The following article by Bastien Inzaurralde was posed on the Washington Post website December 25, 2017:
Vice President Pence sometimes seems to agree with President Trump just by looking at him. Here are some of the ways he does it. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
If praising President Trump were a contest, the top contestant would surely be, well, Trump.
The following article by Jenna Johnson was posted on the Washington Post website December 18, 2017:
Vice President Pence was supposed to leave on Tuesday, but his trip has been pushed to mid-January. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
The White House announced Monday that Vice President Pence is delaying a planned trip to the Middle East in case his vote is needed to pass tax legislation — a move that also comes amid uproar over the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Pence was scheduled to leave Tuesday night, arriving in Egypt on Wednesday for a bilateral meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. From there he was scheduled to visit Israel before traveling to Germany to meet with U.S. troops. Continue reading “Pence delays trip to Middle East”
The following article by A.P. Joyce was posted on the mic.com website December 18, 2017:
The news this week was dominated by the historic election of Doug Jonesin Alabama and the ongoing machinations to try to pass the Republican tax bill before the senator is sworn in.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been hard at work making consequential policy decisions that affect the U.S. and its relationship with the rest of the world.
The following article by Nicole Lewis was posted on the Washington Post website November 28, 2017:
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“There are more Americans working today than ever before in American history.” — Vice President Pence, remarks during a speech at the Tax Foundation, Nov. 16, 2017
The following article by Eugene Scott was posted on the Washington Post website November 14, 2017:
Vice President Pence and his wife, Karen, stand during the playing of the national anthem before an National Football League game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers on Oct. 8 in Indianapolis. (Michael Conroy/AP)
Despite post-election surveys that tell a different story, many Trump supporters say their decision to back the president was not because of “cultural anxiety” — disappointment with societal changes in the areas of race, gender and sexual orientation.
Instead, they claim that “economic anxiety” — a concern that “out-of-control” government spending is hampering the ability to enjoy economic prosperity — is what led them to get on the Trump train.
The following article by John Wagner was posted on the Washington Post website November 9, 2017:
President Trump’s voter fraud commission was sued Thursday morning by one of its Democratic members, who alleged that he has been kept in the dark about its operations, rendering his participation “essentially meaningless.”
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said in a complaint filed in federal court that the 11-member panel is in violation of a federal law that requires presidential advisory commissions to be both balanced and transparent in their work.
“The Commission has, in effect, not been balanced because Secretary Dunlap and the other Democratic commissioners have been excluded from the Commission’s work,” says the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “The Commission’s operations have not been open and transparent, not even to the commissioners themselves, who have been deprived access to documents prepared by and viewed by other commissioners.” Continue reading “Trump voter fraud commission sued by one of its own members, alleging Democrats are being kept in the dark”
The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the RolL Call website October 27, 2017:
Vice President Mike Pence conducts a news conference after the Senate Policy luncheon in the Capitol in March. On Friday, he delivered a warning to North Korea after seeing U.S. nuclear weapons. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
From North Dakota, warnings for North Korea
White House officials on Friday seemed intent on bucking tradition by not making news. But 1,600 miles away, Vice President Mike Pence did so after getting a close-up look at the U.S. nuclear arsenal, warning it would be deployed in “overwhelming” fashion if North Korea strikes first.
“Now, more than ever, your commander in chief is depending on you to be ready,” Pence told personnel at nuclear-armed Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.
In Washington, the White House was uncharacteristically still. A West Wing chimney filled the North Lawn area with the autumnal aroma of burning firewood. But there was no conflagration at the daily press briefing, as Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders provided few details about how much President Donald Trump wants Congress to provide to fight the opioid epidemic, which on Thursday he declared a “national health emergency.” Continue reading “Quiet Day at White House Leaves Pence a Nuclear Stage”
The following article by Kurtis Lee was posted on the Los Angeles Times website October 25, 2017:
President Trump’s voter fraud commission, launched by executive order in May with the stated goal of restoring confidence and integrity in the electoral process, is now confronted with pushback from an unlikely group: its own members.
Two Democrats on the bipartisan commission sent letters to leaders of the panel last week condemning a lack of transparency.
The following post by Jordain Carney was posted on the Hill website October 24, 2017:
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Vice President Pence joined with Senate Republicans to nix a controversial consumer bureau rule banning companies from using forced settlements to resolve disputes with customers.
Senators voted 50-50 on the resolution of disapproval. GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and John Kennedy (La.) joined with Democrats to oppose cutting the Obama-era rule.
Pence then took over the presiding officer’s chair and cast the tie-breaking vote to make the total 51-50.
The following article by Chris Riotta of Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website October 17, 2017:
Donald Trump loves reminding his underlings who is in charge, and gets a kick out of joking about Mike Pence’s bigoted, anti-gay ideologies to his face.
Those are just two examples from an inside look at the pair’s relationship, as well as the vice president’s rise to the White House, published in a bombshell New Yorker article Monday morning. The report, written by Jane Mayer, suggests the president openly mocks Pence’s attitude toward the LGBT community ever since the 2016 presidential campaign and during briefings with legal experts.
Trump and Pence sat in on a meeting to discuss a range of issues, from abortion to gay rights. When the conversation moved to the latter, the president pointed toward Pence and said: “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!” Continue reading “Trump Joked That Pence Wants To ‘Hang’ Gays”
