Trump declines invitation to speak at NAACP convention
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has declined an invitation to address the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday.
U.S. lawmaker acknowledges corporate lobbying helped derail border tax
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An aggressive corporate lobbying effort to derail a Republican-backed border tax has forced lawmakers working on tax reform to seek alternatives, Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax-writing U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, said …
Senior U.S. Republican questions Trump’s South Korea, Asia trade moves
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. Republican trade lawmaker on Wednesday questioned the Trump administration’s plans to renegotiate a trade deal with U.S. ally South Korea, as well as the White House’s focus on bilateral trade deals.
U.S. top court rejects Trump bid to include grandparents in travel ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday a bid by President Donald Trump to include grandparents and other relatives of Americans in his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries.
N.J. Senator Menendez seeks dismissal of corruption case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey has asked a federal judge to throw out his indictment for corruption, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of conduct that can lead to such prosecutions.
Exclusive: Republicans could target Obamacare tax in wider tax overhaul – Brady
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans will consider using planned tax reform to eliminate one of the biggest taxes in Obamacare, if the Senate fails to overturn the healthcare law, a senior Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday…
House panel approves broad proposal on self-driving cars
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. House panel on Wednesday approved a sweeping proposal by voice vote to allow automakers to deploy up to 100,000 self-driving vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards and bar states from imposing driverless c…
House to write tax reform bill this fall: House speaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will start drafting legislation to overhaul the nation’s tax code after lawmakers’ upcoming summer recess, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday.
Senate Republicans reluctantly consider bipartisan healthcare talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As their seven-year effort to repeal and replace Obamacare derailed in the U.S. Senate, Republicans faced the prospect of doing the once unthinkable: working with Democrats to make fixes to former President Barack Obama’s 2010 he…
Republicans meet late into night as Trump demands new U.S. healthcare plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans struggling to agree on healthcare legislation to overhaul Obamacare obeyed U.S. President Donald Trump’s orders to try to swiftly reach a deal but were unable to resolve their differences in a long, late-night meeting…
