Small Business Optimism Surges to Highest Level Ever, Topping Previous Record Under Reagan

“U.S. small business optimism surged to a record in August as the tax cuts and deregulation efforts of President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress led to more sales, hiring and investment, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business,” John Melloy reports for CNBC.

“Small businesses have been a key beneficiary of Trump’s economic plans.”

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“President Trump observed the anniversary of Sept. 11 at a memorial service Tuesday in Shanksville, Pa., where he praised the ‘spirit’ of the 40 passengers and crew members who died trying to stop hijackers from redirecting Flight 93 toward Washington that fateful day,” Gabby Morrongiello writes in the Washington Examiner.

“The number of job openings in the U.S. climbed to a record 6.94 million in July in a clear sign that a booming economy is entering the second half of the year with a big dollop of momentum,” Jeffry Bartash reports in MarketWatch. “Workers who switch jobs usually get better pay than those who remain in their old ones. And more people switch when they are confident about the economy.”

In The Daily Signal, foreign policy expert Brett Schaefer writes that National Security Advisor John Bolton took the right stance by repudiating the unaccountable International Criminal Court. “It is appropriate and necessary for the Trump administration to take steps to place our military personnel, our government officials, and our national interests above the interests of an international court whose jurisdiction the U.S. has never acknowledged.”

“September 11 should not be about politics, nor about Donald Trump, and surely not about Joe Scarborough,” Steve Cortes writes in RealClearPolitics. “But MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ callously used the calamity of 9/11 to take cheap political shots at President Trump . . . Scarborough should apologize for denigrating our national day of remembrance.”

The White House • September 11, 2018

What the world learned on September 11, 2001

Seventeen years ago, America and the world were forever changed. More than a decade and a half before his election as President, Donald Trump was in New York City the day an unprecedented act of terror unfolded across our country.

“When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely,” he said in 2016.

Today, President Trump, the First Lady, Vice President Mike Pence, and the Second Lady honored two other communities that were struck by attacks that day: Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and Arlington, Virginia. “This field is now a monument to American defiance,” the President said from the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania. “We remember the moment when America fought back.”

This week, a new memorial opened at that site to commemorate the 40 brave passengers and crew members of Flight 93, whose actions that day prevented a likely attack on Washington, D.C. The "Tower of Voices" is a 93-foot structure with 40 wind chimes to honor each of their lives.

“Every time we hear those chimes playing in the wind, we will remember The Forty. We will remember their faces, their voices, their stories, their courage, and their love,” the President said.

Speaking at the Pentagon in Virginia, Vice President Pence echoed President Trump’s appreciation for America’s Service Members and first responders. “Even before the smoke cleared, and the fires had put out, Americans began to answer the call to step forward to serve this nation. And they did so by the millions,” he said.

What the world learned on September 11, 2001

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