A hall meeting with constituents talking about the tax reform law. You can also follow live on cspan. Org or lift listen on the radio app. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin talked to reporters during the daily briefing. He talked about the rollout of the impact on u. S. Workers. This is about 20 minutes. Thank you very much. Let me comment and say that i am pleased that i will be leading the economic delegation. We will have a large group of cabinet members traveling with us. We will get more information on that later. I would like to talk about the withholding tables. Today the Treasury Department released new withholding guidance that will implement the tax cut. Will mean thatce workers and their families will receive larger paychecks starting in february. This has been a massive project we have been working on, beginning to implement the tax plan. There is a lot of work left to be done. This historic legislation doubles the standard deduction, simplifies the filing process, lowers th
Cup a subcommittee, and begins the discussion. This is about 1. 5 hours. Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Welcome to those who join us on our website on all of these occasions and our inhouse tests, would you be so kind to check your mobile devices to see if they are silent or turned off. For those watching online, send questions or comments email speaker heritage. Org. Following the initial presentation, my colleague will lead our panel discussion. He is a foreignpolicy analyst and has worked for heritage since 1979 and offered papers on Foreign Policy issues and testified before congress on a wide variety of middle east issues. Hosting and introducing our special presenter is luke coffey who is director for center of Foreign Policy. He served in the United Kingdom ministry of defense to then secretary of state of defense. First ever nonu. K. National to be appointed by the Prime Minister. Prior to this, he worked in the house of commons as adviser on defense and Secu
Devoted to 56164 to approve the legislation. The Current Authority expires january 19. The debate is just under an hour. Section 702 is one of the most, if not the most Critical National security tool used by our Intelligence Committee to overseas. Elligent some claim 702 packages all information. This assertion is simply false. 702 is a targeted program was roughly 106,000 foreign targets worldwide. It given that the worldwide population is about 7. 5 billion, this program can hardly be described as a question. Improvise foreign adversaries who threaten the United States and locating them is crucial to protecting our troops and homeland. As an example, the second in command in isis was located via section 02. He was later removed from the battle 702. He was later removed from battle. This demonstrates the necessity of this authority. Subject to oversight by all branches of government, section 702 is one of the most intelligenceerseen authority. While compliance incidents occur in our
Todays washington journal. Join us for many florida is alan gomez is reported at usa today specializes in immigration. Good morning, mr. Gomez wanted to start first with the president s comments from yesterday. Ro it was a headline in the miami herald trump leveled tirade. We know that maybe 1 million haitian immigrants in the u. S. How we are in south florida effort floor in general . What you reaction been . Theres about 300,000 state of florida, about a third of those registered to vote which we come very important as we move ahead. You can imagine what the reaction has been. Everybody is besides that suffered the president came down to south florida during the president ial campaign and addressed a group of patients specifically he spoke to them. He talked about being a champion we came to washington and obviously a lot of them are very upset with whats happened. Weve heard that the haitians have summoned the head of the u. S. Embassy in portauprince to meet with the haitian presid
Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. If you are a democrat, please. All 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And we have a special fourth line to recent immigrants to the u. S. 202 7488003 202 7488002 202 7488003 202 7488003. Front page of the Washington Post. This first reported on the president s comments late yesterday afternoon. The headline todays piece said immigration offer on socalled dreamers fails,