The Trump administration will extend for another month a waiver allowing the sale of Russian crude already loaded on tankers, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday…
Showing posts with label waiver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waiver. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Biden administration to waive vaccine patent protection - The Washington Post
… "With this waiver, we can share vaccine recipes, largely developed with taxpayer dollars, while assuring reasonable royalties to American manufacturers," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.), who chairs the House Ways and Means health subcommittee and met with White House officials on the waiver last week…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/05/05/biden-waives-vaccine-patents/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/05/05/biden-waives-vaccine-patents/
Friday, September 27, 2019
Democrats to force vote on Trump health care rule - The Hill
Senate Democrats took action this week that will force a floor vote on a Trump administration rule that loosens ObamaCare waiver restrictions.....
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/463279-democrats-to-force-vote-on-trump-health-care-rule
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/463279-democrats-to-force-vote-on-trump-health-care-rule
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Barr gets waiver on case linked to inquiry into Trump's re-election effort - POLITICO
The waiver could give Barr a window into an investigation that involves a political action committee dedicated to re-electing Trump in 2020.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/barr-trump-inauguration-fund-1287657
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/barr-trump-inauguration-fund-1287657
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Interior hands out nearly 1,700 waivers to offshore drilling safety rules - POLITICO
The most common waivers were those that allowed the companies to sidestep tighter rules for blowout preventers...
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/offshore-drilling-trump-administration-interior-department-1190762
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/offshore-drilling-trump-administration-interior-department-1190762
Friday, August 17, 2018
White House waives ethics rules to allow top staffers access to Fox News - Salon
Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications is being allowed to avoid the usual ethics rules ....
https://www.salon.com/2018/08/14/white-house-waives-ethics-rules-to-allow-top-staffers-access-to-fox-news/
https://www.salon.com/2018/08/14/white-house-waives-ethics-rules-to-allow-top-staffers-access-to-fox-news/
Friday, December 8, 2017
After Jerusalem recognition, Trump signs waiver delaying embassy move | The Times of Israel
Hours after recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital Wednesday, and saying he had instructed the State Department to begin preparation to relocate the US embassy there, US President Donald Trump signed the waiver putting off any such move by another six months.....
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-jerusalem-recognition-trump-signs-waiver-delaying-embassy-move/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-jerusalem-recognition-trump-signs-waiver-delaying-embassy-move/
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Trump personally told health chief to deny Iowa's urgent Obamacare waiver: Report -- CNBC
The report of Trump's involvement comes after Oklahoma's health commissioner criticized the Trump administration for failing to act on another waiver bid. ....
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/06/trump-personally-told-health-chief-to-deny-iowas-urgent-obamacare-waiver-report.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/06/trump-personally-told-health-chief-to-deny-iowas-urgent-obamacare-waiver-report.html
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Iowa Leads Stampede Of States Asking For Permission To Rewrite Obamacare -- TPM
With the Trump administration sending clear signals that it is open to state requests to rewrite their laws governing both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces—requests that the Obama administration roundly rejected and that could roll back coverage for hundreds of thousands of people—waivers are pouring in. This week, Iowa submitted a final proposal to drastically overhaul its ACA compliance. ....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/iowa-1332-waiver-obamacare-hhs
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/iowa-1332-waiver-obamacare-hhs
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Homeland Security To Waive Environmental Rules On Border Wall Projects -- NPR
The agency says it will bypass rules requiring environmental studies before building on public land, hoping partly to ease the construction of prototypes for Trump's proposed border wall in San Diego. ....
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540892890/homeland-security-to-waive-environmental-rules-on-border-wall-projects
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540892890/homeland-security-to-waive-environmental-rules-on-border-wall-projects
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Office of Government Ethics nixes Steve Bannon's 'unsigned and undated' retroactive ethics waiver
In May, four Democratic senators wrote a letter to the Office of Government Ethics probing the Trump administration's supposed "retroactive" waiver exempting Steve Bannon, poster child for White House dysfunction, from certain federal ethics rules. OGE director Walter Shaub had previously dismissed the notion of a "retroactive" ethics waiver; now the office has issued its formal response.
Short version: No, retroactive waivers for ethics violations that have already occurred are still not a thing....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1671861
Short version: No, retroactive waivers for ethics violations that have already occurred are still not a thing....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1671861
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