Trump used his presidential tour of four states for profit by staying every night at his Las Vegas Trump Hotel. He claimed the Secret Service planned it.
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President Trump's budget for fiscal year 2021, which starts in October, would cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid. 
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This budget is Trump's pledge that as long as he stays in office, slashing Social Security, Medicaid, and whatever's left of SNAP will remain a White House priority."
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The funds transfer would bring the total amount devoted to border wall construction under Trump to $18.4 billion.
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In Congress, the legal fight for President Donald Trump’s tax returns is about to kick into high gear, with the House Ways and Means Committee invoking a federal law to instruct the IRS to hand over six years of the president’s taxes.
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Trump has signaled his priorities but his proposals must get through Congress before they become a reality. Now is the time for Americans to let their representatives know what kind of budget they want to see.
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President Donald Trump appears to have given himself a diagnosis of John McCain-Tourettes Syndrome — and a Fox News panelist agrees. During a Thursday panel discussion on “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” the group viewed a recent interview with Trump and Maria Bartiromo, who asked about the ongoing...
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The $846 billion in Medicare cuts creates a messaging problem for Republicans for 2020. It is going to be challenging for them to run on "socialist Democrats" trying to get Medicare for everybody when their president is proposing such drastic cuts...
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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans marketed their bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as a gigantic boon for the middle class — even promising the average family would receive a $4,000 pay raise. In spite of the economic boom in the corporate and banking sectors, the American middle class has been largely unaffected by the measure, which passed in December of 2017. Meanwhile, corporations and big banks are rolling in cash..
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MaineDocuments recently obtained by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram show that the LePage administration paid anywhere from $362 to more than $1,100 a night for rooms at the luxury hotel during trips to meet with President Trump or his inner circle, attend White House events or talk to members of Congress. Receipts from those dozen trips also show the Republican governor or his administration spending hundreds of dollars on filet mignon or other expensive menu items at the restaurant in the Trump hotel. Those expenditures are likely to draw additional scrutiny from attorneys who have cited LePage’s previously disclosed stays at the D.C. hotel in a federal lawsuit alleging the president is improperly profiting from the business.
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Fox & Friends had a big laugh Thursday morning at the smaller tax refunds being received by millions of Americans because of the GOP Tax Scam.
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Trump voters have taken to Twitter to express their outrage over the fact that they aren’t getting those lofty tax cuts that the Republicans promised them.When the legislation was passed, middle class and working class Americans were told that their taxes would go down starting in 2019, but so far...
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It was only a matter of time until the vampire Republicans in the GOP leadership incurred the ire of their taxpaying, working class and middle-class constituents because nobody likes getting double-crossed. Nobody.
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Trump’s needless trade war is already eliminating American manufacturing jobs. Now, even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is fighting back against Trump by releasing a new campaign against his damaging tariffs.
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When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce goes on the warpath, it doesn't matter who you are, you are in big trouble. Just watch what happens to this guy.
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The GOP megadonor is seen as a key piece of the president's reelection plans.
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IA Sen. Joni Ernst’s recent admission that she wants to cut social security behind closed doors seems to have struck a chord with President Donald Trump, who, in an interview with CNBC in January flagrantly expressed his intention to gut Social Security and Medicare if reelected to a second term.
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Eric and Don Jr. have the same old titles in 2019 that they had in mid-2016—Don Jr. even has an almost word for word bio.
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Here's another Washington Post story as reminder that a year after Donald Trump and his Republican allies shuttered the government as part of a pouting demand that Trump be allowed to build his useless border erection, many government contract workers who missed paychecks during that shutdown have yet to receive a dime of what they’re owed.
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If you thought the tax cut screwed you, wait till you hear about President Trump’s proposed 2020 budget. The most vulnerable of our citizens, impoverished children, the elderly and students are targets for the president’s budget cuts.
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On Friday, in his “Favorite Jokes of the Week” segment, comedian Seth Meyers mocked President Donald Trump for boasting about donating his salary. Trump tweeted that he was donating $100,000 to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Public Citizen has compiled all known records of political and federal taxpayer spending at Trump properties and businesses in the U.S. We found that President Trump’s U.S. businesses have raked in $15.1 million in revenue from political groups as well as federal agencies during his campaign and presidency. About 90 percent of the spending, or $13.2 million, came from Trump’s own campaign.
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This looks like a good reason to demand an audit of Donald Trump's tax records.
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MSNBC’s Ari Melber said Tuesday that the date on Michel Cohen’s check to adult film star Stormy Daniels -Valentine’s Day- proves that Donald Trump committed a “confessed crime” while president. “I have it here,” said Melber holding up a photocopy of the check.
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The Trump International Hotel rolled out the red carpet last summer for the two coal companies that have done the most to curry favor with the owner of the Washington, D.C., luxury destination: President Trump.
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While taxpayers like you are struggling to pay their inflated tax bills, Donald Trump is raking in the cash from the lobbyists and executives who stay at his hotel. However, he isn't required to disclose how much he earns and he continually refuses to show anyone his tax returns. It doesn't seem fair, does it? No, it doesn't.
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The General Services Administration was aware that renting a federal property to Donald Trump may violate the Constitution — but did so anyway.
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Calling Trump’s bid to halt discovery in the emoluments case “a drastic end-run around the appellate process,” the state attorneys general contended in a brief to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that the president cannot short-circuit the normal appeal process to avoid discovery.
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow crushed the president for creating a reality for the world to see, while behind the scenes it’s nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The CNN panel discussion addressed the unbelievable fundraising President Donald Trump has done in his first to years in office.
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"The public deserves to know if Trump is once again lying about the Secret Service’s role in funnelling taxpayer dollars toward one of his businesses." - Citizens For Ethics in Washington (CREW).