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BuzzFeed News
April 16, 2018
A senior White House official tried to tamp down on speculation that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would soon be fired by President Donald Trump, saying that his ... White House officials have started to hint that should Trump fire Rosenstein, the document issue would be the justification why.
The Hill
April 15, 2018
Sunday shows preview: White House officials talk Syria strike. By Josh Delk - 04/14/18 05:19 PM EDT 0. 8. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook FacebookShare to Twitter TwitterShare to Google+ Google+. inShareÃâà...
WLS-TV
April 14, 2018
The Russian government's response to Syria's continuing use of chemical weapons is "extremely disconcerting," according to one of the White House officials. Pointing a finger at Russia for its role in Syrian chemical attacks has been among the key talking points in recent days by President Trump'sÃâà...
UPROXX
April 13, 2018
President Trump Officially Pardons Scooter Libby, The Former White House Official Convicted Of Perjury ... As the White House's official statement notes, “One of the key witnesses against Mr. Libby recanted her testimony” in 2015, which in turn convinced the District of Columbia Court of Appeals toÃâà...
New York Magazine
April 13, 2018
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a controversial former national security aide to President Donald Trump who was pushed out of the White House by H.R. McMaster, is rejoining the Trump administration. In his new role he will serve as Attorney General Jeff Sessions's national security adviser. A 31-year-old formerÃâà...
ABC News
April 11, 2018
As ABC reported in March 2017, Cohen-Watnick was one of two White House officials who played a role in surfacing the classified 'unmasking' documents viewed by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. At the time, Nunes described the information as potential evidence of improperÃâà...
CBC.ca
April 10, 2018
Trump's homeland security adviser becomes latest White House official to resign. Donald Trump's homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, has resigned, the U.S. president's spokesperson says — the latest in a string of senior advisers to leave the White House.
KBTX
March 30, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee is asking for new records from two current and former White House officials as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote a letter to aÃâà...
Haaretz
March 30, 2018
The Palestinians have been stating for months that the administration is going to fully adopt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's positions, and release a peace plan that will be unacceptable to any Palestinian leader who wishes to survive. The senior White House official who spoke with Haaretz saidÃâà...
Politico
March 29, 2018
Mississippi Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the seat longtime GOP Sen. Thad Cochran is vacating over objections from senior Republicans, met with top White House officials on Wednesday. The meeting, which according to two Republicans familiar with the visit included members ofÃâà...
ArmyTimes.com
March 29, 2018
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, center, arrives for a news conference at the Washington D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center on March 7, 2018. On Wednesday, following a month of controversies, Shulkin was fired by President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik/AP). WASHINGTON — FormerÃâà...
E&E News
March 29, 2018
Officials plot infrastructure strategy ahead of Trump trip. Hannah Northey and Nick Sobczyk, E&E News reporters. Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2018. White House officials said today that President Trump's infrastructure plan is likely to move in bits and pieces, not the broad package that the president has beenÃâà...
The Hill
March 24, 2018
John Bolton plans to fire dozens of White House officials: report. By Avery Anapol - 03/24/18 07:56 AM EDT. 8,036. AddThis Sharing Buttons ... “Bolton can and will clean house,” one former White House official told Foreign Policy. Another former official said any National Security Council officials appointed under formerÃâà...
CNBC
March 23, 2018
White House official: President Trump frustrated by Dems blocking DACA. 10:16 AM ET Fri, 23 March 2018. CNBC's Eamon Javers reports the latest on President Trump's threat to veto to the government spending bill over DACA and the border wall. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
SPIN
March 21, 2018
On Tuesday evening, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump ignored literally every one of his advisers in congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on winning what was clearly a farce of an election. Among the details reported was a section of the president's intelligence briefing consistingÃâà...
CNBC
March 19, 2018
President Donald Trump ordered senior staff after they joined the White House to sign non-disclosure agreements following several leaks in the early months of his administration, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The agreements stipulated officials could face monetary penalties if they disclosedÃâà...
JerusalemOnline
March 18, 2018
According to the Washington Post, several White House officials confirmed on Friday that US President Donald Trump has decided to oust National Security Adviser General Herbert McMaster and is looking for potential replacements. Trump is reportedly comfortable with ousting McMaster and is willing toÃâà...
NDTV
March 17, 2018
If you had to point to a part of the relationship where you have the most friction, it certainly would be the trade side," a White House official who spoke on ... The US shares very strong ties with India and is in favour of free, fair and reciprocal trade with it, a senior White House official has said even as heÃâà...
The Hill
March 17, 2018
White House officials are weighing whether to rehire a personal aide to President Trump Ãâ÷ Donald John TrumpAccuser says Trump should be afraid of the truth Woman behind pro-Trump Facebook page denies being influenced by Russians Shulkin says he has White House approval to root out 'subversion'Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 16, 2018
Q&A: Ex-White House Official Says New Russia Sanctions Will Have 'Marginal, If Any, Impact'. March 15, 2018 19:53 GMT. RFE/RL. "This is duplicating what were already weak sanctions to begin with," says Michael Carpenter, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense. Share. Share on Facebook Ãâ÷ Share on TwitterÃâà...
GovExec.com
March 15, 2018
Political appointees at the State Department targeted career employees for their work during the Obama administration and discussed “cleaning” out civil servants not sufficiently supportive of the Trump administration, according to internal documents released by congressional Democrats. The documentsÃâà...
CNBC
March 15, 2018
The U.S. can institute tariffs on foreign goods without sparking a global trade war, Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, said in an interview. "He's firm but flexible," Navarro said of President Donald Trump. "We're working hard to restructure the trading environment that worksÃâà...
Bustle
March 7, 2018
When he first joined the White House, President Trump's chief economic adviser was one of the most affluent members of the Trump administration. Now on his way out after announcing his impending resignation on Tuesday, Gary Cohn's net worth still remains a little ambiguous, but most reports indicateÃâà...
WSLS 10
March 7, 2018
WASHINGTON - A Virginia Tech professor is giving a presentation to a group of White House officials Tuesday, according to a university spokesperson. Dr. Warren Bickel is scheduled for a briefing Tuesday in Washington, D.C., on drug-addiction research, focusing on opioids. The meeting is confidentialÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 3, 2018
As a result, White House officials were unable to conduct a background check on the executives to make sure they were appropriate for the president to ... to NBC News, another White House official said that the communications team "was well-prepared to support the president's announcement" and thatÃâà...
Milford Daily News
March 3, 2018
UPTON — Quentin Palfrey, a former Obama White House official and nonprofit leader running for lieutenant governor, spoke at Upton's Democratic Caucus recently. A longtime Democratic activist, announced his candidacy in September and topped the Democratic field of lieutenant governor's candidatesÃâà...
Voice of America
March 3, 2018
The White House chief of staff revealed to reporters Friday that it was determined months ago there was no need for dozens of officials to have top secret clearances. John Kelly said he made "immediate changes" after arriving as chief of staff when he noticed, in terms of the handling of classified material,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 3, 2018
The U.S. Steel Corp. plant stands in the town of Clairton, Pa., a potential beneficiary of President Trump's tariffs on imported metals. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images). The White House scrambled Friday to deal with a flood of questions and criticisms from around the globe after President Trump's surpriseÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 15, 2018
White House officials said Wednesday they would not comment, as is their policy, on the nature of security clearances. ... A White House official on Thursday, however, said that Steinman had full clearance all along and was erroneously on the list, and that Hill had received hers after the list was compiled.
Politico
February 14, 2018
White House officials say they have been left largely in the dark about how chief of staff John Kelly intends to address the interim clearance issue going forward. “The whole thing is just demoralizing,” a White House official told POLITICO, arguing that Banks was a victim of the Porter firestorm. “I think a lot ofÃâà...
CNN
February 12, 2018
Washington (CNN) Several White House officials have expressed confusion over President Donald Trump's conflicting remarks on the allegations made against his former staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned last Wednesday after his two former spouses accused him of physical and verbal abuse.
CNN
February 9, 2018
The White House has faced pointed questions about why Porter remained in his role for months after senior White House officials knew of the allegations made by his two ex-wives. Porter has denied the allegations. Carroll's departure, in quick succession with Porter's, will leave a large hole to be filled inÃâà...
Toronto Star
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON—White House officials are looking into whether $500 million (U.S.) in loans that went to Trump administration senior adviser Jared Kushner's family real estate company may have spurred ethics or criminal law violations, according to the head of the federal government's ethics agency.
Press Herald
December 31, 1999
The plans to oust Tillerson had been drawn up months ago, but the timing caught even senior White House officials unawares. The firing was just the latest in an exodus of administration officials, including those in Trump's inner circle, with the president already setting records for staff turnover and severalÃâà...
WSMV Nashville
December 31, 1999
(CNN) -- White House officials were alarmed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' struggle to answer basic questions about the nation's schools and failure to defend the administration's newly proposed school safety measures during a tour of television interviews Sunday and Monday, according to twoÃâà...
WGN-TV
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON –A man shot himself in front of the White House on Saturday, a law enforcement source told CNN. “Secret Service personnel are responding to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound along the north fence line of @WhiteHouse,” the Secret Service tweeted.
Axios
December 31, 1999
"The White House is planning to make a major announcement today about whether it will impose new limits on steel and aluminum imports, ... following months of speculation about whether President Trump would follow through on trade threats and impose tariffs that could roil global markets," The Washington Post reports.
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
The "bloody nose" strike against North Korea that was reportedly proposed by White House officials appears to have brought about as much confusion now as it did shock when it was first reported. The term has been circulating around foreign policy circles after The Telegraph published an article that citedÃâà...
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
As a White House official, Trump is an advocate and surrogate on the president's behalf; she's voluntarily politicized herself and is therefore not entitled to special treatment from the press. Any high-ranking presidential adviser, let alone one whose portfolio includes women's issues, would reasonably faceÃâà...
