By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -The White House is preparing a health-policy framework that would extend Affordable Care Act insurance premium subsidies for two years, Politico reported on Monday, a move that could put President Donald Trump at odds with some of his fellow Republicans. Millions of enrollees in ACA health insurance programs — also known …
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(Reuters) -The White House has asked for the resignation of top aide to U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, Politico reported on Friday, citing administration officials. Makary had sought to promote Sanjula Jain-Nagpal, a policy and research staffer at the FDA, which the White House had not yet approved, the report said. Instead, …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that Republican-led states redraw their congressional maps to help his party retain control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections has triggered a national battle over redistricting, with the eventual winner still unclear. The fight began when Republicans in Texas, the most populous Republican state, approved …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump did something on Wednesday he has rarely done: He admitted his poll numbers had gone down. Trump, under pressure over his handling of the high cost of living and the investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, alluded to difficulties with his political base in …
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By Brad Brooks, Andrew Hay and Costas Pitas (Reuters) -A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from using a new congressional map intended to flip several Democratic-held U.S. House of Representatives seats to Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections, faulting Governor Greg Abbott for directing the legislature to draw it based on race. The 2-1 …
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By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, offering a fierce defense of the visiting Saudi crown prince that contradicted a U.S. intelligence assessment. The controversy over the killing …
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump, Democrats and Republicans made heated remarks on Tuesday as the House of Representatives voted in favor of forcing the Department of Justice to release records related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Here are some quotes from the day: US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP “I have nothing to do with …
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By Timour Azhari and Matt Spetalnick RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A visit by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler to the White House for talks on Tuesday with U.S. President Donald Trump aims to deepen decades-old cooperation on oil and security while broadening ties in commerce, technology and potentially even nuclear energy. It will be the first trip …
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By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government has hired 50,000 employees since President Donald Trump took office, his top personnel official said, with the new staff largely in national security positions reflecting the administration’s policy focus. The bulk of the new hires, reported first by Reuters, work at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Scott …
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By David Morgan and Helen Coster WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Some prominent conservative influencers sought to downplay newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein in which the convicted sex offender wrote that Donald Trump “knew about the girls,” arguing the messages were part of a broader Democratic hoax targeting the U.S. president. The emails, released by House Democrats …
