Section: POLITICO – U.S. Edition (USA)
THE OBAMACARE WARS break out across the country — PENCE: U.S. committed to Europe — THE JUICE: Russia looking for new K Street representation — B’DAY: James Hohmann
Good Saturday morning. The Obamacare messaging war is on. PROTECT OUR CARE, a coalition aimed at boosting Obamacare, sent these talking points to Capitol Hill ahead of the President’s Day recess. http://politi.co/2lhdI1B– KATE ZERNIKE and ALEX BURNS on A1 of the NYT: “Congress Goes Home, and Constituents Fired Up Over Health Care Are...
Tillerson assured Ukraine of US solidarity, Poroshenko says
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Pence seeks to reassure European allies
Vice President Mike Pence, who throughout the campaign sought to soften Donald Trump’s edges and make him palatable to uneasy conservatives, now takes his reassurance tour to a new audience: foreign leaders frightened by Russian aggression and wary of an American president full of praise for Vladimir Putin.Pence took off for Europe on...
Donald Trump: 28 Days Later
Donald Trump will hit the four-week-mark Friday on a presidency that has begun like no other — full of big promises, constant controversy, the ever-present encroaching of major scandal, and zero regard for the previous norms of American politics.Beneath the noise, however, there has been a march, however halting and disorganized, toward...
Tillerson warns Russia to respect Ukraine commitments
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Questions about Trump’s Russia connections could hinder closer relations
A barrage of damning revelations about contacts between Donald Trump’s associates and Russian officials threatens to derail his plans for a closer relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Growing political pressure on Trump to stand up to Putin rather than work with him could even escalate tensions between the United States and...
U.S., Russian military chiefs to meet in Azerbaijan
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford will meet with his Russian counterpart on Thursday in Azerbaijan, amid newly aggressive Russian military maneuvers and fresh reports that Russian intelligence officials were in contact with aides on the Trump campaign, the Pentagon announced.Dunford has been seeking a meeting with Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov for...
Trump: Was Obama too soft on Russia when it took Crimea?
President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning questioned whether former president Obama was too soft on Russia when it annexed Crimea in 2014. Trump’s tweet follows comments from White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who said on Tuesday that the president will take a harder line against Russia and expects the country to withdraw from...
Flynn’s ouster leads to more chaos in Trump world
The resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn did little to calm the chaos at the White House, where staff spent Tuesday scrambling to deflect blame for the rising scandal about Flynn’s contacts with Russian officials—including who knew what about the conversations and when.Other ongoing controversies intruded on the White...
Spicer: Trump has been ‘incredibly tough on Russia’
The Trump administration will take a tough stance on Russia even as it seeks to work with the country on some issues, Sean Spicer told reporters Tuesday. The comments come after Michael Flynn, Trump’s national security adviser, resigned Monday night after revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had with...
