MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called out Republicans for the unbelievable fact that Trump has been in office for six months on Thursday, and even though Republicans control Congress, they have not passed and enacted a single piece of major legislation.
Coming out at the same time as news broke that President Trump had a second, undisclosed and private hour long meeting with President Vladimir Putin to which he did not invite an English translator, the Trump White House announced that the President nominated Jon Huntsman as Ambassador to Russia. They spelled his name wrong, in case you were wondering if there was anything this White House could pull off without error or a modicum of competency.
President Trump jeopardized national security and violated protocol when he held a secret meeting with Putin and did not bring along an interpreter.
Donald Trump has called all of the Senate Republicans to the White House on Wednesday for lunch because a man who knows nothing about healthcare is going to try to negotiate his own health care bill.
Republican efforts to overhaul or repeal Obamacare collapsed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, dealing a sharp setback to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s seven-year quest to kill former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
After Ian Bremmer said that Trump and Putin held a second private meeting at the G-20, the White House finally confirmed that a meeting involving just Trump, Putin, and a translator happened.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tried to defend Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump, but when he was pressed by MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, it showed why no one would go on television to defend Trump.
Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi offered an olive branch to Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans, promising to work with them on fixing Obamacare if they would set aside repeal, abandon cuts to Medicaid, and abandon huge tax cuts for the wealthy
Instead of letting Obamacare die as Trump suggested, Senate Republicans have defied Trump and announced that they would be holding hearings on how to stabilize the insurance marketplace.
At a White House event, President Trump declared himself no longer a civilian as he seems to believe that being president also makes him a member of the military.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son and former campaign chairman can testify publicly before U.S. Senate committees, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein told CNN on Tuesday.
A group of Republican and Democratic governors released a joint statement declaring their opposition to Trump’s repeal and delay plan for Obamacare while urging that the Senate pass a bipartisan bill.
There are officially enough Republican Senators to deny the Trump/McConnell Obamacare repeal bill a vote, as Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has said that she will vote against moving the legislation to a final vote.
Republicans are trapped because Obamacare, for all of its lack of perfection, actually achieved the overarching goal of getting more Americans covered and forcing insurance companies to actually cover the things they promised they would cover.
As Republicans grapple with their failure to live up to their seven year promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, they are considering just repealing. The current repeal bill would be a partial repeal, one that health care expert Larry Levitt of Kaiser says would “produce an actual, real-life death spiral.”
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called out Republicans on their latest Trumpcare fail, saying, “After seven years of railing against the Affordable Care Act, the moral bankruptcy of Republicans’ agenda has been utterly exposed.”
Mitch McConnell gave the far-right and Trump what they wanted, an Obamacare repeal only bill, and in less than an hour, enough Republicans came forward to kill it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) caved to the far right and announced that he would bring to the floor a stand alone Obamacare repeal bill that will take healthcare away from 32 million Americans.
Trump is throwing a tantrum and blaming the rules of the Senate for the failure of the healthcare bill.
Trump is demonstrating that he is clueless about the country he is supposed to be running by trying to blame Democrats for the failure of the Republican health care bill.
