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President Donald Trump said Obamacare is “virtually dead,” but appears ready to keep it on life support for another two years. Just days after ending subsidies to insurance companies, an executive policy put in place under President Barack Obama with no approval from Congress, the Senate appears to have a bipartisan agreement to restore subsidies…

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the federal government’s bureaucracy could be a key player in reforming it, and in keeping the president’s campaign pledge to “drain the swamp.” “We don’t see any major draining of the swamp with the massive bureaucracy,” Robert Moffit says. Trump last month nominated Jeff Tien Han Pon, 47, to…

President Donald Trump will speak Tuesday at an annual meeting of Heritage Foundation members in Washington. Trump is expected to promote his tax reform proposal, the top legislative priority for the White House. Trump and Republicans in Congress have made overhauling the tax code their focus for the remainder of 2017. Since August, Trump has…

President Donald Trump has not been able to fully implement his agenda, in no small part because the Senate is not confirming his nominees, conservatives say, urging the Republican Senate leadership to prioritize and expedite the confirmation process. The Conservative Action Project, in an Oct. 10 memo, noted that Trump has had fewer executive branch…

President Donald Trump proclaimed the importance of faith and unity in a speech Friday. “America is a nation of believers … sustained by the power of prayer,” Trump said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. He said the response of Americans to the recent hurricanes and Las Vegas shooting showed the strength of…

President Donald Trump isn’t exiting the Iran nuclear agreement entirely, but he does want to enlist allies to put more teeth in it and push Congress to take stronger actions to hold the Islamist dictatorship accountable. In a speech from the White House, Trump denounced the deal entered under President Barack Obama, but said, “What’s…

The Trump administration announced Thursday night that it will cease making payments to a subsidy that helps low- to moderate-income individuals purchase Obamacare health insurance plans. The U.S. government cannot lawfully continue making the cost-sharing reduction payments that help prop up the Affordable Care Act, the White House announced in a statement. President Donald Trump’s…

Unable so far to achieve even a partial rollback of Obamacare from Congress, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could make it easier for some consumers to buy insurance across state lines—potentially increasing competition. “Insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up … and you’ll get such low…

President Donald Trump talked mostly about tax cuts and tax reform, addressing supportive truckers Wednesday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania—but also referencing Iran, a trade deal, and a mystery country that formerly didn’t respect the United States but does now. “To summarize, our plan goes from eight tax brackets down to four, expands the zero tax bracket…

Republican lawmakers are asking leaders of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Export-Import Bank. “We are writing to express our support for President Trump’s nominees to the Export-Import Bank, and especially his nomination of Scott Garrett to be the bank’s next president,” 26…

U.S. presidents, Barack Obama in particular, have abused a 111-year-old law to grab millions of acres of private land for the government, and that has to change, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said Wednesday. Presidents have made such land grabs without regard for who lived on the acres they designated as protected, Lee said during an…

A 2013 video shows the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, turning her back when asked to swear to uphold the Constitution. On Saturday, President Donald Trump called out Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor, for her “poor leadership ability” in a tweet. The day prior, Cruz had been critical, saying, “If anybody out there is…

President Donald Trump is prepared to sign a late-term abortion ban, which the House passed Tuesday evening, if the Senate follows suit. A statement from the White House said the proposed law would promote a “culture of life.” Proponents say the measure, prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, would restrict the procedure at the…

President Donald Trump, saying the nation is “joined together today in sadness, shock, and grief,” announced he will travel Wednesday to Las Vegas to visit the families of at least 58 people killed in the Sunday night shooting there, as well as survivors and first responders. “We know God lives in the hearts of those…