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New York lawmakers had not seen a White House funding proposal as of Wednesday afternoon, their aides said.
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Ultimately, these recommendations will depend on the White House's and Congress» desire to fund them.
President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.
«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
«I think many states would have a serious challenge in providing 80 % of funding for viable infrastructure projects,» said one lobbyist closely involved in tracking the issue, referring to the component of the White House plan that caps federal investment at 20 %.
Hedge fund king Ray Dalio says it would be «terrible» if Gary Cohn would leave the White House and could upset markets.
At last year's gathering, Trump was unofficially represented by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, who would later last just 10 days as the White House communications director.
The fund created a permanent endowment of $ 25 million that would maintain the public rooms and collections in the White House.
Congressional aides said that the White House had suggested a three - year extension of the DACA program in exchange for $ 25 billion in funding for the border wall, a proposal Democrats rejected.
However, even as the SBA hopes that Congress can pass a bill to fund the government beyond midnight, it has filed a plan with the White House Office of Management and Budget outlining its strategy in the case of a government shutdown.
The White House is also likely to propose rolling backing some of the domestic spending increases in last month's government - wide funding bill.
The White House initially offered a roughly three - year DACA extension in exchange for $ 25 billion in border wall funding, Axios reported on Thursday, citing Congressional sources familiar with the negotiations.
The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.
The White House has proposed a $ 1.2 billion funding cut to the NIH for just 2017, and more wide - ranging decreases down the line.
Saying the bill «abandoned» DACA recipients and did not fully fund his proposed U.S. - Mexico border wall, Trump surprised officials on both Capital Hill and in the White House with his tweet.
The White House wants funding for a border wall, additional immigration enforcement personnel, and a crackdown on unaccompanied minors arriving in the U.S., mainly from Central American countries.
But while the RNC's new recommendations may not be directly aimed at quashing another Paul's White House run, conservative activists argue that the changes to the primary process would inevitably benefit candidates who are well - funded and have high - name recognition, to the detriment of those who draw their support from the GOP's activist base.
In January 2017, HNA Capital, one of the group's subsidiaries, pledged $ 200 million for a majority stake in SkyBridge Capital, the New York hedge fund of Anthony Scaramucci, facilitating Scaramucci's colorful, albeit brief, stint as an official in the Trump White House.
«There are the people who just want to keep doing what they are doing, and their concern is that the new regulations will make what has always worked suddenly become legally ambiguous,» says Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Funders Club, an online venture capital firm that has been invited to comment on the changes by the White House, the Treasury and several D.C. think tanks.
While one $ 9 million fund in Colorado won't heal the division between urban and rural communities, it is a step in the right direction and sets an example Congress and the White House should follow.
During a speech in the Rose Garden, Trump announced a new White House faith office meant to «ensure that faith - based organizations have equal access to government funding and the equal right to exercise their deeply held beliefs.»
Robert Frost delves on issues in funding, human resources, and changes in White House administrations as well as the advent of the Commercial Crew Program.
In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.
Younger is a leader for women's health, safety and economic security, and most notably, was a leader of Prosperity Together, the initiative announced at the White House in November that will provide $ 118 million in funding for women and girls of color.
When Summers returned to Washington, this time to the White House, as President Obama's top economic adviser, he prominently mentioned Zimmerman, by then a billionaire hedge fund proprietor, as among his kitchen cabinet of advisers.
After leaving the White House, Summers's decision to work as a consultant for financial - sector clients such as Citigroup and the hedge fund company D.E. Shaw have added to that image.
States will receive funds based on the severity of the epidemic and on the strength of their strategy to respond to it, the White House stated.
The revelation of The Free Beacon's involvement with Fusion GPS threatens a rapprochement between Mr. Trump and Mr. Singer, who donated $ 1 million to the president's inaugural fund and has visited the White House on multiple occasions.
White House and congressional leaders have not yet made final decisions about the amount of funding, or whether to link it to extensions of the debt limit or of broader government spending, and conversations remained fluid Thursday evening.
Trump's comments, delivered at a White House news conference, illustrate the political minefield he will navigate in September as he tries to draw support for disaster recovery funds but wages a bitter fight with lawmakers from both parties about whether U.S. taxpayers should finance the creation of a wall that he has long promised Mexico would fund.
Two of President Trump's biggest boosters, American hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and former White House aide Steve Bannon, had invested in Cambridge Analytica.
As negotiators stumbled toward an end - of - the - week deadline to fund the government or face a federal shutdown, House Speaker Paul Ryan dashed to the White House amid concerns Trump's support was wavering.
According to Bloomberg sources, «the White House would like to extend the debt limit long enough to move back the threat of a U.S. default until after Congress can deal with funding for the full federal fiscal year and tax legislation the Trump administration backs.»
This amount was also asked by The US White House to reserve in the US Budget for 2016 to fund cybersecurity measures.
The White House has denied the affair ever happened — despite mounting evidence of a nondisclosure agreement and a $ 130,000 payout — but the story has snowballed into an investigation of potential misuse of campaign funds.
The first priority listed in the White House's executive summary is to «Fund and complete construction of the southern border wall.»
The White House ultimately dropped the demand that the legislation include wall funding, and a coalition of Republicans and Democrats approved a bill in May that looked similar to spending measures that had been supported by the Obama administration.
Hosted by President Obama, White House Demo Day will showcase the talents of innovators around the country, as they pitch ideas and share their stories with potential funders.
The presidential vote of confidence for Powell reflects the White House and Treasury's desire for low interest rates to fund the public debt and support high asset prices, as well as the probability that the Senate will quickly confirm the nominee.
White House assures American Jews that the US will continue to blindly fund the apartheid nation called Isreal.
Uganda had its funding removed by the White House after it passed a harsh bill condemning same - sex actions.
I can't name a specific church, but I know the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives has given public funds to many churches.
The Obama administration announced its first round of grants from a new fund aimed at helping pregnant women and parenting teens on Wednesday, a move the White House framed as part of its «common ground» approach to abortion.
Pro-life members of Congress outmaneuvered President Clinton for one of the rare occasions during his seven years in the White House, and only a small percentage of United States funds for international family planning will go to abortion advocacy organizations as a result.
He actively worked to seduce others from their pro-life stands, and President Obama brought Casey to the White House to help himfind a way for Senator Ben Nelson to allow abortion funding to pass.
CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa
Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa
And while the Trump administration would like to slash the USDA's discretionary budget, which includes funding for the WIC program (nutrition assistance for women, infants and young children), the White House apparently remains committed to funding WIC for now.
As you know from prior posts here on The Lunch Tray, the key issue is funding — should the bill be funded using money currently allocated to the food stamps program, and will the White House live up to its recent promise to eventually make up those funding shortfalls if the bill is passed?
Of course, both Cruz and Rubio would like to live in the White House, and it's hard to imagine that they haven't considered the long - term usefulness of building a list of people rabidly opposed to Obama's central legislative achievement (on that front, I signed the petition as «Bob Dobbs» and immediately landed on a page asking me to donate to the «Senate Conservatives Fund»).