“Too many of his Cabinet picks support the same, hard-right, doctrinaire positions that many in the Republican Party have held for years — policies that the American people have repeatedly rejected,” Schumer said in his first speech of the new year.
“If Donald Trump lets the hard-right members of Congress and his Cabinet run the show . if he adopts their timeworn policies — which represent the elites, special interests and corporate America, not the working man and woman — his presidency will not succeed. ”
The minority leader told the nearly empty chamber to watch Trump’s first two years in office closely.
“If the president-elect proposes legislation that achieves that — on issues like infrastructure, trade, and closing the carried interest loophole, for instance — we will work in good faith to perfect and, potentially, enact it,” he said. “When he doesn’t, we will resist. But what we will always do is hold the president-elect and his Republican colleagues in Congress accountable. ”
“Look, I don’t know Donald Trump very well. I never played golf with him, I never had a meal with him. I’d cross his path at things in New York. But that’s going to have very little effect,” he added. “My guiding light is going to be the principles of our party and what I think are the right principles of our country: helping the middle class, helping those trying to get there. “

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Janet Jackson is finally a mom.
The “Control” singer welcomed her first child — a boy named Eissa — with husband Wissam Al Mana on Tuesday, her rep confirmed to People magazine .
“Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana are thrilled to welcome their new son, Eissa Al Mana, into the world,” the rep said in a statement. “Janet had a stress-free healthy delivery and is resting comfortably.”
Jackson and Al Mana were married in 2012. In April, the singer postponed her Unbreakable world tour for family reasons.
“We’re in the second leg of the tour, and there actually has been a sudden change,” she said in a video statement released on Twitter . “I thought it was important that you be the first to know.”
“My husband and I are planning our family,” she said. “So I’m going to have to delay the tour.”

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The Southeast Asian nation has for decades been plagued by insurgencies by Muslim rebels in its southern islands, with President Rodrigo Duterte seeking to promote broad peace in the predominantly Catholic country.
The gunmen opened fire at guards at the North Cotabato District Jail in Kidapawan city around 1:00 a.m. (1700 GMT), prison warden Peter Bongat told a local radio station.
Of the jail’s 1,511 inmates, 158 managed to escape and four were recaptured, he said.
“It’s well planned. Escapees used blanket as their getaway… We have a manhunt operation,” said Bongat.
The rebel commander belonged to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) based on initial information, Bongat said.
In 2014, the government signed a peace deal with the MILF, the biggest Muslim rebel group but clashes still occur with smaller groups.
(Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales and Manuel Mogato; Editing by Michael Perry)

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(CNN) Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump deserves credit for persuading House Republicans to drop plans to eliminate an independent ethics office a day after voting to rein it in.
. @TomColeOK04 : Trump “deserves a lot of the credit” for influencing lawmakers to pull plan gutting ethics committee https://t.co/dSK4EthKvB
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Donald Trump yesterday derailed an attempt by his party to weaken an independent ethics watchdog on the first day of the new term of Congress, prompting a last-minute reversal from Republicans.
Republicans voted behind closed doors on Monday to strip the Office of Congressional Ethics of its independence and much of its authority, despite the objections of Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, and protestations from senior Democrats.
The change was due to be passed yesterday after the swearing-in of the new Republican Congress as part of a broader rules package. But just hours earlier, Mr Trump took to Twitter, without warning, to share his disapproval.
“With all that Congress has to work out, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority? ” he wrote. “Focus on tax reform, health care and so many other things of far greater importance. ”
Less than two hours later, Republicans huddled in an emergency conference to determine how to proceed. They eventually decided to leave the ethics board intact.
Mr Trump rallied supporters during his campaign with a pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington and came under pressure after the initial vote on the watchdog, which could have shielded Congress from investigation.
It had initially appeared that he would accept the move and Kellyanne Conway, his senior adviser, even attempted to defend it yesterday morning, noting that many members felt the office was overzealous and unfair and that “there are many ways for constituents to make their voices heard”.
The unexpected intervention seemed to strengthen Mr Trump’s hand by showing his influence in Congress, while embarrassing his own party, to the delight of Democrats.
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Some Republicans said angry calls from constituents, rather than pressure from leadership or Mr Trump, caused them to change their minds about the ethics overhaul. Republicans had planned to focus on efforts to roll back President Barack Obama’s signature health reforms during the opening day of the 115th Congress.
It is a high-risk process, as some 20 million Americans now have health coverage under the law, certain aspects of which have proved highly popular.
Mrs Conway said no one would lose coverage under Mr Trump’s plan, which she admitted has yet to be fully formulated.
Meanwhile, Ford Motor Company is cancelling plans to build a $1.6bn (€1.5bn) factory in Mexico, and will invest at least some of the savings in new electric and autonomous vehicles to be built in the US.
The San Luis Potosi, Mexico, plant, which was announced last spring, was the subject of months of contention between the company and Mr Trump.
Ford had planned to move production of its Ford Focus small car to the plant from Michigan. Ford CEO Mark Fields said the company decided in recent weeks not to build the plant because of declining demand for small cars in the US.
It will still move production of the Focus to Mexico, but that will go to an existing plant in Hermosillo. The Michigan plant that currently makes the Focus will get new products next year.
Fields said Ford would invest $700m in the Flat Rock plant to make hybrid, electric and autonomous vehicles.
It will also hire around 700 workers. In announcing the Michigan expansion, Fields noted Mr Trump’s promise to make the US more competitive by lowering taxes and easing regulations.
Mr Trump also launched a social media attack on General Motors, threatening to slap a tax on the US car giant for importing compact cars from Mexico. In a tweet, Mr Trump said the owner of Chevrolet, Cadillac and Vauxhall would have to stomach a “big border tax” if it failed to make cars in the United States.
GM makes the vast majority of compact Chevrolet Cruzes at a factory in Lordstown, Ohio, but imports hatchback versions of the Cruze from a plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.
Mr Trump said on his route to office that he would impose punitive tariffs of 45pc on goods from China and 35pc on goods from Mexico as part of a package of economic measures designed to boost US manufacturing industries. Writing on Twitter, Mr Trump said: “General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to US car dealers – tax free across border. Make in USA or pay big border tax! “(© Daily Telegraph London)

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