President Donald Trump's administration has made explicit its commitment to an old GOP strategy for managing Medicaid -- turning control of the program that covers low-income people to the states and capping what the federal government spends on it each year.
For many Republican lawmakers, business leaders and ordinary voters, having Donald Trump in the White House would mean a quick route to tax reform and tax cuts.
After a smooth rollout of his nominee for the Supreme Court Tuesday night, President Trump went off-message the next morning, bashing the media during a White House meeting. The president overshadowed the meeting -- which was intended to kick off Black History Month and was largely attended by African-American members of his own staff -- with comments he made about the media.
