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waterfalls early Tuesday morning, where they found the man with non-life-threatening injuries. (Allyson Chiu) Trump says he feels 'very badly' for Acosta on Epstein link THE #M ETOO RECKONING: -- Trump is standing by his embattled labor secretary, saying he feels "very badly" for Acosta, as Democr

ted by Acosta. "I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta because I've known him as being somebody who wor

I IGI GGJII luly I V....ILA ..7G%A WI I VC...II CI CAy II IU Mitch McConnell as a villain in a bid to win back the Senate and energize liberals. Costa reports: "That effort gained new momentum on Tuesday as Amy McGrath, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and combat pilot, announced she would cha

mping out Obama-era workplace regulations and employment discrimination lawsuits, and they are using the Epstein lawsuit to push him out the door. Mulvaney on Tuesday acknowledged the tension with Acosta but said it was merely part of the job. 'I push all of the Cabinet Secretaries on the deregulatory

ner and Lisa Rein report. "Some attorneys for victims questioned Acosta's tweet saying the evidence was new." -- Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is privately urging Trump to dump Acosta, Politico's Eliana and Burgess Everett report: "Acosta critics, including Mulvaney, have argued that he h

was 'engaged' before pointing out that (Treasury Secretary) Mnuchin was the lead negotiator on behalf of the administration in the fiscal talks." Alexander Acosta's resignation is the most recent illustration of Mulvaney's power: "Weeks after he was named acting White House chief of staff, Mulvaney summoned the

Mulvaney summoned the labor secretary for a tense January encounter that became known inside the West Wing as `the woodshed meeting.' Mulvaney told Acosta in blunt terms that the White House believed he was dragging his feet on regulation rollbacks desired by business interests and that he was on thin

-N.C.), a close Trump ally, won't run for reelection next year but will instead stay "in the fight" with Trump in an unspecified job. John Wagner, Costa and Mike DeBonis report: "'For everything there is a season,' Meadows said in a statement. 'After prayerful consideration and discussion with famil

sident has sometimes kept him out of the loop when making contentious foreign policy decisions, advisers say. At a recent donor retreat in Chicago, Mulvaney told attendees that he does not seek to control the president's tweeting, time or family, one attendee said. Priebus and Kelly had clashed with the

hampioned for decades. -- Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) will release a proposal later today to allow more people to be eligible for Medicaid services. Mick Mulvaney and Ivanka Trump depart Marine One last month. (I= Lamarque Reuters) EFTA00047495 PERSONNEL IS POLICY: -- Mick Mulvaney is building a fiefdom as

From: Tod Cc Subject: Gail Collins on Acosta and Epstein (the best part I highlighted in yellow) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:29:10 +0000 Importance: Normal Inline-Images: image001.png; image002

i ve got so many inept cabinet members. By Gail Collins Opinion Columnist July 10, 2019 Imag EFTA00018174 --- PAGE BREAK --- Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on Wednesday publicly defended his role in overseeing the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.CreditCreditAnna Moneymaker/The New York Times So, did you

are desperate to think about something other than Donald Trump. And, good Lord, his crack team of cabinet members. On Wednesday, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta tried to hold back the outrage that's been building since people learned that, as a federal prosecutor in South Florida, he had brokered a very len

ps. Trump insiders, of course, feel undermining workers' rights is supposed to be Acosta's mission. And they complain he's been sort of inept at it. Mick Mulvaney, the Trump Acting Chief of Staff For Life, has been trying to take control. Recently, Acosta's chief of staff was pushed out for a lack of, um, lead

r than Bannon. Indeed, Trump was quite willing to hear Bannon say something in this or that interview and then claim he had thought of it himself. Costa sat at Bannon's dining-room table for two hours, taking down Bannon's prescription for how to save Trump from himself. EFTA00316533 36 MICHAEL W

hit," he had urged everyone around the president.) But now they had run out of options. 'iring Rosenstein is our only way out of here," Bannon told Costa. 1 don't come to this lightly. As soon as they went to Cohen—that's what they do in Mob prosecutions to get a response from the true target. So yo

d the debate from the Wall to the military. "This bill will provide the largest year-over-year increase in defense spending since World War IV said Mulvaney. "It'll be the largest increase for our men and women in uniform in salary in the last ten years!" * * * The attempt to distract the Trumpian ba

eemed to amply satisfy the president and which he repeated with great enthusiasm. Marc Short, the White House director of legisla- tive affairs, and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Manage- ment and Budget, in a joint appearance in the White House briefing room that Thursday, shifted the debate fro

was `engaged' before pointing out that (Treasury Secretary) Mnuchin was the lead negotiator on behalf of the administration in the fiscal talks." Alexander Acosta's resignation is the most recent illustration of Mulvaney's power: "Weeks after he was named acting White House chief of staff, Mulvaney summoned th

ulvaney summoned the labor secretary for a tense January encounter that became known inside the West Wing as `the woodshed meeting.' Mulvaney told Acosta in blunt terms that the White House believed he was dragging his feet on regulation rollbacks desired by business interests and that Page 17956 E

n't anyone on their staff. A White House official had previously said the call logs don't align with the cellphone records of acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who is also the budget office director. A senior House Intelligence Committee official said the panels overseeing the impeachment probe are continu

Priebus and Kelly had clashed with the president over his Twitter statements and the influence of his eldest daughter and her husband. "Instead, Mulvaney has focused much of his energy on creating a new White House power center revolving around the long-dormant Domestic Policy Council and encompassi

waterfalls early Tuesday morning, where they found the man with non-life-threatening injuries. (Allyson Chiu) Trump says he feels 'very badly' for Acosta on Epstein link THE #METOO RECKONING: -- Trump is standing by his embattled labor secretary, saying he feels "very badly" for Acosta, as Democrat

ted by Acosta. "I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta because I've known him as being somebody who wor

gner and Lisa Rein report. "Some attorneys for victims questioned Acosta's tweet saying the evidence was new." -- Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is privately urging Trump to dump Acosta, Politico's Eliana Johnson and Burgess Everett report: "Acosta critics, including Mulvaney, have argued th

ed "the deconstruction of the administrative state." EFTA00046248 Trump's announcement last night that he will nominate Eugene Scalia to replace Alex Acosta as the next labor secretary offers the freshest, and maybe even starkest, example. Scalia, the son of the late Antonin Scalia, has spent most of hi

to open another assembly plant in South Carolina unless the EFTA00046249 union agreed to a no-strike clause in its contract." -- The impetus for Acosta's resignation last Friday was his 2008 plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein, but another huge factor was that corporate chieftains didn't think the secret

s being aggressive enough in trying to roll back protections for their workers. It has been widely reported that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who confessed last year while speaking to Wall Street bankers that as a member of Congress he did not meet with lobbyists unless they gave him mon

re questions if it would really happen," and Jim Acosta said on CNN's Situation Room (11/18, 838K), "Dem

about secondhand accounts, Democrats say, they should allow Trump associates who do have firsthand information — acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, for example — to testify." Mary Bruce said on ABC World News Tonight (11/14, story 5, 2:10, Muir, 6.71M), "Democr

seemed to amply satisfy the president and which he repeated with great enthusiasm. Marc Short, the White House director of legisla- tive affairs, and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Manage- ment and Budget, in a joint appearance in the White House briefing room that Thursday, shifted the debate from

d the debate from the Wall to the military. “This bill will provide the largest year-over-year increase in defense spending since World War II,” said Mulvaney. “It'll be the largest increase for our men and women in uniform in salary in the last ten years.” +b The attempt to distract the Trumpian base wit

er than Bannon. Indeed, Trump was quite willing to hear Bannon say something in this or that interview and then claim he had thought of it himself. Costa sat at Bannon’s dining-room table for two hours, taking down Bannon’s prescription for how to save Trump from himself. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021141 --- P

From: USANYS Contractor]" < To: Cc: ' (USANYS)" Subject: Gail Collins on Epstein, Acosta and "everything that happens in this country winds up in the hands of New York prosecutors" Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:56:38 +0000 https://www.nyti

are desperate to think about something other than Donald Trump. And, good Lord, his crack team of cabinet members. On Wednesday, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta tried to hold back the outrage that's been building since people learned that, as a federal prosecutor in South Florida, he had brokered a very len

s. Trump insiders, of course, feel undermining workers' rights is supposed to be Acosta's mission. And they complain he's been sort of inept at it. Mick Mulvaney, the Trump Acting Chief of Staff For Life, has been trying to take control. Recently, Acosta's chief of staff was pushed out for a lack of, um, lead