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The Root
April 21, 2018
And who amongst us can forget the war of words between Trump and Jeb Bush during the 2016 run to the White House when Trump dubbed Jeb, “Low Energy Jeb Bush” arguably his worst nickname for any of the Republican nominees. There was no loved gained after Trump won the election, as BushÃâà...
The Independent
April 21, 2018
Former FBI director James Comey has warned that there aren't enough "adequate people" around Donald Trump to "stop his impulsive behaviour". “I wake up some mornings and read the President is demanding the jailing of private citizens, occasionally me,” he said in an interview with BBC Newsnight.
Politico
April 21, 2018
DEVELOPING … WHITE HOUSE ON NAFTA -- The White House says it has been leading an “Administration-wide effort of officials going to the Hill and fully briefing all relevant staffers and members in the chances that we will have a NAFTA announcement to make.” Those meetings included legislativeÃâà...
The White House (blog)
April 21, 2018
This week was the deadline for working families in Charlotte and across America to file their taxes. Now for the good news: Next year, because of the leadership of President Trump and North Carolina's Republicans in Congress, tax day will be a very different and far less painful experience. This year is theÃâà...
Defense One
April 21, 2018
A 31-year-old arms-control pact governs UAVs as if they were cruise missiles. Our national leadership in the field depends on fixing that. Remotely piloted aircraft and their technology and capabilities were, like many advances, pioneered and perfected in the United States. Americans thought creatively and innovated theirÃâà...
The Japan Times
April 21, 2018
“What distinguishes her from the star-struck sycophants in the White House is that she understands the intersection of strong leadership and public service, where great things happen,” said Rob Godfrey, ... Kudlow apologized, but Haley's differences with the White House had already pushed into the open.
CNN
April 21, 2018
(CNN) The day before US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley went on national television saying that new sanctions would be announced against Russia, the White House sent out a list of talking points to surrogates advocating such a move. But the day after she announced sanctions would be coming, theÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
April 21, 2018
In our news wrap Friday, Russia says President Vladimir Putin is still waiting for President Trump to follow up on an invitation last month to visit the White House. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Mr. Trump had also talked of visiting Russia. Also, violence erupted again at Gaza's border asÃâà...
Roll Call
March 29, 2018
The House and Senate Appropriations and Armed Services committees, which have jurisdiction over Defense Department monies and how they are spent, would have to sign off on such a “reprogramming action.” Aides for those committees say they haven't heard anything from the White House aboutÃâà...
The Hill
March 29, 2018
“I think this was really just being used in a political context to try to make sure that I wasn't as effective as a leader moving forward,” he added. The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment. Shulkin also speculated to NPR that he was removed from his post because he was against privatizing theÃâà...
Vox
March 29, 2018
When I spoke to Cobb Wednesday, he told me he expects to stay in his job and insisted that the White House had no plans to fire Mueller. Instead, he said the White House would continue to work with Mueller and his team — and laid out a detailed case for why that's a smarter approach than trying to battleÃâà...
Defense One
March 29, 2018
And it's why, as the White House clarified later on Wednesday, Jackson will also be separating from the Navy before he is confirmed. Otherwise, his confirmation as secretary of veterans affairs would have terminated his military commission. (In contrast, the national-security adviser can be an active-duty officer because thatÃâà...
CNN
March 29, 2018
Conway, a Washington lawyer who was considered for multiple Justice Department posts early in Trump's tenure, has become a subtle yet frequent, critic of the President, using his Twitter account to weigh in on Trump's decisions and retweet articles that are less than flattering for the White House. He hasÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 29, 2018
As of this morning, Hope Hicks is no longer working in the White House, depriving Donald Trump of whatever glue was holding his West Wing together. The 29-year-old former communications director had been like “a security blanket for the boss,” a person close to the president told my colleague EmilyÃâà...
CNBC
March 21, 2018
The White House plans to announce a package of tariffs Thursday penalizing China for intellectual property theft. "Tomorrow the President will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state-led, market-distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S.Ãâà...
Politico
March 21, 2018
Republicans are deeply concerned that Chris McDaniel, an anti-establishment conservative state senator who is running for the seat, will use Hyde-Smith's past party affiliation against her in the race. In recent days, the White House and other senior Republicans reviewed polling conducted by the NationalÃâà...
The Hill
March 21, 2018
Schlapp could still get the job, but sources say momentum is growing within the White House and on Capitol Hill for Tony Sayegh, the assistant secretary ... There is no urgency at the White House to replace Hicks, with officials acknowledging that her special standing in Trump World as a confidante of theÃâà...
The Hill
March 21, 2018
The White House has demanded $1.6 billion in funding for the president's proposed border wall, a fight that had thrown a wrench into the spending negotiations in the days leading up to the deadline. A massive rail tunnel project in the New York area is also expected to receive $541 million, over Trump'sÃâà...
The Hill
March 21, 2018
The White House on Wednesday said that leaking President Trump Ãâ÷ Donald John TrumpKoch-backed group launches six-figure ad buy against Heitkamp Anti-abortion Dem wins primary fight Lipinski holds slim lead in tough Illinois primary fight MORE's briefing materials could be a “fireable offense,”Ãâà...
New York Times
March 21, 2018
A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to interviews and previously undisclosed documents. Hundreds ofÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 14, 2018
The White House is looking for a few good Navy officers for a part-time — and unpaid — job that often comes with free food, free entertainment and a ... helping to “manage guests who attend social functions at the White House, facilitate interactions with the president and first lady and escort dignitaries,” theÃâà...
Business Insider
March 14, 2018
The White House is being called "the most toxic working environment on the planet" by some staffers as rumors of another wave of firings have circulated, Axios reported Wednesday. "Usually tough times bring people together," a White House official told Axios. "But right now this atmosphere is ripping people apart. "There'sÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 14, 2018
Felten also served as deputy chief technology officer in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy during the Obama administration, as well as chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission. Nitze was a law clerk both to Justice Neil Gorsuch when he was on the Tenth Circuit Court ofÃâà...
The Hill
March 14, 2018
The White House said Wednesday that Democrat Conor Lamb, who appears headed for an upset special election victory in Pennsylvania's 18th District, won by embracing President Trump Ãâ÷ Donald John TrumpAccuser says Trump should be afraid of the truth Woman behind pro-Trump Facebook pageÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 14, 2018
Per Politico, Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James said in the interview that she had been blocked from working in the White House by Omarosa. James, who has worked on the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, said she was lookingÃâà...
CNN
March 14, 2018
"The White House initially provided a partial response last week," Foy said. "We have yet to receive any response from the FBI. Sen. Grassley's oversight staff has made clear to the White House on no uncertain terms that the chairman expects to get full responses to each of the questions in his bipartisanÃâà...
CNBC
March 14, 2018
House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady is talking to the White House about a possible "phase two" of the Republican tax plan. President Donald Trump has repeatedly hinted at a second part of the tax proposal to follow the law passed in December. Brady wants to bring forward further changes toÃâà...
Politico
March 14, 2018
The students criticized the Trump administration's response to the shooting by turning their backs to the White House for 17 minutes — one for each of the students and staff members killed in Parkland. Marches also took place in Louisville, Kentucky; New York; Boston; Chicago; Baltimore; Littleton,Ãâà...
HuffPost
March 10, 2018
In honor of Women's History Month, the Republican National Committee's Instagram account is setting the record straight about the number of women in the Trump administration. How could we possibly be one of the most male-dominated administrations in recent history? the GOP seemed to ask in itsÃâà...
Business Insider
March 10, 2018
... is going back to his comfort zone as chaos grips the White House. Allan Smith. 8h. 24,442. facebook linkedin twitter email copy link. Donald Trump. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Donald Trump is reviving many themes of his presidential campaign as his administration is in turmoil. He's delivering freewheelingÃâà...
CNN
March 9, 2018
That's left outside advisers to ruminate and float their own choices -- often directly to Trump himself, either over the phone or during in-person conversations at the White House and his club in Florida. This has resulted in a clash between hard-right conservatives and more moderate voices, creating whatÃâà...
CNN
March 8, 2018
Thursday, in fact, contained two big subjects at the White House for the government in Seoul: the developments on North Korea and the tariffs on steel, which South Korea exports by millions of tons per year. Trump clarified. "North Korea," he said, before ducking back into West Wing. The brief appearanceÃâà...
CNN
March 8, 2018
Washington The White House released a statement from President Donald Trump on Thursday for International Women's Day. Read Trump's statement. On International Women's Day, we celebrate the many incredible contributions made by women of all ages in the United States and around the world.
CNN
March 8, 2018
The White House counsel's office sent a memo Wednesday night to staff highlighting the new Hatch Act guidance issued Monday by the Office of Special Counsel -- which is separate from the Justice Department's special counsel's office. President Donald Trump's legal team cautioned staff to remove allÃâà...
CNN
March 8, 2018
Washington (CNN) There is pervasive anxiety inside the walls of the White House over the fallout around allegations leveled against President Donald Trump by porn actress Stormy Daniels, multiple sources tell CNN, with some officials worried that the salacious accusations and tangled legal fight couldÃâà...
Vox
March 4, 2018
The president has been campaigning for reelection since he arrived at the White House — Trump filed the paperwork for his reelection campaign the same day he was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2017. He has been fundraising for the past year, ending 2017 with $22 million in cash, and hasÃâà...
New York Times
March 4, 2018
The policy process is broken and incoherent, with the White House lurching from one position to another. Factions are warring. Top aides are embroiled in scandal and bailing out. President Trump is escalating his attacks on his own advisers, especially his attorney general, and is increasingly isolated andÃâà...
Madison.com
March 4, 2018
'Pure madness': Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages: Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey of the Washington Post write: Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at itsÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 4, 2018
"The culture in the White House now is that if they go after one of us, they go after all of us. We're a team together. The president is doing a great job," he said. Trump announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports Thursday without consulting key departments first,Ãâà...
The Hill
March 4, 2018
“I can tell you that the State Department works very closely with Mr. Kushner and others at the White House to advance one of the president's top priorities, and that is Middle East peace,” said spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. “That's a top priority for us and we expect Mr. Kushner to continue his work onÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 4, 2018
WASHINGTON — Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center. These are the darkest days in at least half a year, they say, and they worry just how much farther President Donald Trump and hisÃâà...
CNN
March 4, 2018
The man approached the fence line, removed a concealed handgun and fired several rounds, none of which appear to have been aimed at the White House, a Secret Service spokesperson said. A law enforcement source told CNN the shooter shot his phone before shooting himself. No suicide note wasÃâà...
NPR
March 3, 2018
Updated at 9:43 a.m. ET. In the annals of tumultuous weeks for the still-young Trump presidency, there may not have been a more chaotic one than this, outside of his reaction to and the fallout from the summer's racist violence in Charlottesville, Va. "The chaos at the White House seems to be getting worseÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 1, 2018
I have decided that sections of the Wall that California wants built NOW will not be built until the whole Wall is approved. Big victory yesterday with ruling from the courts that allows us to proceed. OUR COUNTRY MUST HAVE BORDER SECURITY! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28,Ãâà...
The Boston Globe
March 1, 2018
Trump has reportedly taken to calling Sessions ''Mr. Magoo'' at the White House. Coming from a president known for throwing derisive nicknames at enemies and allies, the dig could be a comment on anything from Sessions's mental prowess to his age to physical appearance. Trump only knows.
NPR
March 1, 2018
Each day, the opioid epidemic claims more than 115 lives. David Greene talks to Surgeon General Jerome Adams about the administration's strategy for fighting addiction. The summit convenes Thursday. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; EmailÃâà...
CBS New York
March 1, 2018
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — President Donald Trump will hold a school safety meeting at the White House on Thursday. Trump held a freewheeling, televised meeting with lawmakers at the White House Wednesday that stretched for an hour and he rejected both his party's incremental approachÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 1, 2018
The news didn't just take media organizations, business, and interest groups by surprise: It also came as a shock to many in the White House. Post reporter Damian Paletta says tariff backers kept the news completely under wraps, even omitting it from a high-level trade meeting on Wednesday.
CNN
March 1, 2018
A tearful Hicks announced her departure to the White House communications team Wednesday afternoon, a source inside the room told CNN. She referenced how many years she had worked for Trump, said she has always wanted the best for him and that she felt like now was the right time to go -- whichÃâà...
CNN
March 1, 2018
Washington (CNN) The tumult of the past week has fueled a deep and seething anger within President Donald Trump -- not an uncommon emotion for the insolent commander in chief -- but one that allies and aides say has escalated as he faces a new gauntlet of problems, including the encroachingÃâà...
