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During their private White House meeting on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr. Trump seemed surprised by the scope, said people familiar with the meeting. Following Trump's meeting Thursday at the White House with the president, several Obama officials privately noted the extent to which Trump and his staff seemed unprepared to discuss basic aspects of staffing a new administration and daunted by the extent of the challenges ahead Kushner's [Trump's son-in-law] presence at the White House on Thursday drew notice from Obama's staff when he asked, as they toured the West Wing, how many of the individuals there would remain into the next administration.
If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his plan to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants he claims have criminal records, Portland's policy is to cooperate. Although Maine's largest city historically has been welcoming to immigrants and has taken steps to protect them , it lacks the policies of so-called sanctuary cities.
Congressional Republicans are already on the defensive about President-elect Donald Trump's decision to give former Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon a senior job in his White House. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was pressed by reporters in Washington Monday on the appropriateness of Trump's choice of someone who has been a leading figure in the so-called alt-right conservative movement.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White plans to step down around the same time President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office, the agency said on Monday. Her departure will cap a nearly four-year tenure marked by regulatory and enforcement milestones, as well as internal discord over Wall Street rules.
Republican Donald Trump's campaign had until 5 p.m. Monday to seek a recount. His campaign did not do so, officially sealing Clinton's victory in the state.
OBAMA SAYS U.S. UNDER TRUMP WILL MAINTAIN ALLIANCES: U.S. President Barack Obama says the U.S. under Donald Trump will remain the "indispensable nation" for global security and praised the president-elect for vowing to maintain America's alliances. Obama said relationships and policies go beyond presidents and military officials, diplomats and intelligence officers would with their foreign counterparts as before.
The latest on President Barack Obama's news conference ahead of his last overseas trip as president : President Barack Obama says he will encourage his successor to allow immigrants who came to the country as children to remain in the U.S. Those immigrants, known as DREAMers, were granted legal status under a 2012 executive order. Obama says that the majority of Americans would not want the young people to "start hiding again."
The latest on President Barack Obama's news conference ahead of his last overseas trip as president : President Barack Obama says that he's been unable to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because of "congressional restrictions." In a news conference Monday ahead of his final overseas trip as president, Obama said he still would prefer to have Guantanamo inmates transferred to a facility under U.S. jurisdiction, saying, "we'd do it a lot cheaper.
US President-elect Donald Trump has made his first call to the leader of China, and is "getting his arms around our foreign policy" as he prepares to assume the leadership of the world's sole superpower, a top aide said Monday. The Republican billionaire's diplomatic foray came as US President Barack Obama was about to leave for a farewell visit to Europe to reassure worried allies about a man he once warned was "unfit" to lead the United States.
Newspapers headlining the US President-elect Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton hang from a wall outside a Democratic party office in downtown Rome, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Headline reads in Italian "And the world woke up with Trump nightmare".
Donald Trump's victory has been a shock for America's major partners around the world. But perhaps nowhere has the blow been more painful than in Germany, a country that under Angela Merkel has come to see itself as a bastion of openness and tolerance.
It was supposed to be his grand valedictory tour. Now President Barack Obama must use his last major trip abroad to try to calm shocked world leaders about the outcome of the U.S. election, and what comes next when Donald Trump is president.
Donald Trump is about to engage in a massive generational theft, and he is likely to use a classic budget trick to pull it off. The method is called dynamic scoring, which is just a fancy way of justifying massive increases in the national debt.
The election's over, but for equity investors it's the same old bull market, one the new president might prefer die a quick death. Donald Trump inherits a 2,826-day-old rally in U.S. stocks that has defied history, overcoming anemic economic growth and a 15-month earnings recession that pushed valuations to a seven-year high.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering a woman and an openly gay man to fill major positions in his administration, history-making moves that would inject diversity into a Trump team. The incoming president is considering Richard Grenell as United States ambassador to the United Nations.
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming president will make additional appointments to his team this week. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tells reporters at Trump Tower that the transition team is working on naming members of the incoming president's staff and Cabinet.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. President-elect Donald Trump sat down with Lesley Stahl from CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday evening for his first on-camera interview since winning the U.S. election.
If you'd like to subscribe to The Hill's midday political newsletter, please click here: http://bit.ly/1Tt4hqN Donald Trump Report: Fear of backlash halted Facebook crackdown on fake news Sanders 'deeply humiliated' by Dems losing the white working class The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE named Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist. Well, civil rights advocates and critics on both sides of the aisle are expressing alarm over Bannon's new post.
The nationwide protests against Donald Trump stretched into their sixth day on Sunday as demonstrators gathered in cities like New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles to voice their opposition to the president-elect. Following Trump's upset victory in the Electoral College over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, protests not only swept the nation but the entire world.
Stephen Bannon, a leading force of the far-right, a flame-throwing media mogul and professional provocateur, a man who made a career out of roiling the establishment from the outside, just landed squarely on the inside.