GOP shoves tax overhaul ahead
By ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON - Republicans held together and shoved their signature tax overhaul a crucial step ahead Tuesday as wavering GOP senators showed a growing openness.
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GOP shoves tax overhaul ahead; shutdown still a threat
Republicans held together and shoved their signature tax overhaul a crucial step ahead Tuesday as wavering GOP senators showed a growing openness. But its fate remained uncertain, and a planned White House summit aimed at averting a government shutdown was derailed when President Donald Trump savaged top Democrats and declared on Twitter, "I don't see a deal!" "It's time to stop tweeting and start leading," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer retorted after he and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi rebuffed the budget meeting with Trump and top Republicans.
Tax bill advances, final Senate vote uncertain
A key Senate committee advanced a sweeping tax package to the full Senate on Tuesday, handing Republican leaders a victory as they try to pass the nation's first tax overhaul in 31 years. The Senate Budget Committee voted 12-11 to advance the bill as two committee Republicans who had said they were considering voting against the measure - Bob Corker of Tennessee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin - backed the legislation.
Feds giving Maine nutrition center $400K to grow local food
Maine's U.S. senators say the federal government is awarding $400,000 to a Lewiston nutrition center to develop local food systems. Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King say the grant is going to St. Mary's Regional Nutrition Center.
Trump to meet with Senate Republicans ahead of crucial tax votes
President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans on Tuesday ahead of crucial votes in the GOP effort to pass a massive tax cut package, as conservatives move even closer to notching a major legislative victory. The meeting will come during a weekly lunch Republicans hold as they go over their agenda.
No victory dance yet for Trump on tax bill
When the GOP House voted to repeal Obamacare in May, President Donald Trump invited supporters to the Rose Garden to celebrate with him and to pat themselves on the back for making history in record time. Thursday, when Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act there was no talk of orchestrating a public victory lap.
Fire crews work abandoned apartment building fire
Officials say around 4:20 this morning, a fire sparked in a building in the area of 8th and Adams. Ultimately, Trump doesn't know who to believe following decades-old allegations made one month before the Dec. 12 election, according to his aides.
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Two of President Donald Trump's leading economic advisers sent mixed signals Sunday on the fate of a health care provision in the Senate version of a $1.5 trillion measure to overhaul business and personal income taxes that is expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving. The provision to repeal a requirement that everyone in the U.S. have insurance has emerged as a major sticking point for Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has said that issue should be dealt with separately from the push by Trump and fellow Republicans to overhaul the tax code.
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Mixed signals sent on fate of tax bill’s health provision
Two of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers sent mixed signals Sunday on the fate of a health care provision in the Senate version of a $1.5 trillion measure to overhaul business and personal income taxes that is expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving. The provision to repeal a requirement that everyone in the U.S. have insurance has emerged as a major sticking point for Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has said that issue should be dealt with separately from the push by Trump and fellow Republicans to overhaul the tax code.
Treasury chief cites good talks on taxes with GOP senators
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he's been having "very good discussions" with Republican senators who oppose or have concerns about tax-cut legislation expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving. Mnuchin tells "Fox News Sunday" that he wants to make sure the lawmakers' views are incorporated before the Senate vote.
Tax bill thrown into uncertainty as first GOP senator comes out against it
Uncertainty gripped the Senate on Wednesday over efforts to pass a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax cut after a Wisconsin Republican became the first senator in his party to declare that he could not vote for the tax bill as written, and other senators expressed serious misgivings over the cost and effect on the middle class. The House is set Thursday to pass its own version of the tax bill, which would cut taxes by more than $1.4 trillion over 10 years and broadly rewrite the business tax code.
The GOP Has Its First Casualty In Tax Reform Push
Well, the smooth road to tax reform just it a bump with Sen. Ron Johnson signaling that he will be a "no" vote on the legislation. The Wisconsin Republican is the first to definitively say he will be against the bill, as he feels it gives too much to corporations at the expense of other businesses.
No, The Electoral College Isn’t Rigged to Favor Rural Trumpism
It's time to shed the mythical claim that electoral features of the United States Constitution somehow infuse our national political system with a rural Republicanism, conservatism, or Trumpism. This charge appears prominently in Nancy MacLean's controversial book Democracy in Chains , which cites the U.S. Senate's equal representation clause as well as the Electoral College as evidence of the Constitution's anti-democratic features.
Republican senators are in a full-blown panic about what…
Roy Moore has created a problem for Republicans, now unsure of whether he would be fit to serve in the Senate. And if he wins the Alabama special election next month, whether it would be necessary to expel him using a process not seen for more than a century.
Senators want to improve access to Senior Food Box Program
Senators from Maine and Pennsylvania say they want to streamline the application process for a federal program that provides nutritious food to senior citizens. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania call their effort the Nourishing Our Golden Years Act.
Ivanka Wows In Maine Rocking Knee-High Black Boots [PHOTOS]
AUGUST 02: Assistant to the President and Donlad Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump hosts a listening session with military spouses in the Rooselvelt Room at the White House August 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. The military spouses said the choose professions that they can practice no matter where their partners are stationed but that licencing and certification continues to be a challenge when moving to a new post.
Historian David McCullough’s perspective on Donald Trump
The renowned historian's latest book, "The American Spirit," a collection of speeches he has delivered over the past three decades, begins with his 1989 address to a joint session of Congress and ends with 2016 remarks in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, both of which included calls for lawmakers to live up to the history of the building. This week, his publisher, Simon & Schuster, is delivering the book to every member of the House and Senate with an inscription letting them know they "can enact change and help close the gap to common ground."
Senate confirms Trump EPA nominee with oil industry ties
His nomination was approved on a vote of 49 to 47 Thursday to serve as assistant administrator for air and radiation. Wehrum served at EPA during under President George W. Bush.
Bipartisan lawmakers join problem solving group in a divided Congress
Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins and West Virginia's Democratic Senator Joe Manchin joining the group No Labels. A group that describes themselves as a movement of Democrats, Republicans and Independents working to solve problems in Congress.