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President Donald Trump, right, sitting next to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., left, speaks during a meeting with members of the Senate Finance Committee and members of the President's economic team in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017.
Sgt. La David T. Johnson, 25, of Miami Gardens, Fla., was one of four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger. Relatives of at least a half dozen people who died in military service since Donald Trump became president say they never got a call from him about their loss.
President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to sell Democrats on his tax reform plan on Wednesday even as Senate Republicans edged closer to passing a budget measure that would push forward a tax bill without Democratic support. Trump, whose plan would bestow up to $6 trillion in tax cuts on businesses and individuals over the next decade, talked with 18 members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, including Republicans and Democrats.
Donald Trump has claimed a congresswoman "fabricated" an account of him telling the widow of a US soldier killed in an ambush in Niger that her husband "knew what he signed up for". Frederica Wilson said she was in the car with Myeshia Johnson on Tuesday on the way to Miami International Airport to meet the body of Mrs Johnson's husband, Sergeant La David Johnson, when the president called.
President Trump was right when he used Twitter this past week to expose Comcast's network NBC for their outrageous bias against him. Trump tweeted: "People are just now starting to find out how dishonest and disgusting @NBCNews is.
The state hasn't released details of the bid for a project that could bring a $5 billion investment and 50,000 jobs wherever it lands. Commissioner Shawntera Hardy gave no new details Wednesday, saying only that Minnesota's bid showcases the state's talented, diverse workforce, strong schools and transportation system and high quality of life.
As reported by Jon Street , yesterday we learned that Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander and Democrat Sen. Patty Murray reached a "bipartisan deal to continue Cost Reduction Subsidies for ObamaCare." During remarks last night at the Heritage Foundation, President Donald J. Trump seemed to support the Alexander/Murray deal.
I updated my previous p ost on this, but it probably deserves its own post. The background, from the #FAKENEWSJEFFBEZOSPOST, is here : In his call with Sgt.
President Donald Trump denied Wednesday that he told the widow of a U.S. serviceman killed in an ambush in Niger that "he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt." Rep. Frederica Wilson, made the claim Tuesday night, saying she was present when the call took place.
Trump on Tuesday will call the families of four soldi... A sheriff's office in northeastern Maryland says it is on the scene of a shooting at an office park. A sheriff's office in northeastern Maryland says it is on the scene of a shooting at an office park.
Seattle-based Amazon is considering opening a second headquarters somewhere in North America, and Missouri politicians are making a pitch for it to be in the Show-Me State. Missouri's U.S. senators are pitching the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas as potential sites for Amazon's second headquarters.
"In 2006, anti-war progressive Ned Lamont defeated Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Lieberman promptly started a 'Connecticut for Lieberman' party and ran as its nominee in the general election, creating a headache for Democrats: Should they support a colleague, or a challenger who best represents the political moment? Senators including Barack Obama and Barbara Boxer sided with Lieberman during the primary, then endorsed Lamont in the general election; others stuck with the third-party Lieberman throughout.
President Donald Trump told the widow of a slain soldier that he "knew what he signed up for," according to a Florida congresswoman. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was in the car with Myeshia Johnson on the way to Miami International Airport to meet the body of Johnson's husband, Sgt.
Representative Trey Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina and chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi listens as Hillary Clinton, not pictured, testifies during a House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing in Washington, Oct. 22, 2015. The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee is sending a warning shot to federal agencies and the White House for not fully complying with the panel's investigation into administration air travel.
President Donald Trump told the widow of a slain soldier that he "knew what he signed up for," according to a Florida congresswoman. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was in the car with Myeshia Johnson on the way to Miami International Airport to meet the body of Johnson's husband, Sgt.
President Donald Trump is attacking a Democratic congresswoman who accused him of being insensitive to the widow of an Army sergeant killed in Niger. Trump tweets, "The Fake News is going crazy with wacky Congresswoman Wilson , who was SECRETLY on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content!" The Fake News is going crazy with wacky Congresswoman Wilson , who was SECRETLY on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content! Sgt.
Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island suggested that South Koreans are "confused" and "shaken" because of the possibility of becoming embroiled in conflict should a military operation kick off, several news outlets reported this week. Reed was referencing the statements made by US President Donald Trump and North Korea over that country's missile program.
Chicago has officially thrown its hat in the ring with a bid for Amazon's massive second headquarters, adding to the growing competition from cities bragging about their talent pool, quality of life and cultural amenities to lure the tech giant and its promise of jobs. While some cities have creatively played up their hipness or gently ribbed Seattle with pitches of year-round sunny weather, Chicago has played it straight.
President Donald Trump is backing away from his positive response to a bipartisan Senate proposal to stabilize health insurance markets unsettled by his order to end "Obamacare" low-income subsidies. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Trump had called the deal reached by Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington "a short term solution."
Anger, shock, unity and solidarity: Those were the prevailing emotions on Tuesday at a Manhattan event for women filmmakers, writers and actors, where the Harvey Weinstein scandal wasn't far from anyone's mind. "I'm mad as hell!" Jane Rosenthal, executive chair of Tribeca Enterprises, said to the crowd.