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The Hill (blog)
April 22, 2018
My understanding is that her portfolio is 'women,' " Richards said. "There are a number of places I feel she could be making an impact, but we are seeing this administration is the worst for women that I've seen in my lifetime." Trump has come under criticism from some on the left for not speaking out againstÃâà...
CNN
April 22, 2018
President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards tells CNN's Van Jones she thinks President Donald Trump's administration is the "worst for women" she's seen in her lifetime. Source: CNN Ãâ÷ CNN Original Series on CNNgo. Watch Full episode on. Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown. HFR SEPTEMBER 13Ãâà...
The Hill
April 22, 2018
LGBTQ advocates say that Trump's planned move would erase gains made for transgender Americans and get rid of treatments that transgender people have been denied in the past. The Trump administration argues that they needed to make the changes because a federal judge found parts of the ruleÃâà...
ABC News
April 21, 2018
The U.S. State Department has released its first human rights report fully compiled under the Trump administration, and it's generating controversy for several changes and omissions - including eliminating references to "reproductive rights" and dropping use of the term "occupied territories."Ãâà...
Greentech Media
April 21, 2018
The Trump administration is mulling the use of a Truman-era law to make good on the promise to restore the coal industry, according to a Thursday report from Bloomberg. The Defense Production Act of 1950 offers the president power to implement subsidies for domestically produced materials in the nameÃâà...
Reason
March 19, 2018
MATTHEW CALLAHAN/UPI/NewscomIn January, in a public address at a Washington think tank, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attempted to explain the significant shift in the Trump administration's Syria policy now that the Islamic State terrorist group was been pushed into smaller and smallerÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 19, 2018
But for the Trump administration, that might be the least of its worries. In the breakneck rush to prepare Trump for his meeting with Kim Jong Un in May, the White House is overseeing a frantic scramble to resolve even the most fundamental questions on the U.S. side: Where will the summit be? Who will beÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
WASHINGTON — Last June, the Supreme Court asked the Trump administration to file a brief. The justices wanted advice on whether to hear an appeal from victims of terrorist attacks in Israel. The request seemed unwelcome, and months passed without a response. In late October, two dozen senatorsÃâà...
Axios
March 18, 2018
The Treasury Department is ending a 10-year-old line of formal economic communication with China — the U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue — because the Trump administration is "disappointed" with perceived unfair trade practices by China, per Bloomberg. Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin will still continueÃâà...
ABC News
March 18, 2018
A federal government council made up mostly of hunters and hunting advocates met for the first time Friday to begin its efforts to advise the interior secretary on how to improve public awareness of the benefits of international recreational hunting. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke created the InternationalÃâà...
New York Times
March 17, 2018
President Trump's record-breaking staff churn does not appear to be ending anytime soon. On Friday, Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director, was fired after the Justice Department rejected an appeal two days before he was set to retire. And reports indicate that Mr. Trump — the formerÃâà...
New York Times
March 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration imposed sanctions on a series of Russian organizations and individuals on Thursday in retaliation for interference in the 2016 presidential election and other “malicious cyberattacks,” its most significant action against Moscow since President Trump took office.
New York Times
March 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Trump has long avoided blaming — or even naming — Russia for meddling in the 2016 election that put him in office. But his administration has been far tougher on Moscow for cyberattacks that officials this week said not only sought to sway political opinions, but also wormedÃâà...
TIME
March 16, 2018
President Donald Trump is shaking up his Cabinet while hinting that other changes might be in store. The recent staffing changes saw chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, communications director Hope Hicks and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leave, with CIA Director Mike Pompeo expected to takeÃâà...
NPR
March 14, 2018
The Trump administration sent an all-star team of five Cabinet secretaries to a Senate hearing Wednesday to talk up its infrastructure proposals. But not even the combined talents of the secretaries of Transportation, Commerce, Labor, Agriculture and Energy seemed enough to move the ball on the $1.5Ãâà...
Vulture
March 14, 2018
The comedian noticed what was missing from Tillerson's first speech after departing the administration — and how it might connect to Stormy Daniels. “Most interesting is what Tillerson didn't say, because he made no mention of the president in his remarks. Didn't mention Donald Trump. Sounds like RexÃâà...
Politico
March 14, 2018
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, is “hopeful” that his panel can approve a new authorization next month affecting the Trump administration's war powers, he said on Wednesday. Corker told reporters that he foresaw “a chance of being successful in April” at winningÃâà...
Politico
March 14, 2018
President Donald Trump may be itching to fire him, but Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has the support of GOP lawmakers and veterans, and the lack of a preferred successor may keep him at the agency's helm at least for now. Trump's consternation with Shulkin bubbled over during a MondayÃâà...
NPR
March 13, 2018
The Trump administration has blocked a program that has brought thousands of members of religious minorities from Iran to the U.S. Refugee advocates say some are now stranded in Austria. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Email. Get The Stories That Grabbed Us This Week. Delivered to your inbox, theseÃâà...
Vox
March 13, 2018
Trump's visit to eight wall segment prototypes standing in Otay Mesa near San Diego is fundamentally a photo op. The president wasn't intimately involved in the process of selecting the prototypes last summer, building them last fall, or testing them over the winter. But the process happened nonethelessÃâà...
CNN
March 13, 2018
Calling the staffing situation a "big mess," Stier said the move by Trump to pull from within his administration -- as he did to replace former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly in his move to White House chief of staff with Kelly's chief of staff, Kirstjen Nielsen -- is typically something seen at the end ofÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 12, 2018
Since President Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to execute U.S. drug dealers, his administration is looking into a new policy allowing just that, according to the Washington Post. The potential policy, which is being studied by the Department of Justice and the White House Domestic PolicyÃâà...
HuffPost
March 8, 2018
Lori Mashburn worked as an associate director for the Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit think tank that wields tremendous influence in the Trump administration, from October 2011 to January 2017, according to her financial disclosure form. She was also a paid adviser for President Donald Trump'sÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
Yet the Trump administration appeared to accept the conservatives' retrograde thinking with a recent announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Population Affairs outlining its priorities for awarding Title X grants. Alarmingly, unlike previous funding announcements, theÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
March 8, 2018
Who still works for President Trump? Perhaps more importantly, who still has real power in the administration? Last year, I described seven wings of the Trump administration, grouping staff with similar backgrounds or policy goals, along with an eighth bloc of figures not clearly aligned with any one faction.
CNN
March 7, 2018
One indication of where President Donald Trump might be leaning are reports that he met Wednesday with John Bolton, the hawkish Bush administration ambassador to the UN, who argues that a pre-emptive strike on North Korea would not only be legal but also effective at curbing the threat. The twoÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2018
“The Department of Justice and the Trump administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policies that are imposed on you,” Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions plans to tell a meeting of the California Peace Officers Assn. in Sacramento on Wednesday, according to excerpts of his remarksÃâà...
CNBC
March 7, 2018
The Trump administration has quietly decided once again to allow Americans to import the body parts of African elephants shot for sport. President Donald Trump personally intervened in November when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first said it would lift an Obama-era ban on elephants imported fromÃâà...
Politico
March 7, 2018
President Donald Trump is filling the upper ranks of his administration with appointees who share his disbelief in the scientific evidence for climate change — giving them an opportunity to impose their views on policies ranging from disaster planning to national security to housing standards. At the InteriorÃâà...
CNN
March 7, 2018
The lawsuit is the latest broadside from the Trump administration against so-called "sanctuary cities" -- a broad term referring to localities that abide by some measure of non-cooperation with federal law enforcement -- and amid an already heightened level of tension with California. Trump administrationÃâà...
HuffPost
March 6, 2018
“Gary has been my chief economic advisor and did a superb job in driving our agenda, helping to deliver historic tax cuts and reforms and unleashing the American economy once again,” Trump said in a statement. “He is a rare talent, and I thank him for his dedicated service to the American people.”.
New York Magazine
March 6, 2018
Back in November, the Trump administration sparked outrage (even more than usual) when it decided to lift the ban on importing the body parts of hunted elephants from Zambia and Zimbabwe, a policy put in place by President Obama. In response to the fury, Trump, in a rare move, denounced his ownÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 5, 2018
"The Trump administration doesn't have the right to circumvent the law, and to try to arbitrarily change it," said Becerra, who helped secure the delays to the administration's moves on DACA and the Interior Department's methane rule. "It seems to be a pattern by the president and his administration to try toÃâà...
The Hill
March 5, 2018
“Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November?” Trump tweeted. “Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about RussianÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
March 5, 2018
That poll also found that three-fourths of respondents think Russia will try to influence future American elections but only 60 percent said Trump is doing enough to address the threat of future influence. U.S. Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers told lawmakers last week that he has yet to receiveÃâà...
ABC News
March 5, 2018
But the moment illustrated a broader criticism of President Trump's approach to a drug crisis that is estimated to have killed 64,000 Americans in 2016, as Congress and activists have looked to intensify pressure on the administration to take more significant action to tackle what they see as a multi-front war.
Newsweek
March 5, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday it will scrap Obama-era rules governing coal ash disposal. The changes would provide companies with annual compliance cost savings of up to $100 million, but environmentalists warn that doing away with the regulations risks poisoningÃâà...
CNN
March 5, 2018
Cohn was on the brink of resigning last summer after Trump's likened white supremacists to counterprotesters after deadly clashes between the groups in Charlottesville, Virginia. Cohn, a high-profile Jewish member of the administration and former Goldman Sachs executive, said Trump's handling of theÃâà...
HuffPost
March 3, 2018
Bill Maher broke down the string of setbacks that President Donald Trump's administration has suffered in the past week on Friday's “Real Time.” ... From White House communications director Hope Hicks' resignation to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's security clearance downgrade and the president'sÃâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
If Robert Mueller would accelerate his investigation of the administration and bring some sense of justice, order and humility to all levels from President Trump on down, the country would cheer and be grateful. SIDNEY S. JACOBSON, CHESTER, N.J.. To the Editor: You write, “Donald J. Trump has thrivedÃâà...
ProPublica
March 1, 2018
Trump, the presentations state, is an “autocratic leader” who regularly “humiliates [his] senior team” and is running the administration “like a bad family owned small business.” One presentation quotes the president's statement that infrastructure should be “easy” and follows it with a rhetorical eye-roll:Ãâà...
The Nation.
March 1, 2018
But the Trump administration has taken merging with Big Law to new heights. A new report from Public Citizen, provided first to The Nation, “Big Law, Big Conflicts,” identifies 76 different lawyers working or nominated to work at cabinet agencies or inside the White House who either worked for Big Law firmsÃâà...
HuffPost
March 1, 2018
Scaramucci served in the White House for a mere 10 days after joining the administration. His tenure was heaped in controversy, including a profanity-laced interview with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza. As the gregarious Long Island native's departure was announced, Trump sent out a tweet reading “NoÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
February 28, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Officials from the Trump administration have faced intense protests when visiting historically black colleges and universities, and leaders of those institutions themselves have taken heat from students and faculty for even meeting with administration officials. But groups that representÃâà...
CNBC
February 28, 2018
Most business people are happy with the Trump administration, Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein told CNBC at the SuperReturn private equity conference in Berlin. Rubenstein was optimistic on the current state of the global economy, and does not see a slowdown until 2020.
CNBC
December 31, 1999
His personal assistant in the White House has been dismissed and escorted out of the executive mansion. His fourth communications director quit a few days ago after acknowledging she had lied to protect Trump. His staff secretary was ousted after public revelations of domestic abuse that other aides hadÃâà...
