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In a cordial beginning to their transfer of power, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met at the White House Thursday. Obama called the 90-minute meeting "excellent," and his successor said he looked forward to receiving the outgoing president's "counsel."
Republican President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to repeal Obamacare, but making good on that promise may be easier said than done. President Barack Obama's 2010 national healthcare reform law extended medical insurance to 25 million more people by expanding the Medicaid plan for the poor and creating subsidized coverage for individuals.
The Senate's soon-to-be-top Democrat told labor leaders Thursday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal at the center of President Barack Obama's "pivot" to strengthen ties with key Asian allies, will not be ratified by Congress. That remark from Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who is expected to be the incoming Senate minority leader, came as good news to the AFL-CIO executive council, which met in Washington.
In a cordial beginning to their transfer of power, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met at the White House Thursday. Obama called the 90-minute meeting "excellent," and his successor said he looked forward to receiving the outgoing president's "counsel."
While Alec Baldwin's been spoofing candidate-turned President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live , his brother Stephen Baldwin has been a Trump supporter since day one. Or, as the younger Baldwin laughed to Good Morning America Thursday, it's been "Me and Scott Baio, baby!" On SNL , Alec-as-Trump referred to Stephen as "the best Baldwin brother," in reference to the relative lack of starpower Trump had in his corner.
The Federal Aviation Administration has established a no-fly zone, effective immediately, over midtown Manhattan, New York until Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. The FAA's order cites "VIP Movement" as the reason, and the zone is up to 2,999 feet above the ground and a 2-mile-wide radius around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
While coal executives clashed with environmental advocates regarding Republican Donald Trump's election as the 45th U.S. president, union workers struck a middle ground in reacting to the New York billionaire's rise to power.
NOVEMBER 09: Protesters on an onramp watch as police advance toward them after they shut down the 101 freeway in opposition to the upset election of Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for President of the United States on November 9 2016 in Los Angeles, California, United States. LOS ANGELES - A day after Donald Trump's election to the presidency, campaign divisions appeared to widen as many thousands of demonstrators - some with signs with messages declaring "NOT MY PRESIDENT" - flooded streets across the country to protest his surprise triumph.
John Porcari, interim executive director of the Gateway Development Corporation, the group heading the $24 billion project, said he "looks forward to working with [Trump] and his administration" and is happy that the president-elect has identified infrastructure as one of his top priorities, Politico reported. Donald Trump has said that he wants to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure and plans to introduce a bill that will authorize that spending - though the source of the funding is not yet clear.
"I think he should start with tax reform, because I think he's got the votes for it," former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNN's "New Day" on Thursday. He was talking about the first moves of the next president, Donald Trump.
A woman holds a bottle of tea in front of an electronic board displaying stock prices at a brokerage house in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Asian shares rallied Thursday, extending a surprising global recovery as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's conciliatory acceptance speech comments helped soothe world financial markets spooked by his unexpected U.S. election victory.
Buoyed by Donald Trump's surprising strength, the Republicans maintained their control over a large majority of state legislatures across the country, setting up the GOP to enact conservative policies and potentially cement its political power for years to come. Democrats had seen 2016 as a chance to chip away at the large advantage in statehouses the Republicans have enjoyed since 2010.
When President-elect Donald Trump and his family move into The White House in January, 10-year-old Barron Trump will be the youngest presidential son to reside in the executive mansion since John F. Kennedy, Jr. The White House has been home to only presidential daughters since JFK, Jr., whose father was assassinated just before his 3rd birthday in 1963. Kennedy's son broke a long drought of boys living in The White House.
On election night, when Donald Trump claimed victory in her home state of Wisconsin, Shay Chamberlain was so excited she screamed and fell over. Chamberlain believes Trump is her savior, sent by God to save America from ruin.
Donald Trump was elected to be the 45th president of the United States Tuesday night , prompting stunned late-night hosts to try and digest the results. Jimmy Kimmel and Late Show 's Stephen Colbert joked about hallucinations, while The Daily Show' s Trevor Noah compared his feelings about the election to the president-elect's hair: it may seem backward, but it's very much real.
The nation is starting to get back to normal after Donald Trump's stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton. She has officially conceded and he has started to work with President Obama on a peaceful transition.
President-elect Donald Trump's early list of potential appointments to top positions appears to reward people who were loyal to him after a campaign in which many Republican Party leaders kept their distance. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator who was one of Trump's most fervent supporters in the U.S. Congress, is said to be under consideration for a prominent role, perhaps defence secretary, sources familiar with transition planning said on Wednesday.
Within a few weeks of winning the White House, President-elect Donald Trump could face another group of U.S. citizens, a federal jury in California, courtesy of a lawsuit by former students of his now-defunct Trump University who claim they were defrauded by a series of real-estate seminars. A hearing in federal court in San Diego is set for Thursday, and the trial is scheduled to begin on Nov. 28, barring any delays or if Trump decides to settle the case.
American allies woke up to Donald Trump's victory early Wednesday deeply unsettled, questioning whether the US will remain a stalwart partner and a stable pillar of the international order. Trump himself promised change and uncertainty in his first major foreign policy address in April, saying he would "shake the rust off America's foreign policy" and that the US would "have to be unpredictable, and we have to be unpredictable starting now."
President Barack Obama is set to welcome his successor, Donald Trump, to the White House, extending an olive branch to a man he has blasted as unfit to serve as commander in chief and who led the charge to challenge the legitimacy of his own presidency. The Oval Office meeting scheduled Thursday symbolically begins the transition of power from Obama, a Democrat who ushered in a sweeping health care law and brokered a landmark nuclear accord with Iran, and Trump, a Republican who has vowed to wipe those measures away.