President Donald Trump Ends the Obama Mirage The Iran nuclear deal, 2015-2018 In The Washington Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti explains why President Donald J. Trump made the right decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. "From the beginning, [the President] understood that any deal which gives the weaker party benefits up front in exchange for minimal temporary concessions is not a deal worth taking." Click here to read more. ------------ "President Trump's decision not to renew Iran sanctions waivers effectively withdraws the United States from the disastrous nuclear agreement with Tehran, and sets the stage to negotiate a better deal," national defense expert James S. Robbins writes in USA Today. Robbins ticks off the deal's numerous flaws: "a weak inspection and verification regime, an automatic sunset provision and failure to restrict Iran's growing ballistic missile program," among others. ------------ "America needs a strong, knowledgeable leader at the CIA. President Trump has nominated one," National Security Institute Visiting Fellow Matthew Heiman writes in The Hill. "Senators should support Gina Haspel because of her proven leadership and experience. Now is not the time to play political theater with an important national security agency." ------------ In The Wall Street Journal, Russ Vought, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, writes that "through his two budget requests to Congress, President Trump has proposed trillions of dollars in common-sense spending cuts. He has sought to eliminate outdated and ineffective programs across the federal government, ending the debt spiral." ------------ "Members of the media are pushing the narrative that tax cuts are unpopular with voters. The truth is that they aren't unpopular. American families like—and need—tax cuts," Rep. David Brat (R-VA) writes in Townhall.