Getting tough on Trump is going to be a picnic compared with getting tough on the causes of Trumpism.
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He campaigned on fighting the opioid epidemic and getting tough on drugs, and his calls for getting tough on the border center on preventing drugs as well as illegal immigrants from coming in.
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"We better start getting tough," Mr. Trump commented in approval.
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Commerce is hardly the only agency getting tough on trade.
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Companies getting tough on their own emissions should be encouraged.
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Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam.
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When Carol picked just the right moment to start getting tough.
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Getting tough on China was one of Trump's signature campaign promises.
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So I actually appreciate the Trump Administration getting tough with China.
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For Republicans, it's a symbol of getting tough on illegal immigration.
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"We've got to start getting tough," Trump said after sharing the myth.
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Go deeper: Dining out in D.C. is getting tough for Trump officials.
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"Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam," Trump wrote.
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There's a difference between getting tough on China and igniting a trade war.
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To an outsider, the idea of "getting tough" on drugs may seem satisfying.
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With a record number of asylum seekers, France is getting tough on immigration.
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He's now getting tough on Xi — selling weapons to Taiwan and sanctioning Chinese entities.
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I.O.C. still getting tough: Russian male golfers allowed back into Olympics, but on probation.
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Tim Scott all getting tough questions this weekend about what would happen to sick people.
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But getting tough on Turkey is unlikely to reverse the negative trajectory of the relationship.
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"Just getting tough without any strategy does the work of the far right," he said.
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"Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam," he tweeted on Sunday.
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That was getting tough on trade, because it targeted a trade problem, instead of creating one.
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"Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam," he added, referring to Clinton.
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She ran on Medicare-for-all, a federal jobs guarantee, and getting tough on Wall Street.
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Getting tough on cannabis seems strange at a time when countries and American states are legalising it.
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We've seen them getting tough on North Korea, as well as on China in these trade negotiations.
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You'll know if you have great investors when they make the right decisions when it's getting tough.
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But a look at this week's headlines shows getting tough on tech is harder than many expected.
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On Capitol Hill, getting tough on China ranks among the few causes that unite Democrats and Republicans.
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For China, "there was already an emerging Western coalition committed to getting tough with China economically," Beckley says.
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Official White House readouts of their private meetings did mention US support for Ukraine getting tough on corruption.
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Getting tough on China on everything at once isn't going to induce Beijing to cooperate or make difficult concessions.
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To many U.S.-based analysts and lawyers, the announcements indicate that Trump is serious about getting tough on China.
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P oliticians, who once applauded diesel engines for emitting less carbon dioxide than petrol ones, are also getting tough.
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When it comes to the idea of getting tough on China, Donald Trump is looking more and more serious.
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Eric S. Edelman, a former American ambassador to Turkey, praised the Trump administration for finally getting tough with Turkey.
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Mr. Bannon had counseled bringing back manufacturing, investing heavily in infrastructure, getting tough with China and taxing the rich.
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Getting tough with China on trade issues has taken a back seat to enlisting Beijing's cooperation on North Korea.
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While the outcome is hardly in doubt, getting tough on the United States plays well with Mr. Putin's supporters.
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And to be fair, Trump officials do sometimes raise the intellectual property issue as a justification for getting tough.
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" Instead of getting tough, Trump's new plan is that he's "going to be lowering taxes" and "getting rid of regulations.
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You're looking at it ... and we gotta say -- it's getting tough to feel bad for the L.A. head coach now.
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Wiser heads would argue that winning hearts and minds in Kashmir is just as important as getting tough with Pakistan.
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O.J. Simpson had no problem getting tough while addressing Nevada's Parole Board Commissioners ... but he was also overcome with emotion.
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The first is that President Trump, contrary to the hopes of many, has no intention of getting tough with finance.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is getting tough with Iran -- but can't yet say how it will back up its rhetoric.
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With that in mind, white people were in support of "getting tough on crime" initiatives, as well as anti-welfare measures.
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Kelly has been outspoken about getting tough on border security, in addition to disagreeing with Obama on Iran and Guantanamo Bay.
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Go deeper: The story behind Sanders' boot from the VA restaurant Dining out in D.C. is getting tough for Trump officials
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Surely that couldn't be difficult for an administration that has relished getting tough with groups far more vulnerable than Big Pharma.
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But when you have 8 million unauthorized workers, getting tough on the people employing them is both politically and economically challenging.
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While in congress, his priorities included protecting the rights of citizens to own firearms, promoting Christian values and getting tough on crime.
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Trump's big idea about getting tough with Europe isn't getting them to do anything that would be helpful to the average American.
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What we're discussing now is an issue where some of our friends are saying we're not getting tough enough on the criminals.
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Another reason to think May might shy away from getting tough on dirty money: The economy is already in a fragile state.
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And they can promise to bring the jobs back by making America polluted again, by getting tough on trade, and so on.
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"Getting tough on Pakistan, which we've tried before, never works," said Ryan C. Crocker, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
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IMMIGRATION Trump's view: He campaigned hard on building a border wall with Mexico, creating a Muslim registry and getting tough on illegal immigration.
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Getting tough with vested interests should also keep the IMF sweet if Ukraine struggles to keep up its reforms and fiscal austerity drive.
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Republicans spurned deals twice (in 2007 and 143), yet enforcement budgets soared — propelled, progressives say, by the "comprehensive" logic, which legitimized getting tough.
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Still, even if trade deficits are a distinctly secondary cause of manufacturing decline, can't Trump help a little by getting tough on foreigners?
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But he can also plan on getting tough questions from Republicans at Wednesday's hearing on the controversial Obama-era rule for financial advisers.
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Trump supports this agenda of increasing domestic production of energy and getting tough with OPEC as part of his plan to put America first.
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Trump has tapped into voter anger with his rhetoric about getting tough on undocumented immigrants, a theme he highlighted in his first political ad.
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Getting tough on teachers and calling the strike illegal might help Mr. Morrisey as he challenges Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, in the fall.
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Getting tough on "them" — the racially defined "others" who could easily be used as scapegoats and cast as the enemy — was all that mattered.
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Getting tough on immigrants will do nothing to improve economic conditions in eastern Germany, where 20% of voters backed the far-right Alternative for Germany.
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By getting tough on steel tariffs ostensibly to protect national security, the cost might be alienating some of the nation's closest military and diplomatic partners.
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If you want to make the case for getting tough on big business, old reliables like banking, telecoms, and the pharmaceutical industry seem like softer targets.
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Specifically, Trump wants us to know that he is getting tough and demanding a plan to reduce the US-China bilateral trade deficit by $1 billion.
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Mr. Trump, who made getting tough on China a centerpiece of his campaign, has often talked about challenging what he believes are its unfair trade practices.
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The Trump administration has made getting tough on Iran the centerpiece of its foreign policy, and it has often called out the oppression of the regime.
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This legal change presents a big problem for net neutrality advocates, as it means they're going to have a harder time getting tough rules on the books.
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This general attitude of getting tough on problems affecting people of color started in the 1960s, and it was mostly conservatives engaging in that sort of rhetoric.
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The Trump administration is making it harder for immigrants fleeing violence, persecution and trafficking to stay in the U.S., in the name of getting tough on fraud.
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Speaking to CNBC's Squawk Box, China Beige Book's chief economist Derek Scissors said he wasn't ruling out Trump getting tough on China fast after inauguration on Jan.
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Given the overall app fatigue that many people face, as well as the flattening hardware sales, it's getting tough enough for people to survive as app developers.
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" The Danes, who have struggled to integrate non-Western families for decades, are getting tough: From age 1, immigrant children will receive mandatory instruction in "Danish culture.
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The RBI wants to clean up debt-addled public banks, which account for 70% of banking assets, even if that means getting tough with well-connected delinquent borrowers.
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NUNES: We don&apost know if there is one informant or more informants because there is so much out there now, it&aposs really getting tough to follow.
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The more people were thinking about terrorism, the more likely they were to support getting tough on it — and this was true even among (typically less hawkish) Democrats.
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Then he focused on mass incarceration: What we're discussing now is an issue where some of our friends are saying we're not getting tough enough on the criminals.
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Apple is getting tough with developers in an effort to keep the app store up to date and clear out garbage apps no one wanted in the first place.
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This time, with many companies' hedges largely gone and crude prices used in the reviews as much as 1003 percent lower than six months earlier, banks are getting tough.
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The SEC should address that by demanding better rating agency disclosures, dedicating more staff to analyzing the data, and getting tough with those who fail to comply, they say.
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Washington is arming Ukraine, increasing sanctions, bombing Syria (a traditional Russian ally) and massively increasing the U.S. defense budget — all very much signaling we are getting tough on Moscow.
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It also involves posing as a populist, claiming that getting tough on foreigners and ripping up our trade agreements will bring back the well-paying jobs America has lost.
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The unpopularity of this agenda is why Trump, when running for president, emphasized an entirely different agenda — bringing back good-paying manufacturing jobs by getting tough on corporate outsourcing.
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Markets including Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand have been getting tough on rogue firms and introduced stewardship codes to encourage engagement between companies and investors.
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The US has been talking about getting tough with Turkey, but they have not actually applied another key sanction other countries have used in the past -- cutting off arms sales.
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" The moral, Mr. Trump said, is, "We better start getting tough, and we better start getting vigilant and using our heads, or we're not going to have a country, folks.
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By getting tough on foreign competitors that impose price controls, repealing ObamaCare taxes, and strengthening Part D, Trump has a blueprint for reducing the cost of medicines and maximizing access.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's government, with one eye on elections later in the year, is getting tough on crime, and one figure is taking center stage: the country's security tsar.
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But the core of Mr. Trump's proposals for job creation involves getting tough on trade by renegotiating previous treaties and imposing heavy duties on imports, particularly from China or Mexico.
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His dad is a furloughed worker, and his mother, Tracy, told CNN that things are getting tough for the Woodbridge, Virginia, family as a result of the partial government shutdown.
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"The signal that we have been giving is that we are absolutely ready to work with the US on [getting tough with China on steel]," the senior European official said.
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"Now that it's clear that President Xi isn't going anywhere, getting tough on China is even more of an imperative," said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
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If President Trump is serious about getting tough on China, he needs to get real about the threats posed by its global economic campaign to undermine competing economies – including our own.
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To the extent that Chinese experts say anything, it is to express hope that this year's talk of getting tough on trade will not be a harbinger of policy shifts ahead.
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Chris Hill, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Poland and Macedonia, said while getting tough on China is overdue, the White House has failed to put together a game plan.
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And if someone tries to convince you that Trump really is getting tough on drug companies, there's a simple response: If he were, his speech wouldn't have sent drug stocks soaring.
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Her comments come after U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized Germany's trade surplus with the United States and promised to bring back good manufacturing jobs by getting tough with U.S. trade partners.
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Getting tough on China economically is perhaps his only main policy for which there is broad Democratic support, significant as the latter has won control of the House in the recent Midterms.
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In each case, she points out, it was "neither assured nor assumed" before the passage of the legislation that the strategy of "getting tough" would be either politically successful or empirically effective.
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Even four years later, my guess is that you can rattle off what Trump's policies were: immigration reform, tax reform, getting tough on China, creating jobs, and repealing Obamacare — Simple. Repeatable. Memorable.
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Upping US support for the Saudi war on Yemen, then, is one way for the Trump administration to look like it's getting tough on Iran without having to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal.
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His version of getting tough on the Kremlin was to engage a rival power -- China -- in a policy of "triangulation" that prompted Moscow to seek better relations with Washington to avoid being left behind.
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Bipartisan legislation such as the SUPPORT for Patients and Community Act made medical treatment for opioid addiction more available and accessible while getting tough on some of the most damaging drugs flooding our streets.
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"They've switched that individual arrestee over from a cost to a profit" Beyond wanting to seem like they're getting tough on crime, the potential of turning a profit is also an incentive for sheriff's departments.
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He argued that getting tough with China on trade would put pressure on its leaders to rein in North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who has stirred fears in the region with recent missile tests.
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"But at the same time, for the sake of his supporters, Trump has to stick with his pledge to tackle trade imbalances, and this raises the risk of his administration getting tough with Japan," Noji said.
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Then, forced to beat a tactical retreat from this unpopular idea, the administration went on the offense with a bold new legal strategy that aims to give them new tools for getting tough on asylum seekers.
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Prosecutors helped drive down murder and violent crime rates by concentrating on gang leaders and gun violations, not by vilifying victims of addiction, getting tough on marijuana, or reviving policies of mass incarceration for petty offenses.
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For Trump, whose presidency is built on the idea that America needs to start getting tough and stop asking questions, law enforcement officers are exactly the right heroes to elevate — and the right allies to court.
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"I don't like the fact Conservatives have that negative connotation — that we're always against things, always 'tackling' something, 'cracking down' on something, or 'getting tough' on something else," he told The National Post, a Toronto newspaper.
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For Trump, whose presidency is built on the idea that America needs to start getting tough and stop asking questions, law enforcement officers are exactly the right heroes to elevate — and the right people to empower.
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Getting tough on China's trade practices appears to be a focus of the upcoming Trump administration, as Trump has accused China of " raping our country" and being at the head of the greatest "jobs theft" in history.
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President Donald Trump's increasingly urgent campaign to attack the coronavirus outbreak has been notably slow to impact the immigration courts, where dramatic moves could undercut his signature policy of getting tough on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers.
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While she wasn't thrilled with everything Trump says and tweets, she said that what matters is what he's accomplished: building a strong economy, getting tough on undocumented immigrants, despite all the setbacks from his opponents in Washington.
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"It's quite clear that the one thing that Trump clearly believes in is getting tough on trade with other countries — and that means probably imposing tariffs on trade with China or Mexico or other countries," Scott says.
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So they continue to leak out things about this informant and we don&apost know if there is one informant or more informants because there is so much out there now, it&aposs really getting tough to follow.
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You know when I hear the Democrats suddenly getting tough on Russia and they sound like war mongers, I mean they&aposve morphed into a totally different party than I&aposve ever heard or seen in the past.
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Most recently, Mr. Trump repeated a stomach-churning myth about an American general who solved a conflict with Muslim enemies by soaking ammunition in pigs' blood and shooting prisoners with it, a method of "getting tough" on terrorism.
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Markets including Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand have been getting tough on rogue firms and introducing stewardship codes to encourage engagement between companies and investors, exchange chiefs and investors told a Reuters Financial Regulation Summit.
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As a candidate, Donald Trump spoke about getting tough on Wall Street, fighting corporate consolidation and looking out for "forgotten men and women" — rhetoric that won him the support of some working-class voters who had backed Mr. Obama.
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At the same time, Mr. Trump had previously suggested he was holding off on getting tough on China's trade policies in return for Mr. Xi's help with reining in North Korea, often engaging in public flattery of the leader.
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At home, the British government has been under pressure from lawmakers and media to show it is getting tough on Russia, with some experts saying that despite the rhetoric the response did not go far enough to bother Putin.
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Caceres might begin to recognize his considerable potential which would be good because while Rodriguez has years of fighting ahead of him, it's getting tough to keep calling the 28-year-old Caceres with his 14 UFC appearances a 'young prospect'.
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The following year the city elected its first right-wing mayor since the end of the second world war, Roberto Cenni, who had campaigned on a platform of getting tough on immigration, especially what his supporters called the "Chinese invasion".
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In foreign policy, perhaps more than anywhere else, he is doing exactly what he said he would do: pulling out of the Paris climate agreement and the Iran deal, moving America's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, getting tough with China.
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"Not only is this a big hit (67.143% of all Australian coal imports are destined for Dalian) for the industry but China is also getting tough on Australia after they banned Huawei from their 267.14G network last year," Lien said.
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The only issue the parties seem to agree on is getting tough with refugees trying to reach Australia by boat — so tough that the refugees end up in limbo on sweltering Pacific islands where desperation, self-harm and death stalk them.
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The point of getting tough on China, in those days, was to save American jobs from outsourcing by applying tariffs that would raise the cost of Chinese-made goods and thus discourage American companies from relying on Chinese factories for production.
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Mr. Reeves is the author of "Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It." Seems like it's getting tough at the top.
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The Syrian strike, pushing NATO to rearm, building missile defenses and a strong nuclear deterrent, and getting tough with China on the South China Sea and Russia on Ukraine, is all part of a newly assertive American foreign and security policy.
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In 19th-century Britain many commentators decried their government's resort to armed force to prise open China's markets, sometimes not so much from a moral standpoint as because they feared that getting tough with China would reinforce its contempt for foreign trade.
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The President-elect has released the broad strokes of his first 100 day agenda and has repeatedly emphasized key priorities throughout the campaign and transition process, including cracking down on illegal immigration, repealing and replacing Obamacare and getting tough on trade and offshoring.
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It is sympathetic to military intervention when the left is against it (Iraq) and hostile when the left is for it (Libya); anti-Russia when President Obama was reaching out to Russia, pro-Russia when Obama started getting tough on the Kremlin.
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Mr. Trump has made getting tough on China a central promise of his administration, and his advisers have pressed the Chinese to open their market to American companies, purchase more American products and strengthen their protections for intellectual property — with limited success.
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Mr. Trump has made getting tough on China a central promise of his administration, and his advisers have pressed the Chinese to open their market to American companies, purchase more American products and strengthen their protections for intellectual property — with limited success.
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Getting tough on China to placate some of the frustrations of the U.S. electorate would be tempting for president-elect Donald Trump but the long-term implications of such a policy stance would be detrimental to U.S. interests, an academic told CNBC on Thursday.
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US allies are concerned that Trump will be so fixated with his looming summit with Putin in Helsinki that he will be unable to concentrate on the NATO summit or may see getting tough on allied leaders as a way to impress the Russian President.
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"While Trump has a lot of support for getting tough with China on trade, if his actions start hurting farmers and manufacturing workers, that support may prove to be very thin," Edward Alden, a trade expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, told me.
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"We get taken out of context all the time, and I think his point was to put it into context so that people understood the context on which he was speaking about getting tough on terror," Ryan said after during his weekly press conference following the meeting.
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It was the second major announcement of a sex abuse-related resignation in as many days, suggesting Francis is keen to show he&aposs getting tough on the issue before he heads to Ireland next month, where the sex abuse scandal is likely to dominate the trip.
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And not only is the opportunity to start talking tough and actually getting tough on the Cuban regime a home run opportunity for Trump, it's probably a good window to what we can expect from him when it comes to foreign policy for the next four years.
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Why then, in the days after fired FBI Director James Comey used innuendo to imply, without evidence, that maybe the Russians do have kompromat on the US President, would Trump undercut his own ambassador to the UN specifically on the subject of getting tough on Russia?
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While China has promised to do so and given the green light to harsh sanctions against Pyongyang at the UN in recent months, the latest reports are a reminder that Beijing routinely fails to deliver on its promises when it comes to getting tough with North Korea.
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Since the start of Trump's presidency and his 'America First' foreign policy, Beijing has been engaged in political warfare as well, eager to persuade Wall Street and other financial interests that getting tough on trade will be bad for the United States and the global economy.
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In GETTING TOUGH: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (Princeton University, $35), the historian Julilly Kohler-Hausmann disputes the notion, favored by proponents of accountability, that these changes were a natural response to a "crisis" of the welfare state and intractable problems with poor minority communities.
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" But those sorts of distinctions went up in smoke once Robert L. Dupont, a former White House drug czar and director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, coined the term gateway drug in his 1984 book, "Getting Tough on Gateway Drugs: A Guide for the Family.
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"He knew and said that the main victims of crime were in the African-American community, so he ran on saying we have to do something about getting tough on crime," Mr. Kaufman said, adding that Mr. Biden had also stressed the need to protect defendants' civil liberties.
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Getting tough on Mueller While the President has skipped past multiple scandals and dramas that would have felled a normal politician and his most loyal supporters have remained faithful to him, it's possible the personal scandals could have an impact on some voters in a midterm election year.
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Such new policies, however, come with real risks: Warmer relations with the Russians might encourage Putin's adventurism in Eastern Europe; getting tough with the Iranians might derail the deal that prevents Iran from developing nuclear weapons -- and widening the war against Islamist militants could be expensive in blood and treasure.
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"By signaling that he believes that torture is getting 'tough on terror' and that's why he nominated Haspel, he is making her hearing and confirmation a referendum on a dark chapter in our history that should be over," former White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes wrote on Twitter on Monday.
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"It's a situation where this president has surrounded himself with people, Pompeo and Bolton in particular, who believe that getting tough on a military basis with Iran is in our best interest," said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, as he emerged from an intelligence briefing on Thursday.
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Getting tough with Venezuela comes at a politically opportune moment for both Brazil's far-right new president Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, allowing the former to distract from a disastrous first trip abroad and a scandal involving his son and the latter to project strength amid a government shutdown with no end in sight.
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When Obama's tariffs on China kicked in, imports of tires from South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia went up to meet American demand — more than offsetting the reduction in Chinese-made tires sent to the US. But Levy explained that while that wasn't particularly effective economically, it did allow Obama to claim he was getting tough with China.
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So they continue to leak out things about this informant and we don&apost know if there&aposs one informant or more informants because there&aposs so much out there now, it&aposs really getting tough to follow and all we&aposre asking for is give us the documentation that you used to start this investigation.
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Getting tough on China President Trump seems to have been duped by his passionate pen pal in North Korea (sanctions were working well before he "fell in love") but he's been clear-eyed and mostly consistent when it comes to standing up to China's exploitation of international systems to fuel its expansion while creating a technological surveillance state.
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Why it matters: Axios' Jonathan Swan points out Trump tried his charm on Xi — lavishing him in hospitality at Mar-a-Lago — but has already discovered that Xi cannot, or is unwilling to, do what's required to stop North Korea's rush to develop nukes — so now he's getting tough on trade with Xi. But his ever-changing tone could discourage Xi from cooperating.
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"In a context of getting tough on illegal immigration and populist wariness of special treatment for the wealthy and well-connected, GOP senators say in private they find it hard to overcome the revelation that Puzder employed an illegal immigrant as a maid and paid her in cash, paying no employer taxes at the time," the Weekly Standard's Michael Warren writes.
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Reckoning with violence in a meaningful way does not mean "getting tough" in the way that phrase has been used for decades; nor does it mean being "smart on crime" to the extent that phrase has become shorthand for being "tough" on violent crime but "soft" on nonviolent crime — a formulation that continues to be embraced by some so-called "progressive prosecutors" today.
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ALMOST ALL AMERICAN ISIS FIGHTERS UNACCOUNTED FOR, SPARKING FEARS THEY COULD SLIP THROUGH CRACKS AND RETURN GETTING TOUGH ON THE TALIBAN: TRUMP ADMIN SAID TO BE URGING CLOSURE OF THE MILITANT GROUP&aposS QATAR OFFICE INSIDE DEADLIEST TALIBAN ATTACK AGAINST AFGHAN TROOPS The reasons cited by the Afghans who were previously documented as having been AWOL, centered on personal/family safety matters and concerns over job security.
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As Mr. Trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, his political advisers landed on the idea of a border wall as a mnemonic device of sorts, a way to make sure their candidate — who hated reading from a script but loved boasting about himself and his talents as a builder — would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration, which was to be a signature issue in his nascent campaign.
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Donald Trump's key premise from the moment he announced his candidacy was just the opposite — it was time to stop being PC and start getting tough; stop sympathizing with the motives of the undocumented and start calling them murderers and rapists; stop worrying about the practical and humanitarian aspects of mass deportation and start promising it; stop worrying about making nice with Mexico and start talking about coercing Mexico into paying for the wall.
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It has become almost tedious to recite the reasons this wall is a waste of money, starting with the fact that it was initially conjured up by Mr. Trump's campaign advisers, back when he was exploring a run for the White House, not as a solution to illegal border crossing but as a talking point to make sure that their man, famously resistant to reading from a script, would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration.
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