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Trump reportedly demanding tax reform bill be ‘The Cut Cut Cut Act’

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks to the media prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 27, 2017, as he travels to Indiana to unveil his tax reform plan. A fight is brewing on …

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Trump will ask Congress to end green-card lottery program

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 1, 2017. Calling terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov “an animal,” President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will ask Congress to end the immigration lottery program, which …

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US court blocks enforcement of Trump’s transgender military ban

Michael Nigro | Pacific Press | LightRocket | Getty Images On July 26, 2017, after a series of tweets by President Donald Trump, which proposed to ban transgender people from military service, thousands of New Yorkers took the streets of in opposition. A U.S. federal court in Washington on Monday …

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Republicans keep their distance from Manafort news, focus on agenda

Getty Images (L to R) Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Mike Bishop (R-MI) look on during a press event to discuss the GOP plans for tax reform, September 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. As news …

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Speaker Paul Ryan wants the House to pass a tax bill by Thanksgiving

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Once they release the bill, Republicans will still have to overcome obstacles. Among those, some Republicans have already expressed concerns about the potential budget deficit generated by the plan. The party has struggled …

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Wall Street expects Powell but still wants Yellen as next Fed chair

Zach Gibson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jerome Powell, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Wall Street overwhelmingly believes President Donald Trump will pick Federal Reserve Governor Jay Powell to be the next Fed chair, but it wants him to reappoint the current chair, Janet Yellen. The CNBC Fed Survey …

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Senators seek a crackdown on Facebook and Google political ads

Jacquelyn Martin | AP Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., left, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., speak about online political ads and preventing foreign interference in U.S. elections, during a news conference, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Three senators began a bipartisan push Thursday to rein in social …

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Trump again blasts NFL over players kneeling during national anthem

Thomas J. Russo | USA TODAY Sports | Reuters The Cleveland Browns team stand and kneel during the National Anthem before the start of their game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium, September 24, 2017. President Donald Trump is again criticizing the NFL over players kneeling during the …

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NAFTA renegotiation talks will go into next year

Yuri Gripas | Reuters (L-R) Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, U.S. Trade Rep Robert Lighthizer and Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal arrive at a joint news conference after a NAFTA trilateral ministerial press event in Washington, October 17, 2017. In the meeting before officials spoke Tuesday, Mexico …

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