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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to offer Canada and Mexico a 30-day exemption from planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which could be extended based on progress in NAFTA talks, a White House official said on Wednesday night.The move, first reported by the Washington Post, followed comments earlier in the day by a White House spokeswoman that the impending tariffs could exclude Canada, Mexico and a clutch of other countries "based on national security." Trump was expected to sign a presidential proclamation to establish the tariffs during a ceremony on Thursday, but a White House official said later it could slide into Friday because documents had to be cleared through a legal process.
Republican Rick Saccone, speaks at a campaign rally in Waynesburg, Pa. Saccone is running against Democrat Conor Lamb in a special election being held on March 13 for the PA 18th Congressional Di... .
Fresh off the triumph of a sweeping new tax cut, President Donald Trump's top economic aide was crafting a priority list that would touch nearly every piece of the economy. There was a $200 billion infrastructure program.
Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between Trump Spoke to Witnesses About Matters They Discussed With Special Counsel - WASHINGTON - The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators Democrats say Trump associate may have misled House panel over Seychelles meeting - Democrats: Prince may have misled House panel - The founder of the security firm Blackwater did not mention to the House Intelligence Committee last year that a Lebanese-American businessman Hope Hicks told House Intelligence Committee ... (more)
Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between Trump Spoke to Witnesses About Matters They Discussed With Special Counsel - WASHINGTON - The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators Democrats say Trump associate may have misled House panel over Seychelles meeting - Democrats: Prince may have misled House panel - The founder of the security firm Blackwater did not mention to the House Intelligence Committee last year that a Lebanese-American businessman Hope Hicks told House Intelligence Committee ... (more)
As the saying goes, you don't miss the water until the well runs dry: This deeply aberrant presidency threatens to cost the nation much more than even some of Donald Trump's harshest critics may realize. From 1988-1992, I was The Washington Post's correspondent in Buenos Aires, covering all of South America.
The White House says Mexico, Canada and other countries may be spared from President Donald Trump's planned steel and aluminum tariffs under national security "carve-outs," a move that could soften the blow amid threats of retaliation by trading partners and dire economic warnings from lawmakers and business groups. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the exemptions would be made on a "case by case" and "country by country" basis, a reversal from the policy articulated by the White House just days ago that there would be no exemptions from Trump's plan.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, a finding that pleased the White House but enraged Democrats who were expected to see the document for the first time on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump and his appointees have stocked federal agencies with ex-lobbyists and corporate lawyers who now help regulate the very industries from which they previously collected paychecks, despite promising as a candidate to drain the swamp in Washington. A week after his January 2017 inauguration, Trump signed an executive order that bars former lobbyists, lawyers and others from participating in any matter they lobbied or otherwise worked on for private clients within two years before going to work for the government.
By KEN THOMAS Associated Press WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday that Mexico, Canada and other countries may be spared from President Donald Trump's planned steel and aluminum tariffs under national security "carve-outs," a move that could soften the blow amid threats of retaliation by trading partners and dire economic warnings from ... (more)
Fighting to stave off another special election embarrassment, the White House is strengthening its final-days offensive in western Pennsylvania. President Donald Trump has long been scheduled to rally voters on Saturday behind Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone, a state representative whose underwhelming campaign has some Washington-based Republicans fearing the worst.
Democrat Conor Lamb, right, talks with some of his campaign volunteers at a campaign office in Carnegie, Pa., Wednesday, March 7, 2018. A special election in western Pennsylvania next week is shaping up as a test of the strength and loyalty of the modern-day labor movement.
The U.S. Navy has kicked off biennial submarine testing and training under sea ice off Alaska's no... The U.S. Navy has kicked off its every other year testing and training of submarines under sea ice off Alaska's north coast. Experts predict a historic wave of women running for office this year, and Texas' first-in-the-nation primary didn't disappoint.
In this Jan. 23, 2018, file photo, White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, speaks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, in Washington. Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade policy.
President Donald Trump plans to have dinner with several of his high-level political supporters at a private residence in Washington on Wednesday night, a source familiar with the dinner told CNN. A dinner outside the White House is rare for Trump, who has spent nights in his first year inside the White House, at one of his many estates or eating at the nearby Trump International Hotel.
The White House said Mr Trump was expected to make a final announcement by the end of the week The White House has said Mexico, Canada and other countries may be spared from President Donald Trump's planned steel and aluminium tariffs under national security "carve-outs". The move could soften the blow amid threats of retaliation by trading partners and dire economic warnings from lawmakers and business groups.
WASHINGTON The Latest on President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum : Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump should back off his plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum.
As a top Veterans Administration official in the Obama administration, current Secretary David Shulkin took no action to fix longstanding problems of dirty syringes and equipment shortages that put patients at risk at a major veterans hospital, according to an investigation released Wednesday that finds "failed leadership" and "climate of complacency" at agency. The 150-page report by the VA internal watchdog offers new details to its preliminary finding last April of patient safety issues at the Washington, D.C., medical center.
Two members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet suggested Wednesday that Canada and Mexico might escape new tariffs on steel and aluminum, a potential bargaining chip in North American trade talks that heeds the 'surgical approach" advocated by House Speaker Paul Ryan. "The president indicated that if we can work something out with Canada and Mexico they will be exempted.
In the midst of a speech to boost Democrat Conor Lamb ahead of next week's special election, the former "It makes me angry when we're not respected - when you're not respected," Biden tells scores of carpenters who packed into a suburban Pittsburgh union hall on Tuesday. "Everything unions do is done well."