Articles by S.A. Miller
At the annual "Friends of Ireland" luncheon Thursday at the Capitol, President Trump praised the contribution of Irish immigrants to the U.S. and vowed that the bonds between two countries would endure.
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March 16, 2017
Shares President Trump on Thursday hosted Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the White House for its annual St. Patrick's Day events, a tradition dating back to the 1950s that celebrates the bonds between the two countries.
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March 16, 2017
Shares President Trump's budget quickly encountered opposition Thursday from education advocates over the proposed elimination of an after-school program, despite the long track record of the more than $1 billion spent annually on the initiatives not affecting youth outcomes.
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March 16, 2017
Shares President Trump said Wednesday that won't stop using Twitter to circumvent the news media and that White House aides encourage his powerful presence on social media.
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March 15, 2017
Shares President Trump made a sales pitch Wednesday for the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, telling a campaign-style rally in Tennessee that the current health car law was already gone.
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March 15, 2017
Shares President Trump said Wednesday that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow showing his 2005 federal tax return on her show was "illegal" and a "disgrace."
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March 15, 2017
Shares Standing in front of a crowd of auto industry workers and executives in Michigan, President Trump said Wednesday that his rollback of regulations and get-tough trade policies are beginning to usher in "a new future of American automobile leadership."
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March 15, 2017
Shares President Trump's plan for a $1 trillion program to rebuild America's roads, bridges, railways and airports has won early support from leading budget hawks and anti-tax conservatives because it is expected to be more about regulatory reform and alternative financing than a federal spending spree.
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March 12, 2017
Shares President Trump's coattails will be put to the test in a string of special elections this year, where Republicans clamor for his support and Democrats seek to turn anti-Trump energy into upsets on red territory.
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March 9, 2017
Shares President Trump campaigned on his reputation as a successful businessman, promising voters he would run the government like one of his enterprises. But his management of the executive branch since taking office has been plagued by difficulties marshaling White House staff and problems with rollouts of his extreme vetting policy and his federal hiring freeze.
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March 9, 2017
Shares WikiLeaks published thousands of purported CIA documents Tuesday that claim to show intimate details of the agency's cyberespionage effort, including malware that turns iPhones, Android cell phones and Samsung smart TVs into bugs and spy cams.
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March 7, 2017
Shares President Trump's revised order Monday to hit the pause button on refugees and visitors from terrorist hotbeds was aimed at erasing the perception that it was a "Muslim ban," but a new round of court challenges appeared unavoidable.
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March 6, 2017
Shares President Trump signed a new executive order Monday that temporarily bans visitors from six Middle East and African countries while the administration creates an extreme vetting program, taking pains to remove the pitfalls of the original order and the perception that it's a "Muslim ban."
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March 6, 2017
Shares Russian conspiracy allegations will continue to dog the White House until President Trump gets a handle on the administration's opponents inside the U.S. intelligence community who are driving the story, warned Republican strategists in Washington.
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March 5, 2017
Shares President Trump on Saturday accused former President Obama of tapping his phones at Trump Tower during the campaign, saying he was targeted with "Nixon/Watergate" and "McCarthyism" tactics. Mr. Obama denied the allegation Saturday afternoon through a spokesman.
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March 4, 2017
Shares President Trump pushed his plan for a school voucher program Friday while touring St. Andrews Catholic School in Orlando, Florida, where a large number of students benefit from a state tax-credit program that works similar to vouchers.
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March 3, 2017
Shares Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that the pursuit of ties between the Trump administration and Russian spies looked like a "witch hunt of the days of McCarthyism."
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March 3, 2017
Shares President Trump tweeted Friday a photograph of Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer having a drink with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling the New York Democrat a "total hypocrite."
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March 3, 2017
Shares A perjury investigation could be the next hurdle faced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with Democrats and civil liberties groups unimpressed by his decision to recuse himself from any investigations involving the presidential campaigns.
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March 2, 2017
Shares Attorney General Jeff Sessions bowed to pressure Thursday and recused himself from a Justice Department investigation into Moscow's meddling in the presidential election, but he remained adamant that his testimony at a confirmation hearing was forthright despite not disclosing contacts with the Russian ambassador.
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March 2, 2017
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