Trump has no legal footing when it comes to these matters. Congress has the authority to conduct oversight, even if he doesn’t like it.
Democrats need to do is acknowledge that none of this is oversight as usual. The information laid out in Mueller’s report is extraordinarily damning.
Trump used his position as president to meet with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to complain about his lost Twitter account followers.
Trump’s desperation became even more obvious as the White House is planning to block Don McGahn’s expected testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
In an attack that was somewhere between clueless and bonkers, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) went after comedian Patton Oswalt for supporting his Democratic opponent MJ Hegar.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un departed for Russia on Wednesday morning by private train, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Wednesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Thursday in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok to discuss the international standoff…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday failed to meet a congressional deadline for turning over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to lawmakers, setting the stage for a court battle between Congress and the administration. The outcome, which was widely expected, could prompt House Ways and Means Committee Chairman…
Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi outlined her strategy for investigating Trump, and it is clear that the president is in for a very hard time.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 2017 tax overhaul championed by President Donald Trump will cut household taxes more in Republican-leaning states than in states that lean Democratic, according to research published by the U.S. central bank on Tuesday. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act, signed by Trump in December 2017, reduced tax rates for most Americans,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday barred White House staff and members of his administration from attending this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, officials said. Trump had already said he would not attend the annual dinner, instead scheduling a political rally in Wisconsin, but he had not decided whether anyone…
Trump believes that the only way he can prevent being impeached is to attack Robert Mueller.
As Trump falsely claims that he has been exonerated, Hillary Clinton said that the Mueller report is just the beginning.
the United States is siding with Russia and China to set women’s rights back 25 years, according to an exclusive by The Guardian, which revealed that the Trump administration threatened to veto a UN resolution on rape as a weapon of war.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – White House advisor and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 election harmed U.S. democracy more than Moscow’s interference did. “You look at what Russia did, buying some Facebook ads to try to sow dissent and do…
House Democrats have Robert Mueller’s road map and they are planning on following it as it leads them straight to the White House and Trump.
“I intend to consult with House Counsel and Committee Members about scheduling a vote on contempt,” House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said in a statement.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former White House security director on Tuesday plans to ignore a congressional subpoena to answer U.S. lawmakers’ questions about allegations that the Trump administration overruled career officials’ security clearance decisions, the Washington Post reported. Carl Kline, who served as the White House personnel security chief for the first two years of…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden plans to announce on Thursday that he is seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination for the 2020 election, NBC News and CNN reported on Tuesday. Biden, 77, a longtime senator who served for eight years under Democratic President Barack Obama, would join a crowded field of…
Iowa State Representative Andy McKean has announced that he has left the Republican Party and joined the Democrats in the state legislature. Andy McKean Leaves The Republican Party Iowa Starting Line reported, “A moderate Republican, McKean split with his party on many key votes in recent years, including the 2017 collective bargaining and workers compensation…
Speaking at the Time Magazine 100 Summit, Trump’s son-in-law and White House advisor Jared Kushner tried to rewrite history on Tuesday by pretending he didn’t understand what the Russians meant when they said they wanted to help Trump in the 2016 election and claiming they didn’t know what Russia was doing and it didn’t register as impactful.
The pre-Easter weekend news dump of the Mueller report failed. We all heard AG Barr’s pre-emptive strike – a highly unusual presser where he actually trotted out the idea that being frustrated is a defense when one is suspected of conspiring with a hostile foreign power to cheat his way to victory in an election….
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic toward a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a plan opponents have called a Republican effort to deter immigrants from taking part in the population count. During an…
Mayor Pete Buttigieg gained seven points of support among Democrats while Sen. Bernie Sanders has dropped 5 points in the latest Monmouth University Poll.
The National Hockey League said on Monday it would purchase carbon credits to offset airline emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases during the Stanley Cup playoffs.
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury and Internal Revenue Service faced a final deadline on Tuesday for handing over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Democrats in Congress, in a showdown that could mire the administration and lawmakers in a lengthy legal fight. Representative Richard Neal, Democratic chairman of the House of…
(Reuters) – The largest Democratic field in the modern U.S. political era is lining up to seek the party’s 2020 presidential nomination – and it is expected to keep growing. The diverse group vying to challenge President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee, includes six U.S. senators. A record six women are running, as well…
