Trump’s pitch for bipartisan immigration and infrastructure legislation Tuesday night left lawmakers from both parties looking for details, Niv Ellis reported from the Capitol.
President Trump called for bipartisan action on immigration and infrastructure in his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, asking a deeply divided nation to come together after a tumultuous first year in office.
President Trump touted a robust economy and laid out an ambitious agenda in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night, an 80-minute marathon jammed with policy proposals that will be difficult to achieve in a bitterly divided Congress.
President Trump reassured a GOP lawmaker after his State of the Union speech that he backs releasing a classified Republican memo that alleges the FBI improperly used a surveillance program.
A key Republican senator is floating a new proposal to essentially codify President Obama’s 2012 executive order creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in order to break a standoff with Democrats over immigration.
The Trump administration faced blowback on Capitol Hill Tuesday for declining to implement new sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
The top 50 lobbying spenders in Washington, hailing almost exclusively from corporate America, spent more than $540 million on influence campaigns last year.
OPINION | It’s hard to imagine that Donald Trump, or any Hollywood producer for that matter, could have orchestrated a better rollout for the White House tax plan. Nearly every day another major American company announces bonuses, pay raises, benefit hikes, and the like.
OPINION | The most remarkable aspect of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address is the very fact of his presidency. That he is one year into his term, and spent the first 15 minutes of his address regaling the American people with his successes just adds to the surrealism.
In vivid detail, President Donald Trump told stories of American heroism, heartbreak and tragedy in his emotionally charged first State of the Union. What he didn’t detail were solutions to the crises ahead.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump spoke of unifying the country and delivering for the American people -- and he has the opportunity to back up his words with action almost immediately.
In a capital riven by divisions, president steered clear of some of the targets of his recent attacks and insisted he could see the possibility of unity.
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