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A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration Thursday to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November. The ruling by U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. gave President Donald Trump's administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. The decision by the conservative-majority court is Trump’s latest win on the high court’s ...
Lower prices also will be phased in for people without coverage through the administration’s TrumpRx program, which will allow people to buy drugs directly from manufacturers, starting in January. Administration officials said the average price of the drugs sold on TrumpRx will start at around $350 and then drop ...
Expanding the Abraham Accords Also Thursday, Kazakhstan's president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, agreed that his Muslim-majority country will join the Trump-led Abraham Accords. Trump posted word of the agreement shortly before Thursday's dinner began. The largely symbolic move is aimed at reviving an initiative that was the ...
... weighed in on the latest push. He has repeatedly called for Trump to sit down with Democrats — a meeting that seems unlikely to happen. “Donald Trump clearly is feeling pressure to bring this shutdown to an end,” Schumer said Thursday. Trump has also been increasingly fixated on pushing Republicans to ...
... the bear, this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result. Liz Landers: Speaking to Republican lawmakers today, President Trump had a different takeaway. Donald Trump, President of the United States: Last night, it was not expected to be a victory. It was very ...
... leadership is the opportunity to build coalitions and to respond to the unconstitutional actions and the direct attacks that we see coming out of the Trump White House. And now that we are moving into Democratic leadership here in Virginia at the top with a governor and attorney general and ...
... The dissent in that case was written by a judge who was an Obama appointee. So it certainly seemed like Justice Gorsuch was skeptical of Trump's tariffs. And this one too might not divide on ideological lines. Amna Nawaz: There's clearly a lot at stake. We know the ...
... employers, as the new Oct. 30 rules demonstrate. The department also has discretion over how easily and quickly it processes loan forgiveness applications. Given the Trump administration’s public skepticism of not only Public Service Loan Forgiveness, but also public service employment in general, it is possible that it would ...
... results could mean for next year’s broader midterm races. But the size of Democratic margins indicated the degree of frustration with economic conditions under Trump. “I don’t think it was good for Republicans,” Trump said. “I’m not sure it was good for anybody, but we had an ...
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