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US President Donald Trump, alongside Vice President Mike Pence , meets with Congressional leadership including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , Republican of Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , Democrat of New York, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan , Republican of Wisconsin, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi , Democrat of California, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis , in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, December 7, 2017.
The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Now that Donald Trump has signaled that he believes Roy Moore should be the new face of the Republican Party on Capitol Hill, he has placed every one of his fellow Republican leaders in a tough position.
President Donald Trump will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Wednesday and direct the State Department to begin the process to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, senior administration officials said. US President Donald Trump's pledge to declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has caused controversy across the world.
WASHINGTON, DC - A new report says Vice President Mike Pence considered a push to top the Republican ticket after the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tapes came out. "The people I talk to say he is a lot more ambitious and calculating then he lets on in public," said McKay Coppins, the writer of the article.
New revelations about Michael Flynn's lies to the FBI are laying bare Vice President Mike Pence's in-the-dark strategy when it comes to Russia's election meddling, raising new questions about whether he could have been left in the dark as he has argued for nearly a year. Advisers have long insisted that Pence was unaware Flynn spoke to then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak about a new set of US sanctions on the day they were announced last December.
The European Union has launched a review into whether tax-cut legislation passed by the U.S. Senate over the weekend runs afoul of international trade and tax laws. Germany and France initiated the investigation, which tasks the European Commission and the EU's legal service to check if the proposed U.S. policy shift violates international laws, according to acting German Finance Minister Peter Altmaier.
While gift-giving this Christmas may be a bit more modest on the east side of the tracks, for some unknown reason, a helpful holiday guide arrived in my humble mailbox the other day that should make the obligatory present exchange bearable. It's titled "uncommongoods - your new favorite things."
A bipartisan bill aimed at protecting reporters from revealing confidential sources has its roots in a similar bill co-sponsored by then Congressman Mike Pence 10 years ago, the Washington Examiner reports. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, former head of the Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, introduced a similar bill and hope that Pence's influence will stem any urge that President Donald Trump's administration might have to prosecute reporters.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, makes her way through a crush of reporters after Republican senators met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, on the GOP effort to overhaul the tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 1, 2017. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said on Sunday that it was wrong for the Trump transition team to reach out to Russia over Obama-era sanctions imposed in response to its interference in the U.S. presidential election but that this doesn't prove collusion.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., confer Friday on Capitol Hill before the late-night tax vote. Schumer noted that the effect of some last-minute revisions had yet to be analyzed by the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Republicans muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate early Saturday, taking a big step toward giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative triumph after months of false starts and frustration on other fronts.
The centipede has dropped its heaviest shoe yet. Michael Flynn's plea deal makes explicit that he is cooperating with the special counsel in the Russia investigation.
Outside his first event, several hundred protesters stood behind barricades along 42nd Street. His motorcade ducked into a side street so he saw some of the action but not most of it.
As Republicans negotiated revisions to the GOP tax plan Friday to win their votes, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona took another approach. Flake won a commitment from Republican leaders - and the White House - to work on a permanent fix that would allow young immigrants known as Dreamers to stay in the U.S. as President Trump prepares to end the DACA program next year.
Vice President Mike Pence announcing the final vote, which was mostly along party lines, 51 to 49, with only one Republican voting against the bill, Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee. And while Republicans have touted it as a victory for the middle class, several independent analyses found it's skewed toward corporations and the wealthy, according to the Tax Policy Center.
The Senate narrowly passed Republicans' tax reform legislation early Saturday morning with no Democratic support, following a marathon voting session overnight. The bill , approved just before 2 a.m. in a 51-49 vote, next heads to conference, where House and Senate negotiators will work out the differences in their bills.
Republicans pushed a nearly $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate early Saturday after a burst of eleventh-hour horse trading, as a party starved all year for a major legislative triumph took a giant step toward giving President Donald Trump one of his top priorities by Christmas. "Big bills are rarely popular.
The Senate early Saturday narrowly voted to pass an expansive $1.2 trillion tax reform bill.The 51-49 vote on the nearly 500-page bill took place shortly before 2 a.m. after Democrats attempted a last-ditch amendment to stall the vote until Monday in order to read the bill.Republican members broke out in enthusiastic applause as Vice President Mike Pence pounded the gavel and announce the bill's passage at 1:51 a.m.Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee was the lone Republican to cross party lines, joining all 48 Democrats in voting against it.Senate Democrats decried that the vote was even taking place in the middle
The Senate passed its tax reform bill in the early hour of Saturday morning, following a day full of Republican leaders making changes to bring enough members on board and a long night full of heated rhetoric on both sides of the aisle. The vote was 51-49, mostly along party lines.
ABC News reported today that former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn is prepared to testify that President Donald Trump directed him to make contact with Russians when he was a presidential candidate. Reuters could not immediately verify the report, which cited a Flynn confidant.