According to the Treasury Department this year’s United States federal deficit will hit $873 billion, up a dangerous 31.3 percent from last year’s shortfall of $665.8 billion.
Republicans are scrambling to avoid a political disaster in a conservative district of Pennsylvania, where a pro-gun, pro-union Democrat who opposes abortion could be about to win a congressional election in one of President Donald Trump’s white, working-class strongholds.
The national Republican Party has spent about 15 times as much money as the Democrats on this special election for a House seat that on the surface appears to be meaningless.
Democrats on a congressional committee investigating the White House’s security clearance procedures on Friday urged the panel’s Republican chairman to compel the Trump administration to turn over records they said were being withheld.
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to be interviewed by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee as it investigates Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.
The House Ethics Committee needs to investigate the conduct of the House Intelligence Committee and its members, especially Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), CNN legal expert Steve Vladeck concluded after a shocking revelation that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen received inside information from the Russia probe that is supposed to be investigating Trump’s inner circle.
Norm Eisen, who served as a special assistant to President Barack Obama on ethics and government reform, criticized the moonlighting revelations.
“I even made people quit uncompensated non-profit outside positions because of conflicts risks,” he wrote on Twitter. “This is FOR profit work that could conflict with official duties.”
After record-high early voter turnout, Democrats hope Texas’ primary election on Tuesday will show that anger over U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies could help them flip congressional seats from Republican control in November.
Some Republican strategists said Trump’s tariff threat appeared to be timed, at least in part, to sway voters in the steel country of Pennsylvania, including its 18th District where Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb are facing off.
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday urged the Trump administration not to finalize new tariffs on steel and aluminum announced last week, citing the risks to the economy.
Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu of California wants some answers from Ivanka Trump, but the President’s daughter blocked the Democratic Assistant Whip.
Devin Nunes, the Republican Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, made a “joke†of asking the Russian bots for help to make an article suggesting the Trump Russia connection is an unsupported conspiracy, urging less focus on Russia, go viral.
The letter from the lawmakers asked Pruitt to explain why he believes security threats are reduced in first class cabins.
Pruitt spent over $100,000 in taxpayer money for premium travel, based on records obtained by the Environmental Integrity Project.
While this district is clearly Republican-leaning, Democratic engagement and widespread disappointment in Donald Trump is giving Conor Lamb a chance to pull off another Democratic upset.
Thanks to the chaos Trump continues to unleash with everything he does, five former federal prosecutors have decided to seek House seats — and they’re running as Democrats. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Chris Hunter resigned from the job he’d held at the Justice Department for over a decade in December, prompted by…
Donald Trump caused this mess by lifting protections for DACA recipients. Paul Ryan is making it worse by not holding a vote to clean it up.
In one speech, she likely did more work than Trump has done all week, and Republicans could do nothing but tip their caps.
Some U.S. Republican lawmakers joined their Democratic colleagues on Tuesday in criticizing President Donald Trump for labeling them as “treasonous†and “un-American†in response to the cold reception they gave him during his State of the Union address last week.
Congressman Schiff gave the president and son Don Jr. a quick lesson on what it means to illegally leak classified information.
A Democratic member of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee expressed concern on Sunday that President Donald Trump could censor the Democratic rebuttal to a Republican memo alleging anti-Trump bias at the FBI and Justice Department.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan deleted a tweet on Saturday cheering a $1.50 increase to a Pennsylvania school secretary’s weekly pay because of a $1.5 trillion tax cut after it drew criticism that he was out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Ryan cares more about dismantling the social safety net and advancing the interests of his wealthy donors than he does about helping his constituents or holding this dangerous president accountable.
The head of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee said on Friday he had not read the underlying materials referenced in a memo he and other Republicans on the panel assembled alleging bias against President Donald Trump in the FBI and Justice Department’s Russia probes.
In response to the mounting evidence against Donald Trump, Republicans have decided to wage war against the U.S. intelligence community instead of holding an increasingly guilty president accountable.Â
Two percent of U.S. adults said they had gotten a raise, bonus or other additional benefits due to the Republican tax law enacted a month ago by President Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday.
The congressman shredded his Republican colleagues for trading their integrity for the “momentary sugar high” of protecting Donald Trump.
“The point was they didn’t care what was in the underlying documents. They wanted to make a political statement and feed the beast on Fox News.”
Negotiating with Trump is a waste of time. Not only does he lack a firm grasp of the issues, but he often just agrees with the last person he spoke to.
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer are urging their caucus to vote “No” on the current CR plan.
“Democrats face a huge battle in the House because they are more extreme,” a House Democratic aide told PoliticusUSA early Monday afternoon.
It’s going to be hard for Trump to convince the American people that the government shutdown is the Democrats’ fault when not even his own party agrees.
“These are the guys who wanted to cut Medicaid by $1 trillion over a ten-year period. These are the guys who wanted to wipe out completely the Affordable Care act and throw 32 million people off of health insurance.”
Senate Republicans aren’t likely to win over enough Democrats to pass their cynical spending bill.
“The chief executive of the United States, the commander in chief has racist ideas about America and this country, and the American people, all 320 million of us, better figure out what the do about it.”
“Corporations are swimming in money. Stocks are up 18% this year. They’re at record highs. … We are financing through the deficit a tax cut to the one sector of society that absolutely didn’t need it.”
“Trump’s very much in line here with what you’d expect to see from a president whose party takes a shellacking in a midterm election.”
As Republicans scramble to avert yet another GOP government shutdown by midnight on Friday, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned them that if they want Democratic help, they will need to show some respect via concessions.
“Be careful what you wish for,” Tom Steyer, a Democratic billionaire, said of Republican leaders in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. “They wanted this, they should have never have wanted it. Now that they’ve got it, they’re going to wish they didn’t.”
“At the end of the day, they walked out with a package that they could sign off on and their big donors could sign off on. And I don’t care how many sympathetic faces they make, that’s what the process was all about.”
Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they’ve held in two decade’s worth of midterm election cycles.
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 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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, on Friday told Fox News Channel that fellow Republican Representative Blake Farenthold should resign if an ethics investigation finds that sexual misconduct accusations against him have merit.
Rep. Trent Franks got the $5 million with which to try buy a Margaret Atwoodian Handmaid’s tale womb by deregulating the oil industry in which he’s heavily invested.
The news website Politico on Friday quoted unnamed sources that it was not clear to the women whether he was asking about impregnating them through sexual intercourse or in vitro fertilization.
Franks didn’t apologize for telling his female subordinates to carry his child. Instead, the Congressman said he’s only sorry that it caused “distress” in the workplace.Â
It’s time for Democrats to remember that the sitting President of the United States still has paid no political or legal price for his own behavior.
“It’s death to Democrats” is how Trump campaign tax policy adviser Stephen Moore described the Republican tax bill in an interview.
Democrats have stepped up to the plate and are trying to put billions of dollars toward a crisis that deserves more than just lip service.Â
Republicans can and will continue to lie about this plan in order to ram it through Congress, but Americans will ultimately realize they’ve been sold a bill of goods.
The conservative evangelical movement is clearly harmful to society as a whole. When the movement justifies the sexual abuse of children for the sake of political power, it becomes the embodiment of everything wrong with the Christian Church in America.
This particular feud between Trump and LaVar Ball is clearly a stunt by both men to get attention and stroke their own egos. But with Trump, it’s just the latest in his long history of attacking minorities.
Democrats could be seen waving goodbye to their House Republican colleagues after the vote after they voted for tax cuts for the rich.
U.S. lawmakers may have to pass another stop-gap spending bill in order to keep the federal government operating Dec. 8 when existing money runs out, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters on Tuesday.
The House of Representatives will adopt mandatory training on sexual harassment and discrimination, Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday after members of Congress shared stories of women being propositioned and groped in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) pushed Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions on his blindness regarding white identity extremists while he focuses his department on black identity extremists.
After a hearing ripe with Attorney General Jeff Sessions claiming, “I don’t recall” at least twenty times by Rep. Jeffries’ count, the Democrat put Sessions on the spot by asking, “Do you still believe the intentional failure to remember can constitute a criminal act?”
U.S. Senate Republicans unveiled a tax plan on Thursday that differed from the House of Representatives’ version on several key fronts, including how they treat the corporate tax rate, the tax deduction for state and local taxes, and the estate tax.
GOP Rep. Mark Walker twisted himself into a pretzel on Wednesday when he tried to defend the Republican tax plan.
It is once again plug your nose week on Capitol Hill as House Republicans have released their tax bill with sweeping odious overhauls that steal away benefits for the poor and middle-class to pay for massive tax cuts for the most wealthy and largest corporations.
It’s no accident that the 429-page House Republican tax bill specifically takes aim at Democrats and areas that didn’t vote for Trump. Petty, petulant and punitive is how this Republican Party rolls. But the next time someone claims Obama divided this country, just ask them about this.
House Democrats have unveiled a visionary plan that would protect and expand worker rights at a time when Trumpism is out to destroy middle-class America to cut taxes for the uber rich.
According to a new report, many GOP lawmakers are restless and “ready to close the books” on the probe.
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.
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.
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.
GPS Fusion, founders of the firm that created the Trump dossier, refused to testify in response to a subpoena from the Republican Chairman of the House Intel Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), claiming that he doesn’t have the authority to issue the subpoena.
“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.”
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.
Next Tuesday, House Republicans will be voting on an abortion ban bill. Yes, these are the same Republicans that refuse to discuss any kind of gun control, and in fact planned to push a bill loosening gun silencer restrictions this week until the Las Vegas Strip shooting killed 58 people and wounded over 500.
There’s something very wrong with Ryan weighing in on this and using his power in government to try to silence free speech. Qualifying that with acknowledging their right doesn’t mitigate from the chilling of free speech of such a powerful person in government shaming the players’ criticism of government.
Republicans continue to deny that the Russians impacted the U.S. election for Donald Trump, and the President himself calls the notion a hoax and claims Facebook had it out for him. They are, however, quite quick on the draw to use the Russia investigation to go after anti-fracking ads.
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.”
This is the kind of unhinged and crackpot rhetoric that is common on Info Wars, but it has no place in American government.
The GOP representative had planned to “force a vote on his bill to extend work permits and deferred deportations for young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.”
Dent’s retirement is just the latest in a slew of moderate Republicans who are calling it quits as Washington spirals out of control with Trump at the helm.
“This decision does a disservice to those who have worked hard to address sexual violence. Congress must now act to undo it.”
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to rescind an Obama-era program that protects immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children, joining business leaders and others opposing the move.
“The president needs to be crystal clear that hatred has no place in our society, but he is currently failing at it.”
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee and former Chairman and Ranking Member of the Constitution Subcommittee, along with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) have filed a motion to censure and condemn President Trump for encouraging white supremacists.
Donald Trump spent the entire campaign playing the tough guy card, but after six months in the White House, there is not a soul on the planet who takes him seriously.
“In one week, Donald Trump got rebuked by the boy scouts, by the Pentagon, by the International Association of Police Chiefs.”
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Friday he was disappointed with the Senate’s failure to pass healthcare legislation but urged Republican senators not to give up as their colleagues in the House moved on to tax reform.
In the wake of the Republican failure to repeal Obamacare, Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi extended olive branches to their Republican colleagues, urging bipartisan work to tweak the ACA.
The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday it was “deeply troubling” that President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany this month for talks not attended by any U.S. national security officials.
It is patently evident now that when it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy Republicans in Congress have abandoned all moral guides to pursue their heartless agenda of appeasing their benefactors at the expense of vulnerable people across the country.
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.
Republicans in Congress – emboldened by the bully in the White House – are no longer trying to disguise how they feel toward lower and middle-income Americans.
Twenty moderate Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives warned on Friday that efforts to overhaul the federal tax code could be jeopardized by demands for including major spending cuts in a fiscal 2018 budget resolution.
President Trump and Republicans are pretending Russia didn’t attack the U.S. during the 2016 election and isn’t continuing to attack it right now, Democrats are trying their best as the minority party to protect the country.
The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation Committee on Wednesday proposed legislation to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system and make other aviation reforms, but it faces an uncertain future in Congress.
Because of uncertainty caused by Trump and Republicans, at least one swing state will see Obamacare health care premiums spike by more than 40 percent.
“If President Trump were to fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and then got Special Counsel Mueller fired, I believe Congress would begin impeachment proceedings.”
Republicans may have spent the first few months of Trump’s presidency cowardly refusing to hold him accountable, but even they are starting to recognize his days in the White House may be numbered.
While the country hung on every word of James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning and then spent the rest of the day analyzing the Senators questions and his responses and the implications for the Trump/Russia investigation, House Republicans were quietly stripping away protections of the momentous Dodd-Frank Act.
