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New U.S. sanctions will follow the publication of a list of Russian billionaires and top Russian officials, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday. Mnuchin said the "oligarchs list" wasn't delayed by President Donald Trump's administration, after it was published late Monday, just as a congressionally mandated deadline was set to expire.
U.S. President Donald Trump's decision not to impose sanctions on Russia for now, under a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress, represents a missed opportunity to deter the Kremlin's aggressive behavior, former U.S. officials and Russia specialists said on Tuesday. The Trump administration late on Monday said it would not immediately impose sanctions under the law, designed to punish Moscow for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Republicans and Democrats are at odds over the Trump administration's decision Monday to hold off on new sanctions that target Russia's intelligence and defense sectors. Lawmakers included the Russia sanctions in a bill signed reluctantly by President Donald Trump in August.
President Donald Trump has decided to extend sanctions relief for Iran, leaving the 2015 nuclear accord intact and giving the White House and Congress more time to forge legislation imposing new restrictions on the Islamic Republic, according to a person familiar with the matter. Trump's decision, which wasn't set until late in the day Thursday, follows the advice of his entire national security team, including National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
If Democrats win at least one branch of Congress, there will be an investigative feast - with rich targets - of the ethically challenged administration of President Donald Trump, plus a check on presidential actions. If Republicans retain full control, expect renewed attacks on Obamacare, efforts to cut Medicare and Social Security, and one or two more right-wing Supreme Court justices.
"The Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence," he wrote on Twitter on Saturday. His tweet may have been in reaction to the new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , which claims that some of the president's advisers have privately belittled his sanity and intelligence.
Senator Bob Corker on Friday applauded the Trump administration for suspending security assistance to Pakistan, citing Islamabad's continued harboring of the Haqqani network that threatens American forces and U.S. objectives in Afghanistan.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch's announcement Tuesday that he would not seek an eighth term cleared the way for an all-but-certain run by the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, who now lives in Utah and is enormously popular among voters there. But that popularity doesn't necessarily extend to Trump's White House, where establishment Republicans such as Romney are often viewed with deep skepticism.
WASHINGTON There is no shortage of hyperbole in the yearend assessments of Donald Trump's presidency. Yet, hyperbole positive or negative is superfluous.
As they scrambled to finish their sweeping tax bill in late October, House lawmakers arrived at a surprising decision: They wouldn't cut the income tax rate for the wealthy. That choice broke with conservative economic principles, which call for lower rates for high earners to spur investment and boost the economy.
Former chair of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean said the GOP would be "nailed with corruption" as a result of the recently passed tax bill pointing out that more than a dozen Republican lawmakers stand to personally benefit from the new legislation. "The Republican Party is going to get nailed with corruption because of the tax bill," Dean said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Thursday.
Democrats eager to take control of the Senate next year are turning to Tennessee, where a popular Democratic ex-governor is running for the seat being vacated by the retirement of Republican Sen. Bob Corker. Neither of Tennessee's top GOP candidates, Rep. Marsha Blackburn and former Rep. Stephen Fincher, has the kind of personal baggage that Senate candidate Roy Moore had in Alabama while denying sexual misconduct accusations.
Republican Bob Corker's war of words with President Donald Trump and his surprise decision to retire from the Senate after two terms is the top Tennessee news story of 2017, according to an annual Associated Press survey of reporters, editors and broadcasters. Corker's retirement set off a scramble among potential candidates to succeed him.
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What a dumpster fire of a year, especially for those who reside and operate in the world of politics and policy. Who will mourn the passing of 2017? Not, presumably, President Donald Trump.
Trump praises 'Fox & Friends' for being named 'most influential' because he watches it - on Thursday praised "Fox & Friends" after a media website named it the "most influential" because he watches it. - "Was @foxandfriends just named the most influential show in news?" Trump tweeted.
Warner: Firing Mueller would be 'gross abuse of power' - Warner warns of threats against Mueller - Washington Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that the firing of Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller would be a Ivanka Trump: Corker had 'real integrity' during tax negotiations - , first daughter and senior adviser to President Trump - for his work on the GOP tax bill, saying the Tennessee lawmaker "had real integrity." - "I spent a lot of time with Senator Corker as well.