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President Donald Trump is taking a swipe at quarterback Colin Kaepernick as he holds a campaign-style rally in Louisville, Kentucky. Trump tells the crowd he read an article reporting that NFL owners don't want to pick Kaepernick up "because they don't want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump."
In this April 1, 2011 file photo, Keith Hall testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Congressional Budget Office is a scorekeeper suddenly in the spotlight.
In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump unveils a proposed budget on March 16 that will sharply test RepublicansA' ability to keep longstanding promises to beef up the military by making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic programs.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said critics of the new GOP health care bill should not be too "worried about getting people coverage." Rather, the Republican bill and President Trump are focued on getting people affordable health care, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Trump's first test takes him out of his comfort zone and into the front lines of the messy, complicated legislative process. While the White House is already trying to distance Trump from the House Republican bill to "fix" Obamacare , they're quietly working behind the scenes to help him deliver on the GOP 's main campaign promise from the past three election cycles.
After laying a goose egg with conservatives on the ObamaCare replacement bill, House Republican leadership has turned to someone who knows something about dealmaking to salvage the American Health Care Act. Donald Trump sent his aides to Capitol Hill to urge passage of the AHCA, and also to send another message - that the White House is open to changes .
After years of haranguing Democrats for Obamacare's shortcomings and running dress rehearsals to repeal it, Republicans this week may finally lay down a specific and actionable plan to scrap the Affordable Care Act and face the praise as well as the consequences. "We're working through the final details of this," Rep. Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means Chairman told Fox News Saturday.
Republican U.S. lawmakers expect to unveil this week the text of long-awaited legislation to repeal and replace the Obamacare healthcare law, one of President Donald Trump's top legislative priorities, a senior Republican congressional aide said on Sunday. Since taking office in January, Trump has pressed his fellow Republicans who control Congress to act quickly to dismantle former Democratic President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and pass a plan to replace it, but lawmakers in the party have differed on the specifics.
President Donald Trump is set to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night -- where he's expected to make the case for a budget that boosts defense spending and slashes funding for agencies. The speech -- a "State of the Union" address in all but the name -- will be Trump's biggest national audience since his swearing-in ceremony, a chance to try to bring the nation together and sell his agenda on Capitol Hill.
President Donald Trump is proposing a huge $54 billion surge in U.S. military spending for new aircraft, ships and fighters in his first federal budget while slashing big chunks from domestic programs and foreign aid to make the government "do more with less." The Trump blueprint, due in more detail next month, would fulfill the Republican president's campaign pledge to boost Pentagon spending while targeting the budgets of other federal agencies.
Federal Treasury Board President Scott Brison met with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's Mick Mulvaney this week. Brison said another meeting is already planned for an undetermined date.
Now that he has returned to the Senate for another six years, Sen. John McCain is back to being a president's biggest headache on Capitol Hill. The Arizona Republican bashed President Donald Trump's White House as an "administration in disarray" while attending a security conference in Munich.
Sen. John McCain has long had a reputation as a political maverick. But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of long-standing Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief.
A former Donald Trump associate and campaign official is blaming the bumpy start of the billionaire's presidency on mixed loyalties in the White House. A former Donald Trump associate and campaign official is blaming the bumpy start of the billionaire's presidency on mixed loyalties in the White House.
Vice President Mike Pence swears in Mick Mulvaney as Director of Office of Management and Budget in the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, as Pamela West Mulvaney holds the Bible. Vice President Mike Pence swears in Mick Mulvaney as Director of Office of Management and Budget in the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, as Pamela West Mulvaney holds the Bible.
Former South Carolina GOP Chair Chad Connelly officially entered the race to replace Republican Rep. Mick Mulvaney , President Trump 's budget director nominee, The Post & Courier of Charleston reports. A special primary will take place 11 weeks after Mulvaney vacates the seat.
Once more, the Congressional Budget Office has warned that federal deficits will continue to rise until current laws are changed. But so far, President Donald Trump shows no signs of making the deficit a priority or of undertaking the hard bipartisan work that will be required to make the necessary changes.
In an announcement made Wednesday, small business owner Tom Mullikin announced his candidacy for South Carolina's 5th congressional district. The seat is currently held by Congressman Mick Mulvaney, who is expected to be confirmed as the White House budget director.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York says he will vote against eight of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees. Schumer said he'll oppose education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos , secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions, health and human services nominee Tom Price, treasury secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin , labor secretary nominee Andy Puzder, Environmental Protection Agency nominee Scott Pruitt and budget director nominee Mick Mulvaney.