Source: MSN Money The Trump administration is cracking down on national affordable housing programs because of concern over growing risk to the government’s almost $1.3 trillion portfolio of federally insured mortgages. The effort targets providers of money for borrowers who can’t afford the 3.5 percent down payment typically required on Federal Housing Administration loans. Such …
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Articles that highlight events involving President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration.
US to allow lawsuits over Cuba property confiscation: Official
Source: Al Jazeera In an effort to increase pressure on Cuba, the US plans to open the way for lawsuits over property confiscated by Cuba. Stepping up pressure on Cuba, United States President Donald Trump is poised to allow lawsuits against foreign companies that have benefited from Cuba’s seizure of American companies after the 1959 …
‘Our country is full’: Trump says migrants straining system
Source: MSN Declaring “our country is full,” President Donald Trump on Friday insisted the U.S. immigration system was overburdened and illegal crossings must be stopped as he inspected a refurbished section of fencing at the Mexican border. Trump, making a renewed push for border security as a central campaign issue for his 2020 re-election, participated …
Trump Celebrates Criminal Justice Overhaul Amid Doubts It Will Be Fully Funded
Source: MSN President Trump on Monday hosted about 300 guests, including convicted felons, at the White House for the “First Step Act Celebration,” a party intended to bring attention to a rare piece of bipartisan legislation he passed last year, and which he plans to highlight on the campaign trail. The East Room celebration capped …
Trump bewilders GOP allies on immigration ahead of border visit
Source: MSN President Donald Trump is thrusting his hardline posture on immigration back to the fore this week, with a plans for Friday trip to the southern border and possible new executive actions to restrict border crossings. But days after Trump renewed his longstanding threat to shut down the southern border entirely, even administration officials …
Trump predicts new health care law after 2020
Source: MSN President Trump on Monday put forward a timeline for a new health care plan to replace Obamacare, indicating legislation would be brought up for a vote after the election in 2020. “Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House,” he tweeted. “It will …
Trump cuts all direct assistance to Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala
Source: MSN In a stunning about-face, State Department officials said that President Donald Trump is cutting off all direct assistance to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. “At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and ending FY [fiscal year] 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs …
Trump proposes big cuts to health programs for poor, elderly and disabled
Source: MSN The Trump administration is proposing a sharp slowdown in Medicaid spending that would shift more than $1 trillion over 10 years by steering the entitlement program into a system of block grants that would give states far more freedom to set their own rules about how to cover the poor. The budget released …
Trump revokes Obama order on reporting civilian deaths in drone strikes
Source: Yahoo News President Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order revoking an Obama-era requirement to publicly report the number of U.S. drone strikes outside of war zones and the number of civilians killed by them. The new policy does not cover Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, areas of conflict where the United States has troops …
US military to permanently cancel large-scale exercises on Korean peninsula
Source: MSN The Pentagon is permanently canceling the large-scale military exercises in South Korea usually held in the spring, U.S. officials said Friday, handing Pyongyang a long-sought concession only days after a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke up without a deal. The timing of the decision raised …