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Trump said that the expansions of HRAs would allow families to start shopping around for health care plans that they wanted and to get reimbursed by their employers. “It’s popular, it’s really, really been a success,” Trump said, noting that the Obama administration leveled penalties for HRAs, making it essentially unworkable. The president held an announcement ceremony in the Rose Garden. Trump said the decision would help expand the level of coverage, particularly for small businesses, calling it a “monumental” achievement. The president brought to the podium small business owners, who expla

Massachusetts voters really don’t like President Trump, but that doesn’t mean they want Democrats on Capitol Hill to try to impeach him. Sixty-one perecent of those surveyed in a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll viewed Trump unfavorably — far more than any of the other politicians included in the question. Just 30 percent held a favorable view of Trump. However, 49 percent of Mass. voters said the House of Representatives should not seriously consider impeaching Trump, according to the survey released Tuesday.

Ivanka Trump made $4 million from her investment in her father’s Washington hotel last year, according to a disclosure released by the White House on Friday. She also made at least $1 million from her line of branded apparel, jewelry and other merchandise, down from at least $5 million in the previous year.

NBC has announced the lineup of candidates who will appear during each night of the first Democratic National Committee debates later this month. The field of 20 candidates has been split into two groups. According to NBC, which is hosting the debate, the group debating on the first night will feature Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Julian Castro, Tim Ryan, Bill de Blasio, and Jay Inslee.

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington is backing an order barring the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that had prevented immigrant teens in government custody from getting abortions. The Trump administration’s policy dates to 2017. It prohibited shelters from facilitating abortions for children held in government shelters after entering the country illegally. A judge blocked the policy in March 2018 and it has not been in force since.

It’s official: We now know which candidates will be facing off during the first Democratic National Committee debate June 26 and 27 in Miami. The first night will feature Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Julian Castro, Tim Ryan, Bill de Blasio, and Jay Inslee. The second group, which will debate the following night, will feature Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, Marianne Williamson, Eric Swalwell, Andrew Yang, and John Hickenlooper. H

The top spokesperson for MORE’s 2020 reelection bid said the campaign would handle offers of information on opponents from foreign entities on a “case by case basis.” Kayleigh McEnany, the campaign's national press secretary, said on CBS News’s “Red & Blue" Thursday that the campaign will follow Trump’s lead when it comes to handling potential offers. "The president's directive, as he said, [it's] a case by case basis.

Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub said Thursday it is illegal to accept foreign assistance during elections after MORE publicly suggested he would accept foreign intelligence on opponents.  "I would not have thought that I needed to say this," Weintraub tweeted Thursday with her statement. "Let me make something 100 percent clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S.

MORE roiled Washington on Thursday with his suggestion that he would accept dirt on a political opponent from a foreign government. The remarks, made during an interview with ABC News the previous day, sparked fierce political backlash on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers faced an hours-long hounding by reporters over their position on Trump’s comments. Democrats lashed out at Trump’s suggestion that if a foreign government offered information he would “take it,” while Republicans raced to

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced on Thursday the 20 Democrats running for president who will take part in the first debate later this month, with four left off the prime-time stage. Former Vice President MORE (D-N.Y.). The other qualifying candidates are: South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE (D-Md.). Four candidates did not make the stage: Montana Gov.