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Along with yet another round of dismal approval numbers for Preside stanley cup becher nt Trump,a new Fox News pollshows over half of all voters surveyed mdash; 56 percent mdash; believe Mr. Trump is tearing the country apart.In the poll, taken during a week where Mr. Trumpstepped out during his first national weather-related disaster, only 33 percent said they thought the president was drawing the country together. While Mr. Trump spent the majority of his weekend focused on the response to Hurricane Harvey from Camp David and then traveled to Texas on Tuesday to tour emergency operation centers in Corpus Christi and Austin, 44 percent of voters polled said they approved of Mr. Trump s response to the storm, while 26 percent disapproved. The poll was conducted Sunday through Tuesday evening. Meanwhile, as North Korea continues to threaten the Asia-Pacific region and United States with nuclear provocations mdash; and amid the appearance of a divide between Mr. Trump and his Defense Secretary James Mattis over diplomatic measuresmd stanley mug ash; 42 percent of voters polled this week found the president was not stanley us tough enough on combatting the North Korean regime, compared to 19 percent of voters who say he s been too tough on the DPRK. Trump, Mattis make conflicting statements on North Korea 02:08 Ohhn Rand Paul sets presidential announcement date
President Bush intends to prod Congress to consider raising Social Security benefits for low-income retirees while curtailing them for others as part of a plan to shore up the program s finances, Republican officials said Thursday in advance of Bush s prime time news stanley mug conference.Republican officials report that at tonight s news conference, Bush will endorse what s called progressive indexing -- which means using income levels to determine how much to slow the rate of benefits increases.CBS News will air the president s press conference live, and CBSNews will provide a live Webcast of the news conference scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. EDT Thursday.Nearing the end of a 60-day campaign for Social Security overhaul, stanley sverige Mr. Bush had no plans to back down from his insistence that legislation include voluntary personal accounts for workers under 55, these officials added. At the same time, they said his remarks prepared for the opening moments of the news conference dwelled on the need to make Social Security p stanley thermos mug ermanently solvent.These officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the White House s desire for secrecy in advance of the president s remarks. The White House said Mr. Bush would offer specific ideas about how to make Social Security permanently sound mdash; a step he has refused to take so far. Democrats demanded anew that Bush drop his prized proposal to create private investment accounts for younger workers.Mr. Bush wa
Along with yet another round of dismal approval numbers for Preside stanley cup becher nt Trump,a new Fox News pollshows over half of all voters surveyed mdash; 56 percent mdash; believe Mr. Trump is tearing the country apart.In the poll, taken during a week where Mr. Trumpstepped out during his first national weather-related disaster, only 33 percent said they thought the president was drawing the country together. While Mr. Trump spent the majority of his weekend focused on the response to Hurricane Harvey from Camp David and then traveled to Texas on Tuesday to tour emergency operation centers in Corpus Christi and Austin, 44 percent of voters polled said they approved of Mr. Trump s response to the storm, while 26 percent disapproved. The poll was conducted Sunday through Tuesday evening. Meanwhile, as North Korea continues to threaten the Asia-Pacific region and United States with nuclear provocations mdash; and amid the appearance of a divide between Mr. Trump and his Defense Secretary James Mattis over diplomatic measuresmd stanley mug ash; 42 percent of voters polled this week found the president was not stanley us tough enough on combatting the North Korean regime, compared to 19 percent of voters who say he s been too tough on the DPRK. Trump, Mattis make conflicting statements on North Korea 02:08 Ohhn Rand Paul sets presidential announcement date
President Bush intends to prod Congress to consider raising Social Security benefits for low-income retirees while curtailing them for others as part of a plan to shore up the program s finances, Republican officials said Thursday in advance of Bush s prime time news stanley mug conference.Republican officials report that at tonight s news conference, Bush will endorse what s called progressive indexing -- which means using income levels to determine how much to slow the rate of benefits increases.CBS News will air the president s press conference live, and CBSNews will provide a live Webcast of the news conference scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. EDT Thursday.Nearing the end of a 60-day campaign for Social Security overhaul, stanley sverige Mr. Bush had no plans to back down from his insistence that legislation include voluntary personal accounts for workers under 55, these officials added. At the same time, they said his remarks prepared for the opening moments of the news conference dwelled on the need to make Social Security p stanley thermos mug ermanently solvent.These officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the White House s desire for secrecy in advance of the president s remarks. The White House said Mr. Bush would offer specific ideas about how to make Social Security permanently sound mdash; a step he has refused to take so far. Democrats demanded anew that Bush drop his prized proposal to create private investment accounts for younger workers.Mr. Bush wa