Sentences with phrase «white house efforts»

Other confidential documents obtained by The Observer detail White House efforts to suppress research that shows the world's climate is warming.

Mick Womersley, who teaches human ecology at Unity College, has blogged on earlier White House efforts to cut energy waste and weighed in with a Dot Earth comment laying out his argument for a big solar deployment push and expressing pride in his students» initiative.

While Ross is a top economic advisor to Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and chief economic advisor Gary Cohn have led the White House effort on taxes.

It's true that I've been pushing for energy poverty to get more attention and was pretty heartened by the White House effort which aims to increase electricity generation by 10,000 MW in six target countries.

There was a systematic White House effort to minimize the significance of climate change by editing climate change reports.

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The White House said the agreements reflect administration efforts «to reach fair outcomes with allies to protect our national security and address global challenges to the steel and aluminum industries.»

With the White House ramping up efforts to derail the ambitions of Chinese tech companies in the U.S., electronics giant Huawei said it would increasingly look to Europe to grow its international market share in high - end devices.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement ahead of the announcement.

Cohn has served as a point man on top White House priorities such as tax reform and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, but both of those efforts have been muddled by Trump's increasingly combative relationship with Congress, one that was strained even further by his comments on Charlottesville.

Cohn's departure would further set back those efforts and perhaps give the upper hand in the White House to a group of advisers seeking to scale back foreign trade, said a Wall Street executive who asked not to be named.

Now it appears as though these same hackers used the State Department cyber intrusion — which has been ongoing despite the department's best efforts to block and wipe it — as a beachhead to gain entry into the White House's computer systems.

But the Trump army is nowhere near big enough to propel him to the White House, especially since he has made no effort to unify the party behind his candidacy.

As part of that sales effort, Trump on Wednesday welcomed to the White House seven representatives of companies that have passed on the benefits of the tax law to their employees.

Jorge Lima, the Executive Director of the LIBRE Initiative, said that in addition to working with both chambers of Congress and the White House on a bill, his organization would mobilize its grassroots efforts to hammer home their principles to elected officials and individual communities.

The company's technical innovations, sustainability efforts, and programs for employees have earned it multiple awards, including Chrysler's Technology Role Model Award, the White House's Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership, and the National Governors Association's Distinguished Service Award.

He was joined by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett at an event called Detroit Homecoming, a relatively small invitation - only event designed to show off the city's ongoing rehabilitation efforts.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.

Kushner has been one of the Democrats» main targets, with efforts made to obtain emails from a private address he used while in the White House as well as to strip him of his security clearance.

The nomination of Contreras - Sweet, a Latina woman, may be an effort to stave off some of the flack the White House has received for having too many white men in its cabWhite House has received for having too many white men in its cabwhite men in its cabinet.

Last week, Gowdy said on Fox News that he had proof of a «systematic, intentional» effort by the White House to withhold certain documents from Congress about the attack.

Its one effort to make it unusable for bombs has turned into what the White House and Energy Department say is a costly failure.

It arrived as about a half - dozen senators were at the White House meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the next steps in the GOP effort to ensure passage of the bill.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

Last week, Senator Patty Murray from Washington and 13 other Democratic senators warned White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to stop efforts that could «undermine access to affordable preventive services, including contraception, for women,» according to the New York Times.

After Trump won the presidency, Nicole Hockley, another founder of Sandy Hook Promise, said that the group would continue its efforts at the state and local level - and argued that, no matter who is in the White House, «I still don't think our country is ready yet for federal change.»

However, that effort has largely stalled, both because of a lack of decision - making in the West Wing and concerns among some potential recruits about joining a White House under the cloud of investigation.

White House officials appear eager to keep the president away from television and Twitter Thursday, though those efforts rarely succeed.

While the president is overseas, some White House officials will stay behind to work on the tax overhaul effort, including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and top economic advisor Gary Cohn.

Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

The Nixon campaign settled that suit for $ 750,000 on the same day that Nixon resigned in disgrace in August 1974 as a result of his efforts to cover - up White House ties to the Watergate burglars.

Kushner, who had a broad portfolio in the White House, including leading Middle East peace negotiations and an effort to modernize and reduce the size of some government programs, lost his interim top - secret security clearance, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Last year Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, resigned from Kushner Cos and sold his stake to a family trust as part of an effort to avoid conflicts of interests in his White House role.

U.S. President Donald Trump approved emergency declarations for Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, mobilizing federal disaster relief efforts, the White House said.

Burns, who has recently been giving Trump credit for diplomatic efforts with China and North Korea, said the White House needs to separate any U.S. response in Syria and the American relationship with Russia, which has been militarily supporting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a massive $ 1.5 trillion tax bill, capping off a yearlong effort by the White House and Republicans in Congress to slash tax rates for both corporations and individuals.

A White House spokesman in March announced the intention to assign tariffs explicitly in response to «China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property.»

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders first learned President Trump reimbursed his personal attorney for his payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels during a Fox News interview Wednesday night, suggesting senior communications officials were left in the dark about the president's involvement in efforts to silence Daniels.

At times, Pruitt directly coordinated with the Oklahoma oil and gas industry to put pressure on the Obama White House in an effort to weaken clean air and water regulations or squash investigations.

How does this dovetail with the overall western effort to characterize Iran as behind every nefarious act, even the ludicrous - sounding plot announced months ago by the White House, in which the Iranians were purportedly trying to recruit Mexican drug gangs to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US?

HERERA: Seventeen states have sued the White House over its efforts to loosen car emission rules.

On the eve of critical hearings on Capitol Hill, top White House officials are intensifying efforts to document wasteful spending by Scott Pruitt as President Trump weighs whether to keep supporting his controversial Environmental Protection Agency chief, senior administration officials said Wednesday.

Furthermore, the recovering French economy and Macron's domestic reform efforts have also not gone unnoticed in the White House.

But the visit by Greenblatt, who is leading the daily effort within the White House to forge a US - led peace plan, comes at a time of crisis in relations between the Trump administration and the Palestinian Authority.

TechStars led the effort to form the Global Accelerator Network in 2010 as part of the White House's Startup America Initiative.

The White House announced the 12 organizations that have been promised personal donations, totaling $ 1 million, from President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump to go toward Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

The White House is hosting an opioids summit to highlight Trump administration efforts to combat the opioid crisis.

United Airlines has tapped former White House press chief Josh Earnest to head its communications team, part of the effort to improve the fortunes of a carrier damaged by everything from poorly received growth plans to the death of a dog in an overhead bin.

In a coordinated effort, The White House published an article on Medium announcing the rules as well as holding a conference call with stakeholders on the new rules.

, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, came as White House and congressional leaders discussed a plan to immediately pump about $ 6 billion into federal disaster relief efforts.

The attackers posted an erroneous Tweet from the Associated Press account reporting that there had been explosions at the White House, triggering a stock market decline, and focusing media attention on our brand and security efforts.