WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has not decided whether he will sign legislation that would allow U.S. officials to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts, the White House said on Thursday, as China repeated its opposition. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 15, 2018. We'll keep you guys posted," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters during a briefing. The administration also has the discretionary authority to permit visits by senior Taiwan officials and visits by senior U.S. officials and military officers to Taiwan, he added. China's hostility towards Taiwan has risen since the election of President Tsai Ing-wen, of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, in 2016.
Treasury chief Mnuchin opts for priciest military travel options, watchdog says
Treasury Department Secretary Steven Mnuchin routinely opts for pricey military planes to travel on and eschews using less-expensive commercial aircraft options, a scathing new report says. "He's always looking for the biggest and best private and military plane," Libowitz said of Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner. "The documents Treasury provided CREW show that to date Secretary Mnuchin apparently has not made a single trip on a commercial aircraft," the report said. Twenty people, including Linton and several members of the media, flew on a military aircraft at a cost of $16,350, the report said. In October, the Inspector General's Office of the Treasury Department issued a report that found that Mnuchin had not violated the law in his use of military aircraft for his travel on seven occasions.
Still no decision from Trump on signing of US-Taiwan travel bill, White House says
as mentioned in US President Donald Trump has not decided whether he will sign legislation that would allow US officials to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts, the White House said on Thursday. "A final decision hasn't been made," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said. If Trump did not veto it, the bill would become law on Saturday even if he did not sign it, congressional aides said. Cross-strait relations have soured since Tsai Ing-wen became Tawian's president in 2016 and refused to accept the one-China policy. US Senate passes Taiwan travel bill slammed by ChinaBeijing has used economic sweetners such as better paying jobs, access to bigger markets and equal treatment with mainlanders to lure Taiwanese across the strait.Report on Mnuchin's travel expenses is misleading, Treasury Dept. says
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's office pushed back Thursday after a published report said the secretary's travel aboard U.S. military aircraft last year had cost taxpayers roughly $1 million. A spokesman for the Treasury said in a statement to Politico that "much of CREW's 'report' consists of falsehoods and mischaracterizations," adding that Mnuchin's hasn't used a military aircraft since his trip to the Middle East last October. "Even CREW concedes that the Secretary's travel requests 'bear a remarkable similarity' to the requests submitted by secretaries in the Obama Administration, using the same approval process and level of justification," the statement said. "Secretary Mnuchin is one of a host of cabinet secretaries who collectively have incurred millions of dollars of airfare expenses just during the first year of the Trump administration," the report says. The secretary also attempted to use a military aircraft for his honeymoon trip to Europe, citing a need "to have access to secure communications," before ultimately withdrawing his request, the report stated.
CA travel ban should exempt sports teams, lawmaker says
San Diego State's men's basketball team took the court Thursday in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but California's multistate travel ban meant the trip to Wichita, Kansas, was more arduous than usual. That meant San Diego State's athletic department had to use private funds to pay for travel to Wichita. But one California lawmaker has introduced Assembly Bill 2389 to change that and allow California colleges to use taxpayer money for athletic and academic trips to the banned states. Low said he has heard from university administrators who respect the intent of the ban and has heard of academic conferences moving out of the banned states. But Harper said the current ban does limit regular season scheduling and the ability of coaches to make recruiting trips to the banned states.Author
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