Tag: Barack Obama

Sadly, it seems that some in the EPA would rather play politics than join with Pruitt to fight pollution. (Wikipedia Commons)

Energy and Environment

EPA to make industry ‘a partner, as opposed to an adversary’ under Obama

John Siciliano · October 3, 2017 8:58 pm

The debt grew $671 billion in the just-closed fiscal year, much lower than the more than $1 trillion annual growth in the debt under President Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National debt jumps $103 billion on first day of FY 2018

Pete Kasperowicz · October 3, 2017 8:40 pm

"No one should be fooled by the Castro regime's claim it knows nothing about how these harmful attacks are occurring or who perpetrated them," Rubio said Tuesday.

Marco Rubio: Raul Castro keeping secrets about Cuba attacks

Joel Gehrke · October 3, 2017 7:01 pm

Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said she is having a hard time watching the Trump administration repeal the regulations she helped spearhead. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Energy and Environment

Gina McCarthy says it’s ‘not easy’ to watch Trump kill off her EPA rules

John Siciliano · October 3, 2017 6:37 pm

The free-market think tank wants correspondence between a pair of former Obama officials and two environmental groups. (Wikipedia Commons)

Energy and Environment

Competitive Enterprise Institute sues State Department for climate change communications of Obama officials

Josh Siegel · October 3, 2017 5:40 pm

In this Sept. 29, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks as he walks to Marine One as he departs the White House in Washington. Trump is aiming to make an end-run around some of President Barack Obama's regulations, which he says circumvented Congress in the first place and cost American businesses and the economy billions of dollars. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Washington Secrets

Trump ahead of Reagan’s record in cutting regulations

Paul Bedard · October 3, 2017 7:16 am

In the past seven years under Obama, the national debt grew by more than $1 trillion per year. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

National debt grew more slowly in FY 2017 under Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · October 2, 2017 8:32 pm

Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Former President Barack Obama offered his thoughts and prayers on Monday to the victims of Sunday night's shooting. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Bill Clinton: Las Vegas shooting ‘should be unimaginable in America’

Melissa Quinn · October 2, 2017 1:17 pm

A probe into how and why Obama administration officials unmasked Trump associates during the campaign and transition has produced early evidence that aides used the procedure with high frequency and may have gathered information about Trump associates' Russian connections through those unmaskings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

No Trump ‘victory lap’ as Congress probes Obama-era ‘unmasking’

Sarah Bedford · October 2, 2017 4:02 am

President Trump says it was no longer time to be "nice" to North Korea. "Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won't fail." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Trump: I will not be ‘nice’ to North Korea and ‘I won’t fail’

Kyle Feldscher · October 1, 2017 7:26 pm

Vice President Joe Biden, his wife Jill, former President Barack Obama and Britain's Prince Harry watch wheelchair basketball at the Invictus Games in Toronto on Friday. (Chris Donovan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Obama, Bidens join Prince Harry at Invictus Games in Toronto

Diana Stancy Correll · September 30, 2017 3:24 am

Trump just accepted the resignation of disgraced Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. It's the right thing to do, and it's a great move. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

In firing Tom Price, Trump just did what Obama never could: Accept blame and tell a bureaucrat ‘you’re fired’

Philip Wegmann · September 29, 2017 10:00 pm