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'Drain the Swamp': Trump Campaign Implements Tough Ethics Standards

posted onApril 11, 2019
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Most importantly, the employee manual that all campaign employees, vendors, volunteers, and consultants agree to before signing on to officially help Trump’s re-election chances bars them from any financial benefits from outside vendors, lobbyists, or Political Action Committees (PACs) without the approval of the campaign treasurer. The campaign confirmed the new standards to Breitbart News in a number of exclusive statements and by providing an excerpt from the Trump campaign staff employee manual that has not been previously publicly reported.

Bernie Sanders says he is releasing 10 years of tax returns on Tax Day - The Boston Globe

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WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years of tax returns by Tax Day on Monday and acknowledged that he has joined the ranks of the millionaires he has denounced for years. “April 15 is coming,” Sanders, whose refusal to release his full past returns has become an issue in the campaign, said in an interview in his office. “We wanted to release 10 years of tax returns.

Politics - The Boston Globe

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The proposal would also rely on revenue from the administration’s previously announced increases in hotel and parking meter fees to fund new initiatives on homelessness and city streets and sidewalks.   The head of the IRS, overseeing the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in three decades, says the average refund in this year’s tax-filing season, $2,833, worked out to be close to last year’s.  The announcement came after President Trump told reporters last week that he was pulling his nomination of acting ICE chief Ronald Vitiello for the director’s job.

Politics - The Boston Globe

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JEFF JACOBY The belief that America already contains as many people as it can handle is one that immigration restrictionists have been promoting for years.   Renée Graham When President Trump wants to go to extremes, Stephen Miller is there to push him even further.   SCOT LEHIGH Democrats should heed Nancy Pelosi’s cautions on single-payer health care.   The proposal would also rely on revenue from the administration’s previously announced increases in hotel and parking meter fees to fund new initiatives on homelessness and city streets and sidewalks.

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onApril 11, 2019
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JEFF JACOBY The belief that America already contains as many people as it can handle is one that immigration restrictionists have been promoting for years.   Renée Graham When President Trump wants to go to extremes, Stephen Miller is there to push him even further.   SCOT LEHIGH Democrats should heed Nancy Pelosi’s cautions on single-payer health care.   The proposal would also rely on revenue from the administration’s previously announced increases in hotel and parking meter fees to fund new initiatives on homelessness and city streets and sidewalks.

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onApril 11, 2019
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JEFF JACOBY The belief that America already contains as many people as it can handle is one that immigration restrictionists have been promoting for years.   Renée Graham When President Trump wants to go to extremes, Stephen Miller is there to push him even further.   SCOT LEHIGH Democrats should heed Nancy Pelosi’s cautions on single-payer health care.   The proposal would also rely on revenue from the administration’s previously announced increases in hotel and parking meter fees to fund new initiatives on homelessness and city streets and sidewalks.

Dems accused of seeking revenge for 2013 vote on hurricane relief | TheHill

posted onApril 10, 2019
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GOP senators are accusing Democrats of exacting revenge for a Senate vote that occurred six years ago. Republicans say their colleagues across the aisle are holding up a disaster relief bill that would provide assistance to Midwest and Southern states because of GOP opposition to aid for Senate Minority Leader MORE’s (D) home state of New York after it was hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Sen.

Trump immigration crackdown won't include family separations, he says | TheHill

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MORE said Tuesday he is not looking to resume the controversial practice of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border, amid bipartisan pushback against his plans to impose even stricter immigration policies. But Trump also defended his "zero tolerance" policy as an effective deterrent, and his administration teased a raft of new, hard-line proposals intended to stem the flow of Central American migrants crossing into the U.S. "We're not looking to do that.

Grand jury material becomes key battle-line in Mueller report fight | TheHill

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Attorney General MORE’s full report and increasing the odds that Democrats will issue a subpoena. In a closely watched appearance before a House subcommittee, Barr stuck to his plan to release a redacted version of Mueller’s report publicly and to Congress “within a week,” despite growing calls from House Democrats that he hand over Mueller’s full report — absent redactions — immediately. He also said he would not ask a federal court to allow him to release grand jury materials, which are subject to secrecy under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e). “The chairman