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Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda WASHINGTON - Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged. - Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers Facing Republican attacks, FBI's deputy director plans to retire early next year Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.
Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda WASHINGTON - Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged. - Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers Facing Republican attacks, FBI's deputy director plans to retire early next year Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.
As reported at The Hill , FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is planning to retire in the coming months amid accusations from Republicans of partisanship and bias within the law enforcement agency. WHAT? This corrupt SOB needs to be fired prior to being fully eligible for any pension.
President Trump used Twitter Saturday to suggest that Andrew McCabe, the FBI's increasingly embattled deputy director, was holding onto his position in a race against time to claim full pension benefits. McCabe's retirement has been rumored in Washington, D.C., circles for some time, but the president seemed to be responding to a report published Saturday afternoon by the Washington Post that McCabe plans to retire after he becomes eligible to receive full pension benefits in March 2018.
The FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe plans to retire next year, after months of criticism from Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The newspaper said McCabe plans to retire in a few months after he becomes eligible for his full pension, citing "people familiar with the matter."
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is planning to retire in early 2018 when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to a new report. McCabe, 49, has faced renewed criticism from Republican critics in recent weeks following accusations of bias in the FBI and the belief that the bureau let Secretary of State Hillary Clinton off easily during its investigation into her private email server.
The settlement announced on Friday by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was the latest by RBS aimed at resolving claims stemming from its sale of mortgage-backed securities, which were at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. Becerra's office said those securities were typically backed by thousands of mortgage loans of varying quality in which the buyer relied on the assurance that those mortgages were carefully screened and were not overly risky.
The pension crisis has been news for some time now, but it's finally gotten so bad that U.S. politicians are now proposing legislation to solve the problems facing private pensions. But the "solution" they're offering won't fix the problem.
More than 62 million Americans - about a third of the nation's adult population - have put money into 401 retirement plans. Now Republicans in Congress are seriously debating changing the program, dramatically reducing the amount of money Americans can contribute tax-free to their 401 account from $18,000 a year now to just $2,400 a year.
The San Diego County pension system does not want to pursue a whistleblower complaint against its former portfolio strategist and other advisers and instead is asking a judge to dismiss a False Claims Act lawsuit filed earlier this year. In a 20-page pleading filed in Superior Court this week, lawyers for the San Diego County Employees Retirement Association urged the judge to close the case filed in February by Jeff Baker, a former staff investment officer for the pension system who was fired in 2011.
Plainly we don't want cities to sell them to private citizens to put up in front yards . We don't want to destroy statues due to the effort put in by the artists and, in the case of equestrian statutes, the fact that the horses depicted were not guilty of secessionist or pro-slavery sympathies.
Phil Murphy's proposed tax increases would raise roughly $1.3 billion a year, his spokesman told Observer on Thursday, releasing for the first time a cost estimate of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee's plans to pay for a multitude of campaign promises. A separate $80 million to $100 million would be generated through savings from reining in out-of-network health care costs for public workers covered by state plans, the spokesman said, for a total annual gain of roughly $1.4 billion in revenue.
In 2015, Social Security lifted an estimated 12.6 million women out of poverty, including 9 million women aged 65 and over. Today is Social Security's 82nd birthday.
Every family who lives in state Sen. Bob Duff's district and every business operating in Fairfield County needs to be aware of what their elected state senator just did to threaten their livelihoods last week. The labor contract agreement that just passed and will now become law is another in a long line of sweetheart deals with unions negotiated by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy that has prolonged the fiscal crisis and created the poor economic climate our families and businesses suffer in every day.
A month after lawmakers adjourned, the halls of the Capitol are quiet. But for one of the Oregon Legislature's most powerful members, a crucial question remains unanswered: Will Senate President Peter Courtney retire? The answer will determine the tone of future legislative sessions, the power split between Oregon's liberal and moderate Democrats, the level of bipartisanship in the Capitol and whether lawmakers take action on issues ranging from climate change to corporate taxes.
Michigan should require municipalities to prefund new hires' retiree medical costs and help local governments facing substantially underfunded pension and retiree health obligations, a task force created by Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday after failing to agree on potential benefit cuts and other issues. The group of 20 voting members was formed in February to study unfunded liabilities at the local level - $10.1 billion for retiree health care in roughly 340 municipalities and $7.5 billion for pensions in nearly 600 communities.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that church-affiliated hospital systems do not have to comply with a federal law governing employee pensions, overturning lower court decisions that could have cost the hospitals billions of dollars. The court ruled 8-0 that church-affiliated organizations are exempt from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a 1974 law that forces private employers to follow rules aimed at protecting pension plan participants.
President Donald Trump is proposing a $4.1 trillion federal budget that slashes safety net programs for the poor, targeting food stamps and Medicaid. The cuts are part of a budget blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. It protects retirement programs for the elderly and provides billions of dollars more for the military.
President Donald Trump's budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill. Trump's blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill. Trump's blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday.