Senate plan delays corporate tax cut, won’t repeal Obamacare mandate: senator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans’ version of a tax cut bill will delay corporate rate cuts by one year to take effect in 2019, and will not include a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate, Republican Senate Finance Committee member Bil…
Rival Republican tax-cut plans emerging in Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rival Republican tax-cut plans were emerging in the U.S. Congress on Thursday that differed on issues such as cutting the corporate income tax, the deduction for state and local taxes and the tax on inheritances paid by the riche…
Virginia Republican Goodlatte will not seek re-election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said on Thursday he will not seek re-election next year.
Senate Republicans may repeal Obamacare’s mandate in tax bill: Cornyn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans may include a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate in their version of the party’s tax cut plan, Republican Senator John Cornyn said on Thursday, adding that the bill should be on the chamber floor the…
U.S. Treasury to announce more sanctions on Venezuelan officials: WSJ
(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department will announce more sanctions on Thursday against top Venezuelan officials, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a U.S. Senate aide.
House panel to finish work on tax legislation Thursday: chairman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. House Ways and Means Committee will wrap up work on Thursday on major tax overhaul legislation, Chairman Kevin Brady said, which could bring the measure to a vote by the full House as early as next …
Mattis looking at ways to bring Russia into compliance with arms control treaty
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday he had discussed Russia’s violation of an arms control treaty with his NATO counterparts and they were looking at how to bring Moscow into compliance with it.
In Beijing, Trump presses China on North Korea and trade
BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump pressed China to do more to rein in North Korea on Thursday and said bilateral trade had been unfair to the United States, but praised President Xi Jinping’s pledge that China would be more open to foreig…
Trump tells China’s Xi he believes North Korea solution can be found
BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday that he believes, like Xi, that a solution can be found to the North Korean nuclear issue, a day after warning Pyongyang of the grave danger of developing nuc…
Trump to talk trade and North Korea with Chinese leader Xi
BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea and trade will likely top the agenda when U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping sit down for formal talks on Thursday, a day after Trump warned Pyongyang of the grave danger of developing nuclear w…
