Friday, November 3, 2017
House GOP Unveils Details of its Tax Reform Bill
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House Speaker Paul Ryan says the average American family will save more than $1,000 a year under the Republican’s tax reform bill.
During a news conference on Thursday to announce the details, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said the bill will help create more jobs and bring trillions of dollars back to the U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said every single American will be able to keep more of what they earn.
Rep. Ryan added, “The focus is directing that tax relief to the people in the middle and the people who are trying to get there and that is why we put our emphasis on that tax relief for those people who are in the middle, who are working paycheck to paycheck, striving to get ahead.” Ryan went on to say Republicans will fulfill their promise of passing this bill.
Pres. Trump praised the bill saying economic growth, more jobs, and higher wages are what Americans can expect from the tax plan, which includes an increase in the child tax credit and repealing the estate tax.
He met with House Republicans on Thursday afternoon and said he does not think it needs any changes and hopes it can be passed by Christmas.
However, the Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to mark up the bill on Monday.
Students at liberal Reed College stage occupation over 'whitewashed' curriculum
Just making themselves look bad. |
Reed College protesters shut down a "Eurocentric" humanities lecture on Aug. 28, 2017.
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An anti-racism student group at one
of America's most liberal colleges entered the 12th day of an
administrative building occupation Friday.
The group at Reed College in
Portland, Ore., called for the school to cut ties to Wells Fargo Bank
over its relationship with privately run prisons and stop teaching what
it called a “whitewashed” curriculum that is too focused on the ideas
and accomplishments of white Europeans and their descendants.
The group, called Reedies Against Racism (RAR), has been camping out in college President John Kroger's office.The students say that a mandatory humanities course dubbed “Hum 110” focuses overtly on European thought leaders, leading to "whitewashing" of the students' education. The course has long been a target of the school's left-leaning activists, who successfully shut down an Aug. 28 lecture on Ancient Greece.
“We believe that the first lesson that freshmen should learn about Hum 110 is that it perpetuates white supremacy — by centering ‘whiteness’ as the only required class at Reed,” reads a RAR declaration delivered to all new students, the Atlantic reported.
“The required freshman course should be reformed to represent the voices of people of color,” read the demands posted online. “Before this is accomplished, Hum 110 should be conscious of the power it gives to already privileged ideas and welcome critique of that use of power.”
The group also demands that Reed College cut ties with Wells Fargo Bank over its links to the private prison system.
A rotating team of up to 40 students has been camping inside the president’s office, with some reportedly sleeping there in tents, prompting the college to close down its finance office and transport sensitive documents to a new location, the Washington Times reported.
”You have been identified as having participating in an incident on Thursday, October 26, 2017, that resulted in the reported harassment of a college staff member,” reads a letter issued by Mike Brody, vice president of student services, ordering students to cease such actions.
The letter also outlined possible consequences for the occupation of the building and harassment of staff, including “complete expulsion” from the college.
“We condemn this behavior,” Kroger wrote in an Oct. 27 email to the campus community, according to the Washington Times. “This conduct violates the principles of respectful dialogue upon which this community is based. Dissent is encouraged at Reed, but harassment is not.”
Despite talks between the faculty and protesters, it remained unclear when a solution would be found.
"We don't assume we are going to agree anytime soon," Brody told Fox 12. "But we need to find a way to disagree productively so that we can honor each other's positions and perspectives and try to find a path forward."
Trump calls DNC primary-rigging 'illegal,' slams 'fake' dossier in Fox News interview
President Donald Trump gave a wide-ranging
interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” Thursday, revealing his
thoughts on this week’s terror attack in New York City and the campaign
actions of the Democratic National Committee.
Trump responded to claims from former
DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile alleging that the committee rigged last
year’s Democratic presidential primary between Clinton and Sen. Bernie
Sanders.
“It's illegal, number one, and it's really unfair to
Bernie Sanders,” Trump said of the Vermont senator. “I’m not a Bernie
Sanders fan, although I must say I got a lot of his votes when he was
thrown out. Many of those people voted for me because of trade because I
agreed with him on trade. … But that was, I thought that was terrible.”Trump also responded to recent revelations that the DNC — along with the Clinton campaign — funded the now-infamous “opposition research” dossier released last January. The president called the findings “absolutely inconceivable.”
“That dossier, which is totally fake and made up it’s like a novel … is a disgrace and it should not have been allowed to be used and then I hear the kind of money they spent,” Trump said, referring to reports Democrats paid as much as $9 million on it. “I think it’s a disgrace that a thing like that can take place.”
TRUMP CALLS FOR 'DEATH PENALTY' FOR NYC TERRORIST IN WAKE OF HALLOWEEN ATTACK
After Tuesday’s terror attack in Lower Manhattan, allegedly carried out by a man from Uzbekistan — whom Trump called a "horrible animal" — who was granted a green card through the Diversity Visa Program, Trump called for Congress to end the lottery-based immigration program.
“The justice system has to go quicker and it has to be really stronger and fairer,” the president said, one day after he referred to the U.S. justice system as a “laughingstock” and a “joke.”
“It’s very sad when you look at a lottery system and you have people coming into the country through the form of a lottery,” Trump said. “The countries aren’t putting their finest in there, they’re not putting their best and their greatest and their finest in there.”
Trump added he’s “already instructed Congress” to bring the Diversity Visa Program to an end.
TRUMP'S TAX PLAN: THE MAJOR CHANGES
Jumping to Trump’s tax reform plan, the president said his proposed tax cuts are “the biggest cuts in the history of our country.”
“We have reform and we have simplification and honestly I’m surprised a little bit to hear what you’re saying because we’ve really gotten great reviews people are loving it,” Trump said when he was told he was getting criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.
He alluded to a Washington Post report that recently gave Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., “four Pinocchios” for “not telling the truth” about the tax plan, which Trump said is “really not for the rich, it’s for the middle class and it’s for jobs.”
11-minute Trump Twitter outage prompts company investigation
Twitter launched an internal
investigation Thursday after a "customer support" employee, reportedly
working his or her last day with the company, briefly deactivated the
higly viewed account of President Donald Trump.
"We are conducting a full internal review," the company said in a statement about the approximately 11-minute outage.
It was unclear how a “customer support” worker had
obtained clearance to deactivate such a high-profile account. The
president has tweeted more than 36,000 times and has nearly 42 million
Twitter followers.When reports first surfaced about the outage, Twitter officials initially blamed “human error.”
Shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday, social media reports surfaced that Trump’s personal account, @realDonaldTrump, was unavailable, providing the error message that the user "does not exist." The account was restored by 7:03 p.m.
But about two hours later, the company said the deactivation "was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day."
The company has in the past suspended other accounts for violating its terms and conditions. The company has resisted calls from those opposed to the president to delete his account.
A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Trump did not immediately address the outage after his account was reactivated. Instead, he tweeted about the GOP tax plan.
"Great Tax Cut rollout today. The lobbyists are storming Capital [sic] Hill, but the Republicans will hold strong and do what is right for America!"
The Washington Post pointed out that Trump credited social media for its role in getting him elected.
He told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo that, “You have to keep people interested.”
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