Donald
Trump's tax reform plan would lead
to a tax cut of either $4.4 trillion or $5.9 trillion, according to an
analysis by the nonprofit think tank Tax Foundation, reports the
Washington
Examiner. The Trump campaign has not made clear whether a small
business tax cut is included, but without that cut, the amount would be
$4.4
trillion, according to ...
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As
President Barack Obama used his final address before
the United Nations General Assembly to urge world leaders to help
protect refugees, Republicans in Congress threatened to use their budget
powers
to restrict who is admitted into the U.S. While refugee resettlement
has enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress historically, some
Republicans want
confirmation from U.S. intelligence leaders that screening procedures
are strong enough to warrant a major American commitment to accepting
more
refugees during a time of heightened terrorism fears. Thirty-seven
Republican House members wrote a letter to House leadership this week
asking them
to ... Read More |
A
federal judge
blasted the Obama administration for slow-walking the release of some of
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails, saying in court
Monday
that the government appears to be withholding information from voters
ahead of the election. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the State
Department in not “being all that cooperative,” and told the Justice
Department lawyers to get the State Department to shape up and do its
duty. “Get with the program ..." Read More |
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than 800 illegal immigrants from countries of concern who were set for
deportation were mistakenly granted U.S. citizenship because the
Department of
Homeland Security didn’t have their fingerprints on file, according to
an internal audit released
Monday.
The Homeland Security
Department’s inspector general found the immigrants used different names
or birthdates to apply for citizenship with the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration. In the case of 858 immigrants from "special interest
countries or neighboring countries with high rates of immigration
fraud,"
the discrepancies weren’t caught because their fingerprints were missing
...
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