Tag: Barack Obama

The first lawsuit was filed against Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for Clinton's 1996 creation, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Energy and Environment

Green groups sue Trump after monument reversal in Utah

John Siciliano · December 5, 2017 1:03 am

Protesters were stopped from marching up State Street in Salt Lake City on Monday during President Trump's announcement to eliminate vast portions of Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP)

Energy and Environment

Tribes to sue Trump over shrinking of Bears Ears monument

Josh Siegel · December 4, 2017 11:22 pm

President Trump formally ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in September. The debate has placed the Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobby, on the same side of the aisle as pro-immigration groups fighting to restore the program. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Chamber urges Trump to spare ‘Dreamers’

Sean Higgins · December 4, 2017 11:07 pm

"The former administration set it up where they had a lot of upfront requirements for states," Verma said about the waiver process under former President Barack Obama.

Seema Verma: Medicaid waivers under Obama a ‘hill to climb’ for states trying to tackle opioid crisis

Kimberly Leonard · December 4, 2017 6:06 pm

Trump will shrink Bears Ears National Monument in what's expected to be one of the largest reductions of protected land in modern history. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Beltway Confidential

President Trump disarms the Bears Ears bomb Obama left behind for him

Philip Wegmann · December 4, 2017 6:04 pm

Democrats are refuting a crude, straw man argument that says if corporate rates are cut, businesses will have more money, and out of the goodness of their corporate hearts, they'll give it to workers. One only has to state the argument to know it's rubbish. It refutes itself. Of course, businesses don't have to behave that way. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats’ straw man fights tax cuts

Washington Examiner · December 4, 2017 5:01 am

Initially, Justice Department officials suspected Michael Flynn of violating the Logan Act, a 218-year-old law under which no one has ever been prosecuted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: In Trump-Russia probe, was it all about the Logan Act?

Byron York · December 4, 2017 3:06 am

Trump is visited by the ghosts of his past, present and future. (Image courtesy screenshot)

‘Saturday Night Live’ parodies ‘A Christmas Carol’ with ghost of Michael Flynn visiting Trump

Caitlin Yilek · December 3, 2017 1:48 pm

Former U.S. President Obama gives a speech, in Paris, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Former U.S. President Barack Obama is ending a five-day international trip in Paris, where he is lunching with French President Emmanuel Macron and scheduled to give a speech to business leaders. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Energy and Environment

Obama: ‘We have a temporary absence of American leadership’ on climate change

Katie Leach · December 2, 2017 8:58 pm

After ABC News had to correct their story on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that the channel was "fake news." (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Trump Jr.: ABC News’ Michael Flynn flub would have resulted in ‘real consequences’ if error concerned Obama

Katie Leach · December 2, 2017 5:01 pm

Republicans cannot let shortsighted political posturing throw the party off course. There are five urgent fixes to the broken immigration system that take priority over others, according to Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg)

Rep. Mark Walker: Fix our broken immigration system without giving in to amnesty

Rep. Mark Walker · December 1, 2017 5:01 am

"The great thing about Donald Trump being president is now we're forced to have the dialogue," he explained, referring to what he sees as the nation's struggle with concealed racism. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Rare praise for Donald Trump from Jay-Z

Philip Wegmann · November 30, 2017 3:20 pm