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Trump hangs painting of self at bar with Republican presidents

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 02:01 PM

In "The Republican Club," a painting by Andy Thomas, an uncharacteristically brawny Donald Trump sports an affable, if slightly pinched smile as he is joined by the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt and George W. Bush. Read more »

Republicans mull curbing Trump after Putin summit

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 20 05:36 AM

Donald Trump's unsettling embrace of Russia's Vladimir Putin this week drew derision across the US political spectrum, but it remains to be seen whether Republicans have the will to rein in their president. Read more »

Republicans rebuff students' call for tough gun curbs

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 17 11:06 AM

WASHINGTON - Republican leaders rebuffed calls for major changes to US gun laws Tuesday following the mass shooting at a Florida high school, as students braced for their emotional return to the campus where 14 classmates and three staff were murdered. Read more »

Bannon's 'treasonous' comment directed at Trump Jr., not Manafort -author

Reuters
Posted at Jan 09 08:34 AM

WASHINGTON - Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's comment that a meeting between Trump campaign officials and a group of Russians was "treasonous" focused on President Donald Trump's son and not his former campaign manager, as Bannon now maintains, the author of a book containing the remark said on Monday. Read more »

Trump could face challenge in 2020 primary, Republican warns

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 25 11:11 AM

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump may face competition to be the Republican party's nominee for the 2020 White House race if he decides to pursue a second term, a US senator said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Read more »

OPINION: 'Daisy' and our Alabama moment

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Dec 14 09:14 PM

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that a dedicated, vigorous and empowered media performed and delivered this political haymaker. Media in the United States caused the “stars to fall in Alabama” last Tuesday. Read more »

US Senate passes historic tax reform in Trump win

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 02 04:03 PM

WASHINGTON - US Senate Republicans passed landmark tax reform early Saturday, a critical step toward delivering a monumental legislative victory for President Donald Trump in his first year in office. Read more »

Republicans fail again to kill off Obamacare in U.S. Senate

Susan Cornwell, Reuters
Posted at Sep 27 08:55 AM

WASHINGTON - U.S. Republicans on Tuesday fell short yet again in their seven-year drive to repeal Obamacare, in a bitter defeat that raises more questions about their ability to enact President Donald Trump's agenda. Read more »

Under US Republican bill, 23-M Americans would lose health coverage: watchdog

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Reuters
Posted at May 25 09:39 AM

WASHINGTON - A bill passed by US House Republicans would cause 23 million people to lose healthcare coverage by 2026 while de-stabilizing health insurance markets in some states and making it hard for sick people to buy insurance, a budget watchdog agency said on Wednesday. Read more »

Trump tax plan slashing business rates to test support in U.S. Congress

Amanda Becker, Reuters
Posted at Apr 26 08:38 PM

U.S. President Donald Trump will release a tax plan on Wednesday proposing some deep rate cuts, mostly for businesses, including a slashed corporate income tax rate and steeply discounted tax rate for overseas corporate profits brought into the United States, officials said.  Read more »

Trump pushes Democrats on border wall as gov't shutdown looms

Richard Cowan and Ayesha Rascoe, Reuters
Posted at Apr 25 09:11 AM

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Democrats on Monday to include funds for his promised border wall with Mexico in spending legislation as lawmakers worked to avoid a looming shutdown of the federal government. Read more »

Fil-Ams celebrate Trumpcare collapse

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 26 01:05 PM

The Republicans have pulled out their proposed healthcare bill in a blow to President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of repealing and replacing the Obamacare. Read more »

As crisis swirls, Trump faces mounting pressure in party

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 16 07:35 AM

Donald Trump and his White House have come in for intense criticism in the president's dizzying first weeks in office, and the rising sound of discord is not just coming from opposition Democrats. Read more »

US Senate approves measure launching Obamacare repeal process

Susan Cornwell, Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 03:05 PM

WASHINGTON - The US Senate on Thursday took a first concrete step toward dismantling Obamacare, voting to instruct key committees to draft legislation repealing President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program. Read more »

OPINION: What died?

Teddy Locsin, Jr.
Posted at Nov 28 07:54 AM

At last year's Yale alumni homecoming, someone who was there told me that it was all that he and his classmates could do not to leave the ballroom the instant they stepped in it. The place was swilling with the self-importance of some 20 or so Yalees touted as soon to ascend to greater heights of influence after Hillary succeeded Obama. Read more »

The Age of Trump

Richard Heydarian
Posted at Nov 14 02:30 AM

Grievance politics is now the name of the game, as disaffected populations across the world rise against the establishment in one country after the other.  Read more »

What does a Trump presidency mean for PH? A collection of views

Research by Ivy Jean Vibar, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 10 01:43 AM

MANILA – What will the victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential race mean for the Philippines, especially as President Rodrigo Duterte's administration pivots the country towards Asia? Read more »

Republicans defend US House majority, Senate on razor's edge

Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 09 10:25 AM

WASHINGTON - Republicans will maintain their six-year control over the U.S. House of Representatives, according to early network projections, as the party also put up an unexpectedly tough fight to protect their majority in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Read more »

Democrats ask judge to sanction Republicans over Trump

Dan Levine, Reuters
Posted at Oct 27 03:27 PM

The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge to hold the Republican National Committee in contempt of court over allegations that Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to intimidate minority voters. Read more »

Trump's war chest one of smallest in recent presidential campaigns

Ginger Gibson and Grant Smith, Reuters
Posted at Oct 21 12:06 PM

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Republican Donald Trump could go down as the least well-funded presidential candidate in recent campaigns - entering the final month of the election still without the cash to match the level of staff and advertising that has helped power the campaign of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Read more »