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President Donald Trump plans to confer with senior military leaders Monday, after he threatened a "big price to pay" for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria that killed women and children. Trump was set to get a briefing and have dinner with military leaders.
The Republican majority in Congress was on a glide path to the midterms, having passed tax cuts into law and backed off budget battles with a year-end funding package. But President Trump was not impressed.
A 2017 file photo of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Democrats have called for Pruitt's resignation over a variety of spending scandals but President Trump and key Republicans have rallied to his defense.
The race is on to replace Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House - assuming the Wisconsin Republican chooses to retire, an eventuality everyone seems to be expecting, Politico reports. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the top Republicans on Ryan's leadership team, have begun quietly rounding up support from their camps, Politico reports.
This image made from video released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a toddler given oxygen through respirators following an alleged poison gas attack in the opposition-held town of Douma, in eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, Sunday, April 8, 2018. The Civil Defense said patients were having difficulty breathing and burning in their eyes.
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON CHEMICAL ATTACK IN SYRIA - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain , Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on the chemical attack in Syria: - "President Trump last week signaled Airstrikes hit Syria after deadly chemical attack, state TV reports - Syrian state TV and witnesses said late Sunday that airstrikes had hit a military airport near the city of Homs shortly after a suspected chemical attack that killed at least 40 people in a suburb of the capital city, Damascus, over the weekend.
Senate GOP leadership likely did not anticipate reserving chunks of time ahead of the midterms this year for Cabinet-level posts that were already filled. Pictured above, from left: Sens. Cory Gardner, John Barrasso and Roy Blunt, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn.
Scheduler Doris Wagley is clearing out the Dirksen Building office of her longtime boss, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran', who resigned April 1. Few people could claim seniority over former Sen. Thad Cochran . Doris Wagley, who was his scheduler since before he was sworn in to the House in 1973, is one of them. "I showed up at 9 o'clock.
The Republican majority in Congress was on a glide path to the midterms, having passed tax cuts into law and backed off budget battles with a year-end funding package. But President Trump was not impressed.
President Donald Trump on Sunday condemned a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian President Bashar Assad an "animal" and said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction. Hours later, Syria's state-run news agency reported a missile attack early Monday at an air base in Syria's Homs province and labeled it a "likely" U.S. aggression.
Six-year-old Coe Amos, a student in the Deer Creek school district of Edmond, Okla., stands in line to enter the state Capitol on the fifth day of protests over school funding, in Oklahoma City, Friday, April 6, 2018. less Six-year-old Coe Amos, a student in the Deer Creek school district of Edmond, Okla., stands in line to enter the state Capitol on the fifth day of protests over school funding, in Oklahoma City, Friday, April ... more Dustie Swaim, an eighth grade English teacher at Dewery Middle School in Dewey, Okla., listens in the Senate gallery as the Senate discusses revenue measures on the fifth day of protests over school funding, in Oklahoma City, Friday, April 6, 2018.
President Donald Trump condemned a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian president Bashar Assad an "animal" and delivered a rare personal criticism of Russian president Vladimir Putin for supporting the Damascus government. As Washington worked to verify the claim by Syrian opposition activists and rescuers that poison gas was used, Mr Trump said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction.
President Trump on Sunday condemned a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian President Bashar Assad an "animal" and delivered a rare personal criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting the Damascus government. As Washington worked to verify the claim by Syrian opposition activists and rescuers that poison gas was used, Trump said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction.
In light of the recently reported chemical attacks allegedly carried out by Bashar al-Assad, Arizona Senator John McCain lambasted President Donald Trump saying that Syria was " emboldened by US inaction " after the commander in chief indicated last week he was considering withdrawing troops from Syria. But, some could argue that Sen. John McCain is correct, and President Trump betrayed one of his defining foreign policy character traits.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said President Donald Trump is doing the right thing in placing tariffs on Chinese imports, although he said some U.S. businesses may suffer "in the short term." "There is no way for us to address China without absorbing some pain here," the South Carolina senator told ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent and This Week Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz.
An image grab taken from a video released by the Syrian civil defence in Douma shows an unidentified volunteer holding an oxygen mask over a child's face at a hospital following a reported chemical attack on the rebel-held town on April 8, 2018. A suspected chemical attack by Syria's regime sparked international outrage, after rescue workers reported dozens killed by poison gas on rebel-held parts of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
This image made from video released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows medical workers treating toddlers following an alleged poison gas attack in the opposition-held town of Douma, in eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, Sunday, April. 8, 2018.
A top Republican Senator said the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens in Syria is a "defining moment" for President Trump to show his resolve in standing up against Damascus despot Bashar al-Assad. "Well, it's a defining moment in his presidency, because he has challenged Assad in the past not to use chemical weapons," Sen. Lindsey Graham said on ABC's "This Week."