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Speaker Paul Ryan not comfortable with separating parents from their kids at U.S. border with Mexico
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he's not comfortable with a Trump administration policy that separates children and parents at the southern border, as House Republicans, under increasing pressure to address the humanitarian crisis, raced to finish a new immigration bill. "We don't want kids ...
Trump's move to drop Kim summit draws mixed reaction, from 'right call' to 'embarrassment'
Reaction to President Donald Trump's decision to cancel next month's summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un: "The art of diplomacy is much harder than the art of the deal." — Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ "What's the most surprising is that there was ever ...
No evidence of 'spy' in Trump camp, Democrats say after classified intel briefing
U.S. intelligence agencies offered no evidence to back President Donald Trump's claim that the FBI planted a "spy" in his campaign, congressional Democrats said Thursday after a closed-door briefing. The Department of Justice and the FBI held two classified meetings with leaders of the Senate ...
Republican tax plans, both seen favoring rich and cutting deductions, advance in Congress
U.S. Senate Republicans unveiled a tax plan on Thursday that differed from the House of Representatives' version on several key fronts, including how they treat the corporate tax rate, the tax deduction for state and local taxes, and the estate tax. Complicating a Republican push ...
GOP-led U.S. House narrowly passes measure paving way for Trump's deep tax cuts seen favoring rich
The U.S. House of Representatives helped pave the way on Thursday for deep tax cuts sought by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders, but barely overcame a revolt within party ranks that could foreshadow trouble ahead for the tax overhaul. The Republican-controlled House voted 216-212 ...
President Donald Trump has cast serious doubt on the future of 690,000 U.S. residents brought illegally to the country as children by presenting Congress with a list of hard-line immigration demands as a quid-pro-quo for protecting the so-called Dreamers. A month after appearing to reach ...
Slammed as 'Amnesty Don,' Trump says Dreamer deal with Democrats near as Republicans seethe
President Donald Trump said Thursday he was "fairly close" to finalizing a deal with Democrats allowing young immigrants to remain in the United States, antagonizing anti-immigration Republicans who worry he is violating his own campaign pledges. "You have 800,000 young people, brought here, no fault ...
Bernie Sanders puts Democrats on the spot with proposed government-run health care for all
Sen. Bernie Sanders rode his impassioned liberal army of supporters through a tumultuous 2016, fighting to snatch the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. Now he is disrupting the party anew, forcing Democrats to take sides over his plan to provide government-run health care ...
White House won't rule out recusal by Sessions in Russia probes
The White House on Sunday did not rule out that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may recuse himself from Justice Department investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a deputy White House press secretary, said congressional investigations of Russian meddling in ...
Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn resigns amid Russia controversy
U.S. President Donald Trump's embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late Monday night, following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. His departure upends Trump's senior team after less than one month in ...
Battle lines drawn as Obama, rare Republican allies facing close House vote on trade bill
The House plunged into a divisive debate over trade legislation on Thursday, a controversy so thick that President Barack Obama conferred on strategy with Republican Speaker John Boehner and drew a public rebuttal in the House from a Democratic foe of the measure. The trade ...
Two leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday all children should be vaccinated, joining a debate that has become a national political flashpoint, as a measles outbreak rekindles a discussion on safety and the right of parents to forgo inoculation of ...
