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All three members of Vermont 's congressional delegation are opposed to President Donald Trump's suggestion he will shut down the federal government if Congress does not include money to construct a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations committee, calls the suggestion "juvenile," saying it would cost billions of dollars every day to shut down the government.
President Donald Trump called Hurricane Harvey a storm of "epic proportions" and said he hopes his administration's response to the disaster will be regarded as a model. "We want to be looked at five years, ten years from now, as this is the way to do it," Trump said as he and his wife Melania received a briefing on the storm response at a fire station in Corpus Christi, Texas.
"I should say re-appointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020," filmmaker tells Fast Company Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore predicted that President Donald Trump will win re-election in 2020 in a Monday interview with Fast Company - but the Trump critic has a plan to stop it from happening. "I should say re-appointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020," Moore told the magazine.
President Donald Trump continues to weigh phasing out a program that has protected young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children - with a decision to sunset the program possible as early as this week. The administration has been reviewing its options on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for months - opting to continue the Obama administration policy when it took office despite Trump's bellicose campaign rhetoric.
Every helicopter supporting a Trump visit to Texas in response to Hurricane Harvey is a helicopter not picking survivors off rooftops. As President Donald Trump faces the first crisis of his presidency he fortunately has a chief of staff, John Kelly, who knows how to deal with emergency response, and a well-respected FEMA director in Brock Long leading an agency that has rebuilt itself since 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
US President Donald Trump seems to be heading for another clash with the Pentagon over his renewed order banning transgender individuals from serving in the military. When Trump first announced the ban last month, the reversal of policy initiated under President Obama in 2016 caught military chiefs by surprise.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday defended his granting a pardon to controversial former Arizona lawman and political ally Joe Arpaio. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday defended his granting a pardon to controversial former Arizona lawman and political ally Joe Arpaio, and criticized former Democratic presidents for their choices of people to pardon.
President Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to pardon Joe Arpaio, calling the former Arizona sheriff a "patriot" who loves his country. Asked about his controversial pardon during a joint press conference with the president of Finland on Monday, Trump insisted that "a lot of people" believe he made the right call.
Law and order Donald Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, the law and order sheriff convicted of criminal contempt for defying lawful orders, from two federal judges, involving racial profiling. President Trump issued the pardon of his fellow birther before Arpaio had been sentenced.
President Donald Trump launched his fall push to overhaul the nation's tax system by pledging Wednesday that the details-to-come plan would "bring back Main Street" by reducing the crushing tax burden on middle-class Americans, making a populist appeal for a proposal expected to heavily benefit corporate America. Trump said his vision for re-writing the tax system, a key campaign pledge, would unlock stronger economic growth and benefit companies and workers alike.
In this Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. Fresh off his presidential pardon, an emboldened Joe Arpaio on Monday lashed out at his critics and the judge who found him guilty of a crime as his attorneys went to court to throw the court decision that was the basis for his conviction.
There's nothing more fundamental to President Donald Trump's political philosophy than a vision of the relentless and uncompromising enforcement of law and order. Trump waited only until the second paragraph of a stark convention speech in Philadelphia last year before hitting on the theme.
On October 12, Trump will decide whether to lift the Sudan embargo after Obama eased it before leaving office in January. US aid chief Mark Green said Monday Washington was monitoring Sudan's progress on conditions for a permanent lifting of sanctions, as he visited a camp for the displaced in Darfur.
At various times during our history, American troops abroad have been targeted with special ferocity by enemies aware that the more U.S. troops they killed, the more likely our government would be to accelerate already declared timetables for withdrawal. That ends now, President Donald Trump declared last week in an important speech about policy toward the war in Afghanistan.
With Texas in the middle of a devastating natural disaster, President Donald Trump is promising relief as he plans to visit the state on Tuesday. Washington bureau reporter Alberto Pimienta filed the following report.
President Donald Trump on Monday defended his pardon of Arizona's Joe Arpaio, who as sheriff of Maricopa County defied a court order to stop his hardline immigration policing and earned a citation for contempt of court last month. Trump's comments came at a joint press conference with the president of Finland, Sauli Niinisto.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017.
Fresh off his presidential pardon, an emboldened Joe Arpaio on Monday lashed out at his critics and the judge who found him guilty of a crime as his attorneys went to court to throw the court decision that was the basis for his conviction. The former Arizona sheriff struck a defiant tone in insisting he "didn't do anything wrong" and questioning whether his judge was fair.
" Hundreds of masked, black-clad anarchists who overwhelmed a peaceful California protest and assaulted at least five perceived political enemies have reignited the debate over ensuring free speech while protecting public safety in the city where the U.S. free speech movement was born in the 1960s. After planned weekend rallies were violently disrupted or canceled, supporters of President Donald Trump and other politically conservative activists complained their free speech rights were blocked by liberal politicians who they say incited left-wing extremists.