Factbox: Priebus the latest official to leave Trump administration
Following is a partial list of officials who have been fired, have left the administration or were nominated by Trump for a position but did not take the job.
Following is a partial list of officials who have been fired, have left the administration or were nominated by Trump for a position but did not take the job.
Following on the heels of the Boy Scouts, the Suffolk County Police Department has become the second organization in two days to disavow statements from Trump after the President called for more police brutality during a Friday speech to law enforcement officers.
Both in a statement and a CNN interview fired White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has continued to unrelentingly suck up to the least popular president in the history of polling.
A massive image of U.S. President Donald Trump as an alien intruder now towers above one of the busiest roads in Mexico City urging motorists to “Make America Great Again.”
The failure of Senate Republicans to pass Obamacare repeal led to Trump firing Reince Priebus and launching his plan to declare war on the Republican majority in the House and Senate.
U.S. President Donald Trump expressed dismay on Friday that the Senate tried to repeal his predecessor’s healthcare program overnight but failed to do so, saying lawmakers had been working on it for seven years but “we’re going to get it done.”
A majority of Americans believe that transgender individuals should be allowed to serve in the military, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday.
President Donald Trump on Friday replaced his White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, installing retired General John Kelly in his place in a major shakeup of his top team.
Trump Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci came up with a plan to catch the people who are leaking in the White House, but before he could take the plan to Trump, the scheme was leaked to the media.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to remove members of Wells Fargo & Co’s <WFC.N> board after revelations the company improperly charged customers for auto insurance. In a letter sent Friday to Yellen, Warren, a Democrat, said the recent revelation of more improper charges at the bank…
A U.S. congressional panel this week asked 22 government agencies to share documents on Moscow-based cyber firm Kaspersky Lab, saying its products could be used to carry out “nefarious activities against the United States,” according to letters seen by Reuters.
Donald Trump is so petty that after losing on health care, he had to criticize President Obama during a speech to law enforcement officers in New York.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday that North Korea had fired a missile that may have landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Victory for the people…until next battle
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was in full dark emo mode, and Republicans were talking about plane crashes all because millions of people will get to keep their health care.
The Russian central bank held its key interest rate unchanged at 9 percent on Friday, citing geopolitical risks and inflationary pressures, but it indicated rate cuts would follow in the coming months.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Friday he was disappointed with the Senate’s failure to pass healthcare legislation but urged Republican senators not to give up as their colleagues in the House moved on to tax reform.
“Half his tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn,” Peggy Noonan wrote in Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, in an article entitled “Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor.”
With two tweets about the Senate vote on health care, Donald Trump proved that he is totally out of it, and has no idea what is going on in the government that he is supposed to be running.
Russia on Friday ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in retaliation for a new round of U.S. sanctions, and said it was seizing two U.S. diplomatic properties.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United States will have to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 200 to 300 people after Moscow retaliated on Friday against Washington over new U.S. sanctions, the RIA news agency said, citing a source. Russia told the United States on Friday that some of its diplomats had to leave the…
A U.S. Senate led by Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans dealt the president a harsh blow on Friday, failing to move ahead with a major campaign promise to dismantle Obamacare as they fell one vote short of passing healthcare legislation.
President Obama managed to lead a huge piece of legislation, known as the ACA, through both chambers while Trump, who promised repeatedly that he would repeal and replace immediately, failed to do so.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) who is also a Senate candidate called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down after Republicans failed to pass an Obamacare repeal bill.
In the wake of the Republican failure to repeal Obamacare, Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi extended olive branches to their Republican colleagues, urging bipartisan work to tweak the ACA.
Trump blamed Senate Republicans for failing to pass Obamacare repeal, but the failure began with a weak president who burned bridges with Senators in Maine and Alaska, and when push came to shove the man who thinks he is a dealmaker couldn’t get a majority of Senators from his own party to support a bill.
In a shocking twist, the Senate Republican skinny Obamacare repeal bill failed after Sen. John McCain cast the decisive no vote.