Obama will appear before executives at a meeting of the Business Roundtable on Wednesday to warn Republicans of the economic consequences of a government shutdown. We’re supposed to be advancing progress.
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The answer is that they’ve read the whole plan, and so should we. “America is great right now”, he said sharply.
While Earnest said he didn’t want to “turn the White House briefing into the post-debate spin room”, he sharply disagreed with several of the GOP candidates criticism of Obama’s foreign policy.
“You wouldn’t know any of this if you were listening to the folks seeking this office that I occupy”, the President told the group of American chief executives.
Real estate magnate Donald Trump, leading in the polls among Republicans vying to be their party’s presidential nominee, has triggered criticism – and headlines – for his inflammatory comments about immigrants since the very start of his campaign, when he said Mexico was “sending” criminals including “rapists” across the border.
President Obama on Wednesday renewed his call to put an end to the multi-billion-dollar a year “carried interest” tax loophole that has long benefitted wealthy private equity and hedge fund managers.
Obama also took a page out of Trump’s book in terms of hard rhetoric against China and the issues he will raise when he welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House next week.
“That is on the individual side of the code, so it’s not something that we’re looking at right now”, Ryan said at an accounting conference in Washington in May, according to Bloomberg.
A federal shutdown would follow the one in October 2013, when the federal government was shut down for a little more than two weeks and all federal employees aside from those deemed the most essential were told to stay home.
While there are legitimate disagreements about climate and financial reform packages, Obama said, “what I’m looking at is the low-hanging fruit that are no-brainers and that nobody here would argue with”.
“So this is something that from a national security perspective and from an business perspective we’re going to have to continue to concentrate on”, the president said.
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His unforgettable opening campaign speech made headlines all over the country moments after Mr. Trump voiced running for the 2016 Presidential Elections. “On the other hand, if we closed the loophole, we could double the workers’ in America’s job training programs”.
