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Donald Trump Delivers Address To Joint Session Of Congress

360 degree photo: Inside the US Congress during Trump’s first speech inside its halls

[vrview img=”https://www.eaglenews.ph/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/President-Donald-Trump’s-first-speech-before-the-US-Congress.jpg”] (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)   Do you want to experience how it feels like to be inside the halls of the United States Congress while US President Donald Trump is making his first-ever speech? Then try this out. U.S. President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on February 28, 2017 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. […]

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Trump pledges $1 trillion to rebuild infrastructure

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday to bring one trillion dollars in public and private investment to rebuild what he called America’s crumbling infrastructure. Trump made the promise in a high-stakes speech to a joint session of Congress, moving to make good on one of his main campaign pledges — rebuilding America’s roads, bridges, airports and other public structures. “To launch our national rebuilding, I will be asking the Congress […]

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Veterans chief is ‘designated survivor’ during Trump speech

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Veterans Affairs chief David Shulkin was absent from President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday, as he was chosen to be “designated survivor,” the White House said. It is a longstanding US custom for a member of the cabinet to stay away from the Capitol during presidents’ addresses to Congress, also attended by the vice president and cabinet members and lawmakers. This is done so that someone would be left […]

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Trump to work with Muslim allies to defeat IS: excerpts

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump is pledging to work with Muslim countries to fulfill his campaign pledge to defeat the Islamic State group. According to excerpts from a planned speech to a joint session of Congress, Trump will dismiss the jihadist group as “a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered Muslims and Christians, and men, women and children of all faiths and beliefs.” “We will work with our allies, including our […]

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Trump to promise tough immigration laws, ‘historic’ tax reform

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump will use a maiden prime-time speech to Congress to flesh out his policy agenda Tuesday, promising tougher immigration enforcement and “historic tax reform.” “By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions of dollars and make our communities safer for everyone,” he is expected to say, according to excerpts released by the White House. “Our economic team is developing historic tax […]

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White House: Trump briefly met with China’s top diplomat

WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump, who has attacked China on issues from trade to the South China Sea, held his first face-to-face talks with a member of the Chinese leadership on Monday (February 27), and the White House said it was a chance to discuss shared security interests and a possible meeting with President Xi Jinping. State Councilor Yang Jiechi, China’s top diplomat, met Trump briefly after talks with the new […]

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With Trump at helm, US takes seat at UN rights council

by Ben Simon Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – The US claimed its seat Monday on the Human Rights Council under the new presidency of Donald Trump, whose election has provoked deep concern over the body’s future. Over its 11-year history, the council has come in for criticism, including allegations that it has, at times, been co-opted by rights abusers who push resolutions attacking their geopolitical rivals, with genuine rights issues marginalised. But the 47-member […]

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Trump wants to expand US nuclear arsenal, make it ‘top of the pack’

WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) –United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday (February 23) he wants to ensure the US nuclear arsenal is at the “top of the pack,” saying the country has fallen behind in its atomic weapons capacity. In a Reuters interview, Trump also said China could solve the national security challenge posed by North Korea “very easily if they want to,” ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to exert more influence to rein in […]

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Trump wants NATO to step up defense spending by year-end, Pence says

BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) — United States Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday (February 20) that President Donald Trump expects European allies to, by the end of the year, make “real progress” in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization pledge to spend more on defense. Pence said at the NATO headquarters in Brussels that although some NATO members respected their commitment to reach 2 percent of the gross domestic product on defense spending, others failed to do so. “The […]

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Trump names H.R. McMaster as national security advisor

by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump tapped respected Army lieutenant general H.R. McMaster as his national security advisor Monday, hoping to course correct after his first pick resigned and his second turned down the vital post. Trump announced the counterinsurgency strategist’s appointment at his Florida holiday estate Mar-a-Lago, ending a one-week search to replace Michael Flynn, who lasted less than a month on the job. Flynn was forced […]

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Thousands of anti-Trump protesters say ‘not my president’

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – About 10,000 anti-Trump protesters marched in New York to shouts of “not my president!” Monday, joined by others in cities across the United Nations as the nation celebrated its Presidents Day holiday. After a raucous first month in office, President Donald Trump is due to return to Washington after spending a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Miami Beach, Florida, dubbed the “Winter White House.” The “Not My Presidents […]

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