Sentences with phrase «white house walls»

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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.

So far the loose populist coalition that swept Trump to the White House has shown more bark than bite on Wall Street, Silicon Valley and «big business» in general — but there's reason to believe it won't necessarily stay that way:

Before the White House intervened on Tuesday, Qualcomm had been working its political ties behind the scenes at least since December, according to a revealing «tick - tock,» as we call such stories in the media biz, by Wall Street Journal reporters Ted Greenwald, Kate O'Keeffe, and Tripp Mickle.

Already, chatter on Wall Street (and in the White House) has turned to the next target.

According to a Wall Street Journal report published on Tuesday, some White House officials prefer Singapore over the DMZ, to avoid the potentially complicated optics of having a US president show up on North Korea's doorstep.

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.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Thursday that the administration is pushing for a 20 % border tax on Mexican imports to help pay for the wall.

Following the now - common Trump White House communications strategy, he told Business Insider that the author of the Wall Street Journal report «is the mastermind behind fake news.»

Now, the White House is tackling areas where there's far less consensus support from Wall Street.

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.

Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Kushner, told The Wall Street Journal that when the loans were first reported the White House concluded there were no issues.

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.

During a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US - Mexico border wall.

The move drew fire from Democrats and other critics, who said it showed the Republican White House was aligned with Wall Street, not middle - income Americans.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer then followed this up with comments suggesting that the Trump administration is considering a 20 % tax on imports, starting with Mexico, that would help finance the building of a border wall between the US and Mexico.

Wall Street traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on November 15, 2017 in New York, as US President Donald Trump delivers a televised statement from the White House.

The nonstop stream of (often bad) news out of President Donald Trump's White House has become a liability for Wall Street, one market strategist told CNBC recently, but market benchmarks may still set new highs nevertheless.

The stream of news out of President Trump's White House has become a liability for Wall Street, a strategist said.

«Until we can have a wall and proper security we're going to be guarding our border with the military,» Trump said Tuesday at the White House.

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.

Here are a few of the off - the - wall - iest ideas on the White House petition site, and how they might impact the U.S. economy.

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.

While in the building, your DCMNI columnist also spoke with senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, the administration's main liaison to Wall Street and the business community, and she had the same message.

Council, Larry Summers is a White House insider, and, according to a Wall Street Journal source, «hellbent» on getting the job.

The authors point to reporting in the Wall Street Journal from 2015 that Google executives» frequent visits to the White House under Mr Obama may have factored in a decision by the Federal Trade Commission to drop its antitrust investigation into the internet giant.

WASHINGTON Gary Cohn, the top economic adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump and a voice for Wall Street in the White House, said on Tuesday he would resign, a move that came after he lost a fight over Trump's plans for hefty steel and aluminum import tariffs.

Despite the uncertainty emanating from the White House, Wall Street is off to its best start in years: the benchmark S&P 500 index is already up about 4 percent in 2018.

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.

Obama could win if he will drive all of the Wall Street people from Goldman Sachs and Corporate America from the White House.

Evaluating Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and Commerce Secretary - designate Wilbur Ross, Buffett said: «They're Wall Street guys.

That's why «Fire and Fury,» by journalist Michael Wolff, which purported to be a fly - on - the - wall, inside view of life in the Trump White House, shot to No. 1 on Amazon.com last week after Donald Trump's lawyers tried to suppress it.

His research on the economics of technology has been discussed in White House reports, Congressional testimony, European Commission documents, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, CBC Radio, National Public Radio, Forbes, Fortune, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has told Wall Streeters in no uncertain terms to face reality: He won't be the nominee, Politico's Ben White says.

Syria, Russia say Israel launched missile strike on Syrian air base Wall St Journal Hungary's nationalist prime minister wins third term in power: Reuters Trump predicts China will blink first in trade dispute with US: Bloomberg Trump administration officials soften tone on trade dispute with China: WSJ N. Korea says it will discuss denuclearization: NY Times Kudlow: White House considering plans to undo parts of spending bill: Wash Exam US hiring growth slowed sharply in March: Bloomberg German industrial production fell by the most in over 2 years in Feb: Reuters Forward curve for 1 month overnight indexed swap rate inverts: Bloomberg Many US state govts struggling with weak revenue growth: The Economist

Vice President Mike Pence promised to swiftly pass hurricane aid for Congress, with no mention of the wall, and it doesn't seem likely that Congress and the White House would risk a government shutdown right now amid such a high - profile natural disaster.

Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls.

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.

The portion of the program that likely galvanized the White House was the startling report by prosecutors that had worked under Breuer in the criminal division of the DOJ that there wasn't even a pretense of a real investigation against the major Wall Street firms: no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.

«Wall Street is looking at the fact that a businessman in the White House will look to deregulate and lower taxes on businesses,» says Ralph Grauso, founder of ASC Financial Group in Pennsylvania.

The White House holds a cozy relationship with Silicon Valley, but not Wall Street.

Meanwhile, despite threats from Trump that he would shut down the government if his U.S. - Mexico border wall is not paid for, lawmakers and aides say the White House has eased off that threat and any fight over the border wall will be delayed until later in the year.

The White House has occasionally used «wall» to describe existing border fencing, and has acknowledged that some (perhaps a lot) of the US / Mexico border doesn't need a total physical barrier.

The first priority listed in the White House's executive summary is to «Fund and complete construction of the southern border wall.»

Previously, Dave worked on Wall Street, in the White House budget office and at a non-profit based in Uganda.

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.

«Eventually the Democrats will agree with us and will build the wall to keep the damn drugs out,» Trump said amidst chants of «build the wall,» giving the official White House event a campaign feel, according to CNN.

John Wall and the Washington Wizards were at the White House with President Obama on Monday to participate in the White House Easter egg roll.

Totals: Four men murdered by an axe - wielding Hound; one religious zealot decapitated by hand; three outlaws hanged; one actress knifed; one assassin's face added to the House of Black and White's creepy trophy wall.