Protections for 27 National Monuments may be Curtailed, Cut

Twenty-seven national monuments, mostly in the West, face the curtailing or elimination of protections put in place over the past two decades by presidents from both parties, the Interior Department said. President Donald Trump ordered the review last month, saying protections imposed by his three immediate predecessors amounted to "a massive federal land grab" that "should never have happened."

As GOP Health Care Push Moves To Senate, White House Questions Value of CBO Analysis

President Donald Trump celebrates with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the White House Rose Garden Thursday after the House voted to pass the American Health Care Act. After the GOP-controlled House passed a Republican-drafted health care bill Thursday without waiting for an analysis of the bill's costs and impacts by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the White House is signaling that Washington's official legislative scorekeeper could be its next political foil.

a We will get it done,a says Trump, hopeful of Mideast peace

Despite bleak prospects for success, President Donald Trump promised on Wednesday "to do whatever is necessary" to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. At a White House meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Trump pledged to reinvigorate the stalled Mideast peace process that has bedeviled his predecessors and said he would serve as "a mediator, an arbitrator or a facilitator" between the two sides.

Trump Teases Tax Plan to Come Next Week

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives to meet with China's Finance Minister Xiao Jie during the IMF World Bank spring meetings in W President Trump said Wednesday will see a " big announcement " on tax reform, after signing three presidential directives related to taxes and financial regulations. President Donald Trump will take his first trip across the street to the Treasury Department on Friday to sign an executive order and a pair of memos taking aim at the confusing and complex tax system.

Ex-prosecutor helping Donald Trump with pick

A former top Bay State federal prosecutor has been making recommendations to the White House on who the next Massachusetts U.S. Attorney should be, but another with ties to the Trump administration says a decision isn't likely until late summer. "I've made recommendations.

What on Earth might a Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting look like?

In one corner: the unpredictable dictator, the third-generation family ruler whose nation has a seven-decade reputation of being erratic, quick to take umbrage and insistent that it is powerful enough to upend the planet. In the other corner: a sandpaper-tongued American president like no other, barely past his first 100 days as leader of the free world, liable to say just about anything - including a handful of conciliatory words at the most unexpected of moments.

Trump’s instinctual diplomacy with Kim, Duterte

A combination file photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump. WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump continued his outreach to rogue leaders Monday, declaring he would meet North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong Un, provided the circumstances were right, even as the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, brushed aside the president's invitation to visit the White House, saying he might be "too busy."

Cameos thrill ‘Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner’ team

"Full Frontal" correspondents Ashley Nicole Black, Amy Hoggart, and Mike Rubens were less than an hour removed from an event that's been in the works for months, and their joy was still palpable. Samantha Bee's "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" was an idea born last November, when the future of the actual White House Correspondents' Dinner was in question.

Tom Hanks on gifting coffeemachines to White House reporters: – Those poor bastards need coffee’

Tom Hanks on gifting coffee machines to White House reporters: 'Those poor bastards need coffee' Washington Times, by Andrew Blake Tom Hanks has gifted coffee machines to the White House press corps three times since President George W. Bush took office, and the Academy Award-winning actor has a simple explanation why. "I've done that for Democrats and Republican administrations because those poor bastards need coffee," Mr. Hanks told television host Stephen Colbert on Friday.

Tom Hanks on gifting coffee machines to White House reporters: ‘Those poor bastards need coffee’

Tom Hanks has gifted coffee machines to the White House press corps three times since President George W. Bush took office, and the Academy Award-winning actor has a simple explanation why. "I've done that for Democrats and Republican administrations because those poor bastards need coffee," Mr. Hanks told television host Stephen Colbert on Friday.

Help Wanted: The Trump Administration (Still) Has Some Openings To Fill

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the National Association of Manufacturers in March in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. President Trump starts the second hundred days of his administration Sunday with a perhaps unwelcome benchmark: fewer appointees in place than any of his recent predecessors.

Trump’s first 100 days: a chaotic discovery of power

A cold, hard reality is setting in for the billionaire businessman who promised supporters he would 'win, win, win' for them From his resounding setbacks in Congress to his stunning policy flip-flops, Donald Trump has faced a steep learning curve in his opening months at the White House. Although the new US president has shown a capacity to change both his tone and positions, he has struggled to convey a clearly articulated world view.

MSNBC’s Reid Loses It When Bush Chief of Staff Criticizes Obama, Lobs Cheapshots at Bush

Even though Barack Obama left the presidency 99 days ago, MSNBC showed late Thursday night why any criticism of him remains unacceptable. On Thursday's 11th Hour , fill-in host Joy Reid went ballistic when former George W. Bush chief of staff Andy Card suggested that Obama came into office without a distinct set of beliefs to support his decision-making.

Then Labor secretary-designate Alexander Acosta testifies

Acosta has been a federal prosecutor, a civil rights chief at the Justice Department and a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Senate confirms Alex Acosta as Trump's secretary of Labor Acosta has been a federal prosecutor, a civil rights chief at the Justice Department and a member of the National Labor Relations Board.

Trump’s tax plan is missing a number of important details

The White House rolled out the opening salvo of President Donald Trump's massive tax cut plan Wednesday, but the one-page set of bullet points was missing some significant details. The plan, laid out by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, called for three new income-tax brackets, with rates of 10%, 25%, and 35%, down from the current seven brackets.

24 national monuments threatened by Trump’s executive order

Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: http://usat.ly/2q66Shx Sandstone formations rise from the Valley of the Gods under a full moon in the Bear Ears National Monument near Mexican Hat, Utah, Nov. 15, 2016. WASHINGTON - At least two dozen national monuments are at risk of losing their federally protected status as a result of President Trump's executive order asking for an unprecedented review of their designations.