Vets Organization Warns Trump Not To Sign GOP Bill That Harms Millions Of Consumers
“Every servicemember and veteran should have the right and responsibility to confront predatory loan practices,” American Legion’s Denise Rohan said in a statement.
“Every servicemember and veteran should have the right and responsibility to confront predatory loan practices,” American Legion’s Denise Rohan said in a statement.
Democratic U.S. lawmakers called on Thursday for public hearings on an attack in Niger that killed four U.S. soldiers, saying there were still many unanswered questions about the ambush despite receiving more information from the Pentagon.
“As we all know, work is hard, and the Trump administration apparently forgot about the work part of their responsibilities here and they just didn’t do it.”
Republicans want you to believe they give a hoot about the opioid crisis in America, while they continue to vote for budgets that cut crucial funding.
This serious problem demands fresh, substantive solutions – not a rehash of policies that have failed in the past.
According to a new report, many GOP lawmakers are restless and “ready to close the books” on the probe.
Donald Trump Jr. threw a fit because his daddy managed to make a phone call without screwing it up, and the media didn’t throw the President a parade.
The Government Accountability Office will be investigating Trump’s voter fraud commission thanks to the efforts of Democratic Sens. Cory Booker (NJ), Michael Bennet (CO), and Amy Klobuchar (MN).
It is a script that the American people have seen too often. Congressional Republicans are going to try to sneak tax cuts for the rich through Congress before the Thanksgiving holiday
Twitter Inc on Thursday banned advertisements from accounts owned by Russian media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, citing allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that the two had tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election.
In his latest film “Suburbicon,” Clooney directs a darkly humorous 1950s crime tale in which he points the finger squarely at the racial tensions in present-day America with a story about a black family moving into an affluent white suburban neighborhood as the backdrop.
Trump appears to have no idea what is going on, as he knows he is going to China, but he doesn’t know exactly where he is going.
Former CIA director James Woolsey pitched a $10 million contract to two Turkish businessmen to help discredit a controversial U.S.-based cleric while Woolsey was an adviser to Donald Trump’s election campaign, three people familiar with the proposal said.
Trump privately admitted to Republican Senators that he really isn’t trying to kill NAFTA. His withdrawal of the US from the agreement is a negotiating tactic.
Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, a Democrat who helped bring about former Republican President Ronald Reagan’s bipartisan tax reform more than 30 years ago, said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s tax plan could backfire on Republicans.
Fox News moved Sean Hannity to 9 PM to compete with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, but the flight of advertisers away from Hannity has resulted in a 17% decline in ad revenue for the network.
The CHIP programs, which provides health insurance to 9 million low-income kids, expired nearly a month, and while Trump has taken the time to fight with the NFL and Republican Senators, he hasn’t said a word about the millions of children who are now at risk.
Democrats have a huge advantage over Republicans in a generic ballot match-up, with midterm campaign season around the corner.
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has given Fusion GPS, the research firm that hired a former British spy to investigate Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign, until Thursday to reach an agreement with Congress over a subpoena for the firm’s bank records. Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court…
“One way you can know that something is a very salient story … is when the Trump White House or the Trump campaign starts denying all knowledge of the people and entities involved.”
“What really matters are not words, it’s the actions,” Warren said, blasting GOP senators who speak out against Trump but fail to back up those words with meaningful action.
It’s been a long time since Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs stopped pretending to be an actual journalist, but his interview with Donald Trump on Wednesday was one of the most appalling displays of propaganda ever televised.
It’s one thing for Donald Trump’s approval rating to be so low in a Fox News poll. It’s a whole new level of embarrassment for the president that his so-called base is the reason behind it.
Trump can’t go anywhere without feeling the hate. In Dallas, the President was greeted with a f*ck you Trump sign.
If you or your employer gets your health insurance on the exchange, thanks to Donald Trump, your premiums are going to go up by 34% in 2018.
At a closed-door meeting with her fellow Democrats, House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi told her caucus that they would take back the House next year if Republicans continue to fail.
Trump showed a new level of disrespect for the troops by blaming the generals and taking no responsibility for the ambush that killed four Green Berets in Niger.
A United Nations rights expert voiced concern on Wednesday that Trump administration actions would be harmful to a free press in the United States.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) couldn’t really explain the huge $1.5 trillion the Republican tax plan is estimated to add to the federal deficit.
Research has shown that having access to a gun increases the likelihood that a person who attempts suicide will succeed. Still, among 4,000 people surveyed recently, nearly 85 percent disagreed that the presence of a firearm in a home increased the risk of suicide.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday that Republican plans to enact sweeping tax cuts are entering their choppiest waters as corporate lobbyists try to pressure lawmakers to protect tax breaks.
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake said on Wednesday he expected more Republican colleagues to speak out against Donald Trump’s behavior as well as his policies, one day after denouncing the Republican president in a speech.
A U.S. Senate bipartisan proposal that would provide a short-term fix to Obamacare would reduce the federal deficit by $3.8 billion over the next decade, a nonpartisan government agency estimated on Wednesday.
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) was practically begging voters not to toss the Republican majority out of office by asking people to give them until Christmas to get something done.
According to a new Gallup poll, 64% of Americans support marijuana legalization, and for the first time in the history of the poll, a majority of Republicans also support legalization.
Americans don’t just politically disagree with Trump. They are in a state of open contempt of his personality and behavior.
Senate Republicans voted to kill a key rule that protected consumers by preventing them from being forced into secret arbitration after they were taken advantage of by big banks and financial institutions.
Rachel Maddow puts it all together and delivers a shock to Trump that his personal interviews of US attorney candidates could lead to more criminal trouble with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
The ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) exposed the new Republican investigations of Clinton and Obama for being the Trump led Russia distractions that they are.
Even though Fox News has been loading up Sean Hannity’s show to boost its ratings at 9 PM, viewers age 18-49 are powering MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.
The news that the Clinton campaign and the DNC helped to fund the Steele Dossier adds a twist in that the research that Clinton helped to pay for may end up helping to bring down Trump.
Major automakers, suppliers and auto dealers launched a new coalition on Tuesday to urge U.S. President Donald Trump not to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona announced that he was not running for reelection then proceeded to rip Trump to pieces.
A picture captures the precise moment when Trump and Mitch McConnell had Russian flags thrown at them as they arrived for the Republican Senate lunch.
A protester standing among the reporters facing Trump greeted the President by screaming Trump is treason as he entered the Senate Republican lunch.
The White House is having Trump skip the East Asia Summit and come home a day early because they are afraid that the toddler president will be tired and cranky after traveling.
House Republicans are trying to cover-up Trump’s Russia crimes by launching a new investigation of how the DOJ handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
U.S. Senator Bob Corker eviscerated President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the two Republicans exchanged insults on Twitter, saying the president is consistently untruthful and has debased the United States and damaged its standing around the world.
Sen. Bob Corker told CNN that he would not support President Trump in another election. Corker has been unchained by retirement, and he is going after Trump hard.
Republican Sen. Bob Corker (TN) kept speaking the truth about Trump on Tuesday as he said that the Presidents should bring everyone together, not debase our country.
It’s unclear what exactly led to the deadly ambush in Niger, but we can say with increased certainty that the president’s own actions may have contributed to it.
Instead of America being aligned with nearly 200 nations across the globe, the United States now stands only with Syria.
The outgoing Republican senator turned up the heat on Donald Trump, calling the president’s upcoming tax reform meeting with GOP senators a political stunt.
The survey also found that U.S. service members are worried about the growing threat of white nationalism.
The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) spoke the truth when said that Republicans would be losing their minds if Hillary Clinton did what Trump’s family is up to with private email.
Sen. Mazie Hirono spoke from the halls of the Senate to MSNBC where she called the President Of The United States a sexual predator.
Reporters asked Trump about the Niger ambush, and if he had a response to La David Johnson’s widow Myeshia’s statement that his phone call made her cry more, but the usually talkative president had nothing to say and walked away from reporters.
The widow of a U.S. Army sergeant killed in Niger this month said on Monday that President Donald Trump had “made me cry even worse” in a condolence telephone call when he said her husband “knew what he signed up for.”
When Norah O’Donnell asked Bill O’Reilly about sexual harassment Monday on CBS This Morning, the former Fox host sneered aggressively, “I’m not that interested in this!â€
Rep Trey Gowdy has gone so far out of his way to enable Donald Trump’s family to avoid email laws that Democrats are moving closer to pushing for a vote on subpoenaing Jared Kushner’s emails.
The threat from North Korea has grown to a “critical and imminent level” and the United States, Japan and South Korea must address the matter, Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told his U.S. and South Korean counterparts in talks on Monday.
Several U.S. states sued the federal government and asked for an immediate order halting Trump’s move while the case is being litigated.
The White House has announced that they have no plans to reach out again to the family of the fallen Green Beret that Trump disrespected, La David Johnson.
After the widow of La David Johnson, who was one of the Green Berets killed in an ISIS ambush in Niger, detailed her call with Trump on Good Morning America, the President Of The United States disputed her account of the call on Twitter.
Trump made the worthless and empty promise that his tax plan would not gut the ability of Americans to save for retirement by capping the amount that can be placed in a 401(k).
Donald Trump’s handling of the aftermath of the Niger tragedy, which claimed the lives of four American servicemen, has caused considerable outrage and raised troubling questions. But what it didn’t do, was reveal anything about Trump that we didn’t already know. Contrarily, it only reinforced perceptions that were previously witnessed, but somehow ignored by his voters. For twelve days Donald Trump publicly ignored the deaths of four men who he claims to hold so dearly. Twelve days of silence proved him yet again, to be a malignant political fraud.
The White House is going to absurd lengths to keep Trump’s waste of taxpayer money a secret. They are now refusing to tell the press when the President is playing golf.
Sen. John McCain was talking about the Vietnam War on C-SPAN 3’s American History TV when he got the ultimate dig in on Trump by calling out rich kids who avoided the draft with issues like bone spurs.
Trump declining mental state was evident when he was asked about tax cuts for high-income earners, and he melted down into babbling about a ring Bob Kraft gave him.
There’s a case in which we’re seeing the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken the rights of women and immigrants at the same time.
Things are looking dire for House Republicans as a slew of incumbent retirements, poor fundraising, and a wave of strong Democratic challengers are all combining to point to a Democratic 2018 tidal wave that could take over the House.
Retired Gen. David Petraeus explained to the White House why it is important and appropriate in a democracy for citizens to criticize generals.
If anything, the biggest take away from Sessions’ testimony is that while Sessions is taking action on Russian interference in commercial matters, he’s satisfied with doing a “review†of interference in our elections.
One of the high priests of the Republican false God trickle down economics claimed on CNN’s State Of The Union that tax cuts for the rich would be offset by economic growth, even though the facts have proven this wish to be untrue.
With the number of lies being told from the White House press lectern how will we the American people know when the truth is being told?
The former presidents formed the organization “One America” to help with hurricane relief after the storms left devastation and death in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and other parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast and Caribbean.
Trump claims that the Russian Facebook ads supporting him are no big deal because Facebook was on Hillary Clinton’s side.
“It’s heartbreaking,” she said between flights. But she tried to put on a welcoming face, slipping lollipops to children before moving on to the next family. She was yet to meet anyone without relatives to stay with, but younger adults seemed worried about finding jobs in a place where they had never planned to live.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that, subject to receipt of further information, he planned to allow the opening of long-secret files on the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy that are scheduled for release next week.
Once his speech began, tensions ran high and a few skirmishes broke out, but overall it was peaceful. I sat to file my photos and suddenly people started running. I grabbed my cameras and followed them.
A federal judge in Hawaii extended his halt of U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries.
Waters said that Kelly has “fallen prey” to a White House in which lying to the American public to protect Trump is a job requirement. Â
As Donald Trump lines up his putts in Virginia on Saturday, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is in Florida, doing what this president has yet to do: Honor the life of Sgt. La David Johnson.
Documents reveal that Trump lied about contacting nearly every Gold Star family, and the White House was forced into scramble mode because they knew that Trump’s statement was not true.
Trump will likely continue his attacks on the Democratic congresswoman for revealing his insensitive remarks to a fallen soldier’s widow, but it his Republican Party that is in shambles.
President Trump’s administration has drafted a plan to pause a program that allows family members join refugees already settled in the United States until they can undergo increased security checks, two sources with knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) isn’t messing around with Trump’s Twitter games and insults. She is calling out Trump’s White House for being full of white supremacists.
Democrats on a congressional panel say members of its Republican majority are trying to sabotage an investigation into suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, raising concerns the two parties will reach contradictory conclusions.
Office of Personnel Management numbers analyzed by Reuters show that 88 percent of such appointees were non-Hispanic white and 62 percent were men.
CNN found a way to stop the lies coming from the White House daily briefing podium in real time with a perfect on-screen banner.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders fell apart when confronted by the press with John Kelly’s lies. All she could do was double down and change the White House’s story.
The Harvey Weinstein scandal is forcing a rethink of attitudes toward sexual harassment in France, a country that cherishes its self-image as the land of seduction and romance, said the minister tasked with cracking down on violence against women.
During an interview on Fox Business, Donald Trump tried to hide behind John Kelly but only made things worse for himself.
Speaking as a folksy physician running for Virginia governor, Democrat Ralph Northam vowed in a recent campaign ad to fight Donald Trump on cuts to education funding, environmental protections and health care access.
President Donald Trump’s reversals in the past week on maintaining Obamacare subsidies to insurers are sowing new confusion over what kind of health insurance will be available to consumers, and at what price, when enrollment for 2018 begins in two weeks.
The full video of Rep. Wilson’s speech has been posted online, and it contradicts Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly’s claims that she bragged about getting funding for the building.
U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped up the pressure on the National Football League over protests by its players during the national anthem by launching a petition and asking his supporters to show their patriotism by backing it.
Rep. Frederica Wison didn’t sit back and let a Trump administration official lie about her, no matter how much she may sympathize with his pain of losing his son in combat.
During his presser, General Kelly spoke about a time when Gold Star families and women were sacred.
Former President Obama didn’t need to give some long-winded explanation of why Trump is failing as president. He did it in just two sentences