Sentences with phrase «house staff said»

Not exact matches

«Trump is no Lyndon Johnson,» says Robertson, «and while he is better than Obama at working congressional leadership, my friends tell me there are already antagonisms at the staff level between the Speaker / majority leader in the Senate and the White House.»

The White House chief of staff, John Kelly, also said on Thursday that US officials had «arrangements to transport them back to the United States, or to Canada, anywhere they wanted to go.»

For now, McBride said, the professional staff at the White House can do much of the event planning, with the first lady weighing in remotely and traveling down from time to time.

«That is the inexcusable part,» he continued, adding: «At the end of the day, the chief of staff is the one responsible for the staff of the White House, and I think it's fair to say this particular issue was not handled to the best of the White House's ability.»

«The original business plan for Getaway, if you can call it that, was me and my buddy Pete wanting a tiny house in the woods where we could go and escape people and escape work and escape email,» said Staff.

Trump said he brought the Cabinet secretaries, White House staff and some of their spouses to the club for a working lunch to discuss the military, the economy, health care and other issues.

FBI Director Christopher Wray and Rosenstein met on Monday with the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, to argue against releasing the memo, saying the document contained several inaccuracies and that releasing it could expose sources and methods, The Washington Post reported earlier Friday.

These nurses may collect a housing allowance and can have a say over their hours and choice of hospitals, which need these contract workers to fill in for staff out on maternity leave (normally for 13 weeks), or felled by a bad flu season.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said chief of staff John Kelly also spoke to Pruitt on Tuesday morning.

On Wednesday, after May announced the expulsion of the 23 Russian diplomats — the largest number ejected by the UK since the Cold War — multiple US officials, including the US ambassador to the UN and White House staff, said the US stands in solidarity with the UK.

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

«Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him,» said the statement from Kelly, the White House chief of staff.

If Gen. John Kelly wants to succeed as White House chief of staff, here are five things he needs to do, says former Bush aide Sara Fagen.

On Sunday, the White House Chief of Staff Reince» Priebus said the Executive Order is not intended to apply to green card holders.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus muddied the waters on President Donald Trump's new executive order barring immigration from select countries, saying Sunday it «doesn't include green card holders going forward» but adding that anyone traveling back and forth from the countries in question will be subject to further screening, including U.S. citizens.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

One day after Trump accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet, Tillerson was woken up in his hotel room by a phone call from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, sources said in the report.

WASHINGTON — White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Thursday the North Korean nuclear and missile threat is «manageable» for now but the isolated nation can't be allowed to develop the ability to strike the U.S. homeland.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

After the allegations began to surface, top Republicans, such as White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Porter's former boss Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), went out of their way to defend Porter, vouch for his good character, and say he shouldn't resign.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Chief of Staff John Kelly has reassured West Wing staffers that there will be «no immediate personnel changes at this time,» despite media reports that National - Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, among others, will be replaced.

The search for a new Veterans Affairs chief is wide open, with President Donald Trump considering as potential nominees a former Republican congressman, a hospital executive and his White House chief of staff, John Kelly, people familiar with the matter said.

«I would say that the White House staff, up to and including the president, to date have not given us a lot of confidence.»

He said the meeting would include the defense secretary, White House chief of staff John Kelly and other military leaders.

The White House chief of staff issued a second statement Wednesday saying he was «shocked» by the allegations.

«When I became Chief of Staff, I quickly realized what so many have learned about Hope — she is strategic, poised and wise beyond her years,» White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly said in a statement.

In his book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, author Michael Wolff quotes an unnamed member of Trump's senior staff as saying Haley is «as ambitious as Lucifer».

The White House said President Trump «was surprised» by the reports that former staff secretary Rob Porter abused two of his ex-wives.

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, along with lawyers Ty Cobb, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, advised Trump to be cautious with his public responses, but they were a private sounding board for his grievances, advisers said.

White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Wednesday that Flood would be joining the White House staff to «represent the president and the administration against the Russia witch hunt.»

She says Cobb informed White House chief of staff John Kelly last week that he would retire at the end of May.

White House officials said that — as Tillerson traveled through Africa last week — White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly called to wake him up in the wee hours there Saturday to alert him that Trump had decided to replace him.

Last week, White House staff secretary Robert Porter resigned after both of his ex-wives said publicly that he abused them.

After the allegations surfaced, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), whom Porter worked for, came to Porter's defense, vouching for his character and saying he shouldn't resign — although they both backed off somewhat days later.

Shulkin has sought to fire at least six of his senior managers and said as recently as Wednesday that he has assurances from White House chief of staff John F. Kelly that terminating disloyal staffers is within his authority.

The White House released a statement Friday saying that Bannon and White House chief of staff John Kelly had «mutually agreed» that this would be Bannon's last day in his job.

«Until a bishop shows some leadership over their own staff, it's going to be hard to negotiate,» the official said, who would speak only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss White House negotiations.

«It's like a really bad marriage,» Chris Whipple, author of a history of White House chiefs of staff, said of the relationship between President Trump and his chief of staff.

«Unfortunately, the White House knew all along that there was no chance in reaching the bishops - Richard Doerflinger, John Carr and the Bishops Conference staff are far too cozy with right - wing politicians on the Hill to have any real negotiation,» says a senior Democratic official, referring to influential bishops conference staffers.

The Obama White House keeps in close contact with American Jewish leaders, trumpeting what it says is a close relationship with Israel around developments like this month's transport of the Israeli ambassador and staff out of Egypt after the Jewish state's embassy there was attacked, an operation in which the United States played a major role.

Nor have we yet seen any self - professed evangelical Christian within the entire White House staff willing, shall we say, to «come out of the closet.

Fr Groves said staff at Lucy Faithfull House «did some fantastic work» and urged the city council to consider reopening it.

In addition to the training provided to wait staff and hourly employees, all managers undergo a 10 - week training that «brings them from the back to the front of the house,» Baron Herrera says.

The Brew House staff let me order the burger immediately before finding a seat, as they said it would take 20 minutes or so to prepare.

The first goal at Music House School of Performing Arts Fine Arts summer camp is fun, says assistant director Ashley Trumbo, and the staff really love showing kids why art, theater, music and dance should be and can be just that.

The administration at the hospital says it has decided to eliminate the clinic because space is at a premium and they can not afford to house any program that does not directly involve hospital staff.

The guest judge (Kass out of the White House) did say that he would only take $ 4 for operating expenses out of their $ 138 budget to serve those 50 children, and that most schools had to spend much more than that on supplies, staff, etc..

A statement announcing the commencement of his duties said: «Mr. Kenneth Wujangi the newly appointed Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Operations at the Flagstaff House, has taken office».

I can't tell exactly the position he has been offered but what I can say is that he will work at the Flag Staff House.»

Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff will depart the White House in the coming weeks and will be replaced by a long - serving aide, in the first major staff change of his office, officials said.