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He pledged to lower drug prices, and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced after the meeting that Amgen had promised to add 1,600 jobs.

With help from the White House and some savvy investors, low - income families now have access to healthy food options.

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the economy was experiencing «strengthening U.S. economic growth, historically low unemployment,...

Weisberg suggested that journalists boycott the White House Correspondents» Association's annual dinner and agree to dispatch low - level staffers, rather than experienced reporters, to White House press briefings if Spicer continued to stand by untrue statements.

The White House has presumably learned that lesson and it's reasonable to imagine that mismanagement costs in a hypothetical Syria mission might be lower.

Canadian policy makers assumed that Republican control of the White House and Congress will result in lower corporate and personal taxes.

The White House has been pushing to lower the top individual tax rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent, but not everyone is on board.

U.S. government bonds saw buying on Tuesday, pulling yields lower, after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was ousted from the White House.

The Missouri speech will be the first in what is expected to be a heavy push by the White House to get the Republican Congress to pass a tax package including lower rates for corporations and individuals and send it to Trump's desk to sign by the end of the year.

Significant debate remains between the White House and Hill Republicans on elements of any final tax reform package, including which deductions to target, how low to push the corporate rate and how companies deduct business investments.

The White House blames lower government spending over all.

The White House and Congress has been evaluating whether to reduce the pre-tax 401 (k) contribution limit to potentially as low as $ 2,400 from $ 18,000.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

The two sides regularly talked, and Cobb had convinced Trump that the quickest way to resolve the probe was to cooperate and keep tensions low, encouraging him to waive executive privilege on interviews with dozens of White House staffers and thousands of pages of documents.

White House officials scrambled Wednesday to calm both the markets and Republicans, leaving open the possibility that some tariffs ultimately won't be implemented if China lowers barriers to U.S. exports.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a large share of the tax is paid by workers in the form of lower wages.

The White House wants to reduce what it maintains is the United States» trade deficit with the 28 - member European Union and is seeking concessions, such as lower tariffs on American cars sold here.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

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The Trump administration wants the lower rate to begin next year because the White House believes that would help boost growth, but the Senate needed to find savings somewhere to make the bill comply with a Senate accounting rule known as the Byrd Rule.

Mr. Kelly, who watched the president's performance on Tuesday with his head hung low, grimacing at some of Mr. Trump's remarks, is frustrated, according to people inside the White House.

Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

The Communications Workers of America, a labor union, asked CEOs of large corporations to give workers the $ 4,000 average income gain that White House officials said would flow eventually from lower corporate taxes.

«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.

Mr. Powell, no doubt, will be under pressure from the White House and Treasury to keep rates low — even if markets are pushing them upward.

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.

According to a report from Politico, the White House's soon - to - be-unveiled plan to combat the opioid crisis includes one detail that should terrify and outrage pro-life advocates: The death penalty for even low - level drug dealers.

Removing the baby from the scene, swaddling, speaking in low tones and providing some white noise, such as from a fan, to drown out sounds from the other parts of the house, might be all the baby needs to calm down.

The White House, short of securing in Congress changes to existing anti-poverty programs, recently unveiled a partnership between diaper manufacturers, non-profits and an e-commerce site that will cut the cost of diapers available to low - income families to about 13 cents a piece.

The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health leads to the expansion of child nutrition programs and the enactment of the free and reduced - price school lunch program for low - income students.

While Cuomo may be laying low in the Trump criticism department, it's possible that he has the most to gain or lose from a surprise Republican win last year and a White House the GOP will want to defend in 2020.

Advocacy is different: without the urgency of a campaign, supporters are likely to tolerate fewer emails, and they may respond to those messages at a much lower rate than they did when the White House was on the line.

White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump reportedly wants to lower expectations of what she can achieve in her father's administration.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

I agree about running someone better — but every American needs to be concerned about the low life con man who now lives in that dump called the White House.

The U.S. Senate tax bill offers a huge tax cut for corporations, lower rates for the wealthy, and a big victory for Republicans and the White House.

Though she has kept a low profile lately, the White House said that Melania Trump is planning to attend tonight's State of the Union address, typically the most high - profile appearance of the year for first ladies.

RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.

«The White House and congressional leaders have put forward a plan to make our tax code simpler and fairer with lower rates giving hardworking families a tax cut of $ 1,200 a year.

Finally, the Trump White House earns generally low marks for its approach to executive appointments.

White House political Director Patrick Gaspard has been active in expressing concerns that in a low - turnout special election, which is set for May 22, former Rep. Ed Case and state Senate president Colleen Hanabusa could split the Democratic vote enough to allow Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) to win.

Hochul opposes the Ryan budget, but she was one of 13 Democrats to vote for a GOP bill that would pay for extending lower college student loan interest rates for another year by cutting $ 6 billion from a preventive health fund — an idea opposed by the White House.

Although there have been Democrats in the White House, and some notable policy achievements, for nearly 40 years the vision that Ronald Reagan offered — small government, lower taxes, and self - reliant individualism — has remained the country's dominant political ideology.

Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg noted that historically, local general elections bring lower turnout than elections when the White House or statewide offices are in play.

In general, House appropriators have tended to propose a DOE research budget higher than the White House request, and the Senate version has come in lower.

«In particular, Mexico's target to peak its emissions by 2026 and drive them down thereafter is a landmark step in the global transition to a low - carbon economy,» the White House said in a statement.

There was even a rumored 11th - hour agreement between House and Senate leaders on such a strategy — until the White House threatened to veto any deal, in part because it did not include certain breaks for low - income taxpayers.

Rather than defining a plan toward a low - carbon economy, the White House has left the negotiations to Congress and the lobbyists.

«Black and Latino families have lower incomes on average than white families, and they face housing market discrimination that influences where they live, regardless of the high value that they may place on school options,» Owens said.