Sentences with phrase «half after taking office»

President Trump had asked two of his economic advisers to explore rejoining the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement he withdrew from shortly after taking office last year.

Trump pledged during his presidential campaign to withdraw the U.S. from the pact immediately after taking office, but had wavered on the issue since winning the election.

Constructions crews spent roughly a month erecting the prototypes, in the first major step the Trump administration has taken toward fulfilling a January executive order to «immediately plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border» which the president signed shortly after taking office.

He is expected to discuss the auto industry's improvement after the government bailed out General Motors and Chrysler shortly after he took office.

Trump filed for re-election the day after taking office — allowing his campaign to continue to raise and spend money while he is in office.

Abe had put a lot of personal political capital at stake in beating on the agricultural lobby, and not just the farmers... but the [agricultural] banks, pension schemes, all the rest, to get support for a US - led TPP deal, and then Trump pulls out,» Bremmer said, referring to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal, spearheaded by Barack Obama, that Trump exited days after taking office in January 2017.

Deteriorating transit conditions have led to renewed criticism of Christie for canceling a new Hudson River rail tunnel project soon after taking office in 2010, saying the cost to his state was too high.

Although far from complete, it is as close as Ottawa has come to establishing a national regulator since the late Jim Flaherty took the issue on as almost a personal crusade shortly after taking office in 2006.

Trump used his executive powers shortly after taking office to greenlight the two pipeline projects that had been blocked by President Barack Obama.

But a year after taking office, the 1994 deal remains intact.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke first broached such a sale shortly after he took office in March, proposing to offer 73 million acres for leases.

Republicans have wanted to unravel Dodd - Frank essentially since it became law, and President Donald Trump vowed to «do a big number» on it soon after taking office.

President Donald J. Trump ordered the DOL to delay and further study the rule soon after taking office.

The DOL rule was created by the Obama administration, but Trump ordered the DOL to delay and further study the rule soon after taking office.

The stock market has been one major winner under President Obama, with the S. & P. 500 having more than doubled since it bottomed out in early 2009, shortly after he took office.

He then said that «grandstanders should not have gone on» the council, which Trump formed shortly after taking office in January.

Mr. Trump has pulled the trigger on his threat to pull the United States out of the deal after taking office, and six months later NAFTA's unravelling has begun.

Speaking in Calgary, Tim McMillan observed that Mr. Trump had said he would approve Keystone XL throughout the U.S. presidential campaign, but the fact he has moved so quickly after taking office speaks volumes.

After taking office, Trump threatened to pull out of the pact, which he considers the «worst trade deal» in history.

Liberal groups accuse Republicans in Washington of pulling a bait and switch on social issues, saying the GOP took back the House last November by campaigning on fiscal issues, turning to hot buttons like abortion only after taking office.

«The faith of the prayer - giver does not matter at all,» said John Auberger, Greece's board supervisor, who began the practice shortly after taking office 1998.

She talks about the Bush administration wanting to go to war with Iraq right after they took office.

Months after he took office the economy was in a recession, and by time he left office taxes on the middle class were WAY UP including mine, and the deficit TRIPLED.

Reversed Bush Torture Policies: Two days after taking office, nullified Bush - era rulings that had allowed detainees in U.S. custody to undergo certain «enhanced» interrogation techniques considered inhumane under the Geneva Conventions.

Shortly after he took office in January, Panepinto reportedly lobbied the state Workers Compensation Board to abandon plans to alter or reduce reimbursement rates paid to doctors and other medical service providers.

The previous government had planned to increase employer national insurance contributions by one per cent as part of its deficit reduction strategy (Alistair Darling, the then chancellor, has subsequently stated that he would have preferred to have increased VAT instead), and after taking office the coalition government only partially reversed this decision.

Gov. Malcolm Wilson in 1973, after taking office, with his predecessor, Nelson A. Rockefeller.

In 2012, a few months after she took office as Broome County executive, Preston says she paid off the card and was told the issue was resolved.

The highest elected official to ever win an election on a Reform Party ticket, Ventura left the Reform Party a year after taking office amid internal fights for control over the party.

Former Governor David Paterson admitted to illicit sexual affairs a day after taking office.

The de Blasio family didn't move into Gracie Mansion until six months after he took office.

Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Olatoye officially cancelled the Bloomberg administration's infill proposals shortly after taking office, only to again begin selling off small parcels of NYCHA property this year, according to the Daily News.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis pledged to examine the City's property tax system promptly after taking office.

Yassky, meanwhile, the sole Brooklyn candidate in the race, has served as the chairman of the Council Small Business Committee since shortly after taking office in 2001.

More than half of city voters say the mayor has lost focus after taking office for the third time in 2010, according to a new Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday.

It is now chaired by Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray, whom the mayor appointed to the position in February 2014, shortly after he took office.

The de Blasio administration began increasing and reorganizing the NYPD's counterterrorism abilities soon after taking office, but the effort gained steam after the Charlie Hebdo terrorism attacks in Paris 15 months ago.

Botwin, North Hempstead's current town attorney, said she noticed Terry's lapsed registration after she took office in 2014 and asked Terry to «clean up his registration.»

County Executive Rob Astorino made the decision shortly after taking office to terminate Westchester's membership in ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability which came to an end effective December 31, 2011.

He announced that he planned to keep his job as a lawyer after taking office, drawing a contrast with Mr. Kaminsky, who said banning outside income for legislators was crucial to stamping out corruption.

Talking to reporters at the Crowne Plaza after his meeting with Assembly Democrats, Cuomo said that task will likely have to wait until after he takes office Jan. 1.

And it will be doubly important this year, given the likelihood that Republican President - elect Donald Trump will appoint a conservative tie - breaking ninth member to the U.S. Supreme Court soon after taking office, with the potential for a handful of similar picks in the years to come.

Shortly after taking office in January 2011, Cuomo's favorable rating with Republicans stood at an unusually high 60 percent, according to the Siena poll.

Shortly after taking office in January 2014, Borough President Katz endorsed former Borough President Helen Marshall's idea to repair and restore the remaining structure and surrounding plaza, and to repurpose and dedicate it to the women of Queens.

After taking office, Mark conducted more than 50 major audits and reviews of Erie County's departments, which have identified more than $ 30 million in cost savings.

Cuomo has been fundraising for reelection since right after he took office — including a fundraiser in January 2011 at the Top of the Rock in NYC.

The manila envelopes containing absentee ballots have no marks that could identify voters, a policy McGahay implemented after taking office in Feb. 2013.

After taking office in January, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced the formation of a six - man task force of regional financial experts to review the county's finances.

Shortly after taking office, she was criticized for hiring her uncle as a bodyguard.

This year's contract negotiations between the union and the state stand in stark contrast to Cuomo's initial battle with public employees unions after taking office in 2011.