House Dems in Support of Trump Censure

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was among the state officials who greeted President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the airport tarmac after they arrived in Phoenix.

She adds that Trump and McConnell “remain united on many shared priorities”, including middle-class tax relief, strengthening the military and constructing a Southern border wall.

His government has also seen another high-profile resignation, causing more uncertainty.

President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that would cut the amount of time the Department of Veterans Affairs takes to decide veterans’ appeals of their disability payments. “The only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media”.

Under fire for saying “both sides” were to blame for the violence between white supremacists and left-wing counter protesters in Virginia on August 12, Trump accused television networks of ignoring his calls for unity in the aftermath. “It leads to analysis like this because people end up with very little to say”.

He succeeded in prompting his supporters to turn to where the journalists were located and start chanting “CNN sucks”.

The fight over the wall is likely to explode in September as the administration wrangles over a new budget, an increase in the debt ceiling, the beginning of a tax reform package and a possible resuscitation of health care legislation.

Mr Trump wants Congress to finance his controversial plan to build a “big, beautiful” wall along the United States’ border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants.

Congress needs to reauthorize a law that provides health care to low-income children by the end of September or there will be cuts to funding for that program, and they also must raise the debt ceiling by Sept. 29, or Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said the USA government could run out of the money needed to pay all of its bills.

Wall funding on a continuing resolution, this senior Democratic leadership aide said, was a “non-starter”.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday congressional leaders could have avoided a legislative “mess” if they had heeded his advice on raising the USA debt ceiling, renewing criticism of fellow Republicans whose support he needs to advance his policy agenda.

Specifically, the president suggested that he might veto any spending bill that failed to include funds for his monument to American xenophobia, thereby allowing the government to shut down (and, nearly certainly, his approval rating and that of his party to fall). “You know the thing I don’t understand?” Trump wrote on Twitter in May.

She told reporters later, “This is something the president campaigned on”. And Trump would have a lot more trouble touting the success of the stock market if we reached a debt default or shutdown and stocks began to tumble.

“President Trump’s apparent commitment to securing funds for the border as part of this funding agreement dramatically raises the spectre of a shutdown in October”, said Compass Point analyst Isaac Boltansky in a note on Wednesday.

Investors looked towards a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at a meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, which will be scrutinized for clues on the US central bank’s monetary policy.

It was not the first time Trump has threatened to scrap NAFTA. Each previous incident saw the markets bounce back, which suggests that the President’s latest outburst will likely not have a lasting effect on Wall Street.