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Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Tom Carper seek answers on the omission of LGBT questions from the U.S. Census. A pair of Democrats - U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Tom Carper - are seeking answers from the U.S. Census Bureau on the omission of questions from major 2020 federal surveys on sexual orientation and gender identity.
No one contradicted him, but behind the pageantry and politesse a wall of skepticism remains solidly intact. It's often said that the contours of Israeli-Palestinian peace are well-known.
To the Trump team, the president's budget proposal is rooted in unassailable values: respect for the people "who are actually paying the taxes," as White House budget director Mick Mulvaney puts it. In President Trump's $4.1 trillion fiscal 2018 budget plan, released Tuesday, that approach translates into deep cuts in social safety-net programs that Mr. Mulvaney suggests discourage work and hinder economic growth.
Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson is on the verge of passing legislation that would make firing VA employees easier. This in response to years of complaints that VA health centers around the country have kept bad employees on board.
The US Embassy invited a settler leader to President Donald Trump's keynote speech at the Israel Museum on Tuesday. "Dear Guest: You are cordially invited to a speech by The Honorable Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America," read the simple email, which Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel received from the embassy on Sunday.
The U.S. Department of Energy is abandoning a test meant to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground because of changes in budget priorities, the agency said Tuesday. A spokeswoman said in a statement that the agency doesn't intend to continue supporting the Deep Borehole Field Test project, which was meant to assess whether nuclear waste could be stored in approximately 3-mile-deep holes.
Kyle Massey at Arkansas Business reports on an announcement today that Warren Stephens , the CEO of Stephens Inc. , has produced a film series and related media, "This is Capitalism." Stephens explains that capitalism has gotten a bad rap.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent Congress a $4.1 trillion spending plan that relies on faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs for the poor in a bid to balance the government's books over the next decade. The proposed 2018 budget immediately came under attack by Democrats and even some of GOP allies declared it dead on arrival.
Lawmakers will head into a second special session as they continue to work toward reaching agreement on a two-year state budget that satisfies a state Supreme Court mandate on education funding. The first special session was set to adjourn Tuesday, after which Gov. Jay Inslee has already said he will call them back for a second special session.
Most presidents' budgets are "dead on arrival" in Congress. It happened to Barack Obama and George W. Bush , and there are those who hope it happens to President Donald Trump .
House oversight committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz has postponed his hearing scheduled for Wednesday, the Utah congressman announced Monday, after reaching former FBI Director James Comey, whom Chaffetz wanted to testify. "Spoke with Comey.
Spike Lee said Hillary Clinton's "entitlement" was her undoing in the 2016 presidential campaign, adding that the Democratic nominee got too comfortable assuming she was going to win. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, Mr. Lee cited the 2017 book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, "Shattered," about Mrs. Clinton's "doomed" Democratic campaign.
Another senior Republican lawmaker, Fred Upton of Michigan, questioned inclusion of money for Trump's border wall, remarking: "I thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall, why is this in our budget?" House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin dismissed such criticism as typical rhetoric and praised the budget because it balances over 10 years. Independent economists say the budget relies on unrealistic projections of economic growth, but Ryan sidestepped that question, saying faster growth would "help so many of our problems."
President Donald Trump would dramatically reduce the U.S. government's role in society with $3.6 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years in a budget plan that shrinks the safety net for the poor, recent college graduates and farmers. Trump's proposal, to be released Tuesday, claims to balance the budget within a decade.
For the past two years, virtually everyone who's interested in Democratic politics has asked some variation of those two questions. Sanders is atypical -- he's consistently to the left of almost all of his Senate colleagues, his rhetoric is populist and he's not actually a Democrat -- yet he was able to win about 43 percent of the vote in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary.
's presidency is cascading out of control. Ironically, the appointment last week of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election may slow White House hemorrhaging, taking pressure off GOP congressional leaders and their weak investigations and temporarily shoring up support for Trump on Capitol Hill.
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump disembark Air Force One upon their arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport. On a nine-day trip through Middle East and Europe, his first foreign tour since taking office in January, US President Donald Trump reached Israel on Monday accompanied by his wife Melania Trump.
As evidence that Donald Trump has been trying to obstruct investigations into his involvement in Russian attacks against the United States in 2016 continues to grow, the Russian government is spreading a conspiracy theory designed to perpetuate Trump supporters' faith in their stumbling leader. A couple of days ago, the Russian Embassy in London spread a message on Twitter showing a blood-red image of Hillary Clinton's face in the background of a picture of Seth Rich, with the question, "Who killed Seth Rich?" Accompanying this image was this message from the Russian government: "Seth Rich murdered in the U.S., but MSM was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take notice."
As Congress hears from top intelligence officials who reportedly said "no" when he asked them to publicly back him in the Russia investigation. British authorities tell the U.S. it was a suicide bomber.