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The White House insisted Sunday that MORE wishes he raised tariffs on China even higher after Trump indicated earlier that he regretted escalating the trade war with Beijing. White House press secretary This report was updated at 9:13 a.m. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

MORE repeatedly took aim at media coverage of him during his meeting with the Group of Seven (G-7) countries in France over the weekend as he faces international blowback from tariffs leveled against China and the specter of a possible recession. The topics the president tweeted were misrepresented by news media included discussions with world leaders in Biarritz and his reference to himself as the "the chosen one" to negotiate with China on trade. "When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said “I am the chosen one,” at a press conference two days ago, referring to ta

MORE's economic advisers and allies on Sunday defended the trade war with China as necessary and beneficial to the U.S.

A slate of recent setbacks to some of MORE’s key foreign policy goals is threatening to muddy his reelection message. Reports show ISIS is regaining strength in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, North Korea has conducted half a dozen missile tests over the last few weeks, a pace not seen since before Trump sat down with MORE. Defeating ISIS and negotiating with North Korea are two areas Trump holds up as major accomplishments at campaign rallies and on Twitter, and backsliding on progress could undercut his message and give fodder to his Democratic

The latest Pew Research Center study finds that between 2000 and 2018, 109 U.S. counties across 22 states have had their non-Hispanic white populations drop below 50 percent, while the Hispanic, Asian, and black American populations have all grown. Today, there are roughly 293 majority-minority U.S.

In the New York Times, he wrote about getting rid of the filibuster rule in the Senate that he helped install, claiming in today’s political climate nothing can get done.

Zeldin lashed out at the New York Times in the wake of a Breitbart News investigation which found that the newspaper’s politics editor Tom Wright-Piersanti wrote racist and antisemitic comments on Twitter. The Times’ admitted Sunday that the comments were racist and antisemitic. The paper also admitted that Wright-Piersanti’s remarks were in “violation” of its standards. New York Times publisher A.G.

Last week, Trump told the media is he “very seriously” looking at signing an executive order that will end birthright citizenship in the U.S., calling the policy “frankly ridiculous.” During an interview with Fox News’ John Roberts, Miller said the White House is, in fact, reviewing “all legal options” to end birthright citizenship where an average of about 300,000 U.S.-b

WASHINGTON — President Trump said he’s raising tariffs further on Chinese imports in response to Beijing’s retaliation earlier in the day, deepening the impasse over the two nations’ trade policies. Duties on $250 billion of imports already in effect will rise to 30 percent from 25 percent on Oct. 1, Trump said in a series of tweets Friday after US markets closed. He also said that the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports will be taxed at 15 percent instead of 10 percent starting Sept.