Donald Trump may be headed into a big fight with Republican lawmakers with his plans for dramatic cuts to federal spending.
Trump transition officials are combing through conservative budgets to find ways to save money in an effort to get rid of the “tremendous waste, fraud and abuse” that Trump pledged to eliminate during the campaign.
But some of the president’s targets have fans in the GOP-controlled Congress.
It’s the first full week members of Congress get to work with a President Trump.
House and Senate Republicans plan to huddle with Trump and the vice president this week at their annual retreat as the GOP tries to chart a path forward on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
President Trump told Fox News last week that when it comes to ObamaCare, “we’re going to have a plan that’s going to be great for people.” What that plan will actually be, though, remains unclear.
As President Trump moves to enact his campaign proposals on international trade, Hispanic leaders are worried Latino workers could be the first to feel the effects.
U.S. counterintelligence agents investigated National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian officials, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night.
To the extent that there was a plan to take advantage of the first days of his administration, when a president is usually at his maximum leverage, President Trump threw it aside.
President Donald Trump showed in his first days in office that his combative, self-aggrandizing campaign persona isn’t going away, a sign that he hasn’t yet made the transition from running for office to governing as he embarks on a high-stakes first week.
