President Donald Trump has reportedly told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to prepare a $750 billion budget proposal for 2020, according to Politico's Wesley Morgan. This request comes just months after Trump asked every major cabinet agency to submit proposals cutting their budget by 5% next year, according to The Washington Post. Trump said he wanted…
President Donald Trump said Saturday that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is on his way out of the administration. Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn that Kelly will be leaving "at the end of the year" and he will announce his replacement in the next day or two. Trump added…
World News: US President-elect Donald Trump chose Exxon Mobil's CEO Rex Tillerson to head the State Department, rejecting concerns over the close relations of the businessman with Russia. Trump's decision cap a long process that has often played in public cracks and exposed within its transition team. He also puts Trump in place for a potential fight with Congress on Tillerson's confirmation, which has connections with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
An escalation of the global trade conflict which saw US President Donald Trump levy increased tariffs on the European automotive sector could knock as much as $75 billion from growth in the eurozone next year, according to analysts at Barclays. Writing this week, a Barclays team led by Francois Cabau estimated that if Trump were…
Trump announced plans to withdraw the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, which analysts believe could have profound effects on the automotive industry.
Donald Trump had an "informal" conversation with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Argentina on Friday, one day after the U.S. president announced that he had decided to cancel a meeting with his Russian counterpart because of new developments in Russia's conflict with Ukraine. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed their discussion at…
The incoming chairs of two powerful House committees have predicted a "real prospect of jail time" for President Donald Trump, and said that new accusations about Michael Cohen's illegal hush payments are "impeachable offenses." Rep. Adam Schiff, the incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told the CBS show "Face the Nation" on Sunday: "There's…
The United States will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in its elections, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, after signing an executive order that initiates actions, including sanctions, against foreign entities who meddle or even attempt to interfere in US polls.
United States President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was willing to shut down the government if the promises made by the Congress to fund his border wall were not fulfilled by September.
Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., recalled Margaret Sanger's - founder of Planned Parenthood - racist and eugenicist politics in a Friday interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning. Manning and Mansour asked King to address the Trump administration's Friday issuance of a rule regarding…
Otero ruled in October that Trump's statement was "rhetorical hyperbole" against a political adversary and was protected speech under the First Amendment. Although the lawsuit didn't get far before Otero tossed it, he said it was a "one of a kind" case that demanded a fair bit of legal work. "Given a case of this…
The rushed, vague nature of President Donald Trump's trade agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping was on full display Monday, as the White House had to walk back a timing announcement by Trump's top economic adviser. As part of the deal reached by Trump and Xi during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on…
Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 10, 2018 / 9:46 AM GMT By Robert S. Chang, founding executive director, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of LawWith the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled to hear oral arguments on Monday in the Doe v. Trump legal challenge to the…
CLOSE President Trump declared a national emergency to free up funding for his border wall between the U.S and Mexico. But declaring a national emergency isn't new -- in fact, the use of emergency powers is older than the country itself. USA TODAY, Just the FAQs WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's announcement Friday that he was…
Reuters reported exclusively on Wednesday that both sides were drafting memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on cyber theft, intellectual property rights, services, agriculture and non-tariff barriers to trade, including subsidies. On Friday, Trump said he did not like MOUs because they are short-term in nature, and he wanted a long-term deal. An industry source briefed on…
US President Obama & German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have made a tough start, but his imminent departure sparked a wave of nostalgia and trepidation in Berlin.
Neil Gorsuch is selecting the Federal Court of judge to reinstate the Conservative majority of the court and help formulate Decisions on divisive issues.