Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, blasted Trump for doing so “simply based on the President’s anger that he must certify that the JCPOA is working as intended, when he so often claimed the contrary without any factual basis.”
U.S. power firm Vistra Energy Corp said on Friday that it would shut two coal-fired plants for economic reasons, as closures in the industry continue apace despite the environment regulator saying this week he wanted to end the “war on coal.”
Russia said on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump chose not to certify a deal on Iran’s nuclear program that there was no place in international diplomacy for aggressive rhetoric, and such methods were doomed to fail.
Ex-George W. Bush aide and senior policy adviser Michael Gerson warned that the “time for panic and decision is upon us” because the “thin line of sane, responsible advisers at White House could break any moment.”
Democrats are building real momentum in their effort to take back the House in 2018, as the Cook Political Report changed their ratings on 12 House races with 11 of them moving towards Democrats.
Trump is pushing the world closer to a nuclear showdown by killing the Iran nuclear deal for no other reason that it was accomplished by President Obama.
Momentum is growing behind legislation that would strengthen the 25th Amendment and make it easier to remove Trump from the presidency.
Representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google have been asked to appear on Nov. 1 at hearings on alleged Russian interference in U.S. politics called by the U.S. Senate and House Intelligence Committees, officials said.
Most want Congress to continue cost-sharing reduction payments as part of bipartisan marketplace deal, according to a new Kaiser poll that was published today, the 13th – the morning after Trump announced he would sabotage Obamacare by stopping the cost reduction payments.
During a speech at the Value Voters Summit, Trump claimed to have met with the president of the Virgin Islands, even though he is the president of the US Virgin Islands because they are a US territory.
Trump’s decision to stop making the ACA’s cost-sharing payments to help people get access to affordable healthcare will result in 1 million people losing their health insurance according to the CBO.
Trump’s former college professor is quoted as having called the now President, the dumbest student that he ever had. The professor added that Trump came to Wharton thinking that he already knew everything, which means that even before his mind started to go, Donald Trump was a moron.
If there was ever a moment when we should put Trump’s erratic behavior on the back burner and focus on a really important policy issue, now would be it.
The latest move shows that Donald Trump will do anything – even sabotage a health care law that millions of Americans rely on – if it destroys any part of Barack Obama’s legacy.Â
Look, the facts are the president is not keeping his word. He signed 50 executive orders since the day he took office, which, if you do the math, is about one every five days.
Using taxpayer dollars to live the high life appears to be commonplace for those working in the Trump administration.
The spat between Hannity and Sasse is representative of the two wings of the GOP that exist right now – one that will stay loyal to Trump no matter what he says and does, and another that hopes to see the party maintain some level of dignity.
Trump is now such an out of control disaster that it was too much for White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to handle. Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly tried to put out the fire on his own.
Trump is giving speeches trying to sell his tax plan, but behind closed doors, the President has no idea what he is selling.
The Office of Congressional Ethics recommended on Thursday that one of Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) be investigated for insider trading.
Trump ran away from reporters and ignored their questions when they asked him about his comments suggesting that he was going to give up on aid to Puerto Rico.
A lost-looking Donald Trump looked around the room and appeared completely tuned out as Vice President Mike Pence introduced before a healthcare executive order signing at the White House.
The United States announced on Thursday it was withdrawing from UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural and educational agency, complaining about how it is run and about what Washington described as bias against Israel.
Not even Sean Hannity could hide the signs that Trump is mentally not all there as the President didn’t know what the national debt is, and thinks the stock market is an asset to pay off the debt.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said the policies which allow immigrants to seek asylum in the United States are broken and subject to “rampant abuse and fraud.”
The death toll from preventable illnesses is growing in Puerto Rico as President Trump announced that he would limit aid to the island.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow connected the dots and showed how Trump’s dysfunction and incompetence are killing people in Puerto Rico.
On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump called for the broadcast licenses of all new networks to be challenged and revoked unless they are fairer to him.
White House officials are admitting that Trump has mentally lost it, and they are worried that the cabinet may invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
While speaking about tax cuts for the wealthy, President Donald Trump claimed that he revived the economy before he took office as president.
The National Association of Broadcasters didn’t take kindly to Trump threatening to take NBC’s broadcasting license away. They responded by blasting the President with the First Amendment.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) didn’t give Trump a chance to get the lies out of his mouth about his tax cuts for the wealthy before he ripped Trump’s speech to Pennsylvania truckers to shreds.
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) announced today that he had introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump.
Conservative groups are blaming Mitch McConnell for all of Trump’s failures while announcing an effort to replace the Senate Majority Leader.
Trump threatened to cancel NBC’s broadcasting license because he is still fuming over the network’s reports about chaos in his White House and Sec. of State Rex Tillerson calling him a moron.
Instead of meeting the coffin of a Green Beret who was killed during an ambush in Niger, President Donald Trump played golf with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
Rachel Maddow showed why she is the best by asking Ronan Farrow why her own network, NBC, backed off of and didn’t publish his explosive Harvey Weinstein story.
Eminem went off on Trump freestyle where he told the truth about Trump and told the rest of America to stand up because we love America and our country, but we hate Trump.
A senior Republican told Gabriel Sherman that James Mattis and John Kelly might have to physically restrain Donald Trump from launching a nuclear strike and starting World War III.
Trump is so impulsive and destructive that White House staff use a combination of delays and distractions to keep him from going off.
Trump is described as being in a state of explosion because he believes that the country has not given him enough credit for handling the hurricanes.
A lawsuit seeking to represent the victims of the Las Vegas rampage, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, was filed against the makers of so-called bump stocks, which the shooter used to achieve a near-automatic rate of fire.
Trump’s wish of warm respects to a state where people are losing their lives and property due to s wildfire was a foot in mouth moment for a president who can’t get out of his own way.
While Democrats and immigration advocates recoiled at hard-line immigration proposals unveiled this week by the White House, they see a chance to force Republicans’ hand on legislation to help young “Dreamers” brought to the country illegally as children.
For some bizarre reason, Donald Trump tried to use Henry Kissinger to bash Obamacare without understanding that Kissinger is 94 years old and not buying private insurance.
A 108-page analysis of Trump’s actions in the firing of James Comey done by the Brookings Institute concludes that the President likely obstructed justice and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller could recommend impeachment.
Trump promised on Tuesday morning to sign an executive order giving healthcare to “many.” The problem is that executive orders aren’t laws, and by constitutional definition, the President can’t create and pass his own laws.
“I think more of my colleagues should speak up. They say things privately that they don’t say publicly.”
“I would love if they’d support HR-669, which is legislation I’ve introduced with Sen. Ed Markey, that prevents the president from launching a nuclear-first strike without congressional approval.”
Despite the Iowa Republican’s hopes that Trump will tone down his rhetoric, there has never been a situation when this president has shown an ability to do that.
It’s not surprising that this administration would try to pull this kind of stunt, but it’s somewhat stunning that they thought the American people wouldn’t see right through it.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued the Trump administration for violating the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution with new healthcare rules that block access to female contraception. In a statement, Ferguson detailed the administration’s constitutional violations: The Trump Administration’s contraception rules violate two constitutional provisions –– the First and Fifth Amendments. The rules…
It was a sign of presidential weakness, and just how much some Senate Republicans can’t stand him, that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended Bob Corker from Trump’s attacks.
Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello on Monday ordered an investigation into water distribution on the hurricane-battered island and warned there would be “hell to pay” for mishandling of supplies.
At an event in Kentucky, EPA Director Scott Pruitt said that the Trump administration is withdrawing America from Obama’s clean power plan.
Google has discovered that Russian operatives spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on YouTube, Gmail, Google search and other products, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
The time has come to take a long hard look at abolishing the Democratic and Republican political parties. America stands divided politically, socially and economically and the seed of division has been planted in our government. Party affiliation has taken precedent over common sense and country. Republicans and Democrats alike, push and pull for power…
Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blasted Donald Trump for releasing a series of extreme demands that threaten the deal to protect DREAMERS.
Not only was Vice President Pence’s walk out of the Colts game during the national anthem a staged fake, but he also used taxpayer money to pay for the White House created fake news.
Vice President Mike Pence’s walk out in protest of NFL players protesting the anthem was pre-planned and staged by the White House.
After Vice President Mike Pence got up and left the Indianapolis Colts game after players kneeled during the national anthem, Trump immediately made Pence look like his stooge and took credit for the VP’s actions.
Trump tried to pick a fight with Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), but only humiliated himself after his claim of refusing to endorse the Tennessee Senator was revealed to be a lie.
We can’t pray this problem away. We can’t continue to have moments of silence for thoughts and prayers and then claim to be shocked the next time tragedy strikes asking ourselves how could this have happened.
Trump tried to attack Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) on Sunday morning, but Corker fired back with nothing less than a total destruction of his own party’s president.
Trump went after retiring Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee with a personal attack that may have killed the Republican plan to cut taxes. The President tweeted about a member of his own party: Senator Bob Corker "begged" me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said "NO" and he dropped out (said he…
The combination of drama, Orwellian policy, Trump’s latest comments and gestures are designed to shock, traumatize, overwhelm and envelope us in the darkness of authoritarianism.
Sean Spicer doesn’t need Donald Trump to kick him around. He is perfectly capable of acting like an idiot on his own.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had called the top Senate Democrat to probe interest in working on a “great” healthcare bill to replace Obamacare, after his fellow Republicans’ failed attempts to roll back the law.
Donald Trump was enraged when he found out that it is illegal for US companies to pay bribes to heads of foreign governments.
Kimmel’s jab came after Trump whined about late night comedians being too hard on him.
If you’re keeping score, that means the President of the United States has spent more than 26 percent of his time in office golfing and one-third at one of his ritzy properties.
Schumer told the president that Obamacare repeal is “off the table” and he should join other Republicans who are working with Democrats to improve the existing law.
Trump responded to the news that his approval rating has fallen to 32% by accusing Democrats and late night television hosts of conspiring against him.
This was already a big week for immigration law at the Supreme Court, and it could get even bigger.
North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile which it believes can reach the west coast of the United States, a Russian lawmaker just returned from a visit to Pyongyang was quoted as saying on Friday.
Trump’s approval has hit a new record low of 32% according to a new AP poll, which means that this president is worse than unpopular. He is being soundly rejected.
Democrats have not only announced that they will be donating Harvey Weinstein’s donations to women’s charities, but they also turned the moment into a slam on Trump for disrespecting women.
During an interview with Mike Huckabee, Trump complained that the legislative filibuster is a death sentence for Republicans, as he demonstrated that he has no idea how the 60 vote rule works.
Here’s your Friday reminder that President Trump doesn’t have the character required to be anywhere near the White House.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration arguing that their rollback of contraceptive coverage is religiously motivated discrimination against women.
On Friday, officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the agency was proposing to broaden those narrow religious exemptions to include moral exemptions for both non-profit and profit companies.
The U.S. gun lobby, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, expressed a willingness to support a restriction on the rifle accessory that enabled a Las Vegas gunman to strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained gunfire as if from an automatic weapon.The U.S. gun lobby, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, expressed a willingness to support a restriction on the rifle accessory that enabled a Las Vegas gunman to strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained gunfire as if from an automatic weapon.
Even when factoring in the damage from the two major hurricanes that hit Florida and Texas, the Trump economy did worse than projected as the economy lost jobs for the first time since 2010.
It’s stunning that anybody would be against limiting a device that essentially transforms a firearm into an automatic weapon, but it’s dumbfounding that Scalise, who almost died in a shooting, is hesitant to support it.
As Donald Trump and his team continue to insist that the Russia scandal is “fake news,” reporting produced each day shows otherwise.
Trump’s refusal to take action that would actually help people is proof of what we’ve already known about this president: He would rather play political games than improve the lives of the American people.Â
When asked by reporters what he meant by “calm before the storm,†Trump said, “You’ll find out,†before being whisked away.
No matter how many unhinged tweets the president posts or how many hurricane photo-ops he takes, Robert Mueller’s investigation continues to circle around Donald Trump.
The truth is coming out. Trump’s fury at NBC News has nothing to do with “fake news.” He is enraged because his own Secretary of State called him a moron.
Oscar-winning movie producer Harvey Weinstein said he was taking a leave of absence from his company and seeking therapy after the New York Times reported on Thursday that he had been the target of sexual harassment complaints.
Federal Reserve officials warned in rare public remarks that President Donald Trump’s tax plan could lead to inflation and unsustainable federal debt.
President Donald Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the landmark international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a senior administration official said on Thursday, in a step that could lead to renewed U.S. sanctions against Tehran.
Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) has signed a bill into to law that will shield the state’s 2.3 million immigrants from Trump’s deportation efforts.
The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not.
The fifth highest-ranking Democrat in the House made headlines when she called for Nancy Pelosi to step aside as House Democratic Leader but lost in Rep. Linda Sanchez’s statement is the fact that she wants Pelosi’s job, which makes the Democratic grumbling about Pelosi totally different from the Republican dysfunction.
Kellyanne Conway’s days in the White House could be numbered as House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has launched an investigation into her private jet travel with Tom Price.
Senate Republicans are admitting that they are in no hurry to schedule a vote because the House passed national 20-week abortion ban is DOA in the Senate.
When Niki Haley voted no on a UN resolution to ban the death penalty for apostasy, adultery, blasphemy and same sex relations, she was exposed to be as incompetent as her boss. Worse, Haley told the world we aren’t the champions of human rights we used to be.
President Trump started his morning off by declaring NBC news report fake news, attacking them for not getting verification from him, as if the news doesn’t exist unless Trump says it does.
