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HHS Secretary Tom Price's high-priced flights on charter and military aircraft have led him to resign, leaving President Trump with another job opening. President Trump has accepted HHS Secretary Tom Price's resignation, White House says HHS Secretary Tom Price's high-priced flights on charter and military aircraft have led him to resign, leaving President Trump with another job opening.
If anyone's ready to turn the page on September, it's Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell . The last few weeks haven't exactly been kind to the Kentucky senator, who watched his own party set fire to the latest GOP health care repeal, blew millions of dollars on a losing effort in Alabama's Senate runoff, and got blamed for all of it by Donald Trump.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott used slang in an effort to convince "the average American" that the president's plan would allow them to "take home more of their pay by taking less out of their pay." But it was how Scott followed up those words that caused many to react in disbelief.
The frontpage headline story for the Labor Day weekend was "Low Wage Growth Challenges Fed." Despite an alleged 4.4% unemployment rate, which is full employment, there is no real growth in wages.
A Missouri Republican running for Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill's seat is challenging Facebook's response to his campaign's raffle of an AR-15 rifle. Former Libertarian presidential candidate Austin Petersen posted a letter Thursday to the Facebook page promoting his campaign, complaining about the removal of a video and status update about the raffle.
Senate Republicans unveiled a budget plan Friday that lays the groundwork for overhauling the nation's tax system, the top legislative priority for President Donald Trump and the GOP. House and Senate passage of the budget blueprint is required in order to allow Republicans to pass follow-on tax legislation later this year.
The line stretches down the block before the sun rises in Los Angeles for immigrants seeking help to renew their work permits under a 5-year-old program that has shielded them from deportation but is now nearing its end. Ivan Vizueta, a 25-year-old from Long Beach, California, brought a folding chair and music to pass the time while waiting to renew the papers that enable him to work for a plumbing company and earn nearly twice the wages he once did loading and unloading cargo containers.
Not long after the House passed legislation that included a provision to allow private flood insurance policies to satisfy flood coverage requirements, the Senate sidetracked the flood policy measure. The flood insurance policy provision was inserted in a bill that had to do with reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration's operation, which was set to expire Sept.
Officials are preparing for tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans to arrive in Florida as the island faces humanitarian crisis. Officials are preparing for tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans to arrive in Florida as the island faces humanitarian crisis.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday morning to defend his administration's handling of the crisis in Puerto Rico, but left questions as to how the recovery efforts will be financed. "Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello just stated: 'The Administration and the President, every time we've spoken, they've delivered......'" he wrote, adding "...The fact is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes.
President Trump caused quite a bit of controversy when he pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio last month. Arpaio, who was sheriff of Maricopa County, had been held in contempt for disobeying a judge's order to stop targeting potential illegal immigrants at patrol stops.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, of New Jersey, is accused of accepting lavish travel and hotel stays from his friend, Dr. Salomon Melgen. Through various "official acts" as a senator, prosecutors say Menendez violated federal bribery laws by advocating for the doctor in a number of ongoing disputes Melgen had with the federal government.
Rihanna criticized President Donald's Trump response to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, suggesting that the president is not paying enough attention to the disaster occurring on the island.
Fresh off a blistering loss over health care, many lawmakers are cautiously optimistic their party can be more successful in overhauling the U.S. tax code, a system they say is seriously lacking in popularity and in dire need of change. Fewer than 24 hours after Republicans were forced to pull the plug on their second effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, the party released a framework, held a bicameral news conference and discussed details about how they plan to revamp the tax code.
June 2017 saw a number of policy changes in the global renewable power market . In the Americas, in the US, President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.
Republicans have been riding high since the rollout of a tax framework was judged by themselves as a success. But in reality it's all uphill from here: finding money to pay for the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in a generation.
Twitter's Carlos Monje, the director of public policy and philanthropy, right, knocks on the door with Colin Crowell, head of global public policy, to enter the closed door meeting with the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in Washington.
The Trump administration defended its decision Wednesday to sharply curtail the number of refugees allowed into the United States to 45,000 next year, even as global humanitarian groups decried the move and called the number far too low. The 45,000 cap, to be formally announced by President Donald Trump in the coming days, reflects the maximum the U.S. will admit during the fiscal year that starts Sunday, although the actual number allowed could be far lower.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, left, is given a band-aid after a flu vaccination from Sharon Walsh-Bonadies, RN., right, during a news conference recommending everyone age six months an older be vaccinated against influenza each year, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in Washington.