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President Trump this week bad-mouthed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake. How long will the backbiting between the White House and Capitol Hill continue?
Most Republicans support killing the estate tax as part of a tax overhaul, but doing so could have dire consequences for something else conservatives cherish -- charitable giving. President Donald Trump along with top GOP lawmakers have proposed ending what they call the death tax -- a 40 percent levy that's applied to estates worth more than $5.49 million for individuals and $10.98 million for married couples.
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It was former president Barack Obama who is primarily responsible for this travesty, which was supposedly going to make health care affordable for all . Have your health care costs decreased in the past few years since Obamacare was unleashed? However, Republicans could do well with a brief history lesson - and how they are culpable in Obamacare's existence and its survival.
In this photo taken July 12, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, talks with the Committee's ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of a Washington opposition research firm that produced a dossier of salacious allegations involving President Donald Trump is to be interviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.
With the federal government getting closer to running out of cash to cover all bills on time, companies that evaluate bonds are having to consider how to rate America's creditworthiness. And their job didn't get any easier on Thursday when President Trump continued his attacks on congressional leaders over their failure to raise the federal debt ceiling.
The U.S. House member from Wadsworth posted a video on Twitter that claimed Husted has a "liberal record" while portraying the two-term secretary of state as dishonest and "not as conservative as he pretends to be." Renacci's campaign said the video was in response to a Tweet by a pro-Husted super-PAC, Ohio Conservatives for a Change, that questioned the congressman's support for drug education for children in Ohio schools.
The Judge Roy Moore Senate Campaign announced Thursday former Alaskan governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has endorsed Moore in Alabama's U.S. Senate race. Sen. Luther Strange and Moore, the former Alabama Chief Justice, are headed to a Republican primary runoff to fill the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Sen. Jeff Flake said Thursday he won't be able to say whether he'd vote to fund President Donald Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border until he knows whether the president wants to build a single brick-and-mortar structure or instead erect a combination of fencing and other barriers. The president threatened earlier this week at a rally in Phoenix to shut down the federal government unless the gridlocked Congress agrees to build a border wall.
In this Aug. 19, 2009 file photo, Daniel Love, a special agent with the Bureau of Land Management, walks in front of Carl "Vern" Crites' home in Durango Colo., after Crites voluntarily turned over his entire collection of ancient artifacts during a sweeping federal investigation of looting and grave-robbing in the Four Corners region. In a report released Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, federal investigators released a report that says Love took valuable stones held as evidence and distributed them "like candy" to colleagues and a contractor.
After Steve Bannon departed the White House on August 14, he contacted The Weekly Standard to make a bold proclamation. "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," the administration's now-former chief strategist said.
REUTERS: A federal appeals court has sided with Hollywood studios by refusing to let VidAngel stream family-friendly versions of their movies that filter out profane language, sex and nudity, violence, and alcohol and drug use. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday let stand a preliminary injunction against the Provo, Utah-based start-up, and in favour of Walt Disney Co and its LucasFilm unit, 20th Century Fox Film Inc and Warner Bros Entertainment .
Sen. Bob Corker refuses to say whether he'll seek a third term, but he has carefully said and done all the right things to avoid provoking a spirited primary challenge next year. The Tennessee Republican has limited public appearances back home largely to friendly civic clubs and chambers of commerce meetings, where he can regale members with tales of his pro-business agenda and blunt assessments of congressional dysfunction - all the while steering clear of direct criticism of President Donald Trump.
The pledge by Taiwan's Foxconn to build a US$10 billion factory in southern Wisconsin has ignited cross-border competition with Illinois over which state's residents will get the jobs created by the project. FILE PHOTO: Employees work inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province, China, May 26, 2010.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said that there's "nothing crazy" about President Donald Trump's recent string of bombastic tweets and comments. Appearing on MSNBC's Hugh Hewitt Show , Graham said that Trump was "not the first president to use the bully pulpit to try to push the country in a particular direction."
A mistake by the Massachusetts State Lottery has injected a little extra drama into the national $758.7 million Powerball drawing. A mistake by the Massachusetts State Lottery has injected a little extra drama into the national $758.7 million Powerball drawing.
One of the unnoticed ways in which American politics has changed under Donald Trump is the quiet disappearance of the budget deficit as a fixation of the news media and the business and political elite. During Barack Obama's two terms in office, terror about deficits positively consumed the discourse.
LG Electronics Inc. has broken ground in Tennessee at the site of the South Korean appliance manufacturer's first washing machine plant in the United States. Company and local officials were joined at the Thursday ceremony in Clarksville by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker.
Texas facing catastrophic flooding as Harvey intensifies into a major hurricane that will bring life-threatening storm surge and up to 30 INCHES of rain when it makes landfall BREAKING NEWS: Disgruntled employee at a South Carolina restaurant shoots one person and takes hostages after declaring 'I am the new king of Charleston' There's a method to his madness! Lindsey Graham says Trump's fights with Congress are a 'thought-out strategy' and 'there's nothing crazy about it' Rapid exit: Trump's director of 'rapid response' who scoured the Internet for rare positive stories about him leaves the White House 'This isn't a negotiation': Judge Judy tells CBS her salary demands and accepts no counter, saying she could be making $20M more than the $47M she now gets if she produced the show Did Kim Jong-un execute his mentor over coup plot involving China? Korean leader's uncle met with Chinese ... (more)
On Twitter on Thursday, Trump says he asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to attach legislation to increase the country's borrowing limit to a bill related to veterans. Trump said they didn't do it and "now we have a big deal with Dems holding them up."