The JCT estimated that in 2018, more than half of the pass-through benefit will go to taxpayers making $500,000 or more, with $17.8 billion going to those reporting more than $1 million in income, and another $3.6 million going to taxpayers earning $500,000 to $1 million.
With Arizona Sen. John McCain battling brain cancer, Republican congressmen tried earlier this month to concoct a way to keep his seat under their party’s control, should McCain decide to leave. It didn’t work though — Democrats put a stop to the GOP’s plan. The Republican effort consisted of attaching an emergency clause to a…
Rep. Lamborn’s sloppiness is just a small part of the overall chaos unfolding within the Republican Party with the midterms just months away.
Enthusiasm (and a sense of urgency) on the left has been a huge help to the fundraising efforts of Democrats up for election this November. Numbers released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reveal that Democrats in both the Senate and the House are drastically outdoing Republicans in GOP-held districts and states where Trump was victorious…
Mitt Romney’s restart of his political career hit a roadblock Saturday.
The 2012 Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor failed to win the Utah Republican Party’s nomination, which means he must face 11 challengers in a June primary.
“Democracy is not shatter-proof, and our democracy is under attack. Time is not on our side. The time for wishful thinking … is over.”
A federal judge on Wednesday found Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court for disobeying her order not to enforce the state’s disputed proof-of-citizenship voter registration law while the court weighed its legality.
Unsurprisingly,  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he won’t be bringing a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired to the Senate floor for a vote. The bill is a bipartisan effort that took months to work on. “I’m the one who decides what we take to the floor,” he said during…
Missouri’s attorney general said on Tuesday his office has uncovered evidence of criminal electronic theft by Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, a fellow Republican already charged with invasion of privacy stemming from an unrelated sex scandal.
The Republican Party’s exodus from Congress continues as Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent announced on Tuesday that he plans on leaving office in May. This is earlier than previously expected. Dent is among the 43rd House GOP member to say they won’t be running for re-election — some have opted to retire, some have resigned, and some…
Trump provided no evidence of a crime and Comey has not been accused of wrongdoing by legal authorities. He may be a witness for any charges of obstruction of justice under consideration by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating connections between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
The Republican Party has put all of its eggs in one basket for the tax scam, and it doesn’t appear to be working for them.
Though Democrats so far find themselves in a good position heading into midterm elections, a new poll conducted by ABC News/Washington Post shows that the strength of the party’s lead is weakening. In January, Democrats led by 13 points among all adult voters, 12 points among registered voters, and 15 points among voters who were…
White House aides are refusing to advise Trump on his response to the Michael Cohen raid because they don’t want to be dragged into the criminal investigation. The New York Times reported, “As his lawyers went to court in New York on Friday to try to block prosecutors from reading files that were seized from…
Republicans now have a choice: They can continue to watch – and help – this president hurt America in order to retain his power, or they can put a stop to it.
“There is an increasing sense of alarm among my Republican colleagues, as well as Democratic members of the Senate, that we are staring into the abyss. The world is watching. And history will be watching what we do.”
A federal jury in Houston found former U.S. Republican Congressman Steve Stockman guilty of fraud on Thursday, including siphoning off more than $1 million in campaign funds for his own use, court records showed.
The vote is meant to show Republican voters that their party cares about fiscal responsibility, but may come just days after congressional budget analysts said annual U.S. deficits will soon approach $1 trillion due to recent legislation.
“Where was Paul Ryan’s press conference after Charlottesville? … Where’s Paul Ryan been standing up defending Robert Mueller day in and day out? It hasn’t happened.”
During Mr. Trump’s meltdown on Monday night, prior to his meeting with his security team regarding the issue of Syria, the reader might recall a reporter asking Mr. Trump quite an unusual question: “Why don’t you just fire Mueller?” If you find this unusual, it might be because it is. Taunting a sitting president to…
House Speaker Paul Ryan wasn’t the only Republican to announce his plans to retire on Wednesday — Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida also said he’d be stepping down this year. The legislator says his decision has to do with wanting to spend more time with family and needing to reconnect with the place he represents. “Eight…
After repeated denials of rumors about House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plans to retire, it was confirmed on Wednesday that he will, in fact, be leaving Congress. “This morning Speaker Ryan shared with his colleagues that this will be his last year as a member of the House,” said counselor to the Speaker Brendan Buck. “He…
It is one thing for liberal leaning political analysts or pundits to discuss Mr. Trump’s apparent meltdown yesterday addressing how his long time friend and lawyer, Michael Cohen is now at the center of a federal investigation and quite another to witness Republican strategist, and former John McCain campaign Chief Strategist, Steve Schmidt doing so….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he did not see the need for legislation to protect the special counsel probing potential collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. “I haven’t seen clear indication yet that we needed to pass something to keep him from being removed, because I…
The U.S. budget deficit will balloon over the next few years mainly because of deep tax cuts approved in December by Republicans in the U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.
Scott Pruitt should find himself in jeopardy of losing his job. However, yesterday Mr. Trump called Mr. Pruitt, a “good man,” while refusing to comment on questions regarding questionable ethical behavior engaged in by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Administrator. Mr. Trump added: “I think he’s done a fantastic job,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air…
The Tennessee Senate race seems to be a microcosm of what’s happening all across the country – Democrats are competing anywhere and everywhere, while Republicans run scared.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has been left terrified after a Democrat was elected to his state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, prompting a meltdown on Twitter. Rebecca Dallet, a liberal judge, beat her conservative opponent, Michael Screnock, by a nearly 12-point margin. This is a significant victory, given that Democrats typically have a difficult…
Up and down ballots all across the country, from Virginia to Missouri to Wisconsin, Democrats are showing they have the momentum heading into this fall’s elections.
The Presidential Personnel Office is responsible for the vetting and hiring of nearly 4000 government employees with 1200 requiring Senate approval. It is this office which ensures the government functions smoothly and properly under any administration. However, recent reporting by the Washington Post suggests the office is operating with approximately one-third of the normal staff,…
This type of language used to be isolated to the most extreme elements of the Republican Party. Now it is standard campaign talking points. For that, we can thank the man in the Oval Office.
Eight days ago, I wrote a column sharing how our “nation is divided.” Those seeking evidence for this claim need only to look to two recent events effecting Black Americans in our nation. The first is the announcement by Louisiana Attorney General, Jeff Landry, that no charges would be filed against two White police officers;…
The internal watchdog at the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday he is launching a review, after Republican members of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee alleged that the FBI made serious missteps when it sought a warrant to monitor a former adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
A new CNBC All-America Economic Survey has found the the majority of Americans haven’t been experiencing the economic boost Trump promised his tax plan would deliver. The poll found that 52% haven’t seen any change in their paychecks whatsoever. Of those who say they have seen an increase in the money they’re taking home, very…
Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent called out legislators in his party for their hypocritical responses to the scandal of Bill Clinton’s infidelity during his presidency compared to how they’re responding to Trump’s scandal involving Stormy Daniels, a porn actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. “A lot…
According to over a half dozen top GOP donors who spoke with The Hill, conservative funders are getting nervous about the momentum Democratic candidates have been experiencing in congressional races and suggested that they might have to give up on trying to win the House to focus on keeping the Senate. “Myself and many others…
No amount of Trump tweets or GOP stunts appear to be shaking the opinion of the vast majority of the country that Trump can’t be trusted on Russia.
Proving yet again how nervous the far right is getting about the momentum survivors of the Parkland school shooting have injected into the gun control issue, several alt-right websites and commentators have compared student David Hogg to Hitler. On Saturday, Hogg delivered a speech to a massive crowd of an estimated 200,000 people at the…
Despite official denials that Speaker Paul Ryan is resigning, rumors that he plans on leaving his current position in politics persist. A Republican congressman just strengthened those rumors in a Monday interview on the Nebraska Newsmakers podcast. “The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60…
Anyone familiar with Iowa Republican congressman Steve King’s habit of making ignorant and racist comments won’t be surprised to hear that he’s done it again. This time, though, he’s managed to lower himself to new depths by attacking Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez for wearing a jacket featuring a patch of the Cuban flag during…
Just ten days after firing his ” Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, Mr. Trump decided to remove one of the last remaining ‘adults’ in the room, by firing H.R. McMaster relieving him from his post as National Security Adviser. As with Tillerson, McMaster learned of his demise through a Tweet, Mr. Trump’s preferred method of…
Yet another legislator has joined the record-breaking number of Republican congressmen who say they won’t be running for re-election in 2018. The latest is Rep. Ryan Costello, who represents Pennsylvania’s 6th District. Costello’s decision comes after continued warnings of how vulnerable his seat is, and for weeks he was rumored to be eyeing the private…
“We know the truth. Shooting after shooting, the American people now see one thing they all have in common — the weapons. Politicians, either represent the people or get out.”
After creating chaos earlier this morning by threatening to veto the proposed Senate and Congressional omnibus spending bill, adding an additional 1.3 trillion dollars to the previous 1.7 trillion added by the Republican tax reform law passed just over a month ago, Mr. Trump finally decided to sign the legislation, announcing his decision to a pool…
“If we’re talking about a foreign government paying for those outcomes, that’s very blatantly illegal,” Maddow said on Wednesday.
Our house is divided. Despite Mr. Trump’s continued assault on Robert Mueller, and the investigation he is tasked with, one might be wondering where the Republican profiles in courage are these days. Why the near deafening silence, save the voices such as Senator Flake (R-AZ), Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), or Lindsey Graham (R-SC), or the…
Speaking to a Washington Post reporter on Tuesday, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said he’ll vote in favor of impeaching President Trump if Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the lead investigator in the Russia probe, is fired “without cause.” “We’re begging him: ‘Don’t go down this road,’” he said. “‘Don’t create a constitutional crisis. Don’t force the…
Rick Tyler, a well known Republican strategist, appeared on Stephanie Ruhle’s show and made an assertion which appears to have shaken her and her entire panel to the core. Tyler’s assertion? “Donald J. Trump will fire Robert Mueller.” While leading her panel earlier today, Ruhle presented the factual aspects of how Trump has attacked Robert…
“I just think it’s not necessary and obviously legislation requires a presidential signature,” Sen. Cornyn said. “I don’t see … the necessity of picking that fight right now.”
So alarmed is he, Republican Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is considering a presidential run against President Donald Trump. He says he will run either as a Republican or an Independent. Flake, a long time Trump critic, says someone needs to stop the President. Speaking in New Hampshire on Friday, which is expected to host the…
“Lots of news coverage today described these sanctions as the most significant action taken against Russia since President Trump took office. Let the record show this is actually the only action taken against Russia since President Trump took office.”
When Republicans say they want to “gather all the facts,” they aren’t talking about facts related to Trump’s ties to Russia or whether he obstructed justice. They don’t seem to care about that.
“The president’s engagement in the race turned what was a deficit for the Republican candidate to what is essentially a tie,” the White House deputy press secretary said.
Democrat Conor Lamb was declared the winner of the special congressional race in Pennsylvania’s 18th District on Wednesday, and given that the region supported Trump by a 20-point margin, Republicans are starting to realize that they have good reason to be nervous about midterm elections. GOP Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania bluntly admitted this during…
The firm’s presentation, viewed by Reuters and not previously reported, showed a significant “intensity gap†between the two parties, with 82 percent of Democrats strongly disapproving of the job Trump is doing as president, while just 56 percent of Republicans strongly approve of his performance.
A new Politico report reveals that even Republican legislators are frustrated with Trump’s inability to focus on one issue for longer than a few days. He frequently picks a certain policy to push through but then abandons it, with gun control being the most recent example. The inconsistency is reportedly giving lawmakers “whiplash” and keeping…
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.
The House GOP probe was a sham from the beginning, but Monday removed all doubt: The Republican Party is completely detached from reality. Â
Trump recently announced a set of tariffs that will soon be implemented on steel and aluminum imports, despite Republicans mostly opposing the decision. Steel will receive a 25% tariff, while aluminum will be hit with one of 10%. In recent days, numerous GOP legislators have publicly spoken about their intentions to undo these tariffs, which…
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.
Ryan Bundy, who was at the forefront of two armed confrontations between right-wing militia activists and the U.S. government over the past four years, said on Thursday he planned to run for Nevada governor on a states’ rights platform.
Donald Trump needs to stop wasting the country’s time and start acknowledging that easy access to high-powered weaponry in the U.S. is why we see such frequent mass killings.
State figures show that more than 1 million Democrats cast votes in primary races across the state on Tuesday, almost twice as many as in 2014, the last time primaries were held for a midterm election.
A majority of Republican lawmakers in the tightest congressional races are changing their message on guns, expressing new support for restrictions after last month’s high school shooting in Florida, according to a Reuters review of the candidates’ public statements.
Accused pedophile Roy Moore, who lost the Alabama senatorial race in December to Democrat Doug Jones, is currently broke and asking his supporters to donate money to a legal defense fund to cover the expenses for a defamation lawsuit one of his accusers is pursuing against him. In a Facebook post published Thursday, Moore said…
Despite his repeated insistence that he’s not a villain for continuing to support the National Rifles Association (NRA) after the mass high school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s popularity has plummeted to an all-time low. Quinnipiac University released the results to a new poll conducted between February…
Republican Georgia State Sen. Michael Williams made an appearance on CNN Newsroom on Tuesday to push back against Delta Airlines for ending their discount program for members of the National Rifles Association (NRA). He ended up getting called out by Brianna Keilar for making an unproven claim about the airline and Planned Parenthood. “If they’re…
The National Democratic Redistricting Committee alleged in the lawsuit filed in Dane County Circuit Court that Gov. Scott Walker was violating the law and denying Wisconsin voters representation by leaving the elected offices unfilled until 2019.
“The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected even hearing cases trying to get Second Amendment protections for those kind of guns. In fact, it did so three times in the past three years.”
“I think we need to be honest and acknowledge it. I think the fact that people sit here now and say, well, this has nothing to do with race. Yeah, it does.”
As Republicans in Congress face a threatening blue wave in the midterms, the Republican National Committee is paying more than $37,000 a month in rent to President Donald Trump’s company, and thousands more in salary to Vice President Mike Pence’s nephew, John Pence. Thus far, they’ve spent more than $290,000 since September.
The vast majority of American people who support tougher gun laws are finally putting their money where their mouths are, and that should terrify the NRA. Â
“The idea that these students aren’t real and they’re actors, this is nonsense. These are the people who believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster.”
Idaho Sen. Dan Foreman has been caught on video disrespecting his constituents yet again, this time angrily saying “abortion is murder” to supporters of women’s reproductive rights who weren’t even trying to discuss the specific issue of abortion with the senator at the time. A group of students from the University of Idaho traveled 300…
“A lot of people around here think (the tax cuts) were a giveaway to the rich,” said Trump voter Mark Marran, 56, a resident of this city of 14,000 about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
Republicans in Congress with all the power of their elected office are rendered powerless by mass shootings. All they can ever muster is boilerplate thoughts and prayers.
After the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida that resulted in the deaths of 17 people, most legislators in Congress went on social media to offer their condolences. Posts by Democrats usually emphasized the need for gun control reform. Posts by Republicans, on the other hand, offered nothing more useful than…
Grassley was the lead sponsor of legislation that made it harder to add the names of mentally ill individuals to the FBI database.
The NRA-owned president and Congress may not want to talk about guns in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, but those in Parkland, Florida are demanding immediate action from lawmakers.
“Since Columbine in 1999, there have been 25 fatal, active school shooting incidents at elementary and high schools in America,” the Fox Host told his viewers.
It looks like Mitt Romney wants to be Utah’s next senator. Talk that he would be launching a bid for the seat has been swirling for the past month, but sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner that he would be formally announcing his candidacy on Thursday. On Monday, Romney posted a message on Facebook making…
Republican Kevin Nicholson is trying to unseat Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2018, but he’s failed to get the endorsements most candidates have the most ease getting — those of their own parents. According to CNN, Donna and Michael Nicholson donated $2,700 to Baldwin’s campaign, the maximum FEC rules legally allow them to contribute until…
Trump cheerleader and frontrunner for the nomination, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, could lose the seat for Republicans and possibly hand the Senate majority back to the Democrats.
It’s nothing short of embarrassing that the folks who know GOP Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson best – literally, his folks – don’t think he should be a U.S. Senator.
White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters on Monday that the Trump administration looks “forward to releasing” the Democratic rebuttal to the Republican memo accusing the FBI and Justice Department of running a corrupt investigation on Russia — but only after Democrats “clean it up.” “I think the reality is that the White…
A week ago, Trump declassified the Republican-written memo accusing the FBI and Justice Department of being biased against the president and abusing their power in the investigation looking into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to manipulate the 2016 election. On Friday, he opted to block the release of a memo by Democrats refuting every…
Vice President Pence is continuing to follow Trump’s lead in dismissing any signs of possible diplomacy with North Korea. In the latest instance, he also proved himself to be a hypocrite when it comes to protesting at sporting events and showing respect to flags. On Friday, the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics kicked…
Rand Paul – a man who voted for a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy – is grinding the government to a halt for a few hours just to get some attention on cable news.Â
What’s obvious is that Republicans don’t truly care about the deficit – they never have. Instead, they use it as a political football to get some cable news coverage or boost their poll numbers in an election year.
“It feels like we’ve reached a level of crazy in the White House, and it’s difficult to take it anymore. Reality TV appearances, tabloid gossip, conspiracy theories, name-calling, vulgarities, and a level of egomania few have ever seen in Washington.”
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.
After Trump declassified the Republican-written memo meant to discredit the FBI’s Russia investigation on Friday, Democrats quickly moved to get their own memo out to the public. On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee voted in favor of making the Democratic rebuttal public. Unfortunately, Trump probably won’t agree to declassify it because it won’t serve his…
Republicans Pennsylvania House Speaker Michael Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had “handicapped†Alito by “failing to provide a full opinion to accompany its order to redraw the state’s congressional map.â€
Congressman Schiff gave the president and son Don Jr. a quick lesson on what it means to illegally leak classified information.
The so called Nunes Memo, bombed by any measure. On a political level it was a disaster. Even conspiracy theory fans like Trey Gowdy called it a failure in it’s main objective of discrediting the Mueller investigation.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons will be making a bipartisan attempt to reach a budget deal with a new immigration bill before the government is forced to shut down on Friday. From the sounds of it though, the chances of Trump being in favor of…
A Holocaust denier, anti-Semite, white supremacist and former American Nazi Party leader is running unopposed for Republican congressional primary in Illinois.
House Speaker Paul Ryan once again proved that he has no self-awareness or grasp on reality after posting a tweet on Saturday touting a secretary’s $1.50 weekly raise, which he credited the GOP tax bill for. Ryan shared an AP Business News article on workers receiving slightly higher salaries after the Republican tax overhaul and…
The massively hyped memo written by GOP congressman Devin Nunes has backfired in several ways, and on Saturday, the campaign of Andrew Janz, the Democratic candidate running against Nunes for his seat in the California House, revealed another way it blew up in the Republican’s face. According to Heather Greven, Janz’ campaign manager, the controversy…
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.
