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Arkansas lawmakers approved Gov. Asa Hutchinson's $50 million low-income tax cut plan on Monday, setting the stage for a debate over deeper tax reductions the Republican has vowed to champion in two years. The proposal to cut taxes for more than 650,000 residents making less than $21,000 cleared the House on a 90-2 vote.
US President Donald Trump spent his first full day in office berating the American media over their coverage of his inauguration, using a bridge-building visit to CIA headquarters on Saturday to air grievances about "dishonest'' journalists and wildly overstating the size of the crowd that gathered on the National Mall as he took the oath of office. Trump said throngs "we... US President Donald Trump spent his first full day in office berating the American media over their coverage of his inauguration, using a bridge-building visit to CIA headquarters on Saturday to air grievances about "dishonest'' journalists and wildly overstating the size of the crowd that gathered on the National Mall as he took the oath of office.
President Donald Trump on Sunday offered a scattershot response to the sweeping post-inauguration protests against his new administration, sarcastically undermining the public opposition and then defending demonstrators' rights a short time later. "Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly," tweeted Trump, at 7:51 a.m. "Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy.
Two tweets marked his first response to the more than a million people who rallied at women's marches in Washington and cities across the world. WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump on Sunday offered a scattershot response to the sweeping post-inauguration protests against his new administration, sarcastically undermining the public opposition and then defending demonstrators' rights a short time later.
The White House says it's at the "very beginning" of discussing plans to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Like many presidential candidates, Trump promised to make the embassy move.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson got a cool reception from fellow Republicans when he proposed a tax cut for low-income residents that was more modest than some legislators had hoped. So, he made them a pledge: Pass it now and he'll push for much deeper cuts in two years.
" If you haven't signed up for health insurance, you may soon be getting a not-too-subtle nudge from the taxman. The IRS is sending personalized letters to millions of taxpayers who might be uninsured, reminding them that they could be on the hook for hundreds of dollars in fines under the federal health care law if they don't sign up soon through HealthCare.gov.
Representative Ron Ryckman is sworn in as Speaker of the House Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, by Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lawton Nuss. Rickman's wife Kim is holding the bible.
The first order of business from the power-hungry Republican members of the US House of Representatives in 2017 turned out to be not their pledge to end Obamacare or to defund Planned Parenthood, but instead their first action taken in the dark of night on January 2 was to gut their own long-standing independent ethics oversight panel! During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump announced that he had a 'secret plan' which would "end the violence in Chicago within 5 days of his taking office".
Monica Crowley, a national security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, was accused by CNN Saturday of plagiarizing passages in her 2012 book. Crowley got her start as a research assistant on foreign policy to former President Richard Nixon , helping the politician - who had already been impeached for his role in the Watergate break-in at the Democratic National Campaign headquarters and the subsequent cover-up - in the final few years of his life by editing his books, arranging his speaking engagements and coordinating his travel.
The question as Kansas kicks off its annual legislative session this week isn't whether lawmakers will raise taxes but rather which taxes - or more precisely, whose? The state faces a projected budget shortfall of more than $900 million for the next 18 months. There's broad consensus among lawmakers that tax increases will play some role in the solution.
Boardman resident and former Campbell mayor George N. Krinos was charged in U.S. Federal Court with engaging in a securities fraud scheme and willfully failing to collect and pay taxes for his employees, according to a U.S. Attorney General's release. Krinos, through various companies known as Krinos Holdings, engaged in a securities fraud scheme in which he used false and deceptive practices with various northeast Ohio residents.
The Trumpsters are coming to town-led by a failed gambling czar, corporate welfare king and major tax escapee-and they are hell bent on unmaking Washington, D.C. With all three branches of government dominated by Republican members of Congress and Republican appointees-due to a mixture of abysmal deficiencies in the Democratic Party and the interloping luck of the atavistic Electoral College-the wrecking crew of Trump's nominees to high cabinet and other positions brings with it a host of politically perilous baggage. First, the Trumpsters have vowed to dismantle various government programs.
President-elect Donald Trump waves to members of the media after a meeting with military leaders at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 21. Disdain for Beltway insiders and suspicion that the rich have the system rigged were at the heart of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign. He correctly perceived how badly Hillary Clinton's conflicts, courting of Wall Street and corruption would turn off voters.
Congressional Republicans are planning a massive overhaul of the nation's tax system next year, a heavy political lift that could ultimately affect families at every income level and businesses of every size. Their goal is to simplify a complicated tax code that rewards wealthy people with smart accountants, and corporations that can easily shift profits - and jobs - overseas.
Congressional Republicans are planning a massive overhaul of the nation's tax system next year, a heavy political lift that could ultimately affect families at every income level and businesses of every size. Their goal is to simplify a complicated tax code that rewards wealthy people with smart accountants, and corporations that can easily shift profits - and jobs - overseas.
The problems will be familiar in the 2017 Oklahoma legislative session: crowded public schools with teachers desperate for a pay raise, overcrowded prisons, a Highway Patrol facing furloughs and dozens of other cash-strapped agencies that have cut services to the bone. But lawmakers who return to the Capitol in February will also be faced with a budget hole of nearly $870 million - about 12 percent of state spending - resulting from slumping energy prices, years of tax cuts and costly tax subsidies for businesses and industries.
Last week, Florida Senator Marco Rubio introduced legislation aimed at raising after-tax pay for low-wage workers in Puerto Rico, while reducing employer costs. Here's how.
You can view the complete video of the event here . We had a tremendous line up: Congressman Jim Jordan , who is a member of both the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee; Edwin Meese III, former United States Attorney General and Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at The Heritage Foundation; Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for the Center for Immigration Studies; Andrew McCarthy, Senior Fellow for the National Review Institute and former chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Ramona Cotca, senior attorney at Judicial Watch.