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Facing potentially deep budget cuts to U.S. foreign aid, new USAID administrator Mark Green says he needs to do more with less and prove to President Donald Trump that development assistance can further his "America First" agenda. In a first meeting with Trump back in January, Green made his pitch to the then president-elect, drawing from his experience in Central America to explain how U.S.-funded programs there could help slow the number of immigrants trying to enter the United States illegally.
In 2001, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott got a dozen Democrats to vote for tax cuts sought by President George W. Bush. Now, for the tax plan backed by President Trump, the most Democratic votes Sen. Mitch McConnell could hope for is three.
President Donald Trump's declaration on the opioid crisis marks the 29th concurrent active national emergency in America -- a state in which the United States has existed for nearly four decades straight. "The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I am saying, officially, right now, it is an emergency.
Donald Trump's attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell come at the worst possible time, if the president's goal is actually to accomplish the agenda on health care, infrastructure and taxes he's goading his GOP ally to pass. Congress, now on its August recess, will return to confront a brutal September workload including two absolute must-do items: funding the government to head off a shutdown, and raising the federal borrowing limit to avert a potentially catastrophic first-ever default on U.S. obligations.
It appears many seem to have forgotten that we in the United States elect a president every four years. Most of the time the election is just a re-election of the prior president until he has served two terms.
It's been a week of walk backs from the White House after President Trump took questions from reporters at his golf club in New Jersey about some sensitive foreign policy issues. On Friday, a National Security Council official told Yahoo News that Trump was "being sarcastic" the day before in saying he was "very thankful" Putin had ordered a reduction of hundreds of employees, including diplomats and support staff, in U.S. missions in Russia.
Congress may have left town for August, but Virginia's governor's race is heating back up as both major-party candidates hit the TV airwaves with ads. Republican Ed Gillespie was first up, beginning a series of three spots on July 25. His Democratic rival, Lt.
President Donald Trump would like to interrupt his vacation to deliver the following message: Don't call this a vacation. The president has decamped from Washington to his private golf club in central New Jersey.
Remember the overtime-session, hanging chad , 2000 George W. Bush v Al Gore presidential election? Where it all came down to Florida - and Gore unsuccessfully sued to overturn the Sunshine State's certification of Bush as its winner? I remember. I was working on the Bush side of the ledger - in Austin, Texas.
Two years ago, President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act with a White House summit on protecting and expanding the right to vote. As California's chief elections officer, I was invited to this significant event.
Urban growth and suburban sprawl have radically changed Lone Star country, which not so long ago was a largely rural state. Republicans control super majorities in both the state House and Senate, every statewide elected office and the vast majority of the 5,000 or so local elected positions throughout the state.
When all right-thinking people in the nation's capital seem to agree on something - as has been the case recently with legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia - that may be a warning that the debate has veered into an unthinking herd mentality. Sanctions were already an overused tool of foreign policy before President Trump last week peevishly signed into law a measure imposing new penalties on Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has taken another sharp jab at President Trump on Twitter, questioning why the American president needs a vacation and urging Trump to "just leave" if he isn't happy with his job. "Donald Trump leaving on vacation, huh? What for?" Fox tweeted.
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox chides President Trump for taking a vacation Fox tells Trump he can "just leave" if he isn't happy with his job. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: https://usat.ly/2wvxefu Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has taken another sharp jab at President Trump on Twitter, questioning why the American president needs a vacation and urging Trump to "just leave" if he isn't happy with his job.
In a newspaper piece about a White House in turmoil, a prominent paper described an atmosphere of beleaguered aides confused by their unscripted boss, a man who needed a "rudder on what many believed was a loose and listing ship." The Washington Post, in 1997, wrote this about President Bill Clinton and the state of his presidency in mid-1994.
While most attention has been focused on the Russia elements of the bipartisan sanctions bill signed by President Trump on Wednesday, the legislation also for the first time targets Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for its support for terrorism. In recent weeks Iranian officials have warned that naming the IRGC a terror-sponsoring group could lead to violence, with armed forces chief Maj.
The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump amid the investigation into Russian meddling in last year's presidential election.
Five Democrats cast their ballots Tuesday afternoon opposing the confirmation of Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the country's top investigative agency. The vote was 92-5.
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump amid the investigation into Russia meddling in last year's presidential election. The vote was 92-5 for Wray, a former high-ranking official in President George W. Bush's Justice Department who oversaw investigations into corporate fraud.