Sentences with phrase «white houses»

The White House is downplaying rumors of Gary Cohn's departure, after the chief economic advisor got overruled on President Donald Trump's decision to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a statement that Trump spoke with Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas about a bipartisan bill to improve federal background checks for prospective gun buyers.

Howell addressed the White House Summit on Working Families last week about the economic need for Seattle's $ 15 minimum wage.

«So he just admitted everything the White House has been saying since Tuesday is a lie,» Meyers said.

Steel makers lost ground after the White House said it will delay its decision to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico for 30 days.

Ultimately, these recommendations will depend on the White House's and Congress» desire to fund them.

President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.

In announcing the firing, the White House circulates a scathing memo, written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, criticizing Comey's handling of the Clinton probe.

Jan. 27, 2017: At one - on - one dinner at the White House, Trump asks Comey to pledge his loyalty to the president and Comey declines, according to a person close to Comey, speaking after the FBI director was fired.

Asked Friday whether Cohn planned to stay in the job, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters she had no reason to believe otherwise.

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.

The approaching budget battle between the White House and Republican lawmakers has cast a shadow over markets.

We must remind the White House that only the deal in full operative form provides for such monitoring to continue, and such a comparative review is imperative.

The report, released Thursday, said that all of Mnuchin's nine requests for government aircraft were for so - called «White House support missions,» where the president has directed that the trip be made.

Steel makers slumped after the White House said it will delay its decision to impose tariffs on U.S. imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico for 30 days.

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

Bannon exited the White House in 2017, when he returned to Breitbart News as executive chairman.

Well, we picked up 45,000 mining jobs in a very short period of time,» Trump said on July 17 at a White House event showcasing American - made products.

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) extends his hand to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House.

The White House denies the account.

The falter comes as mixed messaging from the White House has led to uncertainty over whether the Trump administration has a coherent plan to contain Kim Jong - un's regime and nuclear ambitions.

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

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed the imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada, the European Union and Mexico until June 1, and has reached agreements for permanent exemptions for Argentina, Australia and Brazil, the White House said on Monday.

Melania would not be the first model in the White House; Pat Nixon and Betty Ford both worked as models.

However, he said he was concerned about the «disconnect» between the standard of proof required for designating a flight as a «White House support mission,» and the proof that was actually given to back up Mnuchin's travels.

Meanwhile, White House economic adviser Gene Sperling correctly criticized S&P's math.

On Thursday morning, a White House official told CNBC the president would announce tariffs.

Jackie escaped Washington as often as she could to travel to the Kennedy's home in Virginia horse country, even when the president wanted her at the White House.

You're not just being paranoid if you think the current White House administration is a little more hostile than the previous one toward the marijuana industry.

That's according to senators who've been briefed by the White House.

Although he did not get the nod as the Department of Homeland Security secretary, a position for which he interviewed, incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told WTMJ «we definitely» want Clarke to be involved «in the administration at some level» and that he is «going to have opportunities» to serve in the Trump White House.

In all of these negotiations, the administration is focused on quotas that will restrain imports, prevent transshipment, and protect the national security,» the White House added.

He was ousted from a pro-Trump lobbying group in April amid questions about Russia's election interference, but he continued to visit the White House as late as June, according to The Daily Beast.

The Trump Administration is staring down a half - dozen deadlines on trade policy that will create a moment of truth for the White House.

The claim: Trump met with pharmaceutical executives at the White House on Jan. 31, 2017.

The first is to make sure a group of administrators new to power understand that Canada is important: the prime minister said Canada and the U.S. were each other's «most essential» partner, an assertion that might have surprised some of the members of the White House press corps, if they were paying attention at all.

«The White House is focused on Canada,» he says.

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

«Trump is no Lyndon Johnson,» says Robertson, «and while he is better than Obama at working congressional leadership, my friends tell me there are already antagonisms at the staff level between the Speaker / majority leader in the Senate and the White House.»

After Trump won the White House in 2016, in part with the firms help, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went to more clients to pitch his services, the Times reported last year.

The White House chief of staff, John Kelly, also said on Thursday that US officials had «arrangements to transport them back to the United States, or to Canada, anywhere they wanted to go.»

Similar to Michael Wolff's tell - all, A Higher Loyalty will likely provide an inside look at the workings of the Trump White House, as well as Comey's experiences working under the previous two administrations.

After that, Meyers showed a clip of a CNN correspondent saying, «It's like the White House is peeing on our leg and telling us that it's raining outside.»

You can never be sure how much weight to put on this kind of talk from a White House that is on its way to forcing dictionaries to rewrite their definitions of «bluster.»

The White House released its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal today.

«She had been interested in literacy for years before she was First Lady and her interest continued after she left the White House.»

As the signing was scheduled to wrap, White House chief of staff John Kelly entered the room and suggested the discussion be taken «offline,» according to three attendees.

President Donald Trump's replacement of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster with John Bolton brings a real hardliner into the White House.

But a White House official notes the views were not unanimous, with Rep. Patrick McHenry disagreeing with his Capitol Hill colleagues.

TV was invented in America, yet America does not have a single LCD factory to produce a complete 8K system,» Gou said during a presentation at the White House.