Source: MSN President Donald Trump called on European countries to take back captured Islamic State fighters late Saturday as U.S.-backed forces in Syria closed in on the extremist group’s final sliver of territory. “The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured …
Category: Trump Tracker
Articles that highlight events involving President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration.
Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order
Source: AXIOS Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for “Axios on HBO,” a new four-part documentary news series debuting on HBO …
Trump moves to crack down on asylum seekers ahead of U.S. elections
Source: MSN President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was finalizing a plan that would require immigrants seeking asylum in the United States to approach a legal port of entry, pushing a hard line on immigration ahead of next week’s congressional elections. It was not clear whether the plan would pass legal muster. The Immigration …
Jared Kushner reportedly dodged paying income taxes for years
Source: Business Insider Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, paid little to no federal income taxes from 2009 to 2016, according to a report from The New York Times. Filings by the Kushner Companies reviewed by The Times show massive losses listed as depreciation, a real estate tax law allowance that allows for a deduction to …
Impatient for wall, Trump wants US military to secure border
Source: MSN Frustrated by slow action on a major campaign promise, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built. Trump told reporters he’s been discussing the idea with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. “We’re going to be doing things militarily. Until …
Impatient for wall, Trump wants US military to secure border
Source: MSN Frustrated by slow action on a major campaign promise, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built. Trump told reporters he’s been discussing the idea with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. “We’re going to be doing things militarily. Until …
Trump backs arming educators in meeting with school shooting survivors
Source: MSN President Donald Trump embraced arming educators to stop mass shootings as students and parents from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., pleaded with him to make America’s schools safer. The suggestion, along with others calling for a ban on assault-type weapons and instituting airport-like security perimeters at schools, dominated an emotionally …
Trump urges ban on gun devices like bump stocks
Source: MSN President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has signed a memo directing the Justice Department to propose regulations to “ban all devices” like the rapid-fire bump stocks involved in last year’s Las Vegas massacre. Seeking to show action days after a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Trump spoke during a White House …
White House says Trump son-in-law Kushner can do job without security clearance
Source: MSN President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, can continue in his role as a senior White House adviser even if he does not obtain a security clearance, the White House said on Tuesday. Kushner has been operating under a temporary clearance for the past year while the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducts a background …
Pence’s bid to isolate North Korea at Olympics falls flat
Source: MSN For all of Vice President Mike Pence’s efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics, the images of the two Koreas marching together — and their officials shaking hands — at a time of heightened tensions on the peninsula proved impossible to counteract. Pence spent the days leading up …