Sentences with phrase «top of the white house»

Level 3: An Obama character drops a copy of the US Constitution from the top of the White House as the Clinton character waits below to try to hit it as far as possible

Far from being at the top of the White House pyramid, Priebus was listed behind chief strategist Steve Bannon in the press release announcing their appointments, and soon Trump gave his son - in - law Jared Kushner a top White house job too — empowering someone who could circumvent the chief any time he liked.

Even though Donald Trump hasn't put forward any concrete plans to dismantle the US commitment to the Paris Agreement, he has shown signs that climate action will be far from the top of the White House agenda.

Unless there's a cross on top of the White House, Biblical arguments have NO place in laws which affect people's taxes, inheritance, and property.

Energy had moved to the top of the White House agenda.

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Also on Friday, Trump himself offered a White House job to a top Goldman Sachs executive, Gary Cohn, following appointments of two other former Goldman employees to the new administration.

Howes was recognized by the White House and President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in the country under 30.

Cohn has served as a point man on top White House priorities such as tax reform and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, but both of those efforts have been muddled by Trump's increasingly combative relationship with Congress, one that was strained even further by his comments on Charlottesville.

The speech marks Trump's first in - person remarks since the announcement of top White House economic advisor Gary Cohn's resignation.

A White House advisory panel of top CEOs disbanded Wednesday after the backlash from President Donald Trump's latest tirade left the panel little choice, according to one member.

The exodus of executives sparked talk that Gary Cohn, Trump's top White House economic adviser and a key liaison to the U.S. business community, might resign in protest as well.

A new book on Trump's White House by author Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury, asserts that almost all of his top staff and advisers believe he is mentally unwell.

U.S. RESTRICTIONS: U.S. officials are pushing for quotas and «other restrictions» on steel and aluminium imports, a top trade official said after the White House announced a month - long extension of tariff exemptions for Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

What I can say though, Wolf, is, as you said, we were public about the fact that we were dealing with cyber intrusions and the State Department was public about that, but the fact of the matter is that we have different systems here at the White House, so we have an unclassified system and then we have a classified system, a top - secret system.

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said the White House was «brazenly interfering» in the probe.

Trump has harshly criticized the federal judge in Washington for his decision and a top White House aide on Sunday accused the 9th Circuit of a «judicial usurpation of power.»

Trump's criticism of a company that distanced itself from his daughter's brand shows «un-presidential behavior and potentially much worse,» said Richard Painter, a former top White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush.

The White House fired a top State Department official after he contradicted the White House's account of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's ouster on Tuesday.

Flynn and Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who was then a top transition adviser, «celebrated» Christie's dismissal «by tossing binders full of potential personnel picks, carefully culled by Christie's team, into trash bins with a sense of ceremonial glee,» according to Politico.

Many Democrats, including Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence panel, called for Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation after he met last week with an unidentified source at the White House complex, accusing him of colluding with the White House.

While the top level of the agency is staffed by officials chosen by the White House, the Justice Department is supposed to undertake legal obligations of the U.S. government in a non-political fashion.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took a step toward passage of tax legislation that is a top White House priority, setting up a likely decisive vote later this week even though it was unclear if the bill had enough Republican support to become law.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

Trump ordered top White House attorney Donald F. McGahn II as well as several other members of his staff to convince Sessions not to recuse himself.

Harward met with top White House officials last week and has the backing of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

The questioning about whether the White House was seeking to oust Mueller came as top conservative boosters of Trump sought to delegitimize Mueller, a former FBI director who took the special counsel job after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

After shooting off several early morning tweets, Trump spent Saturday between the White House residence and the Oval Office, speaking with his top advisers, Cabinet members, and Republican leadership about the impact of the shutdown, The New York Times reported.

The Justice Department warned the White House that the inconsistencies would leave the president's top national security aide vulnerable to blackmail from Russia, according to a person with knowledge of the discussion.

He also charged that it was «not a coincidence» that the statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day came the same day as Trump's executive order, which he described as a «religious test,» chalking both up to the influence of top White House strategist Steve Bannon.

One of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers and an architect of the GOP tax bill is thinking about leaving the White House soon, Politico reported Tuesday.

Knight would be the second top economic policy aide to leave the White House in recent weeks after Gary Cohn, the former head of the council, resigned last month over his disagreement with the president's implementation of steel and aluminum tariffs.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

President Donald Trump discussed trade, tax reform and immigration with some of the nation's top CEOs on Friday in the first meeting of his business council at the White House.

Just two weeks ago, Trump complained that his former top aide, Rob Porter, was unfairly forced to resign his White House position after both of his ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse, claims he suggested amounted to «a mere allegation.»

«The White House is simply not permitted to pressure the FBI to make public statements about a pending investigation of the president and his advisers,» said Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

North American stock markets had fallen sharply in late - morning trading following the departure of a top economic adviser in the White House who had been the leading internal opponent to the president's planned protectionist policies.

Kushner, who had a broad portfolio in the White House, including leading Middle East peace negotiations and an effort to modernize and reduce the size of some government programs, lost his interim top - secret security clearance, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

A top Democrat is pushing his Republican counterpart to turn up the heat on the White House over official's use of private email.

Other factors in the mix include a flurry of recent personnel changes at the White House, including top economic advisor Gary Cohn's resignation.

Whatever's going on, Chief of Staff John Kelly has imposed new rules that White House staffers still waiting for a full clearance could no longer handle top - secret information.

After the allegations began to surface, top Republicans, such as White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Porter's former boss Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), went out of their way to defend Porter, vouch for his good character, and say he shouldn't resign.

Those are serious allegations against any physician — but it's worse when they're leveled against Dr. Ronny Jackson, the top White House doctor and President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.

She's a big shot — the number two at the world's most powerful central bank, a former professor of economics at Berkeley, and a former top White House economic advisor — but she still does her homework.

DJI made headlines in 2015 when its one of its top - selling consumer drones, the Phantom, crashed into the White House lawn and last August, the U.S. Army ordered its members to stop using DJI drones because of «cyber vulnerabilities».

And the new levies stand to be yet another blow to solar installers in the US on top of the 30 percent tariffs on imported solar panels the White House announced in January, a move that was meant to corner China and shore up US solar panel manufacturers.

On the eve of critical hearings on Capitol Hill, top White House officials are intensifying efforts to document wasteful spending by Scott Pruitt as President Trump weighs whether to keep supporting his controversial Environmental Protection Agency chief, senior administration officials said Wednesday.

The White House is also dispatching a delegation of top officials to Beijing this week to try to soothe tensions in its trade battle there.

When Summers returned to Washington, this time to the White House, as President Obama's top economic adviser, he prominently mentioned Zimmerman, by then a billionaire hedge fund proprietor, as among his kitchen cabinet of advisers.

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.

Her rank, «assistant to the president,» was one generally given to the top level of White House staffers, but it wasn't clear exactly how she'd fit into the economic team's policymaking structure.