{"id":87767,"date":"2017-08-23T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/mcconnell-republicans-working-with-trump-on-shared-goals.html"},"modified":"2017-08-23T20:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:26:28","slug":"mcconnell-republicans-working-with-trump-on-shared-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/mcconnell-republicans-working-with-trump-on-shared-goals.html","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Republicans working with Trump on &#8216;shared goals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that he and his team were in &#8220;regular contact&#8221; with President Donald Trump to discuss &#8220;shared goals&#8221; such as infrastructure and taxes. <\/p>\n<p>The statement came after media reports this week of tensions between the Republican president and McConnell, the top Republican in the U.S. Senate. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President and I, and our teams, have been and continue to be in regular contact about our shared goals,&#8221; McConnell said in a statement that also cited support for the military and veterans and U.S. strategy against Islamic State. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of work ahead of us, and we are committed to advancing our shared agenda together and anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly not part of the conversation,&#8221; McConnell said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Attribution_content_27_rw\">Reporting by Amanda Becker; Editing by Peter Cooney<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/Reuters\/PoliticsNews\/~3\/_hB_-IjgMzI\/us-usa-trump-mcconnell-idUSKCN1B32EM<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that he and his team were in &#8220;regular contact&#8221; with President Donald Trump to discuss &#8220;shared goals&#8221; such as infrastructure and taxes. The statement came after media reports this week of tensions between the Republican president and McConnell, the top Republican in the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-87767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}