Tag: Current Events

President of the Unites States Donald Trump promised to speak with Democrats about healthcare and it’s current system, set up by former president Barrack Obama, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Trump has recently failed in Senate to repeal it as all Democratic and three Republican Senators are against repealing it and one Senator for it was in the hospital when the vote happened and is now at home recovering. Trump says they will retry when he is healthy.

On September 27 President of the United States Donald Trump spoke at the Indiana State Fair about his new tax plan, featuring three instead of seven tax brackets and an elimination of some taxes, he did not mention how much it would cost the government. Many taxes would be lowered especially for businesses and most inheritance taxes would end. Federal estate taxes would also end. Democratic leaders say that the plan would benefit the upper class too much while barely affecting lower and middle class people and that it would be very good for Trump’s private businesses and customers. The current tax brackets are: 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35%, and 39.6% and the new ones would be: 12%, 25%, 35%.

The US and many other members of NATO expressed concern over Russia’s Zapad (meaning West) war games in Belarus, Russia’s ally. European nations had extra cause for concern as they think it could be preparation for a continental scaled war. The last time Zapad was held in Belarus troops left over in the country invaded Ukraine a year later. Ground and airborne units including The First Tank Army have been sent to Belarus to participate. The backstory of the games are to fight a fake “Western coalition” of the imaginary countries Lubenia, Vesbaria and Veishnoria who NATO claims have subtle similarities to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

United States President Donald Trump visited Florida for three hours Thursday September 14, his third as president to the South for post-hurricane related reasons. Since his first, to Corpus Christie, Texas, he has grown more and more personal in his actions after being criticized for not being so. This visit worked at a stand handing out sandwiches and talked to the victims promising better futures. Hurricane Irma killed a total of 38 people including 8 elderly living residents from hyperthermia (human overheating, or advanced heat stroke). 64 nursing homes in Florida did not have fully-functioning air-conditioning September 15. Employees of those places have had to evacuate and hand out ice and popsicles. 25% of the state was also without power.

North Korea launched another missile into the North Pacific Ocean September 15. It flew approximately 2,300 miles, the longest flight of any past North Korean missile. Similar to the last one about a month ago it went over Japan setting off alarms and warning text messages. There was no known damage caused. North Korea has been considering the US troops stationed in South Korea and Japan “hostility”.

Floridans citizens have been warned to evacuate in many counties to get away from Category 5 Hurricane Irma. The whole state is in a state of emergency. The hurricane’s wind speed was at 185 mph last Tuesday. It hit while elsewhere in the country has not recovered from Hurricane Harvey.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put down the military threats between the US and North Korea as unnecessary and says the countries should work out a peaceful solution. North Korea has recently claimed testing of a hydrogen bomb. South Korea has held many military drills including with planes, tanks and ships against North Korea. Allies South Korea and the US have agreed to pressure North Korea into ending it’s nuclear and missile programs. South Korea advised against attacking North Korea yet and claimed to have the right to veto any military action by the US against North Korea in the future and now. The US threatened to end any trade with countries still trading with North Korea including China.