Democrat Rips Trump As ‘Racial Arsonist’ Who ‘Pulled The Sheets Off’ After Charlottesville
The Congressman said Trump’s weekend rant about NFL and NBA players is just a continuation of his post-Charlottesville racist rhetoric.
The Congressman said Trump’s weekend rant about NFL and NBA players is just a continuation of his post-Charlottesville racist rhetoric.
An economic assessment by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings threw more cold water on the bill. If enacted, it would result in 580,000 lost jobs and $240 billion in lost economic activity by 2027, keeping GDP growth “stuck in low gear of around 2 percent at best.”
During a SiriusXM Town Hall, Hillary Clinton went off on Republican hypocrites for not calling for an investigation of Jared Kushner after he was caught using private email.
Sen. Susan Collins came strongly out against Graham-Cassidy and became the third Republican no for the legislation, which effectively kills the bill.
The CBO analysis on Graham-Cassidy may go down as the final death blow to the Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, as the initial report found that millions and millions would lose their health insurance, and more Americans would lack comprehensive coverage.
Conservatives are celebrating the overnight ratings decline of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, but a look inside the numbers reveals that ratings were down because the game was lopsided, and not related to the anthem protest.
Top House Oversight Committee Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has launched an investigation into Jared Kushner’s use of private email.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders dodged questions about President Trump going after African American athletes while praising NASCAR, again pretending that Trump’s actions are about “pride” in our country.
In a troubling effort to conflate Trump calling an American citizen exercising his first amendment rights an “SOB” with the flag, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to frame President Trump’s attacks on NFL players protesting on their knee as attacks on the flag.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told disabled protesters who are fighting to keep their health care to shut up, and then had the police remove protesters as he had put the hearing on the Graham-Cassidy bill into recess.
As Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is openly pleading with the White House for help in avoiding a humanitarian crisis, Donald Trump is busy tweeting about the NFL, and not planning on offering disaster relief for another 2-3 weeks.
Death of a GOP talking point: The losses under Graham-Cassidy would in fact be “devastating for the other five ‘bribe target’ states: Arizona would now lose $3.3 billion, while Alaska would still be $99 million in the hole, Kentucky would be down $2.7 billion, Ohio down $6.5 billion and West Virginia would lose nearly $1.5 billion,” Charles Gaba reported.
During a radio interview, Trump repeatedly proclaimed that Obamacare repeal is dead because at least two Republicans are going to vote against it. The President appeared not to understand that his own vice president can break a tie in the Senate.
North Korea’s foreign minister said on Monday that President Donald Trump had declared war on North Korea and that Pyongyang reserves the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down U.S. strategic bombers even if they are not in the country’s air space.
The man who is supposed to be leading the country is so out of his mind that he got the name of Senate Roy Moore wrong twice in a local Alabama radio interview.
Senate Republicans have rewritten their unpopular Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill to increase their bribe to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Behind the images of NFL players kneeling, raising fists, locked arm in arm or skipping the national anthem entirely is a message that’s being drowned out by noise surrounding the method of protest. From the king of ignorance, Donald Trump, down to everyday Americans, many are egregiously guilty of not seeing the forest through the trees.
Opinion of the Republican Party is at its lowest point since CNN began poling the question in 1992.
A proposal by U.S. Republicans to repeal and replace the Obamacare health insurance program suffered serious new setbacks within the party on Sunday, when Senator Ted Cruz expressed his opposition and Senator Susan Collins dug in with strong criticisms of the legislation.
When Donald Trump tweeted for a boycott of the NFL if team owners didn’t fire players for protesting racism, Trump may have broken a law that is punishable by a fine, jail time or both – and Trump may have further disqualified himself from serving in public office.
Let me say it as clearly as I can: The anger being expressed by many (white) people over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem is transparently phony.
During a gaggle with reporters, Trump claimed that repealing Obamacare was never his top priority, which was a clear signal that Republicans still don’t have the votes to repeal Obamacare.
Trump said with a straight face that his opposition to NFL players protesting during the national anthem has nothing to do with race, and no one believes him.
President Trump’s son-in-Law Jared Kushner, as well as other Trump White House officials, have used private email accounts for official business.
Trump made the reason for his fight with the NFL clear on Sunday. The President is attempting to hide behind the flag to dodge the growing darkness of the Russia scandal.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) exposed how Republicans are meddling in the Russia investigation while recused to discredit attempts to get to the facts while trying to save Donald Trump.
When Trump Legislative Director Marc Short was asked why the President was fighting with the NFL instead of working on the issues, Short’s reply was to fumble around and make up something that Trump never said.
Trump took credit for promoting solidarity in the NFL with no understanding that they were standing in solidarity against him.
Former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara explained why the word obstruction should terrify Trump during an interview on CNN.
At least eight people were injured when gunfire erupted at a church in Nashville on Sunday morning, officials said.
By Haejin Choi and Michelle Nichols SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump dialed up the rhetoric against North Korea again at the weekend, warning the country’s foreign minister that he and leader Kim Jong Un “won’t be around much longer”, as Pyongyang staged a major anti-U.S. rally. North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong…
The most divisive president in modern times seems to have united much of the country against his tyrannical attempt to suppress NFL players’ free speech.
The Pittsburgh Steelers offered a clever unified rebuke of Trump’s attempts to divide the country by skipping the national anthem.
National Football League players from the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars knelt and linked arms during the pre-game national anthem on Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump called on fans to boycott teams that do not discipline players who protest.
Rep. Ted Lieu†(D-CA) schooled Republicans who didn’t serve on NFL players’ rights to protest as they used the flag in their attempts to defend President Trump attacking NFL players who kneel, saying they should be fired.
On CNN’s State Of The Union, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said it was hard for her to see how she could vote for Graham-Cassidy.
It is being reported that nearly one-third of all NFL players are planning to protest during the national anthem after Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on their freedom.
NFL players defied Trump on Sunday by kneeling during the national anthem before a game between the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars.
If the Republicans in Congress want to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, in government and government spending, they can start with the time spent on their immoral policies that fail to serve the common good.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted Senator John McCain for dealing a possibly fatal blow to the latest Republican attempt to dismantle Obamacare.
Talks to update the North American Free Trade Agreement intensified on Saturday although U.S. negotiators looked set to once again withhold proposals for one of the Trump administration’s most challenging issues.
The latest attempt by the GOP to replace Obamacare has nothing to do with providing coverage for American citizens. Members of the Republican Party are simply trying to save their political careers as opposed to saving the lives of the constituents that they serve.
In a stinging tweet, former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards she hopes “every NFL player” will take the opportunity to stand up to “the white supremacist who squats in our White House.”Â
LeBron James leaped to defend opponent Stephen Curry after the unhinged president rescinded an invitation to the White House.
The former Secretary of State did not definitively call Trump a white supremacist, but it’s rather stunning that she refused to say he isn’t.Â
Instead of backing down or being intimidated by the irresponsible man in the White House, NFL players and the league’s commissioner have joined together in condemning the president.Â
The human comment section living in the White House is proving not just that his mental train is fully off the rails, but that he doesn’t really care about governing the country or solving problems.
Trump took his classless behavior to a new low level on Saturday as he bashed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for not supporting the latest attempt to jam Obamacare repeal through the Senate, as McCain is fighting for his life and battling brain cancer.
Trump’s legal fees to deal with his Russia-collusion scandal are being paid for by a Russian connected billionaire.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow showed why she is the number one show on cable news by spending less a minute talking about Trump’s rally in Alabama, and instead of opening her show focusing on the Russia scandal and the fading GOP attempt at Obamacare repeal.
Trump sounded unhinged and out of it as he launched into a rant about NFL players protesting and starting acting like he was on The Apprentice.
While campaigning for Alabama Senate candidate Sen. Luther Strange, Donald Trump suggested that he would throw Hillary Clinton in prison, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions is stopping him.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned Republicans that if they try to bring up Graham-Cassidy for a vote, he has 100 amendments ready to go that will keep the debate going until the reconciliation language expires on September 30.
At a town hall in Iowa, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst admitted that it is unlikely that the Senate will vote on the Republican Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill.
Wisconsin, a key state in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, said on Friday it was one of the 21 states that the federal government notified were targeted by Russian government hackers but no votes were changed.
U.S. Health Secretary Tom Price’s use of private jets for government travel was under investigation on Friday after an internal watchdog agreed to review the issue following calls by Democrats for a probe.
Facebook Inc launched an overhaul of how it handles paid political advertisements, giving a concession to U.S. lawmakers who have threatened to regulate the world’s largest social network over secretive ads that run during election campaigns.
Responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s bellicose warning to Pyongyang in his first speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, Kim on Friday called Trump a “dotard” – at least in a translation by the state news agency KCNA.
Protesters at Howard University chanted and booed on Friday through James Comey’s first public address since he testified to Congress about his firing by U.S. President Donald Trump, challenging the former FBI director with a taste of the “real world” he was trying to describe to them.
Repeat after me: This is not about improving health care in America or making your life better. It’s an effort to tarnish the legacy of America’s first African American president.
The Democrats point out that healthcare is a public policy most likely to to profoundly affect someone’s life, and should be done responsibly and transparently, and additionally they reminded the Republican Senator of regular order which he is ignoring once again, “Since February 1975, Congress, the press, and the citizenry have relied on the non-partisan CBO to produce formal cost estimates for nearly every bill approved by a full committee in either chamber of Congress.”
Republican Senator Susan Collins has said she is “leaning against” the latest Republican healthcare bill, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
U.S. Senator John McCain said on Friday that he would vote against a new Republican bill to dismantle Obamacare if it is brought onto the Senate floor next week, in a new setback for the proposal.
Researchers have found that if Republicans passed Graham-Cassidy an additional 41,600 Americans will die each year.
The Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare were dealt a blow on Friday as the non-partisan Brookings Institute found that at least 21 million would lose their health insurance, 15 million immediately, and as many as 32 million by 2026 under Graham-Cassidy.
With two tweets about the Russia scandal on Friday, Donald Trump gave investigators more information that brought them closer to potential criminal charges. Trump tweeted: The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22,…
When Sec. of State Rex Tillerson was asked what the US will do if North Korea detonates a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific, he uttered six words that should scare the American people. The ultimate decision to launch a nuclear war will be up to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s nominee for Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Jeffrey Gerrish, is the latest of Trump family members and associates Trump’s so-called election integrity commission is looking for.
The two men jockeying to be the U.S. Senator from Alabama were wrapping their arms around the most dangerously incompetent and unfit commanders-in-chief the United States has ever seen.
Instead of using taxpayer dollars to enrich himself, perhaps Tom Price – and his boss – should use the funds to improve the lives of the people they are supposed to be serving.
The fact that Mueller is requesting Air Force One phone records shows that he is clearly ramping up his inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice.
When even the crazy guy who is starving his own people to death thinks Donald Trump is deranged, it is time for the American people to take a good, long look at Trump’s fitness for office.
CNN is setting up a debate with Sens. Cassidy, Graham, Klobuchar, and Sanders that looks designed to help Republicans kill Obamacare.
Republicans aren’t even hiding it. They are trying to bribe Sen. Lisa Murkowski by letting Alaska keep Obamacare if she will vote to destroy the healthcare system for the rest of the US.
Just like he has done two times before, Donald Trump is once again promising that Obamacare repeal will pass. If it doesn’t, prepare for an epic Trump meltdown.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday urged fellow Republicans to get behind the party’s “last best chance” to repeal and replace Obamacare as congressional leaders scrambled to secure enough support ahead of a planned vote next week.
As the war of words grows between President Trump and Pyongyang, North Korea’s Foreign Minister compared President Trump to a “barking dog.”
This seems a lot like an offer of collusion from the Trump campaign chair to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, and it is reportedly in written form via an email. Manafort made an offer that seems to investigators “created a potential opening for Russian interests at the highest level of a U.S. presidential campaign.”
U.S. President Donald Trump is due to travel to Alabama on Friday to whip up votes in a Senate race that has laid bare the rift between the Republican party’s leadership and its anti-establishment wing.
The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election has asked the White House for documents on a range of subjects including President Donald Trump’s firing of the FBI director and his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in called on Thursday for the North Korean nuclear crisis to be handled in a stable manner, so that peace was not destroyed.
Trump waited until after a pool spray with the Afghanistan president to tell reporters that instead of destroying North Korea, he is going to add new sanctions.
Former White House Press Secretary went into full panic mode after it was uncovered that he has detailed journals that would be of great interest to the Russia investigation about what was said in meetings at the Trump White House.
“What could I do for [Russia] with this presidential campaign that might make them forgive my debt?” Maddow asked, channeling former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
As Price squanders U.S. taxpayer funds for his expensive private flights, he and his boss are working tirelessly to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act aren’t just impractical, but they are cruel.
Trump’s reckless determination to tear up the legacy of his far superior predecessor – Barack Obama – may make him feel better, but it’s putting actual lives at risk.
The new health care legislation, which Republicans are now working to ram through the Senate, gives states the option of not covering pre-existing conditions.
Anyone who was paying attention knew that Donald Trump is a racist, misogynistic narcissist.
Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Federal Election Commission to require transparency for social media advertising after Russians bought U.S. political ads on Facebook Inc. in an alleged attempt to influence the 2016 elections.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking at President Trump’s actions while President, including interactions with Russian agents. So Mueller is not only focusing on obstruction of justice. Mueller is pushing at warp speed to answer the critical question of whether or not Trump has been compromised by a foreign power.
Trump first congratulated Africa on being a place where his friends can get rich, and then he invented an imaginary African country because he doesn’t know that there is no such place as Nambia. Video: Trump: "Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich" https://t.co/UrQCwG8HuU…
Ivanka Trump has been presented as an advocate of working moms, yet under the latest Republican healthcare bill, she might not have full coverage or could face higher premiums due to the postpartum depression she revealed on The Dr. Oz Show.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) confirmed to reporters that Senate Republicans would vote on a healthcare bill that will take insurance away from tens of millions and kill thousands of Americans who won’t be able to afford health care each year next week.
The Russians weren’t just using Facebook to hurt Hillary Clinton with fake news. They also organized pro-Trump rallies in swing states like Florida.
On his ABC late-night show, Jimmy Kimmel broke down the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill. He exposed what the bill will do, and added that Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) lied to his face about healthcare reform.
Republicans Senators couldn’t answer or dodged the question when they were asked if Obamacare repeal will make things better for the American people.
The state of California has taken the lead in blocking Trump’s unpopular wall by filing a federal lawsuit against its construction.
Rachel Maddow asked two key questions that both illustrate how the Russia scandal is bigger than Trump and has entangled the Republican Party.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that if Trump and his people won’t cooperate with the Russia investigation, investigators will do whatever takes to get to the bottom of the scandal.