Sentences with phrase «cabinet officials»

But the governor, a former cabinet official himself, knows full well it is a Republican congress that controls the federal government purse strings.

He's been accused of spending at least $ 3 million on a round - the - clock security fleet, far more than his predecessors and higher - level cabinet officials.

They couldn't trigger it just to get a single cabinet official or judge confirmed.

The participants, including West Coast college upperclassmen and East Coast urban entrepreneurs, spoke with Cabinet officials who were all well over 40 about how they could work with the administration.

The White House's latest public flare - up involves a spat between President Donald Trump and one of his top Cabinet officials on the most hot - button foreign - policy issue facing the administration: Russia.

Republican Fred Akshar handily defeated Democrat Barbara Fiala, a former cabinet official in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, in November.

Shulkin is one of several Cabinet officials who have faced ethics questions over misuse of taxpayer funds, with his relating to an expensive European trip.

The Russia investigation, allegations of domestic violence by a top White House staffer, reports of outlandish spending by Cabinet officials, and just general frustration with Trump's chaotic management style have led to a number of departures from the Trump White House.

-- Super-wealthy Trump Cabinet officials like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have found it's hard to divest themselves of assets: The Wall Street Journal.

House and Senate Republicans huddled last week at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, where they strategized for the year ahead and heard from President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and several Cabinet officials.

Only the folks in the White House Situation Room (who do the transcription), senior advisers, and key Cabinet Officials get them.

Rolling out the exchanges will be a host of Cuomo cabinet officials around the state, including Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, making presentations on to participate.

The list includes influential members of Congress, United States cabinet officials, governors, prominent figures in business and finance, as well as top national union leaders.

Senior Cabinet officials have been accused of sitting on a plan that would compensate 125,000 workers whose pension schemes have collapsed.

Less known are the opinions of other Cabinet officials, many of whom have been invited to the meeting.

It either gets done by subordinates, which is not ideal because it empowers the bureaucracy at the expense of Congressional and Presidential input or at a remove from a confirmed cabinet official with all that implies, or not at all, which can go either way depending on your view of the agency in question contributions to civic life in America.

In an era when cabinet officials try to use a government jet for their honeymoon though, $ 25,000 for a soundproof booth doesn't sound quite so outrageous.

Federal agents said Guryev sought to get close with «a personal friend of [a current Cabinet official, name omitted].»

Executives from 10 auto companies will meet with President Donald Trump and cabinet officials Friday to discuss the administration's plan to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration.

The aides, who asked not to be identified discussing how Democrats are generally responding to the issue, agreed the embattled Cabinet official needs to take bold steps to show he is dealing with the problem.

The governor's office, and his top cabinet officials at the Environmental Conservation and Health departments, have repeatedly insisted the EPA failed in properly outlining the appropriate safety levels for the chemical PFOA in drinking water.

In previous years, Cuomo has traveled the state to drum up support for his agenda in Albany, deploying cabinet officials to speak with local officials, chambers of commerce and community college leaders to give a truncated version of the State of the State.

President Donald Trump defended his executive order, even as a top Cabinet official walked back part of the measure — signaling confusion and fissures within the new administration.

Four years ago, Bush campaign spokesman Ari Fleischer decried «the very inappropriate continuing pattern of the politicization» of «historically nonpolitical agencies» after two Clinton Cabinet officials criticized policies Bush advocated.

(CNN)- Republican Rob Portman, the former congressman and George W. Bush cabinet official now running for Senate in Ohio, finished the latest fundraising period with a big cash advantage over the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher.

It remains unclear how much the damage will cost New York directly in the long run, though cabinet officials yesterday pegged it at $ 100,000 to the state.

The way some of President Trump's Cabinet officials tell it, their recent negative headlines haven't been about difficulties complying with federal ethics laws, but rather about «the optics.»

But Duncan's «white suburban moms» comment and the resulting media coverage — portraying this as another inelegant choice of words by a bumbling cabinet official — obscured two essential facts: The high - stakes standardized testing attack has always exacted the highest toll on communities of color.

In February, a group of GOP - affiliated economists and former Reagan cabinet officials announced a plan to gut EPA regulations while imposing a a new tax of $ 40 per ton of carbon pollution.

And top Cabinet officials from Browner to Chu to Jackson — even Salazar, who greenlighted the nation's first offshore wind farm — have walked their talk on global warming.

Perdue made the comments a day after Trump hosted a meeting with Cabinet officials and senators to discuss potential changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard to help refiners who say they are struggling under the program.

Flanked by Cabinet officials, top Democrats and schoolchildren in green and yellow uniforms, President Obama said that «across the country, too many kids don't have access to healthy meals.»

As written, is this the bill that compelled the people in South Carolina's 5th Congressional District to elect Rep. Mick Mulvaney (now a key Trump Cabinet official) over incumbent Democrat and Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt?

So we see his role as focused on bringing together the world's leading economies to signal that they're going to do their part while also elevating a sense of urgency in Paris, including through his meeting with the island states, and then having key Cabinet officials and, of course, our negotiator, Todd Stern, work through the whole two weeks, hopefully to achieve a successful framework.

In the ad, Larkin is taken to task for supporting legislation that would create a commission weighing whether to approve a pay raise for state lawmakers and cabinet officials in the executive branch.

At the mansion gathering included Cuomo cabinet officials, members of the Court of Appeals, former Gov. David Paterson and nine members of the Democratic - led Assembly, including Speaker Carl Heastie.

O'Mara is a former Delaware state cabinet official, a native of Camillus, New York, and the inventor of the City of Syracuse's Syrastat system.

(Ohio) A Toledo high school that partners with regional industry to help train students for employment was visited this week by two of President Barack Obama's senior cabinet officials to highlight the type of successful job - training programs envisioned under new federal law.

But to understand why Pruitt endures, you also have to look at how he differs from three top Cabinet officials who were terminated: David Shulkin, Tom Price, and Rex Tillerson.

Blake said that Cuomo's endorsement is significant given that he is one of only 16 Democratic governors in the country, the policy chair of the Democratic Governors Association and a former Cabinet official and «his policy and political success that helps Americans in their everyday lives.»

Trump's top Cabinet officials, too, have characterized illegal border - crossing as a particularly critical issue requiring immediate attention.

Loads of illiquid assets like real estate holdings are slowing efforts by Trump's cabinet officials to divest, limiting the scope of the work they can do in the meantime.

For a Cabinet official to intentionally mislead the public on a scientific issue with life - and - death consequences for humanity is a far more serious matter than first - class flights or a $ 43,000 phone booth.

Aiming to advance both goals, the administration is deploying Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Cabinet officials and staff throughout the country to anchor events publicizing the law and its benefits to workers and employers.

«What it is, is buying time with the president and Cabinet officials,» Holman told Business Insider.

«It is well established that the President is entitled to have private, confidential conversations with his Cabinet officials... such communications are the core of executive privilege.»