Wisconsin to consider $3 billion Foxconn incentive package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Wisconsin governor ordered the state legislature back into special session on Tuesday to consider an incentive package that would award Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn $3 billion over 15 years in mostly cash incent…
President Trump to travel to promote tax overhaul legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump, who has been criticized for not doing enough to help pass health care legislation, will do more traveling to try to drum up support for tax legislation, a senior White House aide said on Monday.
White House communications director Scaramucci leaves in order to ‘clean slate’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday that Anthony Scaramucci, named by President Donald Trump as communications director only 10 days ago, was leaving the post.
Senator McCain says he will offer Afghanistan strategy in September
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator John McCain said on Monday he would offer a plan for a U.S. strategy in the war in Afghanistan as an amendment to a defense authorization bill in September.
U.S. Senator Hatch says 25 percent corporate rate a challenge in tax reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration face a challenge reducing the U.S. corporate income tax rate to 25 percent, let alone to the 15 percent rate sought by President Donald Trump, the Senate’s top tax law writer…
Exclusive: Senate too divided to keep up healthcare push – Senator Hatch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said on Monday that senators for now are too divided to keep working on healthcare overhaul legislation and that he and other senior Republicans will take that message to the Whi…
U.S. embassy in Moscow says locked out of diplomatic property
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in Moscow accused Russian authorities on Monday of barring diplomatic staff from a property on the outskirts of Moscow, after having earlier agreed to grant access until midday on Tuesday for them to retrieve belongi…
Trump ‘100 percent’ committed to take on tax reform in 2017: Cohn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is committed to overhauling the U.S. tax code before the end of 2017, a top White House economic advisor said on Monday.
N.J. Governor Chris Christie accosts heckler in Milwaukee
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie confronted a baseball fan who heckled him during a Sunday night game in Milwaukee, according to a video posted by local media, making the unpopular governor the target of another round of online j…
Trump fires communications director Scaramucci in new White House upheaval
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ousted recently hired White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci on Monday over an obscene tirade, sources familiar with the decision said, in the latest staff upheaval for the six-month-old a…
