Tag: Barack Obama

".@IvankaTrump, self-styled champion of women, you just supported end of pay-equity rule," the Anne Frank Center, a human and civil rights nonprofit, wrote on Twitter. "Your mirror has two faces."

White House kills Obama-era proposal forcing businesses to collect wage data based on gender, ethnicity

Anna Giaritelli · August 30, 2017 2:33 am

President Trump's trip to Texas on Tuesday is being used by environmental groups to slam his repeal of an Obama administration climate change order aimed at hardening buildings against flooding and sea-level rise. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy and Environment

Environmentalists attack Trump for climate policies amid Texas visit

John Siciliano · August 29, 2017 7:46 pm

Obamacare could end up being remembered as one of the greatest policy failures in modern history. Premiums and deductibles have skyrocketed, millions of people have lost their insurance and been forced to purchase a new plan (and sometimes get new healthcare providers as a result), and the policy's greatest "achievement," if you can even call it that, is getting tens of millions of people dependent on government via Medicaid. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

The Obamacare death spiral is quietly getting much worse

Justin Haskins · August 29, 2017 7:26 pm

The bulk of the Republican-controlled legislature's work has been undoing the Obama administration's regulatory legacy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Current Congress is one of the most productive in 30 years: Report

Naomi Lim · August 29, 2017 6:17 pm

Conservatives should strive for a system that helps create a level playing field upon which competition can take place. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Feds estimate 20.5 million more people with insurance since Obamacare became law

Robert King · August 29, 2017 3:23 pm

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said in an op-ed that White House officials have closed him off from offering policy advice to President Trump, including a way to exit the Iran nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

John Bolton says he’s been shut out of Trump’s White House

Melissa Quinn · August 29, 2017 12:54 pm

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has directed the military to come up with a new reporting system that more accurately reflects how many military personnel are forward deployed. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Jim Mattis promises more accurate accounting of US troop deployments

Jamie McIntyre · August 29, 2017 12:32 pm

"Sheriff Joe is a patriot. Sheriff Joe loves our country. Sheriff Joe protected our borders." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump defends Arpaio pardon, bashing Clinton on Marc Rich, Obama on Chelsea Manning commutation

Steven Nelson · August 28, 2017 9:20 pm

Obama didn't pardon either Chelsea Manning or Oscar Lopez Rivera, but rather commuted their sentences. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump shares tweet incorrectly claiming Obama pardoned a ‘traitor’ and a ‘terrorist’

Melissa Quinn · August 28, 2017 3:31 pm

Protesters march through downtown Phoenix, Monday, May 1, 2017. Immigrant and union groups marched in cities across the United States on Monday to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump's efforts to boost deportations. The day has become a rallying point for immigrants in the U.S. since demonstrations were held in 2006 against a proposed immigration enforcement bill. (AP Photo/Matt York)

200,000 deportation cases quietly ‘closed’ under Obama

Paul Bedard · August 28, 2017 2:36 pm

William Saletan seems to assume that if you just don't write about the well documented racial differences on intelligence tests, people won't know they exist. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Group differences don’t undermine case against racial discrimination

Michael Barone · August 27, 2017 7:17 pm

"If it wasn't clear before, it's clear now: We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation," Biden wrote. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Joe Biden: America is ‘living through a battle’ for its soul after Charlottesville

Naomi Lim · August 27, 2017 3:18 pm