Trent Duffy
Trent Duffy
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Number one, the best anti-poverty program is a job, ... And second, it is education. We are closing the achievement gap between black, Hispanic and white children.
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We want to lift all incomes and wealth. We are starting to see that the income gap is largely an education gap.
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There will be a good time for tax reform but right now would not be it.
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It's akin to the Rosie-the-riveter type thing, because we are asking every American and every American institution to do quite a bit.
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There's enough blame to go around, and the president has taken his share. But we can't keep looking back and sniping at each other. It's unraveling all the good will we have built up with state and local officials.
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We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.
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We're still deciding if we should push for a capital gains cut this year, ... The ironic thing is that we do all these estimates on what kind of impact a cut would have and then the U.S. Treasury says 'Oh, no. We can't afford it.' Well, we cut capital gains a few years ago and now we've got an enormous budget surplus. Much of it was generated by capital gains.
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There is a deliberate process, and the White House has always said it wants to cooperate with the committee but preserve any president's ability to get advice from advisers on a confidential basis. And that's a critical need for any U.S. president and that is continuing to influence how we cooperate with the committees.
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The president's New Year's resolution is to continue to work tirelessly for peace abroad and prosperity at home.
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The president is viewing the economy realistically that there is very strong job growth, but he will not be satisfied until every American looking for work can find work. The overwhelming evidence is that this economy is very strong and that's because of the president's economic program.
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The president is going to directly address how throughout our history American workers have been told that our best days were behind us.
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The president is glad to hear that Sen. Reid is feeling fine and looks forward to working with him this fall.
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But North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to set aside its ambition for nuclear weapons.
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We're not going to be bogged down. The schedule is too full for that to happen.