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Already there are tensions between Trump, who's been shaky on the specifics of the 2010 health-care law and says he wants to keep the popular parts, and congressional leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and conservative think tanks who ideologically, almost theologically, oppose anything associated with the Affordable Care Act. They're going to get squeezed in a political vise.
Before taking office, Trump signals campaign promises are negotiable U.S. presidential candidates frequently make campaign promises they can't deliver once in power. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: http://usat.ly/2g2JP36 Trump made a lot of big promises on the campaign trail, as President-elect many of those declarations are starting to look less and less possible.
After they install a ninth Supreme Court justice, the GOP will control all three branches of government. So it stands to reason that whoever plays a pivotal role in blocking President Donald Trump would be Republican too.
Sen. Bob Corker, who is being considered by Donald Trump 's transition team for the secretary of state post, met privately with Vice President-elect Pence Thursday morning. Corker confirmed the meeting to the Washington Examiner but would not discuss any details of the conversation, including whether the meeting centered around his candidacy to become President-elect Trump's top foreign diplomat.
House Speaker Paul Ryan took center stage at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night and spoke of unity, for the GOP and the country. "Let the other party go on and on with its constant dividing up of people," said Ryan , further dividing up people.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called on President-elect Donald Trump follow through on a raft of pledges-including heavy federal spending on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and infrastructure-that he made as candidate, in the face of the Republican Congress's budget-slashing ambitions. Trump split with decades of fiscally conservative GOP dogma during his erratic run at the presidency by promising to leave entitlement outlays untouched and to sink billions into the country's bridges, roads and water systems.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump meets with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 10, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Whatever happened to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?" Despite support for Medicare - the nation's health-care safety net for its senior population - many tea-leaf readers are predicting that the Yes, he is just the Speaker of the House and Donald Trump is the President-elect.
Senate Democrats are turning to Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Brooklyn-bred partisan infighter with a pragmatic streak, to steer them into the Donald Trump era. Republicans are sticking with the genteel Kentuckian, Sen. Mitch McConnell, who lacks Schumer's instinct for soundbites but has been a brutally effective legislative tactician.
Stephen Bannon, a leading force of the far-right, a flame-throwing media mogul and professional provocateur, a man who made a career out of roiling the establishment from the outside, just landed squarely on the inside.
"What people don't realize is, because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke." - House Speaker Paul D. Ryan , interview with Fox News Channel, Nov. 10 Our eyebrows went up when we saw this quote from Ryan.
Steve Bannon, campaign CEO for President-elect Donald Trump, leaves Trump Tower, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in New York. ORG XMIT: MIN2016111318280542 - Donald Trump's tough-talking plan to rein in illegal immigration showed signs Sunday of cracking, with the president-elect backing off his vow to build a solid wall along the southern U.S. border and House Speaker Paul Ryan rejecting any "deportation force" targeting people in the country illegally.
President-elect Donald Trump chooses Republican National Committee Chairman and low-key Washington insider Reince Priebus to be his top aide. Gavino Garay reports.
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday picked Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, the favorite of the party's establishment and a low-key Washington insider, to serve in the influential position of White House chief of staff. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, delivers a speech as Republican president-elect Donald Trump looks on during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City.
Donald Trump won fair and square and, as Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind and a chance to lead. It is therefore incumbent upon conservatives who have been highly critical of Trump to think through how to make a success of the coming years of Republican rule.
President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP. In bringing Priebus and Bannon into the White House, Trump is making overtures to both traditional Republican circles and the party's anti-establishment wing, which helped fuel the businessman's political rise.
Donald Trump's plan for sweeping tax cuts and deregulation will spur a US economic boom that could "last for generations" if the president-elect resists a lurch towards protectionism, according to an architect of "Reaganomics". Arthur Laffer, who advised Republican president Ronald Reagan in the 1980's and UK Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, said lower, broader-based taxes, together with "minimal regulation" and free trade would "recreate the pre-conditions" for "enormous economic growth" in the world's largest economy.
In this Nov. 10, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., pose for photographers after a meeting in the Speaker's office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Washington's new power trio consists of a bombastic billionaire, a telegenic policy wonk, and a taciturn political tactician.