Sentences with phrase «with cabinet officials»

The participants, including West Coast college upperclassmen and East Coast urban entrepreneurs, spoke with Cabinet officials who were all well over 40 about how they could work with the administration.

Trump is breaking with the practices of both Republican and Democratic administrations by including a political adviser, Bannon, in National Security Council meetings with Cabinet officials.

The issue became a topic of discussion during a meeting last Thursday that President Donald Trump held with cabinet officials and Republican members of Congress to discuss agricultural trade.

Perdue made the comments a day after Trump hosted a meeting with Cabinet officials and senators to discuss potential changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard to help refiners who say they are struggling under the program.

«It is well established that the President is entitled to have private, confidential conversations with his Cabinet officials... such communications are the core of executive privilege.»

Not exact matches

Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin may have helped to bring unwelcome attention to the travel expenses of Donald Trump's cabinet members with his since - withdrawn request for a government plane to use on his honeymoon with wife Louise Linton, but an official review has found that his expenses since February have been legit — if somewhat expensive.

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

For a Cabinet official to intentionally mislead the public on a scientific issue with life - and - death consequences for humanity is a far more serious matter than first - class flights or a $ 43,000 phone booth.

Trump has called a meeting with senators and Cabinet officials to discuss potential changes to biofuels policy, according to four sources.

A White House official pointed to trade as part of a «bigger picture» for the economy, with cabinet - level discussions described as «deliberative» and the President focused on doing right by American workers.

«As recently as this morning I was on the phone with a cabinet - level official to ensure their full compliance.

Shulkin is one of several Cabinet officials who have faced ethics questions over misuse of taxpayer funds, with his relating to an expensive European trip.

Perfect for freelancers and those looking for an official set - up — each desk comes with its own lockable filing cabinet and chair.

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.

Just days earlier, Tillerson had openly disparaged the president, referring to him as a «moron,» after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon with members of Trump's national security team and Cabinet officials, according to three officials familiar with the incident.

Trump met with his Cabinet and other senior administration officials to discuss the federal response to the damage and flooding, the White House said Saturday in a statement.

On Tuesday, the country's top economic official, Premier Li Keqiang, warned at a meeting with businesspeople and economists that China faces increased «downward pressure,» according to a report on the Cabinet's website.

As a civil servant, I prepared cabinet ministers and senior level officials with itineraries, scheduling meetings, speaking notes, and media relations.

With the 2016 general elections just five months away, this paper can authoritatively report that, among those nursing ambition to step into the shoes of President Mahama include; cabinet and regional ministers, deputy ministers, high ranking government officials at the seat of government and some party gurus in the legislature.

This has allowed them to fill positions among top staff and cabinet officials with people who are known quantities.

Trump's selection of senior advisors and cabinet officials with white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic views only serves to heighten the threat that millions of New Yorkers are now facing — most immediately immigrants, Muslims, and women,» said Bill Lipton's the WFP's state director.

The power of Mukerjee's telling of this man - made famine that killed — following Amartya Sen's analysis of famine mortality — around 3 million people, lies in the formidable marshalling of a wide range of data, from cabinet meeting records and papers of powerful politicians and officials to interviews in Bengal villages with survivors of the famine and militant rebels against the Raj.

As with salaries, the rules governing the retirement benefits of the Vice President, Cabinet members, members of Congress and other federal officials are different than those that apply to the President, with benefits laid - out in the rules of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS).

Executives from 10 auto companies will meet with President Donald Trump and cabinet officials Friday to discuss the administration's plan to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration.

This is crucial with Blair's way of Prime Ministerial government as he preferred informal meetings with no official minutes and the exclusion of senior officials like the Cabinet Secretary and even responsible ministers.

According to the Daily Telegraph, MPs are mulling over a «semi-split» to create an «alternative Labour» with its own shadow cabinet to vie for the role of official opposition.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt all met with officials from the White House counsel's office and the Cabinet liaison.

The aides, who asked not to be identified discussing how Democrats are generally responding to the issue, agreed the embattled Cabinet official needs to take bold steps to show he is dealing with the problem.

«When the time comes for the person to deal with corrupt officials, he will have the independent power and mind to handle all cases without interference from any Cabinet minister and also not fall under the presidency to control the actions of the Special Prosecutor,» he indicated.

In previous years, Cuomo has traveled the state to drum up support for his agenda in Albany, deploying cabinet officials to speak with local officials, chambers of commerce and community college leaders to give a truncated version of the State of the State.

However, a Cabinet Office spokesman said: «Paragraph 1.3 of the ministerial code sets out very clearly that it's not the role of the secretary of the cabinet or other officials to enforce or to investigate ministers, although they might provide ministers with private advice on matters which the code covers.Cabinet Office spokesman said: «Paragraph 1.3 of the ministerial code sets out very clearly that it's not the role of the secretary of the cabinet or other officials to enforce or to investigate ministers, although they might provide ministers with private advice on matters which the code covers.cabinet or other officials to enforce or to investigate ministers, although they might provide ministers with private advice on matters which the code covers.»

There's also little desire among voters to see lawmakers receive a pay bump from their base $ 79,500, with opposition to the proposal registering at 55 percent to 42 percent (pay raises for lawmakers and cabinet officials is now before a panel that could decide on salary increases at the end of this year).

Nonetheless, like former education secretary Justine Greening, and Cabinet Office minister Damian Green before her, she joins the growing ranks of senior Tory backbenchers with only thinly - disguised misgivings about the direction of official Brexit policy.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

Yesterday's Daily Telegraph reported that Labour rebels were looking at creating an «alternative Labour» with its own shadow cabinet to vie for the role of official opposition.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has written to the shadow Cabinet Office minister to say «there has been no contact from officials» with former No 10 policy adviser Patrick Rock since his arrest over allegations linked to child abuse images.

The president - elect has been meeting with potential cabinet members and local officials, and Trump's team reached out to Bharara's office several days ago to set up a meeting, sources said.

In addition, his cabinet members are expected to meet with local residents and officials to get a better sense of the community.

The White House is working closely with Senate Democratic aides to match each skeptical senator with the Cabinet member or other key administration official most likely to be persuasive.

It will chronicle his journey from senior official (and ultimately general secretary) of the Communication Workers Union through to Cabinet minister in the last Labour government, and ending with the party's election defeat in 2010.

Legislator Lorigo will meet directly with Cabinet Secretaries, members of the President's senior staff, and other local elected officials.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

It begins in a Cabinet office in London, where Lt. Gen. Frank Benson (Rickman) and several officials realize they've ascertained the exact location in Nairobi, Kenya, where several people on their Most Wanted list have convened, including a radicalized British woman with an Al - Shabaab militant.

And the unions themselves didn't want to provoke a public split with a president their rank - and - file members adored, so they concentrated all their anger on Obama's Education secretaries, focusing their ire first on Arne Duncan, and then his successor John King, as though Obama himself were unaware of the reforms his Cabinet officials were carrying out on his behalf.

«The president and his Cabinet are working collaboratively to create a leaner, more efficient government that does more with less of taxpayers» hard - earned dollars,» the official said.

(Ohio) A Toledo high school that partners with regional industry to help train students for employment was visited this week by two of President Barack Obama's senior cabinet officials to highlight the type of successful job - training programs envisioned under new federal law.

With over 30 years of public - sector involvement at every level of government, from mayor to congressional committee chairman to cabinet member, Mineta will address the need for every business executive in the pet industry to establish and maintain working relationships with elected officiWith over 30 years of public - sector involvement at every level of government, from mayor to congressional committee chairman to cabinet member, Mineta will address the need for every business executive in the pet industry to establish and maintain working relationships with elected officiwith elected officials.

Commander in Chief is looking to be pretty extensive, allowing players to choose the cabinet that falls in line with the political format they're trying to push, and giving players control of a wide variety of duties (taxes, handling public officials, negotiating with interest groups, signing goverment contracts, etc.).

Let's start off with an official render of the game cabinet that is expected to hit production.

In the meantime, President Obama is dispatching a government science and technology team led by his cabinet's Nobelist, Steven Chu, to Houston «for an extensive dialogue with BP officials to continue to aggressively pursue potential solutions.»