Ivanka Trump will be meeting with various administration officials and cabinet heads as part of the first daughter’s push to become an advocate within the White House on women’s issues. The listening tour will begin with Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, and then move to other higher-ups, including Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Labor…
Persistent advocacy by right-of-center pro-Israel groups succeeded in impacting the agenda of President Trump’s meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday. At issue was the Palestinian Authority’s policy of providing funds to families of terrorists killed by Israeli forces and prisoners jailed in Israel on terrorism charges. The Israeli government has highlighted this issue…
Ivanka Trump will be reviewing some of President Trump’s executive orders before they are signed, an unprecedented level of influence for the first daughter who was recently installed as a White House special assistant. “I’m still at the early stages of learning how everything works,” she told The New York Times for a Tuesday profile,…
President Trump has decided to pull Steve Bannon out from under the bus, signaling in a Tuesday interview that he will be keeping on his chief strategist, who seemed for the past month to be on the ropes. “Bannon is a very decent guy who feels very strongly about the country. Likewise, Jared. And they’re…
The Trump administration chose to remain ambiguous regarding counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka’s future on Monday, hoping to strike a balance between a wish to end the controversy surrounding him and a desire to display loyalty to someone who has been close to chief strategist Stephen Bannon for years. “I have no belief that he is…
Sebastian Gorka’s days in the White House may not be over after all — at least if you believe Sean Spicer. Over the weekend, unnamed senior administration officials told major news outlets that Gorka is on his way out, and ia waiting for another administration position outside the White House. But on Monday, White House…
This is the season of conferences and commencements, which means it’s time for the inevitable verbal boxing match over who is an acceptable speaker and who is not. Up next is whether Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist and one of the organizers of the Women’s March On Washington, should — or should not — speak…
When Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counterterrorism adviser, met the British journalist Ruth Sherlock at the White House in late March, the deputy assistant to the president took her deep into the West Wing, proudly waving his blue “all-access” pass. Then, in the Roosevelt Room, at the heart of the White House power center, opposite…
