is the one who can get this done,' he continued. His rhetoric aligns with President Trump's past statements alleging Ukraine caused the war and shouldn't seek to recover the Crimea region. Trump publicly chastised his counterpart Zelensky in the Oval Office in February, warranting a chorus of responses from national lawmakers and international leaders. During Sunday's interview, Tuberville also slammed Zelensky's presidency, describing him as a 'dictator.' 'Zelensky is a dictator, and he has created all sorts of problems. We've got a lot of money that's been missing. No telling where it's gone…,' Tuberville said. 'I think both of these [nations] have lost close to 500,000 to 700,000 people. It's devastating to the world,' he added. Senators have considered sanctions on Russia for refusing to agree to a ceasefire amidst angst. However, they ultimately held off deciding to follow the president's lead.
