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A helicopter carries an evacuee during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Tuesday in Houston. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption The cleanup bill will likely be hefty - possibly topping $100 billion - and the vast majority of those efforts will be funded by the federal government.
President Trump's forthcoming decision on the fate of so-called Dreamers - unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the U.S. before adulthood - could have far-reaching consequences not only for his quest for immigration reform and an impenetrable border wall. As the Washington Examiner reported last week, Trump is under mounting pressure to terminate or phase out the Obama-era Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program that protects nearly 800,000 undocumented youth before a coalition of conservative state attorneys general sue his administration for what they see as unlawful amnesty.
Hurricane Harvey's still-rising flood waters have altered the landscape well beyond Texas: They have put aside, at least for now, vast differences within the Republican Party. Instead of the discord and infighting that's marked the first seven months of the Trump administration, Republican leaders on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are vowing to swiftly approve recovery funds for the areas devastated by the storm.
President Donald Trump, left, sits with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington during a "Friends of Ireland" luncheon, March 16, 2017. President Donald Trump should not have pardoned a former Arizona sheriff who was convicted of criminal contempt in a case of racial profiling, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, said on Saturday.
President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio shows a lack of regard for an independent judiciary, say critics who note Trump's past criticism of federal judges, including the chief justice of the United States.
In this Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. President Donald Trump has pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio following his conviction for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration case.
Eric Hoffer , a San Francisco longshoreman and philosopher who died in 1983, the year President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom , could have been analyzing contemporary American politics when he wrote, some 66 years ago, that "mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil." Campaigns are easy.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will speak at the Kentucky Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday evening, presenting an opportunity for him to weigh in on drama unfolding in Washington. While there is ample controversy to discuss - from Trump's pardoning Friday of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to his directive banning transgender military recruits, to his continued attacks on members of McConnell's Senate majority, including the majority leader himself - the Kentucky Republican has been sticking to the GOP agenda in remarks in his home state during the August congressional recess.
The evidence of that is found in Treasury bills, an often-overlooked but highly sensitive market that reflects the premium investors want for lending to the US government. The Treasury Department auctions bills that mature within a year to borrow from the public.
Fanning the flames of GOP discord, President Donald Trump is accusing Republican congressional leaders of botching efforts to avoid an unprecedented default on the national debt. "Could have been so easy-now a mess!" Trump tweeted.
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With the federal government getting closer to running out of cash to cover all bills on time, companies that evaluate bonds are having to consider how to rate America's creditworthiness. And their job didn't get any easier on Thursday when President Trump continued his attacks on congressional leaders over their failure to raise the federal debt ceiling.
After Steve Bannon departed the White House on August 14, he contacted The Weekly Standard to make a bold proclamation. "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," the administration's now-former chief strategist said.
The pledge by Taiwan's Foxconn to build a US$10 billion factory in southern Wisconsin has ignited cross-border competition with Illinois over which state's residents will get the jobs created by the project. FILE PHOTO: Employees work inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province, China, May 26, 2010.
The conflict between President Donald Trump and Congress escalated a day after he threatened to shut down the federal government over funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall and targeted opponents in Congress, aggravating tensions as a difficult legislative agenda looms. Trump is now at odds not only with Democrats, who cemented their objections to funding the wall Wednesday, but also with Republicans, who must reconcile his brash rhetoric with the governing realities of Congress.
James Hodgkinson of Belleville protests outside of the United States Post Office in Downtown Belleville Tuesday. Hodgkinson is part of the "99%" team drawing attention to the disproportionate amount of money and political power the top 1% of Americans have acquired.
A conference call between House Majority Whip Steve Scalise -- recovering from a June shooting -- and House Republicans on Monday was "very emotional," House Speaker Paul Ryan says. "It was really, very emotional for us," Ryan said at a CNN town hall in Racine, Wisconsin, on Monday night.
President Donald Trump checks hands with House Speaker Paul Ryan before a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on June 6, 2017 in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump checks hands with House Speaker Paul Ryan before a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on June 6, 2017 in Washington, D.C. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Monday that he was disappointed with President Donald Trump's failure to denounce white supremacists in the wake of violence at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, but Ryan said he would not endorse an effort to formally censure Trump for his response. "I do believe he messed up in his comments on Tuesday," Ryan said during a town hall on CNN.
The nation's leaders "have an obligation" to steer the country past "the passions of the moment," House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday in remarks that didn't explicitly criticize President Donald Trump's handling of this month's deadly clash in Charlottesville, Virginia. The written statement by Ryan, R-Wis., came six days after Trump used a news conference to say "both sides" were to blame for the Charlottesville violence, in which neo-Nazis and other right-wing groups clashed with counter-protesters.