Highlights of the day for U. S. President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday:
HEALTHCARE
Trump and Republican congressional leaders appear to be losing the battle to gather enough support in the House of Representatives to pass their Obamacare rollback bill, watched by wary investors in financial markets.
Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday:
HEALTHCARE
Trump and Republican congressional leaders appear to be losing the battle to gather enough support in the House of Representatives to pass their Obamacare rollback bill, watched by wary investors in financial markets.
ISLAMIC STATE
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking at a meeting of countries fighting Islamic State, says the United States will set up "interim zones of stability" to help refugees return home in the next phase of the fight against Islamic State and al Qaeda.
SUPREME COURT
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch says presidents must obey court orders and expresses uncertainty about language in the Constitution barring U.S. government officials from taking payments from a foreign country as Democrats grilled him on issues involving Trump.
RUSSIA
The House Oversight Committee is asking the White House and the FBI for documents regarding former Trump adviser Michael Flynn's foreign contacts with Russia, Turkey and other sources.
CABINET
Labor Secretary nominee R. Alexander Acosta tells a Senate committee he will abide by Trump's directive to review a pending "fiduciary rule" for retirement investment advisers, indicating he believed it goes too far.
STATE DEPARTMENT
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss the administration's proposed budget, the panel's chairman says, after heated opposition in Congress to Trump's plan to slash funding for diplomacy and foreign aid.
TRADE
Farmers in the U.S. agricultural heartland that helped elect Trump are now pushing his administration to avoid a trade dispute with Mexico, fearing retaliatory tariffs that could hit more than $3 billion in U.S. exports.
BANK REGULATION
Bank lobbyists who opened the Trump era with great expectations for sweeping regulatory reform are privately striking an increasingly dismal tone as hopes dim for a quick and thorough rewrite of Dodd-Frank legislation.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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