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    Trump Signals Change in Tone for Police From Obama
    President Donald Trump told the nation’s largest police union his administration will “always have your back,” a departure from what many police organizations say they felt about the previous administration. “Sadly, our police are often prevented from doing their jobs,” @POTUS says. The Fraternal Order of Police visited the White House Tuesday. Many police organizations…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Looks to Rebound With Tax Reform
    The White House sees the possibility of broad support for tax reform, and an opportunity for President Donald Trump to take up an issue that hasn’t advanced in three decades—fresh off a legislative defeat Friday on replacing Obamacare. “Our tax code is outdated,” @PressSec says. “It’s been 30 years. We have an economy that has…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Readies ‘Energy Independence’ Order to Repeal Obama Climate Policies
    President Donald Trump will issue a sweeping “energy independence” executive order Tuesday to dismantle signature global warming policies put in place by President Barack Obama's administration. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told ABC News Trump will issue the order Tuesday to make “sure that we have a pro-growth and pro-environment approach to how we…
    Michael Bastasch
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    Trump-Backed Health Care Bill Stalls. Here’s How Other Presidents Responded to Early Setbacks
    President Donald Trump’s next moves might be some of the most important of his presidency. “So now we are going to go for tax reform,” @POTUS says. On Friday, he suffered a legislative defeat on the House bill to replace Obamacare, delivered in part by members of his own party in Congress. Presidential historians say…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Calls House Freedom Caucus ‘Friends,’ Predicts ‘What’s Going to Come … Is a Better Bill’
    Following House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to withdraw a bill repealing and replacing Obamacare, President Donald Trump attempted to mend the factions of the Republican conference and reiterated his support for the House Freedom Caucus. “This is a hard time for them,” Trump said of the Freedom Caucus. “This is a hard vote.” Republicans were…
    Melissa Quinn
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    He Was a Democrat for 30 Years. Why This Former Steelworker Now Backs Trump.
    For 17 years of his life, Roger Ramsey worked 80 hours a week as a maintenance technician for the Bethlehem Steel Company. When the Sparrows Point, Maryland, steel mill closed, Ramsey was left wondering what the next step would be. “I had spent 17 years of my life at that steel mill, and that’s when…
    Morgan Walker
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    Alleged Surveillance of Trump Team Fuels Debate Over Government Spying
    The chairman of the House intelligence committee surprised colleagues by saying he has evidence suggesting intelligence agencies may have misused and spread information legally obtained through surveillance of President Donald Trump or those close to him as they communicated with foreigners after the election. The disclosure Wednesday fed a debate over the government’s surveillance powers…
    Josh Siegel
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    Despite Stern Warning From Trump, Conservatives Continue to Oppose Obamacare Replacement
    House conservatives are holding their ground in opposing the GOP’s health care bill, even after leaders made additional changes to the plan in an attempt to find middle ground and President Donald Trump delivered a stern warning to the conference Tuesday morning. Republicans released their changes to their health care bill Monday night, which were…
    Melissa Quinn
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    Before Trump Called for Cuts in This Government Program, Obama Did
    The president’s budget called for slashing funding for a block grant program primarily because it was difficult to determine whether it was getting the desired results. That was President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2012. It justified the 7.5 percent reduction in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program…
    Fred Lucas
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    Transportation Reforms Take to the Fast Lane in Trump Budget
    Following on his pledge to eliminate wasteful and inappropriate federal programs, President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint delivers when it comes to the Department of Transportation. Trump’s budget blueprint shears the Department of Transportation’s discretionary budget by $2.4 billion—some 13 percent—by slashing some of its most egregious programs. Although most of the department’s funding is classified as…
    Michael Sargent
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    Trump Budget Plan Curbs Federal Intervention in Higher Education
    The Trump administration’s proposed budget blueprint for 2018 significantly cuts waste in federal higher education spending. For decades, the federal government has increased spending on higher education programs with not much to show for it—other than higher tuition prices. Today, American students and taxpayers are in bad shape when it comes to college costs. The…
    Mary Clare Amselem
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    Trump to Dismantle Obama Climate Legacy, Lawmaker Says
    President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order dismantling the previous administration’s climate legacy, according to Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Inhofe told The Daily Signal that Trump will eradicate the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan next week. “What you’re going to see next week is he’s going to take this power plan…
    Morgan Walker
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    Sharyl Attkisson on Trump Surveillance Claims: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Outside Realm of Possibility’
    Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson said Thursday it’s possible President Donald Trump is right about government surveillance. “I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility, especially considering The New York Times and USA Today reported that there was wiretapping going on of some of his top people,” Attkisson told “Fox & Friends.” Attkisson, who…
    James Rogers
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    Why Trump’s Visit to Andrew Jackson’s Grave Matters
    On Wednesday, Andrew Jackson’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump is scheduled to lay a wreath on the seventh president’s grave. He will be the first president since Ronald Reagan to visit Jackson’s home in Nashville, Tennessee. While a seemingly small gesture to a president who had been quickly fading in the minds of Americans, Trump’s visit…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Conservatives Concerned About Trump and GOP Senate’s Slow Pace on Nominees
    During his Cabinet meeting Monday, President Donald Trump opened by saying, “We have four empty seats, which is a terrible thing.” Trump said it’s “because the Senate Democrats are continuing to obstruct the confirmation of our nominees,” the administration is lacking secretaries of labor and agriculture, a director of national intelligence, and a U.S. trade representative….
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Finds an Unlikely Defender on Wiretapping: Dennis Kucinich
    President Donald Trump received some unlikely support this week when Dennis Kucinich, a former congressman and two-time Democrat presidential candidate, said that he had been subject to wiretapping under the Obama administration. “I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, regardless of whether it is officially approved,” Kucinich wrote in an op-ed…
    James Rogers
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    Trump Meets With Obamacare ‘Victims’
    On Monday, President Donald Trump met with Americans described by the White House as “victims” of Obamacare to hear their stories. In what the administration called a “listening session,” Trump referred to the Affordable Care Act as the “very, very failed and failing Obamacare law” as he heard from citizens in the Roosevelt Room who…
    Caleb Ecarma
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    How Trump Is Performing on His Promises Halfway to First 100 Days
    President Donald Trump this week threw his support behind a House Republican plan aimed at repealing and replacing Obamacare. While it’s not yet to the liking of everyone in his party, a health care proposal was a key pledge candidate Trump said would be part of his first 100 days in office. “The president is…
    Fred Lucas
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    Conservatives Find Willing Negotiating Partner in Trump, Not in Speaker Paul Ryan, on Obamacare Repeal
    Conservatives in the House and Senate may have come out swinging against Republican leadership’s plan to replace Obamacare, but the skeptical lawmakers stress that they’re ready to negotiate. So far, conservatives seem to have found a willing negotiating partner in President Donald Trump, though the president and his administration have endorsed the House GOP’s Obamacare…
    Melissa Quinn
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    Son, Brother of American Hostages in Iran Pleads for Trump’s Help
    From a distance, Baquer Namazi taught—and showed—his sons how to see the best in people, and to help the needy. A former Iranian governor, Baquer fled Iran after the 1979 revolution and emigrated to the U.S. in 1983. In the U.S., Baquer started a long career with UNICEF, serving posts in Egypt, Somalia, and Kenya….
    Josh Siegel
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