On MSNBC, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said that Americans should not have essential health benefits in their health care, which means that if people get sick, the Republican message is go die.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are nearly equal regarding favorability with Democrats, but members and leaners with the party don’t want to see Clinton or Sanders run for president again in 2020.
The final Republican effort to repeal Obamacare in 2017 just got real as Senate Republicans are looking to start voting next Wednesday on a bill that devastates the American healthcare system.
U.S. President Donald Trump is using money donated to his reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee to pay for his lawyers in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Daily Show had the perfect response to Trump’s UN speech. They put out a video framing Trump as a troubled seven-year-old boy who was allowed to address the UN.
Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly was captured with his head in his hands, as he listened to the President threaten to totally destroy 25 million people.
Obamacare repeal 3.0 isn’t limited to kicking 32 million people off of their health insurance and raising premiums for preexisting conditions. The bill also would take healthcare away from children, veterans, seniors, and the disabled.
You speak to a suspected Russian operative, you’re probably being wiretapped. Complaining about being caught and thinking that’s the win is like complaining that the 7-11 has video surveillance after you’re caught stealing from them.
Former CIA and FBI agents wondered if perhaps Donald Trump’s public accusation about President Obama wiretapping him was actually meant as a warning to those around him that they were being listened to.
Trump went completely out of his mind at the UN and threatened to destroy North Korea while calling Kim Jung Un rocket man.
Trump opened his mouth to speak to the world, and what came out was a humiliating attempt to justify his failed presidency.
To put it simply to my Trump-supporting friends: You shouldn’t be cheering this news. You should be shaking in your boots about what might come next.
The website which has been in operation since the summer is running propaganda about Republican governors, while not disclosing or making no mention of the fact that it is a political communication that is being paid for by the Republican Governors Association. The AP reported, “The Republican Governors Association has quietly launched an online publication…
This is just more evidence that Trump admires the tactics of authoritarian figures like Kim Jong-un.
“Enough. This has to stop,” the former Vice President tweeted. “Our children are watching.”
“I think we will have anywhere from – literally, by rule – 90 seconds to two minutes of debate on this legislation. Now that is an abomination, that is legislative malpractice.”
Sources indicated that some of the information collected via wiretaps included “communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign.”
A FISA warrant was obtained, and Paul Manafort was wiretapped, as he was continuing to talk to Trump after the President took office.
“[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it’s not what the Senate is supposed to be doing,” he said. “Is it better to be guilty of murder or train robbery?”
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) urged Republicans to ditch their latest effort to repeal Obamacare and vowed to fight against the Graham-Cassidy bill that would rip healthcare away from millions of Americans.
Hillary Clinton said that if it is proven that Russia interfered in the election with Trump, she will challenge the legitimacy of the results.
A coalition of individuals and organizations, led by the governor, have come together to raise enough money to pay the $495 DACA renewal fee for all of the state’s DREAMers
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, busted Trump on his secret plan to use our public lands for private exploitation, “This secret report lays bare the Trump administration’s real agenda: opening up our public lands to private exploitation through coal mining, commercial logging, and oil drilling.”
A bad sign for Donald Trump is that his legal team is openly fighting with each other in public as the Russia scandal is drawing closer to the President.
As Republicans are trying to rush through their final effort to repeal Obamacare, Democratic Congressional leaders along with Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have asked for a full CBO score of the bill.
San Diego attorney Dulce Garcia has regularly defended clients in immigration court. Now, she is the one seeking legal relief.
Brought to the United States illegally by her parents as a child, Garcia is one of six immigrants who sued the Trump administration on Monday over its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Since it was authorized in 2012 by President Barack Obama, the program has provided protection from deportation and the right to work legally to nearly 800,000 young people.
Donald Trump’s first words as president to the UN were to brag that he owns a building across the street and that it was a successful project.
Democrats are engaged and ready to take back the House, as the party, which has outraised Republicans for months, set a new fundraising record in August.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” and political comedy “Veep” won the top prizes at the Emmy awards on Sunday, where “Saturday Night Live” was also a big winner on a night dominated by jokes about U.S. President Donald Trump.
A con man doesn’t necessarily have to be very smart. All that is required is to be smarter than the targets of his con. Eight months into his presidency Donald Trump has provided proof positive that America is wrought with ignorance and epic stupidity. Look no further than his voter base to unearth evidence of the erosion of our national IQ.
Sinclair Broadcasting is forcing all 174 stations that they own across the country to air daily pro-Trump propaganda segments.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is launching one final attack on Obamacare, and if he gets the support of one more Republican Senator, the bill to take healthcare away from 32 million will be voted on during the last week of September.
Sen. John McCain sent a signal that he is not going to support the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare by announcing his support for the bipartisan ACA fixes being worked on in the Senate.
Ana Navarro laid into Trump for being a jerk, and Republicans for being hypocrites who criticize Democrats while normalizing Trump’s vile behavior.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) revealed that Trump’s secret strategy for defeating ISIS is nothing more than copying what President Obama did.
Donald Trump retweeted a video of him hitting Hillary Clinton with a golf ball and knocking her down as the mentally unwell president is encouraging violence against women.
On Meet The Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) destroyed the Republican argument against single payer health care, by reminding America that what Republicans aren’t telling them about the cost is that their expensive health insurance premiums are going to vanish under single payer.
Trump’s North Korea policy was put on display on Sunday morning, as the President’s plan to deal with the nuclear weapon pursuing regime is to mock them on Twitter.
As the debate over the minimum wage continues, we must consider the purchasing power necessary to afford the basics of life.
Every woman in American knows how it feels to have her family planning and reproductive healthcare choices vetoed by a bunch of privileged white men in Congress.
Protesters marched through an upscale St. Louis-area shopping mall on Saturday and the rock group U2 canceled a concert hours after police clashed with a crowd outraged over the acquittal of a white former policeman accused of murdering a black man.
California lawmakers voted on Saturday to make the most populous U.S. state a so-called sanctuary by banning police from asking for the immigration status of people who have been arrested and limiting their cooperation with immigration officers.
In Richmond, VA, dozens of protesters surrounded a monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee in the name of defending it, but the group was surrounded by hundreds of people marching for unity and against white supremacy.
If you’re going to name your event the “Mother of all Rallies,” you should probably make sure a sizable number of people show up.
Like a villain in a horror movie that appears one last time to wreak havoc, Republicans are again making one last attempt to inflict pain on millions.
“The leader of the free world can’t continue to use language that legitimizes the actions of extremists groups that promote hate.”
Republicans are moving full steam ahead with a health care bill that is even worse than Obamacare repeal, and you need to make your voice heard to stop them.
A federal judge on Friday barred the U.S. Justice Department from denying public-safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities in retaliation for limiting cooperation with the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Friday she has begun an investigation into Equifax’s massive data breach, and along with 11 other Democratic senators, introduced a bill to allow consumers to freeze their credit for free.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is sounding the alarm to all Americans that Trumpcare is back and this time, they want to take away healthcare from even more Americans.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accused North Korea on Friday of threatening the entire world, after Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan for the second time in under a month in defiance of international pressure over its missile and nuclear programs.
The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in Hollywood nursing home called Florida Governor Rick Scott’s cell three times asking for help 36 hours before the first tragic death.
Haley and White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster took a tough line on North Korea, warning that a military option to deal with its nuclear threats was available.
Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, Mike Flynn and Jordan’s King Abdullah II had a secret meeting on January 5th, 2017, during the time Flynn was trying to broker his U.S./Russia nuclear deal. Flynn claimed he stopped pushing the deal in December.
Hundreds of protesters poured into St. Louis’ streets to voice their anger after a Missouri judge on Friday ruled a white former St. Louis police officer was not guilty of murder in the 2011 shooting of a black man.
The spokesman for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort testified before a federal grand jury on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s 2016 election campaign and Russia.
The first concrete proof of a Trump impeachable offense has been found as documents show a government agency using taxpayer money to pay Trump to stay at one of his properties.
During the deal/not deal “Nancy and Chuck” made with Trump, Leader Pelosi had to ask, “Do women get to talk around here?”
British Prime Minister Theresa May rebuked Trump for engaging in Twitter speculation after a subway attack injured 23 people in London.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows, however, that Trump’s popularity among white evangelicals has weakened, suggesting his grassroots support may not be as unconditional as religious leaders’ public displays of allegiance would suggest.
Everyone, not just women, should watch this Rachel Maddow Hillary Clinton clip. It should be discussed as much as Clinton’s emails were, because it is actually much more important to more people’s lives than the non-existent email scandal was. But it won’t be. So savor this.
A new analysis of the Graham-Cassidy health care proposal has found that the Republican bill contains a sneaky provision that guts coverage for preexisting conditions.
Donald Trump tried to claim that he has done more to fight ISIS than Obama, and a former Obama official schooled him on what a real president does.
During a gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump admitted that he never knew that there was such a thing as category five hurricanes.
If the legislation becomes law, it stands to reason that Trump won’t be allowed on the California ballot in the 2020 presidential election.
Clinton laid out a rational plan to solve the North Korea threat and said Trump is being “played” by Kim Jong-un.
During an interview on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump a clear and present danger to America and US democracy.
With the end of September marching closer and 2018 around the bend, Republicans are still unlikely to pass any bill to repeal and replace a law that has saved lives. In other words, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.
Sessions was so upset by the lashing Trump gave him that he sent a letter of resignation to the White House and called the Oval Office episode “the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.”
This is the kind of unhinged and crackpot rhetoric that is common on Info Wars, but it has no place in American government.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) made Trump sound like a sociopath during an MSNBC interview where he described the President as having no moral core, and only interesting in making deals, not the content of the deals.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was caught on an open microphone on the Senate floor telling Mitch McConnell how much Trump liked him, and how he told the President that he could benefit by taking a step to the left.
Trump can’t help himself. Aboard Air Force One, the President Of The United States defended racists and completely self-destructed while talking to reporters.
Donald Trump promised to veto Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Medicare For All bill because he loves America and refuses to let all Americans have health insurance.
Republicans in Congress are so angry about Trump negotiating with Democrats on DACA and immigration that they are dodging questions from reporters and avoiding the entire subject.
Trump tried to take a shot at Obama for not coming to the last Florida, but the last hurricane to hit Florida happened four years before Obama took office.
As Trump and the Democrats have negotiated the framework of a deal on DACA, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is wigging out and trying to walk everything back by claiming that there is no deal.
Upon landing in Florida to check out the damage from Hurricane Irma, Donald Trump showcased a baseball cap that is for sale on his website for $40.
Trump is dealing with Democrats because he is mad at Ryan and McConnell. Democrats in Congress have figured this out and are using Trump as a weapon to divide the Republican Party.
“We have a Medicare system right now. It is a good system. … Let’s expand that program to every man, woman, and child. It’s not a scary proposition.”
It’s hard to gauge the outcome of midterm elections more than a year before they’re held, but Donald Trump’s presidency has motivated progressive and moderate voters in a way they haven’t been in a long time.
The meeting could have given Trump an opportunity to learn something about race relations in America, but he only made things worse.Â
“It’s like a bad movie. You can’t believe anybody would ever green-light it, and all of a sudden it happens.”
An analysis of the last ditch health care bill that Trump and some Senate Republicans are trying to push through the Senate before the end of September reveals that 32 million people would lose their coverage.
On October 3, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could deem “partisan gerrymandering†constitutional.
The Trump White House used part of daily press briefing to call for the firing of ESPN anchor Jemele Hill because she called Trump a white supremacist and a bigot.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders smeared Obama while falsely claiming that Trump has been more bipartisan in one deal than Obama was in eight years. Video: Huckabee Sanders said, “This president has done more for bipartisanship in the last eight days than Obama did in eight years.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders was lying. Here…
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday will stop issuing certain kinds of visas to some citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone because the nations are not taking back their citizens the United States wants to deport.
As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and 17 Democratic co-sponsors introduced Medicare For All, Donald Trump and Republicans are making one final push to take health care coverage away from millions of Americans.
The federal investigation into the Russia scandal has expanded to include Michael Flynn’s son, as instead of getting smaller the investigation is snaring more people in Trump’s orbit.
Getting lost in the policy weeds isn’t going to win elections, but hope and the resulting empowerment and thus engagement of the electorate are the keys to winning elections.
Trump, House, and Senate Republicans are making a big deal out of their tax plan consensus document that will be unveiled on September 25, but the statement is going to contain no details or tax rates.
Trump argued that the massive damage from the hurricanes means that wealthy Americans like himself should get a big tax cut.
Democratic lawmakers are probing whether retired U.S. General Michael Flynn secretly promoted a U.S.-Russian project to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the Middle East after becoming President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser.
Facebook said on Wednesday it would introduce tougher rules on who can make money from advertising on its network, responding to criticism that it makes it too easy for providers of fake news and sensational headlines to cash in.
Donald Trump’s election integrity commission held its second meeting on Tuesday, this time in New Hampshire. This was days after vice-chairman Kris Kobach accused New Hampshire voters of voter fraud in an article for the “alt-right†fake news outlet, Breitbart. Officially, the commission is charged with examining the election system for causes of voter fraud…
President Donald Trump warned his fired National Security Adviser Mike Flynn to “stay strong†last April, and Flynn is “staying strong†by refusing a new request to appear as a witness before the Senate Intelligence committee, according to a report by CNN.
Rachel Maddow laid out the size and scope of how many Trump administration or campaign officials have lied about connections with Russia.
After surviving what began as one of the fiercest Atlantic storms in a century, many are returning with conflicting emotions. The relief of going home is at times overwhelmed by the logistics of the trip and then putting their pre-storm lives back together.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to broadly implement a ban on refugees entering the country from around the world.
