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A Florida congresswoman on Sunday asked White House chief of staff John Kelly to apologize for making false claims about her while defending President Donald Trump's handling of condolences to a military family. Her comments and the president's insulting tweets escalated a political fight surrounding the deaths of four service members in the African nation of Niger.
President Donald Trump warned House Republicans on Sunday that 2018 would be a political failure for the GOP and disappointment for the nation if they fail on tax overhaul. A GOP aide familiar with the conversation said Trump told the lawmakers again and again that the party would have a steep price to pay in next year's midterm elections if they failed to pass his plan.
Former President Jimmy Carter said the media was "harder" on President Donald Trump than previous presidents, The New York Times reported Saturday. "I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president, certainly that I've known about," Carter said.
A Georgia state representative - who is also an anesthesiologist and the wife of the former federal Health and Human Services secretary - asked at a public hearing Tuesday about the legality of quarantining HIV patients to stop the spread of the virus that causes AIDS. "What are we legally able to do?" Dr. Betty Price, a Republican, asked Dr. Pascale Wortley, director of the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Surveillance Section at the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Youngstown State University is considering increasing tuition and fees for next year's freshman class, despite a two-year tuition freeze approved by lawmakers in the state's current budget. The university is relying on a 2013 law to implement a 6 percent increase for students who enroll next fall; the university would then freeze that rate, guaranteeing the class would pay the same price through their four years of school.
Anti-tax "zombies" in Oklahoma were stopped outside the entrance to the state Capitol on Saturday in a staged event by groups supporting tax increases to prevent cuts to health, education and other services. The event by Together Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Policy Institute was filmed for videos to be posted on Facebook and Twitter and comes as state lawmakers are in special session to address a $215 million budget hole.
The gospel singing farmer from the rural western Tennessee community of Frog Jump announced his bid in an interview with The Tennessean . The 44-year-old Fincher enters the 2018 Republican primary after finishing a 10-day statewide tour to discuss the race.
Speaking with MSNBC host Joy Reid, Rep. Frederica Wilson fired back at President Donald Trump's chief of staff, saying the former general is nothing more than a "puppet" for his boss now. Addressing Gen.
In the two months since Steve Bannon was shunted from the White House and returned to the helm of Breitbart News, the former chief strategist has declared "a season of war" on establishment Republicans and even worked to help a Senate candidate opposed by US President Donald Trump. Yet Bannon and Trump are anything but estranged.
Trump sees 'great spirit' for tax reform plan, targets passage by end of the year President wants tax package by the end of the year, or he'll be disappointed. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://usat.ly/2yAaQ9p President Trump took his tax pitch to a conservative think tank on Tuesday, arguing that his plan would be a boon to the economy, boosting growth and jobs.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hit back at Steve Bannon and his anti-establishment faction on Sunday, saying the movement to run maverick congressional candidates in Republican primaries next cycle is being spearheaded by "specialists in nominating people who lose" elections. "Well let me just say with regard to the element that you're referring to here, they've been out there for a number of years," Mr. McConnell said on "Fox News Sunday."
The fight over President Donald Trump's displays of compassion for America's war dead sped ahead Friday, a day after White House chief of staff John Kelly made an emotional call for an end to politicizing the "sacred" matter of how a nation consoles the families of slain soldiers. Video emerged that undercut part of Kelly's rebuke of a Florida congresswoman he said had politicized Trump's condolence call to the pregnant widow of a Green Beret killed in Niger.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that he planned to release the tens of thousands of never-before-seen documents left in the files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination held by the National Archives and Records Administration. "Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened," Trump tweeted early Saturday.
Trying to quell accusations that he is ousting activists from the party's left flank, Democratic Chairman Tom Perez told fellow Democrats on Saturday that unity is crucial in the fight against President Donald Trump, whom he lambasted as an "existential threat" to the nation. "We have the most dangerous president in American history and one of the most reactionary Congresses in American history," Perez said as he addressed the first Democratic National Committee gathering since his February election.
Mourners remembered not only a U.S. soldier whose combat death in Africa led to a political fight between President Donald Trump and a Florida congresswoman but his three comrades who died with him. Some of the 1,200 mourners exiting the church after Saturday's service said the portrait of Sgt.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton told California Republicans they should expect better days ahead, in part, because of liberal overreach by California Democrats on taxes, immigration and other issues affecting the daily lives of working-class Americans. Cotton invoked the memory of former president and California governor Ronald Reagan as a guiding light, and ridiculed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a harbinger of doom.
President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that he planned to release the tens of thousands of never-before-seen documents left in the files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination held by the National Archives and Records Administration. "Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened," Trump tweeted early Saturday.
Divided Republicans in Congress are tackling an ambitious overhaul of the nation's tax system that would deeply cut levies for corporations and double the standard deduction used by most average Americans. Despite controlling Congress and the White House, Republicans failed to carry out their years-long promise to dismantle and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law.
U.S. House Rep. David Rouzer, R-N.C., discusses tax reform and other legislative goals while making a district visit to Wayne County during the legislative recess. The Senate pushed through a $4 trillion budget proposal Friday, which, with the House likely to approve the measure, paves the way for an expansive tax reform.
Mourners remembered not only a U.S. soldier whose combat death in Africa led to a political fight between President Donald Trump and a Florida congresswoman but his three comrades who died with him.