Sentences with phrase «obama administration»

But the insurer's rationale for abandoning the health law has also come under question, with a judge asserting that it was actually retaliation for the Obama administration's push to block a proposed merger with rival Humana.

The Obama administration has advocated for small businesses to push into global markets, and has set the goal of doubling U.S. exports by 2014.

The United States declined to reaffirm its commitment made during the Obama administration to hike that funding to $ 6.4 billion by 2021.

«Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!»

The Obama administration and former Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx laid the groundwork in January 2016 with a series of voluntary safety guidelines and by offering $ 4 billion in federal funding to foster the testing and development of self - driving technology.

President Donald Trump may be fuming over Republicans» failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, but he can certainly take solace in the GOP's swift overhaul of the Obama administration's energy and environmental agenda.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

The battle against the «Islamic State» / ISIS has just begun, and officials in Washington are reiterating that it will be a long - term fight even in the Obama administration's priority front, Iraq.

The White House official also told NBC News that Trump is also expected to sign an executive order announcing plans to pull out of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement among 12 Pacific rim countries negotiated by the Obama administration but not ratified by Congress.

Greenwald accused Gregory of advocating a position that has touched off some controversy in recent weeks with the Obama administration and leak investigations.

«Cardinal rule» of Obama administration was not to interfere in independent Justice investigations.

And last fall, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration plans to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's biggest initiative to fight climate change by curbing emissions.

Looking back on the failures of the Obama administration's Israeli - Palestinian peace efforts, he suggested that former Secretary of State John Kerry may have been too idealistic in pursuing talks that collapsed in 2014.

Early on Friday, Trump also falsely claimed on Twitter that Garcia Zarate had previously committed violent crimes and had illegally entered the US six times due to lax border security under the Obama administration.

Trump called on his Twitter followers to «ask Jeff Session» why the Obama administration is not the focus of the special counsel's Russia probe.

While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.

Hudson is a federal judge in Richmond who earned praise from conservatives when he struck down the centerpiece of the Obama administration's health care law in 2010.

Lax border security, too, does not appear to be a factor since Garcia Zarate was caught by border patrol agents each time he entered the country under the Obama administration.

The Obama administration is still reviewing a series of ambitious leasing plans drafted under former President George W. Bush that would have cleared the way to tap into the Green River basin, an area that crosses Utah, Colorado and Wyoming and is the home of America's largest oilsand and oil shale deposits.

Citing an FBI source, conservative site Newsmax is reporting that the Obama administration delayed the resignation of General Petraeus until after the election to avoid embarrassment.

In 2011, the Obama administration expanded this to include businesses that pay the higher minimum wage.

The Obama administration has awarded nearly $ 300 billion in federal - prime contracts to small businesses since 2009, and one - third of all federal - contracting dollars in the Recovery Act went to small businesses.

In 2009, the Obama administration ordered federal prosecutors not to prioritize legal action against medical marijuana dispensaries that comply with state laws.

Daniel Feldman, a special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan under Obama, said the Obama administration found it more effective to pressure Islamabad over safe havens «in private than in public, and to keep the long - standing Indo - Pak rivalry from playing out in Afghanistan».

Abe had made TPP a core of his economic growth policies and along with the Obama administration, viewed TPP as strategically vital in the face of a rising China.

The Obama administration is seeking to shake up how the government pays for heart attack - related medical care in a bid to reduce health spending, officials announced Monday.

Such a warrant would only have been granted if the FBI — not the Obama administration — was able to convince a judge that the Trump campaign had credible links to a foreign power.

The Obama administration had previously moved toward such a model for hip and knee replacement procedures, and the new regulations would also set universal target prices for treating certain hip and leg fractures.

Donald Trump's latest series of tweets, which allege the Obama administration «had my «wires tapped» in Trump Tower just before the victory,» have been widely described as baseless.

This is the second time the Obama administration has proposed roughly the same bargain.

Restrictions limit what types of supplies can flow through the Northern Distribution Network in Central Asia, set up during the Obama administration amid concerns about relying solely on Pakistan.

The House is currently engaged in a lawsuit alleging that the Obama administration's decision to pay these subsidies was illegal because they weren't specifically appropriated by Congress.

The Obama Administration inserted itself into the long standing patent battle between Apple and Samsung and delivered a win for Apple.

Among that chorus of voices, Lael Brainard, a former Obama administration official and since June 2014 a Fed governor, has become a central figure in shaping the image of a Fed that errs on the side of caution when interpreting data and events.

Trump's announcement reverses the Obama administration's decision in 2016 to allow transgender individuals to openly serve, though the implementation of that policy had been delayed by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.

For four years, he's received a work permit through an Obama administration program for young people, and doubts Trump's assurances that his administration won't target people like him for deportation.

Erdogan has called for Gulen's extradition, a request the Obama administration rebuffed.

The new title may also be a ploy to keep Wintour at Condé, as there have been rumors recently that the magazine world's most famous woman was being considered by the Obama administration for an ambassador position (even though this later turned out to be false).

There's also the looming issue of the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran.

Four years ago, Chilcott was on the U.S. Treasury's Small Business Financing Forum, where he made recommendations to the Obama administration on how to improve the flow of capital to Main Street during the credit crunch.

Schiff said the Obama administration should have acted more forcefully in responding to alleged Russian election interference when first made aware of the intelligence community's assessment prior to the November 2016 vote.

Diverging from the Obama administration's approach to the issue, which relied largely on filing complaints to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Trump ordered a probe under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which lets the president impose restrictions on imports for reasons of national security.

Nebraska's turnaround is the only event in that sequence in which the Obama Administration might not have had a hand.

«Finally, Liddle» Adam B. Schiff, the leakin» monster of no control, is now blaming the Obama Administration for Russian meddling in the 2016 Election,» Trump tweeted early Sunday morning.

Trump said the travel restrictions were similar to a six - month ban by the Obama administration on visas from Iraq in 2011.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who served in the Obama administration, said Thursday night that if Trump tried to «define or constrain» Mueller's investigation, it would create «issues of constitutional and criminal dimension.»

You might recall that a couple weeks back, the Obama Administration convened a «small business summit» to trumpet its efforts to shore up small business lending.

In April, the Obama Administration requested that states be given more time to set up multiple options for health - insurance coverage, effectively pushing deadlines back by one year.

The Trump administration is relaxing rules put in place by the Obama administration to fine nursing homes that either harm their residents or put them at risk of injury, according to Kaiser Health News.

The Obama administration has been gunning for so called «inversions», in which a U.S. company buys a smaller foreign company and then locates the merged company outside the U.S. for tax purposes, for over a year, but that hasn't stopped the flow of deals.