Trump slams federal court ruling on funding for ‘sanctuary cities’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked a federal judge’s ruling that blocked his executive order seeking to withhold funds from “sanctuary cities” for illegal immigrants, vowing to appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump’s plan to slash business taxes seen as ‘guidepost’ by congressional Republicans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump unveiled a one-page plan on Wednesday proposing deep U.S. tax cuts, many for businesses, that would make the federal deficit balloon if enacted, drawing a cautious welcome from fiscal conservatives and fina…
U.S. Congress may seek one-week funding extension to avert shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress inched toward a deal to fund the government through September but was preparing to possibly extend a midnight Friday deadline in order to wrap up negotiations and avoid an imminent government shutdown.
Exclusive: A New York hotel deal shows how some public pension funds help to enrich Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Public pension funds in at least seven U.S. states have invested millions of dollars in an investment fund that owns a New York hotel and pays one of President Donald Trump’s companies to run it, according to a Reuters review of …
U.S. lawmakers say Trump administration still lacks clear North Korea plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers said high-profile briefings by the Trump administration on North Korea on Wednesday failed to provide the firm strategy they had hoped for dealing with what they described as a major national security threat.
U.S. lawmakers push Yucca nuclear dump facing transport crunch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday debated resurrecting the stalled Yucca Mountain spent nuclear fuel dump in Nevada, a project critics say is hindered by the lack of an easy transport route.
Trump opposes including Obamacare subsidies in spending bill: Mulvaney
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will not agree to a Democratic demand that subsidies for Obamacare be included in a must-pass spending bill in Congress, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said on Tuesday.
U.S. commerce secretary eyes more trade moves: WSJ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration may undertake trade actions to protect the U.S. semiconductor, shipbuilding and aluminum industries, citing national security concerns, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told the Wall Street Journal in an in…
Trump administration to review dozens of U.S. national monuments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday will order a review of national monuments created over the past 20 years with an aim toward rescinding or resizing some of them – part of a broader push to reopen areas to drilling, mining…
State prosecutors urge Trump not to withdraw from Paris accord
NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than a dozen state prosecutors urged President Donald Trump in a letter on Tuesday not to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, which commits the United States, along with 200 other countries, to reducing its greenhouse g…
