Sentences with phrase «assailing president»

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer — the most powerful Democrat in Washington — unleashed a tweetstorm assailing President Donald Trump «s revised ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries.

Unlike many of his fellow Democratic elected officials, New York's governor will assail the president's policies, but not the man himself — a strategy some see as a nod to state interests and re-election prospects.

The New York Republican is using his newly created PAC, No American Debt, to launch an ad campaign in New Hampshire — home to the first presidential primary — and assailed President Obama during a speech in the Granite State, saying he «has the worst fiscal record of any President in the history of our country.»

In his acceptance speech tonight, Mitt Romney will assail President Obama's economic and foreign policy record and argue that he has not lived up to the hype of 2008.

Refugee advocates joined the New York Immigration Coalition to assail President Donald Trump's second executive order barring entry to people from a smattering of Middle Eastern and East African countries, insisting that it is a «backdoor Muslim ban 2.0 ″ — a reference to the commander - in - chief's primary campaign promise of a «total and complete shutdown» on Islamic immigration to the United States.

Mike Lester assails the president's logic on «income inequality,» while Mike Smith predicts a grim future if Obama doesn't succeed.

Not exact matches

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- President Donald Trump has called courts unfair and political and repeatedly assailed the 9th Circuit, the U.S. court system's westernmost division, where some of his key immigration...

The Iran nuclear accord, assailed by President Trump and his revamped retinue of advisers, received a strong endorsement Monday from a bipartisan group of more than 100 national security veterans, who said the United States gains nothing by scrapping it.

HANYS President Dan Sisto assailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget during a CapTon interview last night, taking the governor and his business community allies to task for being unwilling to extend the so - called millionaire's tax while advocating deep spending reductions in health care and education.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in a speech to New York's delegates, assailed Hillary Clinton for her husband's extramarital affairs when he was President in the 1990s, saying Hillary tried to shut the women up.

He blamed Trump political strategist Stephen Bannon for the action, but also highlighted that the president assailed undocumented immigrants at his campaign kickoff in June 2015 — more than a year before Bannon, the former head of the website Breitbart, joined the Trump campaign.

Speaking over the phone for an unrelated story, Carl Paladino — the 2010 GOP candidate for governor of New York — abruptly changed subjects and assailed the sitting president and his policies.

After weeks of assailing reporters and critics in diligent defense of their boss, President Trump's team has been uncharacteristically muted this week when pressed about his explosive — and so far proof - free — Twitter posts accusing former President Barack Obama of tapping phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.

When the Republican refused to give the PBA the raises they sought, union leaders assailed Mr. Giuliani as a cheapskate — the Republican mayor was the brunt of a «zeros for heroes» campaign, and knew that when he ran for president a decade later, the PBA wouldn't dare lend their endorsement.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler tore into President Donald Trump's decision to launch a missile assault on a Syrian airbase yesterday evening in retaliation for dictator Bashar al - Assad's use of nerve gas against a rebel - held town — and further assailed the Republican commander - in - chief's opposition to admitting refugees from the war - bloodied country.

In a series of visits to apartments with peeling paint and crumbling plaster, the Democrat, a former U.S. housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, also assailed the authority as grossly mismanaged.

WFP leaders and their allies have denounced the WEP as a «fake party» and a «sham,» and female elected officials like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Upper East Side State Senator Liz Krueger have assailed it for doing little to advance women's issues.

Almost immediately, groups ranging from the President's Council on Bioethics to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops assailed Hwang's work, either because cloned embryos were destroyed in the process or because his research could lead to cloning humans.

In writer / director Rod Lurie's The Contender (2000), Joan Allen starred as Ohio Democratic Senator Laine Hanson, the assailed VP appointee of President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges), who faced sexist scandal - mongering (about her past) during her political selection process, mostly from Illinois Republican Congressman Sheldon «Shelly» Runyon (Gary Oldman).

The work depicts the South Korean president assailed by victims of the MV Sewol ferry disaster.

President Trump and his administration have spent the past 100 days assailing protections for the air, water and climate, but we're fighting back aggressively in court.

In his May 24 Slate.com article, «Ask Mr. Science,» New Republic senior editor and Brookings Institution visiting fellow Gregg Easterbrook lauded former Vice President Al Gore's new film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, as «worthy in content, admirable in intent, and motivated by the sense of civic responsibility Hollywood on the whole has abandoned,» before baselessly assailing the film as factually imprecise and morally careless.

Even the president is in on the game, assailing judges when they don't rule his way (a storied American tradition dating back to at least FDR).