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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which scientific issues require their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, …

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By Bo Erickson and Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ten Democrats joined Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday in voting to censure one of their own, Representative Al Green, for shouting during a speech by President Donald Trump, illustrating the tightrope the party is walking as it tries to respond to Trump’s second …

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(In March 5 article paragraph 7, corrects deadline to March 21 from March 12) By Jonathan Landay, Ted Hesson and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A new travel ban by President Donald Trump could bar people from Afghanistan and Pakistan from entering the U.S. as soon as next week based on a government review of countries’ …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson aims to hold a vote on Tuesday on a bill to fund the government through September 30, a move needed to avert a partial shutdown of agencies late next week, he told reporters on Thursday. The bill, a continuing resolution, or CR, …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans pushed for the U.S. Congress to codify spending cuts identified by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court declined to let President Donald Trump withhold payments to foreign aid organizations. After a lunch meeting with Musk, Republican lawmakers acknowledged the 5-4 …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk, who is advising President Donald Trump on plans to radically shrink the U.S. government, said on Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service and passenger railroad Amtrak should be privatized. “I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk said at a Morgan Stanley …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested early on Wednesday after his car struck a parked vehicle at the Capitol following President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. “A driver backed into a parked vehicle last night around 11:40 p.m. We responded and …

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By Lisa Baertlein and Andrea Shalal LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. plans to levy fees on imports arriving on Chinese-made ships and offer tax credits to resuscitate domestic shipbuilding and reduce China’s grip on the $150 billion global ocean shipping industry, a White House document seen by Reuters shows. President Donald Trump is drafting an …

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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of diplomats at the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development have written a letter addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio protesting the dismantling of USAID, saying its demise would undermine U.S. leadership and security and create a power vacuum which China and Russia could exploit. …

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