By Richard Cowan and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump stormed out of talks with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday over funding for a border wall with Mexico and reopening the government, complaining the meeting in the White House was “a total waste of time.” On the 19th day of a partial…
Donald Trump can hire all the lawyers he wants to prevent the full release of Robert Mueller’s report, but Democrats now have the power to fight back.
The U.S. government shutdown has begun to delay Democratic plans for congressional oversight of Donald Trump and his presidency, lawmakers and aides said on Wednesday.
With Democrats now in charge of the House of Representatives, Donald Trump is going to find it difficult to hide from Robert Mueller’s findings.
If Trump declares a national emergency as a way to take defense department funds to pay for the wall, he’ll face immediate legal backlash.
The political calculus is about to change for Republicans when nearly a million Americans are forced to go without paychecks.
Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump have told special counsel Robert Mueller that he will not answer any more questions in the probe of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Reuters on Wednesday.
By Mark Hosenball and Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Senior Democratic lawmakers called on Wednesday for further investigation into a revelation that in 2016 Donald Trump’s then-presidential election campaign chairman gave polling data to a man U.S. prosecutors have linked to Russian intelligence. On Tuesday, portions of a court filing by lawyers for convicted former Trump…
Forty-five percent of Americans who were watching television watched Trump, but that number rose to 49% when Pelosi and Schumer delivered their rebuttal. According to The Hollywood Reporter viewership went up after Trump stopped talking, “In preliminary numbers, the quarter hour (9-9:15 p.m. ET) containing the president’s speech drew a combined 28.1 household rating in…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats have put the heat on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump by passing bills to reopen the IRS and Treasury Department.
Speaker Pelosi told the country that Donald Trump thinks that government workers can just ask their fathers for more money.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer ripped Trump for unpresidential behavior as he walked out of a meeting because Democrats won’t fund his wall.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has ordered a halt to federal disaster relief for California’s wildfires unless state officials involved in forest management “get their act together.”
Trump could only say that the split in the Republican Party over the shutdown is fake news as Senators pretended to be unified in front of Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has a right to declare a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border if no deal with Congress can be reached on funding the project, but Democrats plan to test Republicans’ resolve on the issue.
By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to run the agency permanently, the White House said, placing a former energy lobbyist at the helm of the nation’s top environmental regulator. The widely anticipated nomination provides Trump another avid supporter of his deregulatory and pro-fossil…
A group of moderate Senate Republicans is moving to push to reopen the government without the wall after Trump’s immigration address disaster.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, William Barr, has said he will allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to finish the investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Wednesday. Graham told reporters Barr assured him the investigation would continue. “I can assure you he has…
Rush Limbaugh seems to be slightly afraid of new congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. The conservative radio host added to the increasing right-wing meltdown over the young but outspoken Democrat by complaining that the she is “uppity.†Rush Limbaugh complains Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too "uppity" https://t.co/ehUGrvihNt — Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) January 8,…
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont responded to Donald Trump’s primetime address by saying the president is working to “create fear and hatred in our country.” After Trump spoke from the Oval Office on border security Sanders said: “Sadly, what President Trump is trying to do is create fear and hatred in our country. Instead of…
Almost everyone rightly criticized President Donald Trump’s Tuesday prime-time speech pushing for a U.S.-Mexico border wall for its numerous lies and misrepresentations. Surprisingly, included in those critical of Trump’s speech were news commentators on Fox News. Fox News anchor Shepard Smith immediately and ruthlessly challenged many of Trump’s false claims, using the government’s own numbers…
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts came in first place in Daily Kos’s first 2020 straw poll, proving that she will be a formidable contender in the race for next year’s Democratic nomination for president. Senator Warren has made news over the past week as she was among the first Democrats to announce that she is…
On Tuesday evening Democrats in the U.S. Senate succeeded in voting down a Middle East policy bill that had been put forth by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The move was a way for the Democrats to protest President Trump’s government shutdown. If the impasse over funding the government continues they may vote again to…
ABC News has just reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is planning to leave his position in the Department of Justice in the next few weeks. Multiple sources familiar with Rosenstein’s plans told ABC News that the Deputy Attorney General has already told President Trump and other White House officials that he will leave…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by a foreign government-owned company over its bid to avoid paying penalties if it does not comply with a subpoena issued by a grand jury in a sealed case possibly linked to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.
