An advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence is launching a website and reaching out to lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of its push to pass an extension of President Trump's 2017 tax cuts in the massive reconciliation package working its way through Congress. The website from Advancing American Freedom, details of...
President Trump late Sunday cautioned Republican lawmakers against going "too crazy" with cost-cutting efforts as fiscal hawks push for spending cuts in the massive reconciliation package making its way through Congress. "For all cost cutting Republicans, of which I am one, REMEMBER, you still have to get reelected. Don’t go too crazy!" Trump posted on...
From time to time, Trump laments that he hasn't received the Nobel Peace Prize like Barack Obama did. He won't get one by bombing other countries to maintain America's nuclear superiority.
Canada’s government announced late Sunday that it would scrap its digital services tax on U.S. technology companies, paving the way for the resumption of trade talks that President Trump suspended late last week. Canada’s government had planned to begin collecting the tax on Monday but said on Sunday it would no longer do so “in...
The House could vote on the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” as early as Wednesday morning, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s (R-Minn.) office announced Sunday, officially notifying members that they will have to return to Washington, D.C., to vote on the megabill. The beacon came as Senate Republicans were racing to pass the sprawling tax cuts...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Sunday that the Senate version of President Trump’s massive spending bill “will betray the very promise” the president made when he pledged not to interfere with people’s Medicaid benefits. Tillis — who voted against the bill in a key procedural vote Saturday night and announced Sunday he would not run...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Sunday that she reached a deal with Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on new text for a provision in President Trump’s sweeping tax package that seeks to bar states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI). The updated text would enact a “temporary pause,” banning states from regulating AI for five...
The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, denied claims that Iran was threatening or calling for the execution of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Iravani was asked about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s warning on Saturday that “calls in...
The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, said his country will “never stop” nuclear enrichment, saying it’s an “inalienable right” that Iran plans on exercising. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan pressed the ambassador on whether Iran intends to “reconstitute a nuclear enrichment program on its soil.”...
