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Senior State Department officials wouldn’t commit to a Senate panel Wednesday that the Trump administration will seek congressional authorization for a potential military conflict with Iran, nor would
He called on other countries to condemn Iran and protect their own ships.
Among the many thorny issues Senate and House negotiators have to hash out as they negotiate a final annual defense policy bill this summer is whether to block the Trump administration from weakening regulations
“If Trump were a bad president just in traditional ways, we could afford to remove him from office just in traditional ways, but he’s a criminal and a fraud,” the congressman said.
Capitol Hill, and the administration: the National Defense Strategy’s focus on Russia and China, the need for a $750 billion defense budget in fiscal 2020, and finding ways to deescalate tensions with Iran
A small but significant quarrel is emerging between a bipartisan team of lawmakers in the House and the Trump administration over how the Pentagon is going about using its newly minted authority to strike
[Qatar has ties to Iran, but Trump eyes ‘investments’ ahead of talks with emir] The long list of labor groups backing the bill has been campaigning for years to keep out carriers like Norwegian
Trump used a tweet about an hour after his first Monday morning post to echo Short.
Burgeoning domain of war The House’s push for direct access to seminal policy documents on cyberwarfare comes as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have stepped up hacking, economic espionage, disinformation
One, from Armed Services Committee member and vice chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Ro Khanna of California, would block President Donald Trump from launching an unauthorized war with Iran
Ro Khanna, D-California, that would require prior congressional authorization before the Trump administration could enter into a conflict with Iran. A final vote on the amendment will come on Friday.
Reed said Trump “careens from one crisis to the next,” an implied reference to tensions with Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, terrorists and hackers.
North Korea, Iran and even terrorist groups have shown they, too, can do damage with a few keystrokes.
But amid tensions with Iran, President Donald Trump is doing just that.
Acosta has been an “excellent secretary of Labor,” Trump said.
. | Congress could get a second opportunity this week to try and block President Donald Trump from going to war with Iran without congressional approval as the House debates its fiscal 2020 National Defense
So at a time when leaders who should be Roosevelt’s spiritual heirs are mostly missing in action, it was heartening to hear a member of the Trump administration publicly pledge to “reinforce the
President Donald Trump is expected to formally nominate the Pentagon’s acting chief, Mark Esper, for Defense secretary soon, a move that will send him back to his old job at least temporarily.
Trump did not provide further details of how he planned to execute that proposal.
“I like how he’s gotten tough with our radical enemies like Iran, and the radical Muslims that want to get us all.”