Trump discusses Canada during flight on Air Force 1
President Donald Trump plans to use a stop in Las Vegas to offer details on how he can begin excluding tips from federal taxes.
During an unscheduled stop on the casino floor at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, Donald Trump said he might terminate the contracts of thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers, reviving debunked claims that the agency has hired 88,000 enforcement agents to go after taxpayers in the past few years.
Trump said he discussed his vision on a call earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.
His arrival in the gambling capital coincided with a dramatic late-night purge of internal federal agency watchdogs.
President Trump said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan during a phone call Saturday that he would like Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza, an idea that is likely to reignite debate about the future of nearly two million Palestinians.
Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada announced that the "Trusted Traveler" program is reinstated days after being suspended at multiple military installations."Trust
"We just clean out that whole thing and say, 'You know, it's over,'" the new president said to reporters on Air Force One.
President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza has fallen flat with both countries' governments and perplexed a congressional ally.