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Trump: Obama Behind Protests, Leaks

President Donald Trump told Fox News on Monday he believes the leaks coming out of the government are holdovers from President Barack Obama’s administration. In a preview of an interview set to air in full on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, Trump told Fox’s Brian Kilmeade not only does he believe Obama is behind the protests at the town halls of Republican House and Senate members in recent days, he also has his people leaking information to the press.

Gizzi: Will Trump, Pope Meet in May?

Barely a year after Donald Trump and Pope Francis exchanged some strong words over the issue of illegal immigration, there is a question whether the two will meet when President Trump is in Rome for the G-7 summit in May. Newsmax posed that question to White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday, reminding him how the U.S. president, when in Rome, has always had an audience with the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church going back to 1959 . “That’s a great question,” replied Spicer, himself a Roman Catholic.

No evidence of Russian contract, but calls grow for special prosecutor

Rep. Devin Nunes , California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said Monday that he has not seen a scrap of evidence that Trump campaign officials had any contact with Russian officials, but his assurances failed to silence the growing drumbeat of calls for a special prosecutor. Rep. Darrell E. Issa of California, a former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, became the most prominent Republican to join Democrats in demanding the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the former Cold War foe’s meddling in the presidential election and an alleged Trump campaign connection to Russian intelligence agents.

Sessions says he’ll recuse himself on Russia probe if needed

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said for the first time that he’ll recuse himself if necessary from investigations into contacts that associates of President Donald Trump may have had with Russian government officials. “I would recuse myself on anything that I should recuse myself on,” Sessions told reporters Monday at the Justice Department in Washington.

Top House Republican hasna t seen a evidencea of Trump-Russia contacts

The chairman on the House Intelligence Committee said Monday that he had not seen any “evidence” of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government amid an investigation into Russian activities during the 2016 election. “We still have not seen any evidence of anyone from the Trump campaign or any other campaign for that matter that’s communicated with the Russian government,” Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told reporters at the Capitol.

Why Liberals and Conservatives Think So Differently

During the last presidential campaign, a major and striking difference between candidates Secretary Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was their view of present-day America. President Trump drew a virtually apocalyptic picture of our times, invoking economic collapse, rampant carnage, and the country’s very demise.

Activist to address immigration, health after Trump speech

An activist who will deliver a Democratic response in Spanish to President Donald Trump’s first speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday plans to address his administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants and the need for affordable health care. The remarks from Astrid Silva, a so-called Dreamer who was brought into the country illegally as a child, will come as Trump’s efforts have spread anxiety among immigrants and led many to fear arrest.

House committee split on Trump-Russia probe

An investigation into potential ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russia has predictably split the House Intelligence Committee on party lines. Committee chairman Devin Nunes told reporters , “We still have not seen any evidence of anyone from the Trump campaign, or any other campaign for that matter, that’s communicated with the Russian government.”

Capitol Hill Buzz: Democratic women wearing white for Trump

Democratic women in the House are planning to wear white in honor of women’s suffrage when they attend President Donald Trump ‘s first address to a joint session of Congress. The heads of the Democratic Women’s Working Group wrote a letter to their colleagues Monday reminding them to wear white to honor the suffrage movement and also to “stand in solidarity with the women of our nation.”

Multiple executions rare in US, Arkansas just scheduled 4

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday scheduled four double-executions in April. If carried out, the executions would mark the first time in nearly two decades that a state executed more than one inmate in a day, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center , a nonprofit research group that opposes executions.

Ways & Means chairman insists Obamacare repeal is on track

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said House Republicans are fully engrossed in overhauling how Americans get health insurance, and are on track to have a bill ready by March. “We’re in substantive discussions with our members,” Brady said Monday, dismissing rumors that Republicans are stalled in their quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

HBCUs, advocates looking for help from Trump on funding

President Donald Trump shakes hands as he meets with leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. President Donald Trump shakes hands as he meets with leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017.

APNewsBreak: Arizona House speaker won’t hear rioting bill

The speaker of the Arizona House said Monday he won’t hear a bill that makes participating in or helping organize a protest that turns into a riot an offense that could lead to criminal racketeering charges. The measure passed last week by the Senate drew nationwide attention because it added rioting to the organized crime statutes and said an overt act isn’t needed to prove conspiracy to riot.

Trump credits himself for the party’s growing popularity

President Trump shared an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll on his Twitter account on Monday, touting the survey’s findings that more U.S. adults approve of Republicans in Congress than Democrats for the first time in more than five years. “GOP now viewed more favorably than Dems, in Trump era via @HotlineJosh,” Trump tweeted Monday evening.

Lawmakers: Tax exemptions to be examined in upcoming session

Lawmakers who closed a $304 million mid-year budget deficit are already looking ahead to April, when the Legislature will look for revenue sources to help remedy the state’s consistently dire financial picture. After pulling $99 million from the state’s rainy day fund and filling the remaining gap with cuts, including $40 million cut primarily from healthcare administration, the looming task is now to prevent these budget deficits from reoccurring.

Jon Huntsman top candidate for deputy secretary of state

Former Gov. Jon Huntsman, R-Utah, is at the top of the list for deputy secretary of the State Department, according to a report published Monday evening. Huntsman criticized Trump during the campaign season, but has the favor of both Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to the Wall Street Journal’s report .

Sessions Says He’ll Recuse Himself on Russia Probe If Needed

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said for the first time that he’ll recuse himself if necessary from investigations into contacts that associates of President Donald Trump may have had with Russian government officials. “I would recuse myself on anything that I should recuse myself on,” Sessions told reporters Monday at the Justice Department in Washington.

Nursing rooms first among Nevada bills to enshrine Obamacare

Nevada lawmakers are taking up the first of a series of Democratic proposals aimed at copying Affordable Care Act policies into state law. Under former President Barack Obama ‘s signature health care law, all employers with a staff of 50 or more already must provide a private place and “reasonable break time” for workers to extract breast milk.

Buffett’s Berkshire more than doubled its stake in Apple

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had more than doubled its stake in Apple Inc. since the end of 2016, making it one of Berkshire’s biggest equity holdings, and that U.S. stocks overall were not in “bubble territory.” “Apple strikes me as having quite a sticky product and an enormously useful product to people that use it, not that I do,” said Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.

Maryland’s Cardin Hits Trump On Russia Policy, Immigration

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The a Father of the Border Taxa Explains Why it Will Work

On Monday, during a speech at the White House to the National Governors Association, President Trump renewed his commitment to simplifying the tax code, adding As Republicans in Congress work with the President on making these goals a reality, the highly contentious border-adjustment tax has quickly become a hot button issue both inside the party, and among the opposition. The tax, which is an income tax levied on imported goods sold domestically, is championed by House Speaker Paul Ryan, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris and the President himself.

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Continue reading Under Trump, government takes new position in Texas voter ID lawsuit

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump will support Texas officials’ claim that the state’s voter identification law did not specifically target minority voters, retreating from the federal government’s previous stance that state lawmakers intentionally discriminated when crafting the law. The law’s opponents were notified of the switch one day before the question of discriminatory intent is set to be argued in federal court, according to officials at the Campaign Legal Center.

Trump urges insurers to work together to “save Americans from Obamacare”

President Donald Trump met with major health insurers Monday morning, in the midst of intensifying public pressure to preserve the law and political divisions over how to best dismantle and replace former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement, the Affordable Care Act. The meeting included leaders from Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, Anthem, Kaiser Permanente and the industry lobbying group, America’s Health Insurance Plans.

Trump seeks ‘historic’ defence build-up, IS offensive

President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” increase in military spending of more than 9%, a huge rise even as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world’s strongest military power. Also Monday, a Pentagon-led preliminary plan to defeat Islamic State was delivered to the White House and US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis briefed senior administration officials.

BREAKING. Department Of Justice To Drop Opposition To Texas Voter ID Law

BREAKING NEWS! Sessions’ DOJ is abandoning its 6-year old claims that TX Photo ID law was enacted w/discriminatory intent. We will fight on! The whole idea behind the lawsuit is ridiculous and is based on the unsupported and unsupportable notion that requiring proof of identity to vote is racially discriminatory because, presumably, select minority populations are just too dumb to figure out how to comply with the law.