Posted on

Fri, June 2, 2017: Trump signs two bills benefiting law enforcement officers and their families

President Trump said Friday he was “very happy” to sign into law two bills that would provide help to members of law enforcement and veterans.

Seated at a table in the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room, Trump approved a measure giving priority for federal grants to those federal and state law enforcement agencies that hire and train veterans.

“We are behind you 100 percent,” he said to the public safety officers and vets at the ceremony. Continue reading “Fri, June 2, 2017: Trump signs two bills benefiting law enforcement officers and their families”

Posted on

Fri, June 2, 2017: Trump nominates Richard Spencer for Secretary of Navy

President Trump plans to nominate Richard Spencer to be secretary of the Navy, the White House announced Friday evening.

Spencer, who has been Trump’s rumored pick for months, most recently served at the investment company Fall Creek Management as a managing partner, the White House said.

He has years of experience in finance, and serves as a U.S. Marine Corps Captain, having spent five years on the Defense Business Board, including in the role of vice chair.

–The Hill, Jesse Byrnes

Posted on

Thur, June 1, 2017: Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris climate accord

U.S. President Donald Trump announces his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, spurning pleas from U.S. allies and corporate leaders in an action that fulfilled a major campaign pledge.

“We’re getting out,” Trump said at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden in which he decried the Paris accord’s “draconian” financial and economic burdens. He said American withdrawal “represents a reassertion of American sovereignty.”

Trump said the United States would begin negotiations either to re-enter the Paris accord or to have a new agreement “on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.” Continue reading “Thur, June 1, 2017: Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris climate accord”