Winning - March 2019

Keeping track of the GOP and Trump Administration:

• The Trump golf count - 165 visits to golf clubs in 114 weeks, 128 rounds of golf. 
• The Trump lie count - As of 03/31/19, it is 9,451 in 801 days in office. That's 5.9/day the first year, 16.5/day the second year. So far this year the average is almost 22/day. He will easily break 10,000 sometime this year and probably 15,000.  
• The UK courts rule that Trump's Aberdeen golf club must pay the Scottish government's legal costs over a failed wind turbine lawsuit. 
• FDA Commissioner Scott Gotlieb is resigning.
• The federal budget deficit is $310 billion, up 77%, in the first four months of the fiscal year. Mostly because of the GOP tax cut that was supposed to pay for itself.
• The US trade deficit rose to a record $891.2 billion, $419 billion with China. This in spite of Trump's tariffs and promises to shrink the trade deficit.  
• According to US military analysts, North Korea has started rebuilding their missile test facilities. So much for a successful summit by the master dealmaker.
• The House Judiciary Committee has requested information and/or documents from 81 people, agencies, and entities tied to Trump. 
• 03/07 - Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sues the Trump Organization for nonpayment of $1.9 million in legal costs. He also sued for an additional $1.9 million in reimbursements for fines, forfeitures, and restitution. 
• 03/07 - Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is sentenced to 47 months in federal prison for bank and tax fraud. Too little time for his crimes.
• 03/08 - Job growth for February was 20,000. Expected growth was 175,000. 
• 03/08 - Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson resigns.
• 03/08 - White House communications director Bill Shine resigns. He was the fifth person to hold that position. Shine lasted eight months. 
• 03/13 - Paul Manafort is sentenced to 73 months in prison in his DC conspiracy case, 30 months concurrent with his 47 month Virginia sentence. He is now on the hook for 7½ years in federal prison.
• 03/13 - New York indicts Manafort on 16 charges including mortgage fraud. If convicted, Trump can not pardon him on these state charges. 
• 03/13 - The Senate rebukes Trump with a 54-46 vote ordering the US military to end support of the Saudi's war in Yemen. 
• 03/14 - The New York appellate court allows the Summer Zervos defamation suit against Trump to proceed.
• 03/14 - The Senate votes against Trump's border emergency declaration 59-41. It passed the House last month.
• 03/19 - A federal judge ruled that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing in the West. The judge temporarily blocked drilling on about 300,000 acres of land in Wyoming. 
• There is a public outcry over Betsy DeVos's plan to cut the Special Olympics funding for 2020. Trump reacts to the outcry and reverses the plan. 
• 03/27 - A US district judge blocks the Kentucky and Arkansas Medicaid work requirements.
• 03/29 - A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administrations plan to allow health insurance plans outside the Affordable Care Act is illegal.

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