(Reuters) -New York Governor Kathy Hochul will come to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump on Friday morning, Trump told reporters on Thursday. Earlier this week, Hochul demanded Trump reverse U.S. tariffs placed on Canadian energy imports, arguing the tariffs and Canadian retaliatory actions threaten to drive up electricity and heating costs for New …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Thursday a potential U.S. government shutdown would lead to higher taxes for Americans because it would stall his tax cut plan. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open, but it has not yet made it through the Republican-controlled Senate, …
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than half of Americans, including one in four Republicans, think President Donald Trump is “too closely aligned” with Russia, as he radically realigns U.S. foreign policy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. The two-day poll completed on Wednesday also found little appetite among Americans for Trump’s expansionist agenda, as the …
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By Utkarsh Shetti (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election prompted a run-up in the broad stock market that has since receded. The same has happened in a number of tiny companies linked to the president’s two eldest sons. In the last few months, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump have announced their involvement in several …
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By Andrea Shalal and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Ireland on Wednesday for luring away U.S. companies with its low tax rates but pledged to work with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin to address what he called “massive deficits” in trade between the two allies. Trump met with Martin in the …
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By Richard Cowan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats huddled for hours on Wednesday plotting a course forward on a stopgap funding bill passed by the Republican-controlled House, with only two more days remaining before a partial government shutdown would be triggered. In a gambit that is unlikely to succeed, Senate Democratic …
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By Bo Erickson and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen on Wednesday became the third Senate Democrat to say she would not seek reelection next year, further complicating her party’s hopes of recapturing control of that chamber when President Donald Trump’s term reaches its midpoint. “I ran for public office to make a …
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By Bo Erickson and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen on Wednesday became the third Senate Democrat to say she would not seek reelection next year, further complicating her party’s hopes of recapturing control of that chamber when President Donald Trump’s term reaches its midpoint. “I ran for public office to make a …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic lawmakers slammed President Donald Trump’s administration for canceling U.S. military studies on the impact of climate change, saying the move jeopardizes national security by ignoring climate-related risks at home and abroad. Scientists say climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and wildfires. The lawmakers, in a previously …
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By Tom Hals, Luc Cohen and Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK (Reuters) -A legal battle over a detained Columbia University student that has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration policy will play out in federal court, with the U.S. government indicating on Tuesday it would oppose the Palestinian activist’s bid for release. U.S. District …
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