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First-Year Presidents and Supreme Court Appointments: Trump and Gorsuch in Historical Context

Four Democrat and three Republican presidents named justices in their first 365 days in the White House. But no modern chief executive has had the opportunity to do so within his first two weeks in the Oval Office.

Barbara Perry

Report offers a surge in jobs, but pay gains are weak

“Unfortunately, in its first two weeks, the Trump Administration has already endangered the Obama economic recovery by provoking our trading partners, shutting our doors to immigrants, and creating business and geopolitical uncertainty,” said Chris Lu, now senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.

Chris Lu

You’re Not Crazy, The Leaks Coming Out Of The Trump Admin Really Are YUGE

“I can’t recall having seen a situation where there appears to be so much leaking of such an intimate nature in such a short period of time,” Russell Riley, expert on presidential history at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, told TPM. “I think typically there is an enormous amount of care on the part of the White House staff not to do anything to undermine the President.”

Russell Riley