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Trump's comment, which he has denied but which were confirmed by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, adds to a growing list of White House initiatives and stances widely seen as racist.

Trump's widely reported comment, which the White House did not deny, came Thursday during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on immigration in which he used the term to describe Haiti and African countries and instead expressed an interest in accepting immigrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he had spoken with the day before.

He was addressing an intimate crowd at the StartUp Health Café in San Francisco about the White House Cancer Moonshot — the widely praised initiative he had begun leading just a year ago and that, only days from now, was slated to lose its potent «White House» prefix — when he began talking about his eldest son.

Scaramucci, who is widely known for his explosive 10 - day tenure as President Donald Trump's White House communications director, also happened to be a member of the board of advisors of the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Walsh's notoriety rose months after her departure, and she was widely quoted in Michael Wolff's Fury and Fury on the White House dysfunction (some of which she disputes).

White House physician Ronny Jackson allegedly provided travelers on White House trips with Ambien, a prescription sedative that is widely regarded as a safe drug that poses little risk of addiction.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Trump to preserve a pair of tax deductions widely used by Long Island and New York City property owners that would be eliminated under the White House's recently proposed tax plan.

First Lady Melania Trump, who has said she wants to make a campaign against cyberbullying a key part of her time in the White House, is defending her husband's widely - condemned Twitter attack against Brzezinski and Scarborough.

Cuomo's crisis is only just beginning, and let's not forget that Cuomo is hoping to play a big role in the upcoming Democratic National Convention this summer with what is widely believed to be an eye on his own White House run sometime in the not too distant future.

The former governor recently took a pass on running against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to start a national effort to repeal the new health care reform law — a move widely interpreted to mean that he is eyeing another White House run.

But beyond the White House's formal statements on the matter, the move was widely seen as Obama's parting shot at Netanyahu, with whom the president repeatedly clashed throughout his tenure.

was speaking at a congressional awards dinner Wednesday when he made a wisecrack about a widely circulated photograph of Conway kneeling on a White House sofa.

Moving in this direction would be in keeping with the leftward lean the governor has steadily taken in recent years as he is widely believed to be mulling a White House bid in 2020.

He is widely believed to be considering a potential run for the White House in 2020, and has said he plans to seek a third term next fall.

The report's release was timed to coincide with the launch of the new «No Labels» committee that is being widely viewed as a potential jumping off point for a White House run in 2012, despite the fact that Bloomberg has repeatedly insisted he's not running.

Cuomo, who is widely believed to be mulling a White House run in 2020, and will be seeking re-election to his current post next year, has not met in person with the Capitol reporters for a traditional press conference, in which questions are unscripted and free - flowing, since the end of the legislative session in June.

The White House defended Trump's widely condemned retweets of videos purporting to show violence committed by Muslims, with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying that whether the inflammatory videos are real or not, «the threat is real.»

The effort by AQE comes as Cuomo has been trying to position himself as the antidote to Trump and a champion of progressive values in what is widely viewed as preparation for a potential White House run in 2020.

Andrew Cuomo's speech is going to be quite a bit shorter than his father's, but it will no doubt be closely watched and dissected, since the current governor is widely believed to harbor his own White House ambitions, and did not run this year because he did not want to compete with his fellow New Yorker, Clinton.

ICYMI: During our CapTon chat yesterday, I asked Sen. Diane Savino if Gov. Andrew Cuomo's reluctance to get on board with medical marijuana might be due to his widely - speculated White House aspirations.

Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called on President Donald Trump to preserve a pair of tax deductions widely used by Long Island and New York City property owners that would be eliminated under the White House's recently proposed tax plan.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, two Republicans widely viewed as possible 2012 White House hopefuls, weighed in Thursday night on the closely - watched special election in New York's 23rd congressional district.

In a widely anticipated move that has already raised alarm bells at research institutes, a White House budget document states that «significant reductions» will come from slashing the overhead payments that NIH now pays to universities on top of the direct research costs for a project.

Patents are widely - accepted as being vital to growing America's innovation economy, and the U.S. Congress and the White House have been taking steps to strengthen America's patent system.

The strategy — widely anticipated but issued 5 months later than the White House had originally planned — also outlines a series of steps and goals for agencies to pursue, such as tackling bee - killing pathogens and mites, reducing pesticide use and reviewing its safety to bees, restoring degraded pollinator habitats, and encouraging the planting of more flowering plants and other pollinator - friendly vegetation.

And the White House opposes the measure because it «is contrary to the widely - accepted scientific consensus that GHGs are at increasingly dangerous concentrations... [and] would strip EPA of its authority to protect the public from GHG pollution.»

The new technology was once widely viewed as an improvement over the antiquated paper ballots used in some states during the highly contentious 2000 presidential race that ushered George W. Bush into the White House (think: hanging chads).

Foerster, who previously directed episodes of the television series «Criminal Minds» and «Outlander,» is widely known for her work as cinematographer on epic blockbusters such as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down.

The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the event in protest at Trump's travel bans, won best foreign language film for The Salesman in what was widely seen as a rebuke to the White House.

Widely regarded as both an artist and designer, White's design for a tapestry that resembles a giant sheet of crumpled silver foil recently won a Norwegian design competition for the stage curtain in the Oslo opera house.

He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Distinguished Teacher Award from the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars and has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows including the National Portrait Gallery and the Societe Des Pastellistes De France.

Her work was widely exhibited, not only in the galleries but in the White House and in U.S. embassies abroad.

As widely reported in the media in June 2003, the White House suppressed references to climate change in an EPA report.

Recently, the White House released their U.S. climate assessment report that was shockingly deceptive - contrary to NOAA's own empirical climate evidence that is widely available.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is widely viewed as a proponent of the move.

They, along with other families affected by gun violence, scored a listening session at the White House with President Trump on Wednesday to voice their concerns about gun laws that was widely covered on TV.

A recent public dismissal of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was surprising, not because of the widely acknowledged and growing differences between the White House agenda and his own, but because his termination was done by tweet.