Sentences with phrase «house about his administration»

Cook met with President Donald Trump at the White House about his administration's trade policies and tariffs on China, which Apple has publicly criticized.

Cook met with President Trump at the White House about his administration's trade policies and tariffs on China, which Apple has publicly criticized.

Not exact matches

Early in the Trump administration, Spicer and Trump spoke openly about possibly moving the press briefings out of the White House to another location, an idea that senior adviser and former Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon — who has referred to the media as «the opposition party» — later took credit for.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was questioned about the hurricane preparations of both Trump and the administration during Thursday's press briefing.

The White House on Thursday took a shot at former administration official Omarosa Manigault after a reporter asked about her curious comments on an upcoming episode of the CBS show «Celebrity Big Brother.»

Just a day earlier, the White House released a preliminary budget for 2010 that would boost the SBA's appropriation to $ 700 million, about 45 percent more than what the Bush Administration had sought for 2009, excluding disaster aid.

She was invited to the White House during President Obama's administration to speak about financial literacy and to moderate a public meeting of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability at the U.S. Treasury Department.

But that hasn't prevented the press from giving readers an inside view of what has been happening within the Trump White House, with a daily avalanche of scoops and breaking news about the administration.

Keon said the markets weren't that concerned about the musical chairs in the Trump administration, but the fact that Kudlow was in the running for a White House post was a positive.

The White House official would not comment when asked if the administration was concerned about the appropriateness of Priebus» communications with McCabe.

«In light of the significant concerns that have been raised by members of our caucus, and in light of the irresponsible and inherently contradictory messages coming out of the White House today, I would recommend that we withdraw consideration of the bill today, to give us more time to address the privacy questions that have been raised, as well as to get a clear statement from the administration about their position on the bill,» Schiff said on the House floor.

The administration and House leadership can only afford to lose about 20 votes from Republican ranks.

Saturday Night Live is having a revival of popularity as its hard - hitting satire and perfectly casted actors — like Melissa McCarthy's hilarious portrayal of White House spokesman Sean Spicer and Alec Baldwin as Trump — speaks to the country's latest concerns about the various chaos and insanity emerging from Trump's administration.

As the White House takes its first steps towards transitioning the imminent Donald Trump administration, there are a few logistical questions that remain to be answered about its grounds: namely, the fate of Michelle Obama's vegetable garden.

When pressed for clarification about the comment, a White House official told Fortune the President was simply stressing the economic gains that had been made under his Administration.

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee earlier this year that she had warned the White House about Flynn's conversations with Kislyak so that the Trump administration «could take action» amid concerns that Flynn could be subject to blackmail by Russians.

Will this latest storm of strum and drang about «corporate welfare» and tax reform, a standard sound bite of every new White Administration — or at least every new Democratic Party White House Administration — actually result in any meaningful changes to the tax codes.

Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and one of the Trump administration's most senior economic policy officials, struck a similar note in his own farewell note about Cohn, saying he «never expected that the coworker I would work closest, and best, with at the White House would be a «globalist.

The House bill to create the federally chartered corporation would transfer about 38,000 federal workers, including 14,000 controllers who now work for the Federal Aviation Administration.

At the White House briefing, Feb. 23, press secretary Sean Spicer responded to questions about the Trump administration's stance on enforcement of federal marijuana restrictions.

The White House budget director came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion - dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan.

Settlement payments are approved by the chair and ranking member of the House Administration Committee, but they are under no obligation to tell anyone else about those payments, and more importantly, which office was responsible for them.

As Trump thought about staffing his administration following his surprise victory, he hesitated over selecting Spicer as White House press secretary.

The special counsel has asked about the role of the adviser, George Nader, in White House policymaking, indicating that he is examining Emirati influence on the Trump administration.

Housing represents about one - third of all expenses for those 65 and older, according to the Social Security Administration.

At the Federal Housing Administration, which represents about 15 percent of the mortgage market, the lights will still be on, but the staff will be reduced.

The United States» chief trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, who testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, indicated that the administration was specifically concerned about Chinese policies that compel American companies to share technology when they make investments in China.

As Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisions.

One of the nice things about the Federal Housing Administration loan, the FHA loan, thats the first time home buyer type loan, the minimum down payment loan, its only 3 years after you have had a foreclosure that you can qualify to purchase a home again.

Congressional Democrats and Obama administration officials haven't yet seen the House bill, but they apparently aren't happy with what they know about it.

For its part, the Bush administration peddled the line that 40 - year - old McClellan was plainly «disgruntled about his experience at the White House.

ASP Nanka who was a guard at the Flagstaff House during former President John Mahama's tenure lodged a complaint with the police administration about the assault, but withdrew the complaint later.

Finally, it seems Trump's congratulations to Putin went against the recommendations of his own staff, which can fuel the debates about his impulsiveness or about how well the White House administration is functioning.

Amid the noise and churn of the Trump administration — most recently about how the president paid money to silence Daniels — First Lady Melania Trump has settled into a quieter routine, often apart from the president, raising their son and carving out a place for herself in a most untraditional White House.

«The regrettable fact is that both the administration and NYCHA are in denial about the depth of the housing authority's dysfunction and mismanagement,» he said.

New York - based publisher Random House revealed that the untitled book will be «about the first years of the Trump administration, a comprehensive, deeply reported look at a history - making president.»

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted to request documents about former FBI director James B. Comey's conversations with the Obama administration and journalists, amending and replacing a Democratic resolution that was designed to obtain documents about Comey's firing by Trump.

In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction for the White House, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is in talks with the West Wing about interviewing current and former senior administration officials, including the recently ousted White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

After POLITICO reported Thursday that a spokeswoman for Halter responded to a question about whether the White House made overtures with a terse «no» and declined to elaborate, the National Republican Senatorial Committee quickly responded with a press release questioning whether the administration had written off Lincoln months ago.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

Washington (CNN)- About a dozen members of Congress were invited to meet at the White House Thursday with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and the first lady's chief of staff Tina Tchen to address the issue of sexual assault in the military, a senior administration official said.

Amid the noise and churn of the Trump administration — most recently about how the president paid money to silence Stormy Daniels — Melania Trump has settled into a quieter routine, often apart from the president, raising their son and carving out a place for herself in a most untraditional White House.

But in political circles, Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is a man who, after years of sounding the alarm about perceived Obama administration misdeeds, has struck a chord that is shaking up Washington.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said if the president were serious about enrolling the lowest - income children, the administration would allow states to sign up youngsters for SCHIP when they qualify for school - lunch and other federal programs.

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But the governor's proposed changes to the program would cost the city about $ 82 million a year more than legislation supported by the de Blasio administration in 2015, according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Politico reported.

He and his colleague Maggie Haberman are currently working on a book about the early months of Trump's administration for Random House.

«That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser on or about 12th December 2013 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, and in such capacities entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: N90million which was in the account of the ONSA with Diamond Bank Plc, committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property by remitting the said sum into the account of Brains and Hammers Limited for the purchase of 7 - bedroom duplex house at No. 11 Mansur Bamalli Drive (D1064), Apo 1 Abuja and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.

Omarosa Manigault, a reality - TV star and a longtime Trump associate who is now a communications official at the White House, got into an allegedly physical altercation with a reporter and revealed the administration has collected «dossiers» of negative information about certain journalists.