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The White House and former Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary MORE are at odds over the narrative of his departure. Shulkin on Sunday pushed back against the White House's claim that he resigned, telling CNN's Jake Tapper that he was "committed to making sure this job was seen through to the very end.” But a West Wing spokesperson maintains that the former Cabinet secretary stepped down from his post. Shulkin’s departure came amid a round of staff and Cabinet shake-ups within the Trump administration, including the ousting of Secretary of State MORE

House members from both parties are facing difficult primary challenges as they try to win reelection amid a voter backlash against Washington. Incumbents have built-in advantages, including name recognition and more established fundraising networks and campaign operations. But in one of the first primaries of 2018, anti-abortion Rep.

MORE said Sunday that Republicans must change Senate laws in order to pass tougher border and immigration legislation. In a position shift, he also said the GOP should no longer make a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program deal with Democrats. Trump tweeted that liberal laws are preventing Border Patrol agents from doing their jobs and Republicans need to take action. The "nuclear option" Trump is referring to would involve changing Senate rules so legislation can pass with a simple majority instead of 60 votes.

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President State Department. "By the way, we're knocking the hell out of Rex Tillerson have said repeatedly that those troops will remain and the civilian presence will increase as the U.S. works to prevent a new terror group from forming. But Trump's suggestion then that the U.S.

After five days with no public appearances on his schedule, President Donald Trump arrived in Richfield, Ohio, Thursday to speak with local workers and make a renewed public relations push for his administration's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan. "We will transform our roads and bridges from a source of endless frustration into a source of absolutely incredible pride," Trump said to members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 18.

Adult-film star Stormy Daniels – who is trying to get out of a nondisclosure agreement over an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump - might still get her day in court, but it won’t be anytime soon after a California judge Thursday rejected her request for an expedited jury trial. On Tuesday, Daniels filed legal papers asking for a jury trial within 90 days of a judge’s order and the opportunity to depose President Trump and Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney who acknowledged paying the adult-film star $130,000 less

For much of his first year in Washington, President Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt occupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, property records from 2017 show. Neither the EPA nor the lobbyist, J. Steven Hart, would say how much Pruitt paid to live at the prime Capitol Hill address, though Hart said he believed it to be the market rate.

The TAKE with Rick Klein It counts as a slow week when only one Cabinet secretary is ousted, just days after an adult-film star goes on television to allege an affair with the president. The replacement of David Shulkin as Veterans Affairs secretary might barely merit a footnote in this month of uncommon turbulence

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