Category: Barack Obama

Pence: Administration backs Israel abroad, business at home

Vice President Mike Pence is assuring the Republican Jewish Coalition that he and President Donald Trump will work tirelessly on foreign and domestic issues important to the group, such as enacting business-friendly policies at home and supporting Israel abroad. “If the world knows nothing else, the world will know this: America stands with Israel,” Pence told the group Friday night.

GOP proposal aims to end insurance mandate in ‘Obamacare’

A draft Republican bill replacing President Barack Obama ‘s health care law would end its Medicaid expansion, scrap fines on people not buying insurance and eliminate taxes on the medical industry and higher earners. Instead, it would create tax credits worth up to $4,000, allow bigger contributions to personal health savings accounts and impose a new levy on expensive health coverage some employees get at work.

Maher slams Trump’s CPAC speech: ‘This guy sees more…

In Friday night’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher brought up the fact that President Donald Trump seconded President Barack Obama’s executive order allowing children to use whatever bathrooms match their gender identity. “Trump believes that men shouldn’t be able to pee in the same room as women peeing unless you’re paying for it,” Maher joked, recalling the Russian dossier with scandalous rumors .

Kansas man accused in bomb plot feared social collapse

This Oct. 14, 2016 file booking photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Patrick Stein, the alleged leader of a militia group accused of plotting to bomb a apartment complex in western Kansas where Somali refugees lived. At a detention hearing Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, Klein’s attorney said his client believed then President Barack Obama would declare martial law and not recognize the validity of the election if Donald Trump won – forcing militias to step in.

GOP rep: Protests could derail Republicans’ plan to repeal Obamacare

“I don’t know if we’re going to be able to repeal Obamacare now because these folks who support Obamacare are very active,” Brooks said during an interview on ” The Morning Show with Toni and Gary ” radio program, highlighted by CNN . “They’re putting pressure on congressmen and there’s not a counter-effort to steel the spine of some of these congressmen in tossup districts around the country,” he continued.

In some a democracies,a reporters face danger

On Friday, February 17, President Donald Trump called the media “the enemy of the American people.” Are such words just typical for a frustrated chief executive having a bad week, or do these critiques have consequences? Defense Secretary James Mattis, the most popular person in the Trump Administration, disagreed with the statement that the press is the enemy of the American people.

French voters want Obama?

Tens of thousands of French voters were hoping former President Barack Obama was ready to get back to work. They’ve signed a petition urging him to run for president again, but this time, in France, British newspaper the Independent reported Friday.

America’s sacred fire must not be doused

“Well, I preach the Church without Christ,” says a vivid Flannery O’Connor character named Hazel Motes. “I’m member and preacher to that church where the blind don’t see and the lame don’t walk and what’s dead stays that way.”

CPAC once considered Trump a joke

Six years ago, as the “money, money, money, money” chorus of his reality TV show’s theme song blasted, Donald Trump stepped out before the nation’s largest gathering of conservative activists for the first time. The crowd was less than adoring, occasionally laughing at and booing the longtime former Democrat.

Australians doubt Trump’s commitment to its traditional ally

Some Australians foresee trouble in their country’s traditionally strong alliance with the United States because of what they see as “unpresidential” behavior from President Donald Trump, while others think outspoken businessman-turned-Australian-leader Malcolm Turnbull is a good match for him. Australians have long had an affinity with the United States and absorb American popular culture like blotting paper.

Trump says he won’t attend correspondents’ dinner this spring

President Donald Trump, who has been criticizing the news media and is famously thin-skinned, says he won’t be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner – sparing himself the dubious honour of being an in-the-house target of jokes. The annual fundraiser for college scholarships and venue for reporting awards mixes politicians, journalists and celebrities and is typically attended by the president and first lady.

African Americans to Democratic Party: We’re still here

In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, from left, President Barack Obama, former President Jimmy Carter, first lady Michelle Obama, and former President Bill Clinton wave after a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. As an African-American Democrat, I share the core values of my political party.

Action urged on Planned Parenthood funding

Human Life Action, which works closely with the US bishops on pro-life legislation, has called upon pro-life Americans to urge their senators to rescind a Title X funding rule that went into effect two days before President Barack Obama left office. The rule prevents states from excluding Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X family planning funds.

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Oregon asked a federal court late Wednesday to join a lawsuit filed by Washington state against an immigration ban imposed by President Donald Trump. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in the motion that Oregon also needs protection from the ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, which she said would harm Oregon’s businesses, residents, universities, health care and economy.

Protests as Trump revokes Obama’s guidelines on transgender bathrooms

President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday revoked landmark guidance to public schools letting transgender students use the bathrooms of their choice, reversing a signature initiative of former Democratic President Barack Obama. Activists and protesters with the National Center for Transgender Equality rally in front of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Washington, after the Department of Education and the Justice Department announce plans to overturn the school guidance on protecting transgender students.

Oregon joins suit against President Trump’s travel ban

Oregon asked a federal court late Wednesday to join a lawsuit filed by Washington state against an immigration ban imposed by President Donald Trump . Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in the motion that Oregon also needs protection from the ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, which she said would harm Oregon’s businesses, residents, universities, health care and economy.

Political correctness had gone mad, writes Trevor Phillips

A few weeks ago, I observed that Barack Obama’s iconic status as the first African-American U.S. President should not obscure his mixed political record. As a black man and former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you might think I would be surprised to face a charge of racism – but I was not.

LePage asks Trump ‘to make Maine woods great again’

Maine’s governor has asked Republican President Donald Trump to undo Democratic former President Barack Obama’s designation of a national monument. Republican Gov. Paul LePage asked Trump to take the unprecedented step of returning land in the northern part of the state to private ownership in a Feb. 14 letter.

6 ways to spread facts

The simple but frustrating truth is that facts alone are not enough to convince people. Even the most thorough, accurate piece of reporting might still be trumped by a poorly reasoned and false counterargument.

Democrats face fierce urgency of 2018

Near a nadir of political power, Democrats across the country say their comeback must begin with key races next year – and warn that failure to make big gains in state races in 2018 will doom them to another decade in the minority in Washington. More than three-dozen states will choose governors in the next two years, while voters pick state legislative candidates in thousands of districts across the country.

Ellison holds edge in DNC race

As Democrats head to Atlanta this weekend to vote on their party’s next chair, the race to lead the Democratic National Committee chair is coming down to its two leading candidates. Rep. Keith Ellison has the edge over former Labor secretary Tom Perez in The Hill’s new survey of DNC members.

Cory Gardner town halls

The face of Sen. Cory Gardner – accompanies by words and moving text as part of an environmental protest and unauthorized art installation – is displayed Tuesday on the wall of the Denver Art Museum. “A lot of people have been trying to get some face-to-face time with Sen. Gardner – especially in the last month,” said Boulder resident Eve Rose, one of the organizers of the event and a member of SoBo Rise, an offshoot of Indivisible Front Range Resistance.

Trump to spare U.S. ‘dreamer’ immigrants from crackdown

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to consider almost all illegal immigrants subject to deportation, but will leave protections in place for immigrants known as “dreamers” who entered the United States illegally as children, according to official guidelines released yesterday. The Department of Homeland Security guidance to immigration agents is part of a broader border security and immigration enforcement plan in executive orders that Republican Trump signed on Jan. 25. Former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, issued an executive order in 2012 that protected 750,000 immigrants who had been brought into the United States illegally by their parents.

Trump to spare ‘dreamer’ immigrants

President Donald Trump’s administration are thought to be keeping the protections in place for child US immigrants. Photo: Reuters President Donald Trump’s administration plans to consider almost all illegal immigrants subject to deportation, but will leave protections in place for immigrants known as “dreamers” who entered the United States illegally as children, according to official guidelines released on Tuesday.

Trump praises new African American museum during first visit

President Donald Trump denounced “bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms” during his first visit to the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History on Tuesday. Trump, in remarks after his tour, called the museum “truly great” and said he would be back to see more of the 3,000 objects illustrating African-American history.

White House: States Should Get To Decide Whether To Discriminate Against LGBTQ Students

White House press secretary Sean Spicer gave a clear indication Tuesday that the new administration will not be a forceful defender of transgender rights, saying President Donald Trump believes that issue should be left up to the states. The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to rescind a policy issued by President Barack Obama ‘s administration mandating that any school that receives federal money must treat a student’s gender identity as his or her sex.