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Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL, AYANNA ALEXANDER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press
President Donald Trump will sign executive orders Monday rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government in what he described in his inauguration speech as a move to end efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.”
Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump’s campaign promises.
One order would declare that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female.
The definition will be based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes.
By COLLEEN LONG and BILL BARROW
WASHINGTON (AP) — Incoming President Donald Trump has been promising a flurry of executive action on Day 1, and there are executive orders already prepared for his signature. Those orders will end diversity, equity and inclusion funding, crack down on border crossings and ease regulations on oil and natural gas production.
WASHINGTON — Thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U. S. Capitol after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Four years later, some of them — including Colorado’s self-described “J6 Praying Grandma” — are allowed to return to the nation’s capital so they can celebrate Trump’s return to the White House.
At least 20 defendants charged with or convicted of joining the Jan.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday, taking charge as Republicans assume unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.
Frigid weather moved Trump’s swearing-in indoors to the Capitol Rotunda, the first such move in 40 years. The inaugural parade was replaced by an event in a downtown arena.
Trump began Monday with a prayer service at St.
Colorado grocery stores and other sellers of “necessity” goods would be prohibited from “unfairly or unconscionably” raising prices on their products under new legislation proposed by state lawmakers.
The measure, House Bill 1010, is part of a push by lawmakers of both parties this year to address Colorado’s high cost of living.
By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.
The decision by Biden comes after Donald Trump warned of an enemies list filled with those who have crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and his role in the storming of the U.