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Highlights of the day for U. S. President Donald Trump's administration on Monday: JARED KUSHNER A Russian bank under U. S. economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine discloses that its executives had met Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, during the 2016 election campaign.
Updated : Mar 28, 2017, 02:36 AM IST
Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Monday:
JARED KUSHNER
A Russian bank under U.S. economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine discloses that its executives had met Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, during the 2016 election campaign.
Trump will announce that Kushner will oversee a broad effort to overhaul the federal government, a White House official confirms.
TAX CUTS
Following the failure of the healthcare bill that Trump backed, his administration plans to take a lead role in crafting major legislation to cut taxes with an eye toward meeting an August target date, the White House says.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives will not seek to repeal Obamacare taxes as a part of expected tax reform legislation, the top House Republican on tax policy says.
SUPREME COURT NOMINEE
Democratic opposition to Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee grows while the White House demands a "fair up-or-down vote" in the Senate on confirming Neil Gorsuch to the lifetime post.
FINANCIAL MARKETS
Stocks, the dollar and U.S. long-dated Treasury yields steady after sharp drops, as investors hope Trump will be able to bolster the economy despite a defeat over healthcare reform.
IMMIGRATION
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says cities and states that protect immigrant felons from federal immigration laws may lose grants from the Justice Department.
CARL ICAHN
Several Democratic senators press billionaire investor Carl Icahn to clarify his role as an adviser to Trump, saying his position in the administration raised "alarming" questions about potential conflicts of interest with his stakes in the biofuels and pharmaceutical industries.
HEART RESEARCH
Top heart doctors and researchers have a simple reaction to Trump's proposed 20 percent cut to the budget of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: fear that research that results in lifesaving drugs will be dealt a crippling blow.
NUCLEAR TALKS
The United States, Britain and France are among almost 40 countries that will not join talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty starting at the United Nations on Monday, says U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
HEALTHCARE
The Republicans failed to overthrow Obamacare last week but there are plenty of ways they can chip away at it. The Trump administration has already begun using its regulatory authority to water down less prominent aspects of the 2010 healthcare law.
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