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Political Glance
Vice President Mike Pence’s outside lawyer met privately with special counsel Robert Mueller at Pence’s request last summer, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
The meeting, which has not been previously reported, was held at Pence’s request to express his willingness to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation, the person said.
The top 1 percent of income earners would be the biggest winners under Republicans' plans to rewrite the tax code, according to a new analysis, while some moderate-income people would face tax increases.
About 30 percent of those earning between $50,000 and $150,000, and 60 percent of those taking home between $150,000 and $300,000, would pay more under the Republican plan, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has resigned amid mounting outcry over his use of private jets and military aircraft for government business, which was first reported by POLITICO last week.
"Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted," the White House said in a statement.
Price, whose travel practices were condemned by President Donald Trump and is the subject of federal inquiries, had taken at least 26 charter flights since May to conduct official business in the United States, costing taxpayers more than $400,000. The White House had also approved his use of military aircraft for trips to Africa, Europe and Asia, which cost more than $500,000.
Jared Kushner is no stranger to queries about his form-filling – a request for White House security clearance had to be resubmitted to include all his foreign contacts – but his latest controversy has perhaps come as more of a surprise. He has been registered to vote as a woman for the last eight years.
Records filed with the New York state board of elections show Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser registered as a female voter in 2009.
The news comes as Kushner’s lawyer acknowledged Kushner used a private email account for official business – despite Trump having regularly excoriated Hillary Clinton for doing the same – and it emerged that the property firm run by his family was being sued for allegedly adding illegal fees to its tenants’ rent.
First-time Democratic candidate Kari Lerner of Chester pulled off a narrow special election victory for a three-town district seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives Tuesday.
James Headd, a retired, insurance executive from Auburn, had been installed as the early favorite running against Lerner, a local Realtor.
One of Jared Kushner’s real estate companies has been sued.
A class action lawsuit filed in Maryland State Court this morning alleges that Westminster Management, a company owned by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, charged its tenants improper fees, and then used their failure to pay those fees as a basis to threaten them with eviction.
“Westminster is preying on poor and working class people, by extorting what may sound like small fees but is real money when you’re living paycheck to paycheck,” said Andrew Freeman, an attorney at the firm Brown, Goldstein & Levy, which is representing two plaintiffs who allege that Kushner’s company charged them unlawful fees.
TVNL Comment: Like father, like son....
Trump tweeted: "Facebook was always anti-Trump.The Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News, @nytimes(apologized) & @wapo were anti-Trump. Collusion?'
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