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President Donald Trump speaks during press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Washington. From left, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, Vice President Mike Pence, Trump, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
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Trump Moves on Invoking Powers to Spur Virus Supplies
He mobilized the federal government to marshal the private sector to combat the pandemic.
March 20, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing with the coronavirus task force, in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Washington.
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Trump Addresses Virus Impact on US Economy
U.S. businesses large and small are reeling from shutdowns, cancellations and public fear.
March 17, 2020
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Trump Claims Credit for Obama Plant Announcement
The President contends that America's coal, oil and manufacturing sectors are reviving and he deserves the credit.
August 14, 2019
In this Aug. 9, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Trump is showcasing the growing effort to capitalize on western Pennsylvania’s natural gas deposits by turning gas into plastics.
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Trump Stop Supports Gas-to-Plastic Plant
The facility, which critics claim will become the largest air polluter in western Pennsylvania, is being built in an area hungry for investment.
August 13, 2019
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Trump Aims to Slash Advisory Committees
Agency heads have until September to terminate at least one-third of current committees.
June 17, 2019
President Donald Trump waves as he steps off Air Force One after arriving, Friday, June 7, 2019, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
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Tariffs on Mexico Suspended
The move puts to an end — for now — a threat that had sparked dire warnings from members of Trump's own party, who warned the tariffs would damage the economy.
June 10, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks during the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, April 4, 2019, in Washington.
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Trump Threatens More Auto Tariffs
He said Mexico needs to do more to stop the flow of migrants and drugs to the U.S.
April 5, 2019
President Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn outside the Oval Office in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2018, after meeting with former North Korean military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol. After the meeting Trump announced that the Summit with North Korea will go forward.
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Trump: NAFTA Could Be Two Deals
One would be with Mexico, and one with Canada.
June 4, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during an event about prescription drug prices with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 11, 2018.
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Pharma Spared in Plan to Reduce Drug Prices
One Congressman dismissed the initiative as "a sugar-coated nothing pill."
May 15, 2018
In this March. 29, 2018 photo, container ships is docked at the Yangshan port in Shanghai. President Donald Trump has instructed the U.S. trade representative to consider slapping an additional $100 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods in a dramatic escalation of the trade dispute between the two countries. The news comes a day after Beijing announced plans to tax $50 billion in U.S. products, including soybeans and small aircraft, in response to a U.S. move earlier this week to slap tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports.
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China Vows to Fight U.S. 'At Any Cost'
Proposals from both countries will intensify what was already shaping up to be the biggest trade battle since World War II.
April 6, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a tours as he reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego, as Rodney Scott, the Border Patrol's San Diego sector chief, listens.
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Trump Inspects Border Wall Prototypes
The president preferred a fully concrete wall because it was the hardest to climb.
March 15, 2018
In this June 7, 2010, file photo former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin appears at the Black Hawk County Courthouse in Waterloo, Iowa. President Donald Trump on Dec. 20, 2017, commuted the prison sentence of Rubashkin, a Iowa kosher meatpacking executive sentenced to 27 years in prison for money laundering — the first time he's used the presidential power. The decision to intervene on behalf of Rubashkin, who ran the Iowa headquarters of a family business that was the country's largest kosher meat-processing company, came at the urging of multiple members of Congress and other high-ranking officials who argued Rubashkin's sentence was too harsh, the White House said.
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Trump Commutes Kosher Meatpacking Exec's Sentence
He had been sentenced to 27 years in prison for money laundering.
December 22, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Danang International Airport in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017.
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Trump: U.S. No Longer Taken Advantage of on Trade
He railed against trade practices he says have put Americans out of work.
November 10, 2017
In this March 15, 2017 file photo, a man pushes a stroller past a magazine advertisement featuring U.S. President Donald Trump at a news stand in Shanghai, China. U.S. media reported Wednesday, Aug 2, 2017 that the administration of President Donald Trump is considering using rarely invoked U.S. trade laws to compel China to crack down on theft of copyrights, patents and other intellectual property and fend off technology sharing demands from Beijing.
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Trump May Punish China for IP Thefts
The administration is weighing plans to punish the country for failing to crack down on intellectual property thefts.
August 3, 2017