Trump intends to protect “Dreamer” with Democrats

President Donald Trump pledge to work with Democrats to protect "Dreamers". "Dreamers" means young people who were brought illegally to the United States as children. Trump called on Sunday for money to fund a border wall and thousands more immigration officers to be part of the deal.

Trump’s list of immigration "principles," laid out in a document seen by Reuters, is likely to be a non-starter for Democrats, who are seeking a legislative fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that Trump ended last month.

The proposal includes a crackdown on unaccompanied minors who enter the United States, many of them from Central America. The plan was delivered to leaders in Congress on Sunday evening.

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The White House wants the wish list to guide immigration reform in Congress and accompany a bill to replace DACA, an Obama-era program that protected nearly 800,000 "Dreamers" from deportation and also allowed them to secure work permits.

The inclusion of border wall funding in the list could prompt Democrats to accuse Trump of rowing back earlier suggestions that he would keep the wall issue separate from an initiative to help DACA recipients. The White House priorities, if enacted, could result in the deportation of Dreamers’ parents.

On Sunday, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the minority leaders from the Senate and House, respectively, issued a joint statement rejecting the White House's proposals.

"The Administration can't be serious about compromise or helping the Dreamers if they begin with a list that is anathema to the Dreamers, to the immigrant community and to the vast majority of Americans," the two leaders said in the statement.

"We told the President at our meeting that we were open to reasonable border security measures alongside the DREAM Act, but this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable. This proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise. The list includes the wall, which was explicitly ruled out of the negotiations," they added.

"If the President was serious about protecting the Dreamers, his staff has not made a good faith effort to do so."

The proposals also include a request for funds to hire 370 more immigration judges; 1,000 attorneys for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency; 300 federal prosecutors and 10,000 additional ICE agents to enforce immigration laws.

"The president has made clear he wants Congress to act and pass responsible immigration reform in conjunction with any legislation related to DACA," said White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters.

Trump told Congress it had six months to come up with legislation to help Dreamers, who are a fraction of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, most of whom are Hispanic.

The document calls for tighter standards for those seeking U.S. asylum, denial of federal grants to “sanctuary cities” that serve as refuges for illegal immigrants, and a requirement that employers use an electronic verification system known as "E-Verify" to keep illegal immigrants from securing jobs.

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Trump has pledged $1 million to Harvey relief, White House says

During a press briefing at the White House on Thursday, Aug. 31, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that President Donald Trump will donate $1 million to Hurricane Harvey relief personally. This is a great gesture as Texas and Louisiana work on recovering from the historic storm. But there's just one teensy issue: Very few people believe that Trump will actually donate the money.

The organizations helping the victims of Hurricane Harvey need donations. Of course, $1 million from anybody, including from the president, will help. Sanders said that she will decide which organization to give to based on reporters' input. Elite Daily reached out to the White House to see if there is a timeline for this donation.

President Donald Trump has pledged $1 million of his own money to Harvey relief efforts, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.

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She said Trump has not decided which organization he will donate to. The spokeswoman said Trump specifically told Sanders to ask journalists at the briefing for suggestions since they have been reporting on groups and their relief efforts.

"As I said, he'll pledge proudly $1 million of his own personal money to help the people of both Texas and Louisiana," Sanders said.

Trump donated his first two quarters' worth of presidential pay to government agencies. He gave his first installment to the National Park Service and his second to the Department of Education.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel to Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, Sanders said. The two visited Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday. Vice President Mike Pence toured damage in Rockport, Texas, on Thursday.

The details of the Trumps' next trip are still being finalized, Sanders said. The tentative plan is for the first couple to travel to Houston, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, she said.

Once he makes the donation, Trump will join a long list of donors who have promised at least $1 million to relief efforts. The Abbvie Foundation has committed $1 million in funding. The Allstate Foundation has pledged $1.55 million to relief and is matching employee and agency owner contributions.

Vizient has announced a $1 million donation raised from the company and employees to help hospital workers. Houston-based Reliant donated more than $2 million for relief efforts.

J.J. Watt, star defensive lineman for the Houston Texans, has raised $10 million.

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Charlottesville: White House defends Trump's Tepid Response

The White House has defended President Donald Trump's response to deadly,race-fueled violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, amid criticisms he did not explicitly condemn far-right groups.

But a spokesman said his condemnation included white supremacists.

A woman was killed on Saturday when a car rammed into a crowd protesting against the rally in Charlottesville.

Separately, a rally organiser was chased away by protesters as he tried to give a press conference on Sunday.

Jason Kessler, who organised the controversial "Unite the Right" march, was heckled and booed as he blamed the police for not preventing the violence, which he also condemned.

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Nineteen people were injured in the car-ramming incident, and another 15 people were wounded in separate clashes related to the far-right march on Saturday afternoon.

Protests and vigils in support of Charlottesville were held in many US cities on Sunday. In Seattle, police used pepper spray to stop anti-fascist protesters approaching a pro-Trump rally.

How did Trump initially respond?

Hours after the violence erupted, Mr Trump said he condemned "in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides".

"The hate and the division must stop right now," he told reporters in New Jersey, where he is on a working holiday. "We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation."

But his comments did not explicitly condemn the white extremist groups involved in the rally, an omission that was strongly criticised by Republicans and Democrats alike.

Many, including senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, echoed the sentiment of Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who tweeted: "Mr President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism."

The president's national security adviser, HR McMaster, went further by commenting: "Anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it meets the definition of terrorism."

Mr Trump's daughter too also appeared to offer stronger condemnation than her father.

In response, the White House issued a statement on Sunday clarifying that Mr Trump's condemnation had included white supremacists.

"The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred. Of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups," said a spokesperson.

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Import tax officially abandoned in Big 6 tax reform talks

White House and congressional leaders officially acknowledged on Thursday that a controversial tax on imports would be dropped from tax reform, but otherwise provided no new details on a broader plan they expect to start moving through Congress in the fall.

The import tax, called border adjustability, was pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan as a way to fund tax cuts, but it prompted a fierce backlash from retailers, other import-dependent industries and conservative activists. With that tax off the table, Congress, the White House and advocacy groups hope to present a more united front on tax reform, though other disagreements will surely flare as lawmakers work on a replacement.

In a statement that was otherwise largely symbolic, the "Big Six" tax reform negotiators vowed to reduce tax rates, simplify the tax code and improve U.S. economic growth by changing tax laws.

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The declaration — from Ryan, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn — on border adjustability confirmed what was widely anticipated for months.

"While we have debated the pro-growth benefits of border adjustability, we appreciate that there are many unknowns associated with it and have decided to set this policy aside in order to advance tax reform," the statement said.

"We are now confident that, without transitioning to a new domestic consumption-based tax system, there is a viable approach for ensuring a level of playing field between American and foreign companies and workers, while protecting American jobs and the U.S. tax base," it said.

Brady, who also supported border adjustability, told reporters that "in order for us to unify it was important to set it aside, for now. Perhaps there will be study in future years on it."

“We’ve been actively exploring with the Senate and the White House a viable alternative," he added. "[We] still have work to do but I like the path we’re going.”

Foes of the border tax, or BAT, celebrated its demise.

“With BAT out, Washington has an opportunity for the first time in more than a generation to pass a tax reform plan that boosts American businesses and family budgets,” said a statement from the president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, Sandy Kennedy.

Democrats scorned the entire process.

"We all agree that the tax code isn’t working for middle-class families but the past has shown that for tax reform to be successful, it must be undertaken in a truly bipartisan manner," Rep. Richard Neal, the top Ways and Means Democrat, said in media release. "If Republicans continue this partisan process, they are doomed to repeat the same mistakes they have made trying to upend our health care system."

Even though details like tax rates have yet to be worked out, interest groups, including conservative grassroots organizations, are expected to try to build public support for tax reform over Congress's August recess, and GOP lawmakers have been given marching orders to talk up the effort.

Brady has invited House and Senate tax writers to meet at the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Aug. 16 for a public event on tax reform.

Expectations had grown in recent days that the Big Six would provide more details of their talks that members could use as talking points over the break. But the statement amounted to a list of principles.

“The goal is a plan that reduces tax rates as much as possible, allows unprecedented capital expensing [for businesses], places a priority on permanence, and creates a system that encourages American companies to bring back jobs and profits trapped overseas,” it said.

The negotiators added that "the time has arrived" for the tax-writing committees to produce draft legislation. "Our expectation is for this legislation to move through the committees this fall, under regular order, followed by consideration on the House and Senate floors."

Representatives from various groups who were briefed on the top-line statement saw it in a positive light, given that it demonstrated compromise towards getting tax reform legislation enacted by the end of this year. Ryan and Brady hadn’t stopped backing the border adjustment tax until Thursday.

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The pros and cons of President Trump's new tax plan

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration unveiled the principles of the long-awaited tax reform plan on Wednesday ahead of the administration's first 100 days in office. The plan can remarkably cut income taxes for Americans and corporates.

The plan would reduce the number of personal income tax brackets to three from seven, and it would cut the top individual income tax rate to 35 percent from 39.6 percent, Gary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council (NEC), said at a press briefing at the White House.

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At the same time, the plan would cut the corporate income tax rate to 15 percent from 35 percent, and it would also impose a one-time tax on overseas profits of U.S. companies, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at the same press briefing.

That "will bring back trillions of dollars that are offshore to be invested here in the United States, to purchase capital and to create jobs," he said.

The plan would also eliminate all tax deductions for individuals except from mortgage interests and charitable tax deductions, according to Mnuchin.

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"We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do something really big," Cohn said, noting President Donald Trump has made tax reform a priority and the Republican-controlled Congress also wants to get it done.

"We are determined to move as fast as we can and get this done this year," Mnuchin added.

However, it's still unclear whether the plan, what U.S. officials called the "biggest tax cut" in U.S. history, would be revenue-neutral or would significantly increase U.S. fiscal deficits.

Mnuchin has repeatedly argued that the administration would count on the compounding effect of strong economic growth over the next decade to finance the tax cuts.

"This will pay for itself with growth and with reduction of different deductions and closing loopholes," he said.

However, many economists are skeptical about that argument, as the U.S. economic growth will average about only 1.9 percent over the next ten years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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"In order for a corporate income tax cut to 15 percent to be self-financing, it would have to raise the level of growth to 2.8 percent on average," said Alan Cole, an economist at the Tax Foundation, adding most economic models would not expect the tax cuts to boost U.S. growth by additional 0.9 percentage points over the 10-year budget window.

The details of a complete tax proposal probably won't be ready until June, according to Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Mulvaney said on Sunday. "You can either have a small tax cut that's permanent or a large tax cut that is short-term. I don't think we decided that." 

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