A coalition of nearly 20 environmental and Native American tribal groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, challenging its delay of a rule limiting emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas drilling operations on federal lands.
As House Republicans were stealing trillions of dollars from working people and giving it to the wealthy and corporations, protesters chanting shame were kicked out of “The People’s House.”
As Ryan claimed that he was giving hard working people their money back, protesters interrupted his remarks on the House floor by shouting “liar” at him.
Democratic Whip, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) laid it all out for House Republicans and warned them that America is not going to forget their passage of a bill that cuts taxes for the rich and raises them for everyone else.
The House will be voting on the widely hated Republican tax plan on Tuesday, and as the vote gets closer, the public’s disapproval for both the bill and President Trump get stronger. A new poll by CNN has Trump making history with his low approval rating coming in at just 35% — lower than any…
House Republicans are objecting to Obamacare CSRs being included in the legislation, but the Obamacare payments were promised to Senator Susan Collins, so Republicans are caught in a no-win situation that could sink the bill.
After a year in which natural disasters devastated Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, California, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other places across the country, the House has finally unveiled an $81 billion relief package. POLITICO reports that the bill is divided among Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico,the U.S. Virgin Islands, and “states ravaged by wildfires.” Though the new…
A rumor that Trump plans on firing special counsel Mueller on Dec. 22 has been circulating on Capitol Hill. California Rep. Jackie Speier first rang the alarm last Friday during a KQED Newsroom interview. Well, there is already a response effort ready to take to the streets if the president dares to try and shut down…
Republicans have tried to keep their tax cuts for the rich legislation a secret, but a new report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) revealed that their total cost of their tax cuts could be as high as $2.2 trillion.
“What if it’s not Robert Mueller who gets fired? What if it’s Rod Rosenstein or Jeff Sessions, either of whom could start the process that would result in the end of the Mueller investigation?”
Trump has been running around telling people that the Russia investigation will be over by the end of the year. However, Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team plan to work for at least another year.
Sanders took a machete to the Republican tax scam on Monday, saying that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why it’s so unpopular.
Don’t to be alarmed, though, because the White House says they promise to have it back up and running in 2018.
Trump national security spokesman Michael Anton said he “can’t say” whether the commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful military has read the 55-page document.
Trump responded to the Amtrak Washington train derailment with a tweet calling for more infrastructure spending. The problem is that Trump’s own budget slashes funding for Amtrak.
An Amtrak passenger train derailed on Monday during its inaugural run along a faster route through Washington state, sending part of the train crashing down onto a major highway and killing an unknown number of passengers, authorities said.
A new poll conducted by NBC News/The Wall Street Journal estimates that only 39% of U.S. voters want Republicans to keep control of Congress in 2018, whereas roughly 50% want Democrats to regain the majority vote. Not since 2008 has the public felt so partial toward a Democrat-controlled Congress. The poll also contains hopeful news…
White House legislative director Marc Short said he expects Congress to pass a short-term spending bill to fund the federal government at least into January, he told CNBC in an interview on Monday, days before current funding expires on Friday.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, who publicly called for Franken’s resignation, has privately told the Minnesota senator that he regrets having done so.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told CNN that Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) shouldn’t resign because he is being railroaded and denied the due process of a Senate ethics investigation.
The Senate’s #2 Republican, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) admitted that there was a provision put in the Republican tax cut bill that was designed to buy the votes of Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and others.
Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin fell apart and admitted that it might be years before workers see their wages go up from the GOP’s trickle-down tax cut for the rich.
Democrat Doug Jones, who scored an upset victory last week in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama, said on Sunday he did not believe President Donald Trump needed to resign over sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Remember last July when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced sanctions against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Moros and his regime? At the time the Maduros regime was attempting to re-write Venezuela’s constitution to erode provisions enforcing democratic institutions in order to secure dictatorial powers for himself. Mnuchin issued a statement last July 31 that, looking back,…
According to a Washington Post report published Friday, the legal team of senior White House adviser and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is looking to hire a crisis public relations firm. The news comes as the investigation into Russia’s influence on the 2016 election and the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with the foreign government heats…
President Trump stepped up his authoritarian game on Thursday, this time restricting the language the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can use in documents the agency is preparing for the 2019 budget. Included in the list of forbidden terms were the phrases “evidence-based†and “science-based,†as well as five words: “transgender,†“fetus,†diversity, 
Over the past few weeks, special counsel Robert Mueller has intensified his probe looking into the Russia scandal — first, Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communication with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and promised to cooperate with the investigation; then, Trump admitted to obstructing justice…
Schumer said the plan’s combination of tax increases for middle-class Americans and dramatic reductions for the wealthy is a recipe for a GOP bloodbath next year.
The administration can whine all they want, but this president has poured gasoline on America’s racial divisions.
Marco Rubio never planned on opposing the GOP tax proposal.
When it comes to the country’s bills and responsibilities towards its own population, right-wing politicians treat things like deficits as a plaything, alternatively ignoring it or using it as a cudgel.  We can see much of the same behavior in the way the Right-Wing tax bill has been playing out. Right-wingers have a very…
A new AP poll reveals why Republicans are scrambling to shut down the Russia investigations, as 72% of Americans believe that Trump did something wrong or illegal with Russia, and 63% believe that the President has obstructed the investigation.
The bill would cut the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent, according to the summary. Corporate tax lobbyists have been seeking such a dramatic cut for many years.
Trump’s lawyers are meeting with Robert Mueller next week to gain a clearer understanding of his investigation.
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Republican negotiators in the U.S. Congress put the finishing touches on a sweeping tax overhaul on Friday and picked up support from two more wavering senators as they raced toward votes on final approval next week.
A U.S. District Court judge on Friday said she would release former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort from house arrest once he meets certain conditions, expressing satisfaction that the $10 million he agreed to forfeit if he ever failed to appear for court proceedings would be available.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) went off on the secret process that Republicans are using to hide their tax cuts for the rich from the American people.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) who was just onboard Air Force One with Trump last week went on CNN and went into total lunatic mode while embracing a conspiracy theory that Robert Mueller is trying to destroy democracy by investigating Trump and Russia.
Republicans are refusing to reauthorize funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, but Donald Trump told reporters that it is Democrats who have done nothing for kids.
Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has proposed putting a cap on renewable fuel credits at 10 cents each, according to document provided to the White House and corn-state lawmakers viewed by Reuters on Friday.
“We remain concerned about Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo,” the U.S. embassy said in a statement on its Facebook page. “Their families and others have not been allowed to see them, and don’t even know where they are being held.”
President Donald Trump called on fellow Republican Roy Moore on Friday to concede to Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama U.S. Senate race, following the party’s stinging loss in the deeply southern U.S. state earlier this week.
“Why does this keep happening? Why do we consistently have to get news about the behavior and the meetings and the conversations of the American president from the Russian government?”
Unlike the non-scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account that defined last year’s campaign coverage, this one could actually uncover a smoking gun.
As the public outcry against the Republican attack on the Internet grows, Donald Trump, Jr decided to blame President Obama for his daddy’s FCC chair voting to destroy Net Neutrality rules put into place by… Obama.
Adam Schiff explains that Republicans are planning on ending the Congressional investigations and then demanding that Mueller is fired.
The American people are smart enough to recognize that Trump is unfit, incompetent, and corrupt – and that’s nobody’s fault but his own.Â
Award-winning U.S. documentary maker Morgan Spurlock wrote on Twitter late on Wednesday that he has engaged in sexual misconduct, saying, “I am part of the problem.”
A new PPP Poll shows that a majority of voters want Donald Trump to resign over the allegations by 17 women that he sexually harassed them.
The President’s advisers have to structure Trump’s briefings so that Russian election meddling is never mentioned, because when Russia and the election are brought up, Trump goes off the rails. The Washington Post reported: U.S. officials declined to discuss whether the stream of recent intelligence on Russia has been shared with Trump. Current and former…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to rescind rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, as protesters gathered to oppose the change.
Trump got on the phone and called Rupert Murdoch after he heard about Disney buying 21st Century Fox to make sure that his state media network, Fox News, was not also being sold.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has made it known to his inner circle that 2018 will be his last year in Congress, but before Ryan takes his money and runs, he is going to try to kill Social Security and Medicare.
Since mid-2016, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has carried around a “postcard” that he has said shows how easy it will be for Americans to file their taxes once Republicans are finished their tax overhaul.
Kentucky state Representative Dan Johnson was elected in 2016 despite becoming known for a 2016 Facebook post comparing President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama to monkeys, WDRB-TV has reported.
Republican U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold will not seek re-election in 2018 after allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior from former staffers, Politico reported on Thursday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Alabama Democrat Doug Jones, who won a bitter fight for a U.S. Senate seat this week, called on his Republican opponent to concede the race and help heal the Southern state after a deeply divisive contest.
Rep. Dan Johnson’s suicide comes a day after he held a press conference at his church, where he denied accusations that he molested a 17-year-old girl.
As Mitch McConnell said in 2010, “The voters have spoken. They want a course correction. We should listen to them.”
There is no longer any excuse for members of Congress – especially the Democrats – to curb their opposition to this president and his dangerous agenda.
The poll comes as GOP lawmakers have reportedly come to an agreement on a final plan they believe would have the votes to pass through Congress.
Internet service providers clashed with Democrats and celebrities like “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill ahead of a vote on the Trump administration’s plan to revoke net neutrality rules barring the blocking or slowing of internet traffic.
NBC’s Chuck Todd nailed Republicans with a dose of reality by telling them that their president is toxic and a big blue wave is coming in 2018.
In backing Roy Moore in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race even though the candidate faced allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, President Donald Trump made a risky bet – and lost big.
A lethargic Trump lingered on his words and sounded like he was hanging on by a thread as he repeated lies about the Republican tax cut bill at the White House.
Republicans on the tax cut bill conference committee are refusing to show Democrats on the committee the changes that they negotiated in secret to the legislation.
A new Monmouth University Poll shows Trump’s approval rating sinking to 32% as Republicans are rushing through Congress an unpopular tax cut plan that will benefit the wealthy.
On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein defended special counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to manipulate the 2016 election. Rosenstein faced a series of questions from Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, who have recently amped up their efforts to discredit Mueller’s probe…
During an interview on The View, former Vice President Biden laid out a series of easily met conditions a potential presidential campaign in 2020. Video: .@JoeBiden to @TheView on running in 2020: "If, in a year from now, if we're ready, and nobody has moved in that I think can do it, then I may…
After Gov. Mark Dayton appointed his Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to replace Sen. Al Franken, Minnesota Congressional Democrats Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum released statements praising the appointment.
On Tuesday night, alleged pedophile Judge Roy Moore became the first Republican in 25 years to lose a senatorial race to a Democrat in the state of Alabama, and it appears this result might be too shocking for Moore to accept. Despite most major news outlets declaring Democrat Doug Jones the winner well before midnight,…
Trump first tried to deny that he ever endorsed Roy Moore, and then he followed by complaining that the Republican Party needs to attract better candidates.
Sen. Bob Corker spoke the blunt truth when he told reporters that the Doug Jones Senate victory in Alabama was a great night for America.
Democrat Doug Jones pulled off a stunning victory on Tuesday’s senatorial race in Alabama, beating Republican Judge Roy Moore by roughly 20,000 votes and becoming the state’s first Democratic senator in two decades. The loss was a significant one for Republicans and for Trump. In one of his customary morning tweets, the president tried to…
Doug Jones offered a different vision of America that pierced the dark cloud of Trumpism and restore faith in bipartisanship, cooperation, unity, and hope.
The Trump agenda was dealt a crippling blow as the Democratic pickup of the Alabama Senate seat means that Republicans have zero margin for error.
Trump endorsed Roy Moore, Republicans remained confident even with the allegations of child sexual assault against their candidate, but at the end of the day, Democrat Doug Jones beat Roy Moore to become the next Senator from Alabama.
The stunning victory comes after weeks of women coming forward with credible allegations that Moore made unwanted sexual advances on them, some when they were just teenagers.
Republicans have a big problem as the results are coming in for the Alabama Senate special election. African-Americans turned out in massive numbers for Doug Jones, while white Republican counties stayed home for Roy Moore.
In a race as close as the special election in Alabama between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones, it is voter suppression maneuvers like this that could make all the difference.Â
Republicans tried to float a fake sexual harassment allegation against Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who responded by turning the document over to the cops for investigation.
It’s going to take more than meetings and publicity stunts to remove the stain that men like Roy Moore and Donald Trump have put on the Republican Party.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son asked a House of Representatives committee on Tuesday to investigate possible leaks of information about his Dec. 6 interview with lawmakers, as congressional probes of Russia and the 2016 election picked up steam ahead of the New Year.
Election Day is finally here. Follow the results live to see if Democrat Doug Jones can turn an Alabama Senate seat blue by defeating Republican Roy Moore.
Exit polls can be unreliable, but they show that Democrats have reason to be cautiously optimistic that they have a shot at winning a Senate seat in Alabama.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered on Tuesday to begin direct talks with North Korea without pre-conditions, backing away from U.S. demands that Pyongyang must first accept that any negotiations would have to be about giving up its nuclear arsenal.
By claiming that there was nothing sexual in Trump’s attack on Gillibrand, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made Trump’s life even worse.
Republicans are trying to drive down turnout in Alabama to help Roy Moore, but it isn’t working as turnout for Alabama Senate special election is near presidential levels.
Gov. Mark Dayton (D-MN) will hold a Wednesday 10 AM news conference to announce who he is naming to replace Sen. Al Franken.
At a news conference calling for an investigation of Trump for sexual misconduct, Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) offered a chilly one-word answer of yes when she was asked if the allegations against Trump were something they could investigate if Democrats won back the House.
The Democratic Women’s Working Group, an association comprised of the women Democrats serving in the House of Representatives, sent a letter to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Monday demanding that it launch an investigation into sexual assault allegations made against President Trump. Fifty-six women lawmakers signed the request. The group asked that…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took to Twitter to hammer Trump for attempting to slut shame her Senate colleague Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY).
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that Democrats and Republicans are close to an agreement on DACA.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee passed away unexpectedly early Tuesday morning. According to the city’s former Mayor Willie Brown, the cause of death was cardiac arrest. “It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that I confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away on Tuesday, December 12 at 1:11 a.m. at Zuckerberg San Francisco…
On Monday, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand told CNN that, given the long list of sexual assault and harassment allegations against him, President Trump should resign. Shocking no one, Trump responded early Tuesday morning by attacking Gillibrand on Twitter with an off-the-wall tweet that many are interpreting to have sexual undertones. “President Trump has committed…
Rachel Maddow explained why Vice President Mike Pence has a world of Russia related problems and how the Trump White House is hanging him out to dry.
Roy Moore had hidden from public view until Monday night when he held a rally where his wife attacked Jews, and an old Vietnam buddy bragged about going to a brothel with Moore that had child prostitutes.
President Putin paid a surprise visit to a Russian military base in Syria on Monday, where he delivered a speech praising his country’s troops and announcing that his government would soon begin withdrawing a “significant portion” of its soldiers. Though some disagree as to whether the seven-year civil war in Syria is really over, numerous officials,…
Another prominent man in media is facing professional ramifications for alleged sexual misconduct. The latest is Ryan Lizza, New Yorker magazine’s Washington correspondent and a contributor to CNN — the former fired Lizza on Monday, the latter suspended him hours later. “The New Yorker recently learned that Ryan Lizza engaged in what we believe was improper sexual conduct….
