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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 is focused on Canada,» he says.

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.»

Lewandowski this week participated in an Oval Office meeting with Trump and his aides during which Lewandowski reportedly complained that his calls to the White House were not being returned.

The White House is said to be eyeing Singapore as a potential location for a summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

«A lot of the action you're able to take at the White House is by calling people up and saying, «Hey we're interested in getting this done, will you help,»» Fingert says.

The White House was clear that it isn't just trying to increase gender diversity for its own sake, but in an attempt to boost U.S. economy.

So it is a big blow that America that the White House is behaving the way it is.»

Now, the White House is tackling areas where there's far less consensus support from Wall Street.

And on Tuesday, a source told CNBC the White House is considering a trade package including indefinite tariffs, investment restrictions and possible visa restrictions on Chinese travelers in response to China's alleged intellectual property theft.

Nixon's White House was notoriously paranoid — one man once described it to me as a «pirate ship,» with knives out against one another and a general position of distrust of everyone and everything outside of it.

But the White House is ducking a high - profile petition calling on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns.

The radio ads, social media campaigns, press, and now the White House are pointing shoppers to small businesses tomorrow.

The White House is not actively organizing the highly publicized announcements from the likes of Apple and Walmart.

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

He repeatedly described Bannon's comments in the book as «grotesque,» saying his role in the White House was «greatly exaggerated.»

As Sanders said, the one thing the White House is sure about right now is that it wants a secure network.

The White House is also likely to propose rolling backing some of the domestic spending increases in last month's government - wide funding bill.

However, Axios thinks the White House is looking for ideas in a recent UBS report.

The Office of Government Ethics has revealed that attorneys at the White House are examining whether loans to the company owned by Jared Kushner's family violated federal ethics regulations or criminal law.

That's because the White House is apparently rewriting the controversial executive order — which temporarily bans immigration from six predominantly Muslim countries and permanently from Syria — so that it has a better chance of withstanding legal challenges.

Journal columnist Andrew Browne, similarly, says the White House is readying «a mix of tariffs and quotas» to deter Chinese imports of «everything from steel to solar panels and washing machines.»

David J. Apol, the acting director of the agency, revealed the White House was looking into the loans in a letter to Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D - Illinois) after she raised the question of whether the loans were an issue on March 1.

The move drew fire from Democrats and other critics, who said it showed the Republican White House was aligned with Wall Street, not middle - income Americans.

Budget plans recently announced by the White House are likely to do little to improve the mood among those remaining at the State Department.

According to Michael Allen of Axios, who has posted a number of scoops related to the Trump administration so far, the White house is reading a 41 - page report from UBS entitled, «Revitalizing America: Engaging civic capital for US infrastructure,» also released on Tuesday.

What is clear is that the White House was caught off guard by the reaction to the firing.

The White House is allegedly weighing ideas on how to leave the agreement, including declaring it a treaty that would require Senate ratification.

The meeting ended inconclusively, but it's a very good sign that House Republicans and the White House are talking.

That the White House is now repeating the boring, fact - based narrative will help it gain more attention from the media and the public.

An official traveling with U.S. President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia said the White House was aware of the launch and noted that the missile had a shorter range than the three previous tested by North Korea.

The new sanctions also come more than a month after a congressionally mandated deadline by which the White House was supposed to penalize Russia for its interference.

The White House is confident that Hagel can weather the storm and win confirmation in the Democratic - led Senate - presidential picks for senior security posts are rarely denied.

The White House is weighing a far broader approach than just reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

President Donald Trump has told members of his New Jersey golf club that he spends so much time away from Washington because the White House is a «real dump,» writes the AP.

As a practical matter, the executive order is unlikely to have much effect: the Bush White House was extremely disciplined when it came to stealthy, controversial, last - minute regulatory doings — or undoings.

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.

There are hints that the White House is ready to resume old battles, such as United Parcel Service's annoyance at having to compete with Canada Post's courier service or Export Development Canada's assistance to Bombardier and other exporters.

This follows a stark warning from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who said at the start of February that sanctioning Venezuela's oil or prohibiting the crude to be sold in the U.S. was something the White House was continuing to mull over.

«And I think what we're seeing from this White House is they're kind of all over the place.

His resignation came after reports that some officials in the White House were worried Flynn might be blackmailed by the Russians.

This report is directly refuted by Jake Tapper of ABC, who reports that the White House was informed of the FBI investigation and affair on Wednesday this week, and President Obama learned about it on Thursday (yesterday).

In other words, nobody in the White House is bucking any trend just yet.

«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.

The White House is confirming that Larry Kudlow has been named to the post, replacing Gary Cohn, who resigned last week.

The White House is reportedly in a state of turmoil over the latest developments in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, which has implicated two key figures in President Donald Trump's campaign.

The race for the White House is a powerful reminder that blind spots can be issue for presidential candidates, too, according to Gerald Kane, an associate professor of information systems at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

«I heard after stepping down that, unsurprisingly, the White House was beginning to consider drafting the actual substance of a deal with the Russians,» Malinowski told Business Insider.

Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.

The White House is now clearly avoiding that kind of talk:» We will have ongoing discussions with Canada and Mexico,» a senior White House official said in a pre-announcement briefing.»