WEST WING READS 09/24/2018 PRESIDENT TRUMP'S IRAN SANCTIONS WORKING

President Trump to UN: “We Commit to Fighting the Drug Epidemic Together”

“President Donald Trump in his address at a high-level meeting on the ‘Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem,’ said that the United States is committed to ‘fighting the drug epidemic together,’” CBS News reports this morning. “The call is simple,” the President said. “Reduce drug demand, cut off the supply of illicit drugs, expand treatment and straighten international cooperation. If we take these steps together, we can save the lives of countless people in all corners of the world.” Click here to read more. In the New York Post, Jonathan Tobin writes that President Trump’s Iran sanctions are working—something the establishment critics once again got wrong. “The success of oil sanctions should not only encourage the United States to push Tehran harder. It’s also one more reason to ignore the so-called experts’ contempt for Trump’s unconventional but clearly spot-on approach to the region.” “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reaffirmed Friday that the Trump administration is committed to religious liberty, both at home and abroad,” Fred Lucas writes in The Daily Signal. “We are assuring human dignity by advancing one of our most cherished, indispensable liberties, enshrined in the First Amendment. It is our religious liberty,” Secretary Pompeo said.  This weekend, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence laid out the case for how their Administration has revived the American economy, Allison Elyse Gualtieri reports for the Washington Examiner. “This economy isn't booming because of President Obama's policies — it's booming because we've been rolling back the failed policies of his administration since day one," the Vice President tweeted.