It’s no surprise that Trump – a man controlled by Russia – doesn’t care about staffing the government with officials compromised by foreign entities.Â
Sen. Elizabeth Warren calmly tore into Donald Trump on Thursday for being completely out of touch with workers struggling through the government shutdown.
The epic takedown occurred after Cruz blamed Democrats for the fact that members of the Coast Guard are struggling as the shutdown drags on.
Unlike the GOP, Democrats aren’t playing games. They are doing what spineless Republicans have failed to do for two years – hold Trump accountable.
Speaker Pelosi responded to Trump’s demand for a downpayment for his wall by saying that she doesn’t think Trump knows what he’s talking about.
(Reuters) – Florida’s newly appointed secretary of state resigned on Thursday after the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper published photos showing him cross-dressed and in blackface with a T-shirt reading “Katrina Victim” at a Halloween party 14 years ago. Michael Ertel said in a two-line letter to Governor Ron DeSantis, a fellow Republican, that he was resigning…
Trump expressed the belief that grocery stores are giving government employees food on credit during the shutdown. This is, of course, not true.
In a major policy change, Trump’s administration said it would send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their U.S. asylum requests are processed.
As Republicans are caving and trying to flee the government shutdown, Trump is demanding a large downpayment on his wall.
Trump was embarrassed on the Senate floor after the Democratic bill to end the shutdown got more votes than his, and now Mitch McConnell wants to negotiate with the Democrats.
More Senators voted for the Senate Democratic plan to end the shutdown with a clean funding bill than voted for Trump’s wall funding.
A group of Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have reopened the federal government until February 8.
Trump’s bill that contained harsh immigration measures and money for his wall flopped in the Senate and finished short of the 60 votes needed for passage.
Deutsche Bank AG has received an inquiry from two U.S. House of Representatives committees on the lender’s ties to President Donald Trump, it said on Thursday.
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions told Reuters on Thursday she will travel to Turkey next week to head an “independent international inquiry” into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post and a critic of Crown Prince…
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday urged furloughed federal workers facing a second missed paycheck to seek loans to pay their bills while adding that he couldn’t understand why they were having trouble getting by.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she was ready to meet with President Donald Trump in person any time to discuss an end to the ongoing partial government shutdown. Speaking to reporters at a weekly news conference, Pelosi also said Democrats were not negotiating any counter-offer behind the scenes. (Reporting…
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat who is weighing a run for president in 2020, called for national unity amid political divisiveness in a speech on Thursday to local elected officials.
Trump tweeted a tantrum in real time after Speaker Pelosi said that Trump’s attitude is that workers should build character and ask their dads for more money during the shutdown.
Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats will be making a new offer to Trump to end the shutdown that contains not one single penny of funds for his wall.
In an article published in The New Republic Wednesday a national security expert says that President Donald Trump committed crimes publicly, as he convinced his allies to lie to law enforcement for him. According to investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler, a national security expert, Trump repeatedly suborned perjury “in plain sight†and has never been charged…
Senator Joni Ernst (R, Iowa) has disclosed that she was raped in college by someone she knew and that her ex-husband physically abused her. These revelations by the first-term senator make her the highest ranking woman in her party to allege sexual assault in the years since the #MeToo movement began. Ernst publicly disclosed her…
One of the nation’s leading survey firms, Public Policy Polling (PPP) released a new poll this week showing how President Donald Trump stacks up against various possible Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination. The new poll from PPP makes very clear that with slightly over 21 months until the next presidential election Trump is…
The vast majority of Americans — including 42% of Donald Trump’s conservative base of voters — want the president to end the shutdown without a border wall according to a new INSIDER’s poll. These voters say that they want Trump to sign a bill passed by Congress that would reopen the parts of the U.S….
Donald Trump tweeted late Wednesday night that he would wait to deliver his State of the Union address until after he has re-opened the government, in a total capitulation on the issue to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “As the Shutdown was going on, Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the…
