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There are very few things that the POTUS can do to surprise the world now. The entirety of the presidency has been quite reflective of his beliefs which are, most often, in direct opposition to general opinion.
Vice President Pence, left, and Rep. Louie Gohmert watch as President Trump signs a bill on Jan. 10. The Washington Post's initial report on President Trump's description of Haiti, El Salvador and the nations of Africa as "shitholes" didn't prompt much consternation about whether we should use the word itself in our reporting. "When the president says it, we'll use it verbatim," Post Executive Editor Martin Baron told Washingtonian about the decision.
Outgoing Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe told a national television audience he'd knock President Donald Trump to the floor if the president ever tried to intimidate him. During an interview Thursday on MSNBC's "Hardball," Chris Matthews asked McAuliffe how he would respond if Trump tried to intimidate him during a debate by hovering over him, as he did in a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, a close friend of McAuliffe's.
While local commuters are urged to find alternatives to cars, a long-planned bicycle lane connecting Union Station to the Capitol is being blocked, said D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Now, Herr Trump is tweeting that he didn't use the language that apparently, Senators in the room say he did, in this latest round of controversy coming out of this White House. Despite a number of news outlets reporting that the "King of Chaos"--as one person described him today on CNN--did utter those outrageous words about Haiti, Africa and elsewhere--he denies making the comments.
Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally called on the national GOP to "grow a pair of ovaries" as she launched her Senate bid Friday, joining the race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Jeff Flake by embracing President Donald Trump and his outsider playbook in one of the nation's premier contests.
A quick study of the brutal American cold snap finds that the Arctic blast really wasn't global warming but a freak of nature. A quick study of the brutal American cold snap finds that the Arctic blast really wasn't global warming but a freak of nature.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, walks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the minority whip, as lawmakers continue negotiating on a deal that would include a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., joined at right by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., gives her support to "dreamers," people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, and supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018.
President Donald Trump on Friday will extend waivers on Iran nuclear sanctions, keeping alive the landmark 2015 deal for at least another several months despite his past vows to scuttle the deal, officials said Three officials said the waivers will be accompanied by other, targeted sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses and a stern warning that Trump will pull out of the nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration if fixes aren't made by spring. The next deadline for extending nuclear sanctions relief will come in mid-May. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly preview the decision.
Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Fox News host Sandra Smith noted that her network "has confirmed" that President Trump indeed called African countries "shitholes" during a meeting with lawmakers on Thursday. "President Trump lamented 's - hole countries' during immigration negotiations on Thursday with lawmakers in the Oval Office, Fox News has confirmed," a story on the network's website reads.
Federal lawmakers from both parties in New Jersey are asking the U.S. Justice Department to keep internet gambling legal. In a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the lawmakers urged the department not to rescind its 2011 legal opinion that internet gambling is permissible under federal law.
Donald Trump has cited his dissatisfaction with the new $1bn embassy in Nine Elms as the reason he's not visiting the UK later this year - Anadolu Donald Trump abruptly pulled the plug on his mooted visit to the UK by firing a broadside at the "bad deal" the US had got over its new $1 billion embassy. The property mogul lambasted his predecessor Barack Obama for having "sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for 'peanuts'" - referencing the outgoing embassy in Mayfair's Grosvenor Square.
THE PRESIDENT SLAMMED PROTECTIONS FOR IMMIGRANTS FROM HAITI AND AFRICAN NATIONS Which he reportedly described as "shithole countries" before suggesting he'd prefer to see more immigrants from countries like Norway. Few Republicans have acknowledged the comment, but some are speaking out .
If there were any doubt about the numerous reports that President Trump referred to Haiti and nations in Africa as "shithole countries" in a Thursday meeting about immigration with lawmakers, it melted away with a statement from the White House that did nothing to deny it. "Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people," White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah told the Washington Post.
DONALD Trump has rejected reports that he used the phrase 's**thole countries' when talking about immigrants from Haiti and African nations. US PRESIDENT Donald Trump says while he used "tough language" in an immigration meeting he has denied using the term "s**thole countries".
Border Patrol agents on horseback next to the secondary border fence near the Brown Field Border Patrol Station in San Diego in April. Border Patrol agents on horseback next to the secondary border fence near the Brown Field Border Patrol Station in San Diego in April.
Even though the Democratic majority vowed to return Congress to a path of fiscal responsibility, the 2008 appropriations bills were stuffed with wasteful pork projects. While Representatives John Campbell, Jeff Flake, Jeb Hensarling, Scott Garrett, and David Obey offered 50 amendments to strip outrageous pork projects from the appropriations bills, only one amendment, offered by Rep. Jeff Flake, passed.
Congressman Robert Pittenger has reached out to Mayor Bobby Kilgore and the Monroe City Council in hopes of building consensus for his plan to convert U.S. 74 into an interstate to Wilmington. Pittenger says he's already sent letters to more than 400 local community leaders.
White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders says despite reports to the contrary, no deal has been reached yet on legislation to protect younger immigrants brought to the country illegally, but she says, "they're close." Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi says an immigration working group is just "five white guys."
US House of Representatives Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland said of the profanity directed at Africa, "President Trump's comments are racist and a disgrace." But it wasn't just Democrats objecting.