Tag: Minusextra

President thinks Labor Dept. should use rate that includes people who are not looking for jobs but who might. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Trump mulls changing official unemployment rate

Sean Higgins · January 29, 2017 5:00 am

A White House aide says the freeze applies "regardless of the sources" of funding, like the FDA's user fees. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Hiring freeze hits FDA positions not funded by taxpayers

Robert King · January 29, 2017 5:00 am

"I stand with the people gathered across the country tonight defending our values & our Constitution," tweeted the former Democratic presidential candidate. "This is not who we are." (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Hillary Clinton: ‘I stand with’ Trump immigration ban protesters

Daniel Chaitin · January 29, 2017 4:11 am

A day after President Trump signed an executive order that temporarily suspends immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and bars refugees from entering the U.S., Twitter shot back: "Twitter is built by immigrants of all religions. We stand for and with them, always." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Twitterer in chief slammed by Twitter, tech world on immigrant ban

Daniel Chaitin · January 29, 2017 3:22 am

How does President Trump have the authority to do this? (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

What’s the real deal on this ‘Muslim ban’?

Timothy P. Carney · January 29, 2017 3:12 am

US Border Patrol Officers applaud as President Donald Trump is introduced before speaking at the Homeland Security Department in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Unions of Border Patrol, ICE agents cheer Trump actions

Paul Bedard · January 29, 2017 2:55 am

Protesters demonstrate against President Trump's executive order at the Dallas Forth Worth Airport. (Brandon Wade/Star-Telegram via AP)

Airports nationwide swarmed by protests against Trump immigration ban

Daniel Chaitin · January 29, 2017 2:03 am

President Trump's budget will be influenced by a plan authored last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, which proposes a 1.7 percent reduction in spending.

Trump budget cuts may be tough sell in Congress

Susan Ferrechio · January 29, 2017 2:00 am

The U.S. has "gone through reactionary epochs like this before, to our shame. But we overcame them," said David Axelrod. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Axelrod: ‘Reactionary epochs’ like Trump’s have happened before ‘to our shame’

Daniel Chaitin · January 29, 2017 12:56 am

President Trump will allow his senior political advisers, including Reince Priebus, into the Situation Room as part of a reshuffling of the National Security Council released Saturday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Trump’s top political advisers to attend National Security Council meetings

Joel Gehrke · January 29, 2017 12:42 am

Scott Weldon is communications director for Rep. Scott Taylor. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Congressional staffer profile: Local races brought Scott Weldon to D.C.

Jacqueline Klimas · January 29, 2017 12:26 am

Pundits are jumping on Andy Puzder as an excuse to criticize companies that provide low-wage jobs. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Beltway Confidential

Low-wage jobs don’t increase welfare spending

Andrew Wilford · January 29, 2017 12:00 am