When U.S. Senate Republicans unveil their plan to overhaul America’s healthcare system, they will face a skeptical public that already does not buy the justification for an earlier version that passed the House of Representatives, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation Committee on Wednesday proposed legislation to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system and make other aviation reforms, but it faces an uncertain future in Congress.
Republicans are trying to insulate Donald Trump from the potential failure of the health care bill in the Senate by keeping the President far away from the legislation.
Election expert J. Alex Halderman told the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday that voting machines can absolutely be hacked and votes changed, and that we must prepare now.
The White House launched a new website to promote the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. The problem is that the website contains no information about what Republicans are going to replace the ACA with. Here is what the White House’s repeal and replace website looks like: Notice anything missing from the website? There is no…
Russian hackers targeted 21 U.S. states’ election systems in last year’s presidential race, a Department of Homeland Security official told Congress on Wednesday.
The real problem, according to Spicer, is the reporters want to be YouTube stars.
On the day when it came out that President Trump is thinking of only holding one White House briefing a week, White House press secretary went on Laura Ingraham’s radio show to blame the White House press pool for the Trump administration’s cowardice.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, blamed Democrats for the Steve Scalise shooting, claimed that 90% of the media are Democrats, and said that because of the threat posed to him Democrats he won’t be holding town halls.
Democrats have one big, glaring downfall when it comes to the war against Republican obstruction and denial of the democratic process. It’s something that each one of you have control over
The Congressional Black Caucus is expected to decline an invitation to meet with Donald Trump, because the President has done nothing to advance their agenda, and they don’t want to give him a photo-op. Politico reported, “The Congressional Black Caucus is expected to reject an invitation to meet with President Donald Trump, according to four…
Some Democrats, liberals, and progressives are freaking out because they didn’t win special elections in heavily Republican districts that they were supposed to lose. There are two statistics that drive this point home and serve as a reminder that the freak out is based more on emotions than political reality. For those who are thinking…
Uber Technologies Inc Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, co-founder of one of the most influential technology companies of its generation, resigned on Tuesday under mounting pressure from investors over his leadership.
A plane carrying Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was buzzed by a NATO F-16 fighter jet as it flew over the Baltic Sea, but was seen off by a Russian Sukhoi-27 military jet, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
Handel’s hard fought win was by single digits in a district that all Republicans have to do to win is get their name on the ballot. She won the election despite Trump, not because of him.
The zeal among some Democrats, liberals, and progressives for the Georgia House special election were always emotional. Some are still dealing with an Election Night 2016 hangover and were desperate for a win, but the win that they should be looking for is to defeat Trump on healthcare, not a victory that would net them 1/435th of the House.
A Federal judge in Hawaii tweaked his previous injunction blocking Trump’s Muslim to allow studies and policy reviews on its impact. One of Trump’s versions of the truth about his Muslim ban includes suggests that this is “temporary†until the government has had a chance to study the issue. One could conclude Judge Derrick Watson…
U.S. senators called on Congress on Tuesday to take back its authority to determine whether the country goes to war, saying recent U.S. strikes in Syria were not covered by existing authorizations for the use of military force.
Meet Democrat Randy Bryce, an iron worker who launched a campaign against Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and raised $100,000 in the first 24 hours according to his campaign.
Video footage of the fatal shooting of a black motorist by a Minnesota police officer released on Tuesday showed how quickly the incident unfolded but shed no light on whether the victim had reached for the gun he told the officer he was carrying.
Federal investigators probing the lobbying work of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn are focused in part on the role of Bijan Kian, Flynn’s former business partner, according to a person interviewed by the FBI.
Republican Karen Handel is the projected winner of the Georgia House special election.
Jim Galloway of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is warning that the heavy rain in the Sixth District could depress turnout for Republican Karen Handel in the House special election. Video: Galloway said on MTP Daily, “I don’t want to be a weatherman, but it’s pouring here. We’re in the middle of a deluge, two to four…
There is a report that seven current Senate Republicans are no votes on the secret health care bill, while three others are undecided. Topher Spiro of the Center For American Progress tweeted: I'm hearing at least 7 no's coming out of the lunch: Capito, Collins, Cruz, Lee, Murkowski, Paul, Sasse. Heller, Cassidy, Portman undecided. https://t.co/xrFtqXk1Yk…
The most expensive congressional race in U.S. history headed to a tight finish on Tuesday as voters in suburban Atlanta cast ballots in an election that was seen by many as a referendum on President Donald Trump.
Democratic Senators Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Chris Murphy of Connecticut are marching to the Congressional Budget Office in search of the secret Senate Republican health care bill. Here are the Senators filming their departure: Booker, Murphy and Schatz begin recording their march to CBO to find healthcare bill that…
The Ford plant that President Trump claimed he kept in the U.S. is actually going to China, Ford announced Tuesday
While meeting with tech CEOs, Trump again criticized the secret Republican health care bill, but the one thing that he hasn’t done is refuse to sign it if it passes through Congress.
When asked why the press briefings are held off camera, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon possibly sarcastically answered that more briefings are off camera because Press Secretary Sean Spicer got fatter. The Atlantic reported, “Neither Spicer nor deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders responded to queries about the changes to the briefings. Asked why the…
The Senate will vote next week on a secret health care bill without holding a hearing. However, what has leaked is that the bill will throw more people off of their health insurance than the House-passed version of Trumpcare.
Rachel Maddow’s excellent reporting on developments in the Russia investigation continued with the news that a Federal Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Virginia issued subpoenas related to Paul Manafort. This is the same district that is investigating Michael Flynn, which Maddow suggests is indicative of efforts to consolidate the investigation based on two…
Trying to use the popular former president to suppress the vote won’t discourage Democrats in Georgia – it’ll only motivate them more.
Polls showing the president this close to a majority approval rating are impossible to come by because they don’t exist, so it’s no surprise that the insecure Trump would lean on an outlier survey from a GOP-leaning pollster.
“We have not had one hearing, not one open discussion. And I should think that every Republican should be embarrassed by this, and I know that many of them are embarrassed by it.”
Because of uncertainty caused by Trump and Republicans, at least one swing state will see Obamacare health care premiums spike by more than 40 percent.
As Democrats continue to hold the floor in the US Senate as part of their effort to stall the Republican health care bill, Senate Democratic Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) got Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) to admit that Obamacare wasn’t negotiated in secret, but had 25 days of hearings.
A new Gallup poll found that former President Obama is maintaining his popularity surge thanks to Donald Trump. Chart of Obama’s popularity surge via Gallup: Gallup reported, “Obama’s current 63% favorable rating is similar to what Gallup measured during the lame-duck period of his presidency, from mid-November 2016 through January 2017. Those ratings represented an…
CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta went off on the Trump administration for withholding information from the American people by blacking out the White House daily briefing. Video: Acosta accused the White House of not wanting the American people to see and hear their answers to questions, “When we’re asking important questions about where are…
As the Trump inner circle lawyers up and seeks advice from criminal lawyers, special counsel Robert Mueller has added a prosecutor to the Trump campaign probe who specializes in witness flipping.
Justin Trudeau did something that Donald Trump has not done. The Prime Minister of Canada has condemned the terrorist attack against Muslims in London. Canadian PN Justin Trudeau tweeted: We strongly condemn the Finsbury Park terror attack. In these difficult weeks for London & the UK, know you’ll always have Canada’s support. — Justin Trudeau…
Trump son in law/White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner finally spoke in public, and the nation quickly got to see why he has stayed quiet for so long. Kushner sounded like a teenage boy who is in way over his head while addressing a technology summit at the White House.
The Supreme Court decided to hear a case that will determine if gerrymandering for partisan benefit is constitutional. This will be the landmark case that either shuts down Republican cheating or allows Republicans to use DeVos math to win elections. This case provides the Court with the opportunity to rule in favor of free and…
There’s one more previously unreported meeting during the height of Russian interference in the election between President Trump’s campaign chair Paul Manafort and a suspected Russian spy/Ukrainian businessman.
Democrats have announced their first steps in blocking the secret Republican health care bill, and they including slowing the Senate to a crawl and trying to force a vote on the House-passed Trumpcare bill.
After Jared Kushner was reported to have discussed setting up a secret and secure communications channel with Moscow during a meeting with Russia’s ambassador to Washington, his representatives started contacting high-powered criminal lawyers about representing him.
Donald Trump gave Karen Handel such a terrible endorsement that he didn’t leave enough room in his tweet to include her full name. The babbling president whined about Democrats, lied about Obamacare, then had no room to endorse Handel in the Georgia special House election.
Trump promised America that there would be so much winning, but so far the only thing that Trump has won is being the president that has been fastest to be criminally investigated. Here is the chart from MSNBC’s Ari Melber: Time in office before POTUS faced criminal inquiry into conduct as POTUS: NIXON: 1,580 daysCLINTON:…
Trump’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow invoked Trump’s Article 1 powers under the Constitution to justify the President’s firing of James Comey, which suggests that Trump believes that he could use the same path to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Video: Holy crap. This exchange between Chris Wallace and Trump's lawyer is absolutely incredible. pic.twitter.com/Wem33Lc1VK — David…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is supporting Democrats who are calling for the Senate to be shut down to stop the Republicans from keeping their health care bill a secret.
Sen. Angus King (I-ME) confirmed that Trump was wrong. The investigation into his campaign for potential collusion is not over, and that the Trump campaign is still under Senate investigation.
The White House has given up on trying to get Trump to stop tweeting insane things, and as a consequence, Trump’s lawyers are pulling their hair out as the President is impossible to defend.
Trump sent his own lawyer Jay Sekulow to Fox News Sunday with the message that the President isn’t under criminal investigation, but the lawyer lost it and ended up admitting twice that Trump is under investigation.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) confirmed during an interview on ABC’s This Week that there is evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and that the President obstructed justice.
Although seven American sailors were confirmed dead Sunday morning, their Commander-in-Chief President Trump was obsessing over imaginary “witch hunts” against himself.
Trump was alone with his thoughts at 7 AM and was on the President’s mind wasn’t any number of challenges facing the United States and the world, but how he was secretly more popular than Obama. Trump tweeted at 7:02 AM on Sunday: The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016…
Long before the Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election, Republicans were active hacking the humanity of people in this country and around the world their immoral policies laced with sexism and racism and topped off with various forms of xenophobia.
There is no justifiable reason to commit these deplorable and sickening crimes but it must be understood that our current government has fostered an atmosphere that encourages and condones mayhem through silence. The hateful rhetoric spewed from POTUS and his backers has given license to fanatical support as well as opposition. This country is tearing apart at the seams and it’s leaders are the main culprit and cause for our divide.
Michigan Wolverines Head Coach Jim Harbaugh has invited Barack and Michelle Obama to be honorary football captains during the 2017 season.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell turned down an offer to meet with more than 15 patient advocacy groups to keep the details of his healthcare bill a secret from people with preexisting conditions.
Senate Democrats are considering shutting down all business in the Senate next week to bring into the open the secret Republican health care bill.
Ossoff is focusing not just on the corruption that continues to consume the White House, but the disastrous Republican policy agenda that will bury the middle class.
In what might be a sign of trouble ahead for Republicans in 2018, they are relying on the overused and now even more ineffective strategy of running against Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), even though she isn’t in power, is not from Georgia, and there’s no legitimate reason to bring her up.
“They’re going to get somebody, and they’re going to get him for something. And they’re probably going to go to jail.”
In a sign of how bad things are for Trump, members of his own party are trying to guess who Vice President Mike Pence will pick to be his VP after Trump is thrown out of office.
Trump’s tweets about “witch hunts” aren’t only reflections of presidential paranoia. They are part of a deeper strategy to discredit the man investigating him for obstruction of justice.
Prosecutors quickly announced that they would retry Bill Cosby after his sexual assault trial was declared a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury.
“If President Trump were to fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and then got Special Counsel Mueller fired, I believe Congress would begin impeachment proceedings.”
President Trump views Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “less as executors of law than as salaried staff.” Which explains a lot.
Donald Trump’s fans and conservative pundits describe his mess of a “foreign policy†as transactional. Trump’s supporters claim this is part of his “genius†during their more intense “dear leader†moments.
Donald Trump is so mentally unstable that he is screaming about conspiracies at his television.
Hell froze over this week when Fox “News” said it will no longer lie about the widely mocked, but totally empty slogan, Fair and Balanced.
A new beer features President Donald Trump as a gun-slinging mariachi musician.
The NBC station that serves the town where the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre took place will not be airing Megyn Kelly’s interview with Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Sunday.
For the plaintiffs who are suing Trump over Emoluments Clause violations and conflicts of interest, the President’s financial disclosure form shows that he is making millions off of being in the White House.
Trump humiliated himself during his announcement of the administration’s new Cuba policy on Friday by trying to take credit for Raul Castro’s 2013 decision to retire in 2018.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee just hinted at the constitutional crisis that will occur if Trump fires the Deputy Attorney General and the Special Counsel.
Senate Republicans have no direction or purpose in their rush to pass a bill to kill Obamacare and destroy affordable healthcare access. They don’t seem focused on an ideological approach, but rather just getting something done. Jamming something through in the dark before the Trump Titanic sinks and they’re all under water.
The White House appears to be in total denial about the severity of the Russia scandal, as Vice President Mike Pence called his move to hire a criminal defense attorney very routine.
After years of false complaints from Sen. Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republican Senators that the ACA was negotiated in secret, Senate Democrats have turned the tables on the now Majority Leader by calling out their refusal to hold a hearing on Trumpcare with an invitation to Senators only meeting next week.
Trump used Twitter like a teenager’s personal journal again, a problem for his lawyers and his own defense. This is called “flunking the investigation.”
The two rules being reworked by the administration help protect students from shady lending behavior and assist them in finding jobs after college that allow them to pay off their debt.
The fact that Mike Pence is now lawyering up suggests that, while he has largely flown under the radar with respect to the Russia scandal, he may have reason to worry after all.
Nugent said – with a straight face – that he is “100% against any harm to any human beings.”
The investigation into Kushner – Trump’s son-in-law and most trusted advisor – appears to have escalated yet again.
Twelve people are either facing charges or will be charged for assaulting peaceful protesters at Turkey’s Embassy in DC last month.
The news that Vice President Mike Pence has hired a private lawyer to represent him is a sign that Pence may go down with Trump for the Russia scandal.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is pushing for the House to investigate Trump for obstruction of justice as the news only gets worse for the President.
The legal problems keep piling up for Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a legal expert is warning that he is in contempt of Congress.
A Russia lobbyist is contradicting the testimony of Attorney General Jeff Sessions by stating that he attended two dinners hosted by Sessions during the 2016 campaign.
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) doesn’t know what’s in the Senate health care bill he’s going to vote for either, so he’s just as much a victim of Republican hubris as you, except he will get to keep his Obamacare and of course he has access to the bill. But still. In a world where it’s your fault that Republicans hate you, you can understand how Hatch is the victim.
The congressional response to the Republican baseball practice shooting hasn’t been to consider the issue of gun violence in America, but to ask taxpayers for more money for their own security.
The world is laughing at Donald Trump as Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull mocked Trump for his brags about poll numbers and winning while pointing out that Putin is the reason why Trump won the election.
While signing an executive order related to apprenticeships, Trump ignored questions about reporters on the obstruction of justice investigation.
While it is unknown if there are tapes, a new report of a memo from a former NSA official documents, Trump’s attempts to influence the NSA and interfere in the Russia investigation.
Crystal Griner is a female minority, who just so happens to be married to a woman. In 2015, Griner married Tiffany Dyar in Baltimore.
If you thought being in an employer plan would protect you from the evils of Trumpcare, you are sadly mistaken. Trumpcare V2.1 will impose annual limits on as many as 27 million Americans and lifetime limits on as many as 20 million. And it’s not just in states with waivers, which is to say your Democratic governor can’t protect you.
Someone leaked the Trump/RNC talking points on the obstruction of justice investigation, and they show that Republicans are beyond screwed.
President Trump confirmed on social media that he is under investigation for obstruction of justice because he doesn’t understand that tweets are official statements and evidence that can be used against him.
“We are a country that has a huge amount of gun violence, an internationally unparalleled level of gun violence and an internationally unparalleled frequency of multiple victim, mass shooting events.”
Republicans may have spent the first few months of Trump’s presidency cowardly refusing to hold him accountable, but even they are starting to recognize his days in the White House may be numbered.
While partisans on both sides of the aisle have been using the opportunity to point fingers and blame their political opponents for today’s shooting, Clinton’s message struck exactly the right tone at exactly the right time.
