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As President Donald Trump moves to fulfill one of the central promises of his campaign - to get tough on an ascendant China - he faces a potential rebellion from a core constituency: farmers and other agricultural producers who could suffer devastating losses in a trade war. Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Chinese goods came with a presidential declaration that trade wars are good and easily won.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is facing renewed questions about the size and cost of his 24-hour security detail, adding to a string of ethically questionable arrangements or actions on his part that have surfaced over the past year. Pruitt's security team currently consists of 19 agents and includes a fleet of at least 19 vehicles, a source with direct knowledge of Pruitt's security detail said.
Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez denounced immigration authorities for arresting an illegal immigrant inside a New York City courthouse on Friday, saying the controversial tactic "has no place" in the city. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbed Panamanian national Diogenes Pinzon as he walked out of an eighth-floor courtroom in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday morning, reported the New York Daily News, citing court officials.
A program to distribute federal disaster aid to Florida farmers hit by Hurricane Irma will be set up within the next 100 days, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Friday.
A U.S. congressional panel is investigating Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's use of a condominium tied to an energy lobbyist, a House Republican aide said on Saturday. FILE PHOTO - Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, testifies to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2018.
Illinois Republican voters were split 51 to 49 percent between a liberal Republican incumbent governor and a conservative state representative in the March 20th primary. The results revealed a dramatic contrast between the party leaders and the GOP base.
Rep. Trey Gowdy is probing the actions of embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, his spokesperson, Amanda Gonzalez, confirmed to CNN. The South Carolina Republican expressed disapproval of Pruitt on Friday, according to Politico and a video released by the environmental group Friends of the Earth.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers, an Ohio Republican, Chair of National Republican Congressional Committee, speaks during a news briefing at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference Feb. 1, 2018, at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. IRVINE, Calif.
I am writing in support of the bike path infrastructure that Wichita has embarked on in the past year. I moved to Wichita a little over a year ago and personally have never seen a community that is more bicycle and runner friendly.
Rep. Trey Gowdy doesn't "have a lot of patience" for Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt's ethical indiscretions. The House Oversight Committee chairman is probing the embattled EPA administrator as calls for Pruitt's resignation rise, a spokeswoman for the South Carolina Republican told CNN on Saturday.
The Planned Parenthood president first raised a ruckus in the sixth grade by refusing to say the Lord's Prayer. The next year she amped it up, wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War.
The student organizers behind the "March for Our Lives" are planning a series of town hall this weekend and will use empty chairs to symbolize lawmakers who were invited but who don't attend. As of Friday morning, 33 Democratic lawmakers had pledged to take part in "The Town Halls for Our Lives" events in their home states.
The biggest news at the end of the 2018 session of the Georgia General Assembly was passage of an appropriations bill that for the first time in many years fully funds our schools. The final week of the session, the Governor's office raised by $194.7 million the revenue projection for the fiscal year that starts in three months.
Georgia's legislators gaveled things to a close last week and for the first time in a while, it was a session that provided some positive accomplishments for taxpayers. For the first time since at least 2002, Georgia will not have "austerity cuts" for K-12 public schools in the state budget for the new fiscal year.
North Dakota U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer, considered Republicans' best hope of unseating incumbent Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, was greeted by throngs of GOP delegates at the state endorsing convention on Saturday with smiles, handshakes, and well-wishes. In 2012, Cramer, a longtime Republican activist who has served as the North Dakota party's director and chairman, bypassed the party convention and challenged the party's endorsed U.S. House candidate in a primary.
In New York state government news, Democratic reunification in the New York state Senate is altering the political calculus in Albany and more changes could be coming after two special elections later this month. Meanwhile, lawmakers take a break after passing a state budget.
Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., left, and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer speaks to the media after touring Culimeta-Saveguard in Eau Claire, Wis., on Thursday April 5, 2018. Hoyer headed to Trump country this week in a last-chance campaign for the top spot.
Nine census tracts in Fairfield and Vallejo have been approved for the Opportunity Zone program created within the $1.3 trillion budget recently adopted by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump. The programs use three possible benefits from capital gains to encourage development in areas that meet a certain low-income standard and poverty rate.