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Former President Obama made his first public remarks since leaving the White House.
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During his since leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama avoided weighing in on the new administration and encouraged students to become politically involved. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn congressional leaders to discuss tax reform on Tuesday. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that President Trump could help avert a government astronaut Peggy Whitson for breaking the U.S. record for the most time spent in space, calling it a “special day in the glorious history of American spaceflight.” Workers in New Orleans a monument to an 1874 white-supremacist uprising, and will soon remove statues commemorating Confederate leaders.

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