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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said President Donald Trump’s tariff, tax-cut and deregulation agenda would work together to drive long-term investment to the U.S. economy, adding that U.S. financial markets were “anti-fragile” and would weather any short-term turbulence. Bessent, in prepared remarks to the Milken Institute Global …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said he was unsure whether people in the U.S. are entitled to due process rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution as his administration pushes aggressively to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and other non-citizens. Trump made his comments during an interview conducted on Friday …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump “shows an openness” to work requirements for Medicaid, Jason Smith, chair of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, said on Fox News Sunday, as lawmakers try to agree on spending cuts to partly offset the cost of a sweeping tax-cut bill. Congressional Republicans are …

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(Reuters) -Officials in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration are exploring ways of challenging the tax-exempt status of nonprofits, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Internal Revenue Service lawyers have been exploring whether they could change the rules governing how nonprofit groups can be denied tax-exempt status, the Journal said, citing people familiar with the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday attacks by Republican President Donald Trump and his allies on judges were “not random” and seemed “designed to intimidate the judiciary.” U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Trump in March for urging the impeachment of a federal judge, laying bare tensions between …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration said on Thursday it is suing four Democratic-led states to prevent them from enforcing “burdensome and ideologically motivated” laws and pursuing lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over the harms caused by climate change. The U.S. Department of Justice in a pair of lawsuits argued that recent …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump announced late on Thursday his first judicial nomination since returning to the White House as he moved to appoint a lawyer serving under Tennessee’s Republican attorney general to a seat on a federal appeals court. Trump said in a social media post that he is nominating Whitney …

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By Luc Cohen and Ted Hesson NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from using an 18th-century wartime law to deport some Venezuelan migrants, in the most sweeping ruling thus far against a key part of the Republican president’s aggressive immigration crackdown. In a 36-page opinion, U.S. District Judge …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Congress turned in earnest on Monday to their biggest challenge of Donald Trump’s presidency: trying to bridge internal divisions over proposed cuts to Medicaid and popular green energy initiatives to pay for a landmark tax-cut bill they hope to enact by July 4. After a two-week …

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