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…
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…
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…
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…
At the end of the day, the election process was not meant to be the ultimate check on a president who is implicated in criminal activity.
If Democrats want to make the bipartisan case for impeachment, all they have to do is roll the tape of their Republican colleagues.
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday he was “sickened” by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah and an off-and-on Trump critic,…
By David Alexander and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump dismissed questions from reporters on Monday about his staff’s willingness to carry out his orders and the chances of impeachment proceedings in the U.S. Congress, days after the Mueller report highlighted both issues. The 448-page report from U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on…
The man whose campaign met with hostile foreign power officials and spies during the 2016 campaign just tried to accuse Democratic former Secretary of State John Kerry of possibly violating the Logan Act.
By Lauren Tara LaCapra NEW YORK (Reuters) – An array of U.S. companies have told the Trump administration that a citizenship question on the 2020 Census would harm business if it leads to an undercount of immigrants, undermining the data they use to place stores, plan inventory and plot ad campaigns. Corporate executives, lobbyists and…
By Jonathan Landay and Aram Roston WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Erik Prince, founder of the now defunct Blackwater security firm and a supporter of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run, appears to have misled the U.S. Congress on details of contact he had with a Russian banker in January 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report released on…
Sharyl Attkisson, opinion contributor and host of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson on stations operated by the conservative propaganda outlet Sinclair Broadcast Group, echoed the cries of the Right and Donald Trump as she tried desperately to blame Obama for Trump taking help from the Russians to “win†an election. You see, this is really…
Donald Trump has reportedly become increasingly angry and is lashing out at those around him as he watches the cable news coverage.
It also revealed that Trump’s staff and associates frequently ignored the president – disregarding his orders and hoping he just wouldn’t ask again.
As Trump looked for a way to deflect from the damning Mueller report, he took to Twitter to – what else? – trash Barack Obama.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler tore William Barr to shreds for acting as a spin master for Donald Trump.
Trump’s legal team has been able to get out in front of the Mueller report – which is expected to be damning – and craft a rebuttal with Barr’s help.
As Donald Trump goes berserk over Bernie Sanders’ town hall, more Democrats are ready to make the leap onto the president’s turf.
Buttigieg’s follow-up interview with Rachel Maddow on Monday showed that he can match his sharp political style with a level of substance that Trump is ill-equipped to match.
Mnuchin is trying to pull a Trump sleight of hand with the word “shall” that is clear as day on a statute of the tax code that has never been interpreted otherwise. He is also suggesting somehow that the intent of the people asking him to uphold the law somehow mitigates the law.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday he will follow the law regarding Congress’ request for U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax returns but reiterated his concerns about lawmakers’ demands for the documents. “We’re analyzing the law, we’re consulting with the Department of Justice,” Mnuchin said in an interview on Fox Business Network. Congressional Democrats…
Donald Trump brought pizza mogul and fellow sexual predator Herman Cain into the Situation Room to talk border security strategies.
America has an unqualified president of the United States choosing from a list of unqualified people to fill key positions in the federal government.
LEESBURG, Va. (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi castigated Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday for comments he made during congressional hearings this week about the federal probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. “Let me just say, I’m very, very dismayed and disappointed that the chief law enforcement officer of…
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday he would look into whether U.S. agencies illegally spied on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, bringing criticism from Democrats who accused him of promoting a conspiracy theory.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called on Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday to retract his statement that U.S. agencies spied on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “AG Barr admitted he had no evidence to support his claim that spying on the Trump campaign ‘did occur,’” Schumer said in a Twitter post….
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators will introduce legislation on Wednesday mandating that the executive branch disclose details about authorizations it gives companies on sharing sensitive nuclear energy information with countries looking to build reactors. Lawmakers have criticized the Trump administration for issuing seven so-called Part 810 authorizations to…
“I don’t see the qualifications of Cain or Moore fitting in with the mission of the Fed, which is to conduct monetary policy and not be political,” Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Americans did not care about the issue and that his returns were being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which tax and legal experts have said does not prevent their release.
Stephen Moore, the economic commentator whom President Donald Trump plans to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board, lacks the expertise and political independence needed to help set interest rates for the U.S. economy, a top Congressional Democrat said on Tuesday.
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the House of Representatives are gearing up to issue subpoenas to try to obtain Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election and President Donald Trump’s actions related to the inquiry. The question is: how successful will they be? Attorney General…
By Tom Hals (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of migrants. The ruling is slated to take effect on…
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the agency that provides protection for him and other top U.S. officials, the White House said on Monday, a day after the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The dismissal of Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex”…
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell is officially the 18th Democrat to declare his candidacy for president, but the field is as strong as it is large.
If there was any remaining doubt about the president’s childishness, his treatment of outgoing Secret Service head Randolph Alles should clear it up.
Cain said he must turn over records from 50 years in business, including numerous professional jobs, service on boards, and extensive speeches.
The 73-year-old said it was not clear if he will pass the ongoing FBI background check, a standard practice before a high-ranking nomination.
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – Former pizza chain executive Herman Cain, U.S. President Donald Trump‘s pick for a position on the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting panel, runs a political fundraising group that has spent more than half its money supporting Trump‘s reelection. Cain, himself a former Republican presidential candidate and a long-time conservative activist, chairs…
The FBI is examining whether a Chinese woman who bluffed her way into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last weekend had any links to Chinese intelligence or political influence operations, two U.S. government sources said on Thursday.
Without anger and fear, Trump wouldn’t be in the White House in the first place. It’s the hot air that fuels his Hindenburg presidency.
“If these recent reports are accurate … then those summaries should be publicly released as soon as possible,” the chairman said.
It’s no surprise now that the president is attacking the same lawmakers – Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff – driving the effort to get Mueller’s report.
The goal of the hastily-released Barr report was never to give the American people a clear and fair summary of Mueller’s findings.
Trump will never measure up to Barack Obama, both in terms of character and presidential success, and he will rank among the worst presidents in history.
O’Rourke’s proposal would be a big shift from Trump’s Cabinet, where out-of-touch secretaries view taxpayer dollars as their own personal piggy bank.
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee said it will vote on Wednesday on whether to authorize subpoenas to obtain Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Lawmakers will also consider subpoenas for underlying evidence from Mueller’s investigation and from five former aides…
By Julio-Cesar Chavez EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – The death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in U.S. federal custody in December was caused by strep-induced sepsis, a Texas medical examiner’s autopsy report released on Friday showed. Jakelin Caal traveled with her father to a remote stretch of U.S. border in Antelope Wells, New Mexico, where…
With the administration renewing its push to take health care coverage from millions of Americans, health care is likely to be even more important in 2020.Â
White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Friday that President Donald Trump is eager for a U.S. trade deal with Britain once it breaks away from the European Union.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, or at least large sections of the frontier, if Mexico “doesn’t immediately stop all illegal immigration coming into the United States” from the region. Trump has repeatedly vowed to close the U.S. border with Mexico in the…
While MSNBC and CNN largely steered clear of Trump’s rally, Fox News devoted its airtime to the president as he threw a grade school tantrum in Michigan.
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the op-ed column that may vault think tank analyst Stephen Moore to a spot on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, he argues the Fed could have skirted recent rate hikes and dodged a wave of criticism by tying monetary policy to commodity prices. The Fed, Moore wrote…
By Tom Miles and Tim Hepher GENEVA/PARIS (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization said on Thursday the United States had ignored its request to halt a subsidized tax break for Boeing in its main planemaking state of Washington as a 15-year-old transatlantic trade row edges toward tit-for-tat sanctions. The European Union said the WTO appeal…
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a resolution directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Donald Trump.
Ben Rhodes reminded the president that dozens of people in his orbit were indicted in the special counsel investigation that just wrapped up.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday expanded its anti-abortion policies, prohibiting U.S.-funded organizations from supporting other groups that support abortion and forbidding the use of U.S. tax dollars to lobby for or against abortion. In 2017, Trump reinstated a policy known as the Mexico City Policy which requires foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that…
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters Monday morning that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) should resign over his collusion comments because she says he “lied.”
Congressman John Lewis believes Donald Trump is an illegitimate president, regardless of what Robert Mueller’s final report concludes.
PALM BEACH, Fl./BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) – Islamic State militants in eastern Syria still held out late on Friday, the U.S.-backed militia besieging them said, after U.S. President Donald Trump said the jihadist group had lost its last scrap of territory. “Heavy fighting continues around mount Baghouz right now to finish off whatever remains of ISIS…
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The closure of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election does not mark the end of legal worries for President Donald Trump and people close to him. Other ongoing investigations and litigation are focusing on issues including his businesses and financial dealings, personal…
By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he knew nothing about son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner’s use of the WhatsApp encrypted messaging tool, a day after a top Democratic congressman pressed the White House for information on the issue. Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight…
There is a lot that can be said of Donald Trump, but in no version of reality should his name be in the same sentence as the word “savior.”Â
The fact that Trump is already profiting from his reelection bid more than a year before the 2020 election would be stunning if it wasn’t so predictable.
In another unhinged rant, Donald Trump said he doesn’t talk about John McCain – moments after he hit the late senator with more attacks.
The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing to pay for President Donald Trump’s much-debated border wall by shifting funds away from projects that include $1.2 billion for schools, childcare centers and other facilities for military children, according to a list it has provided to lawmakers.
Kellyanne Conway sided with Trump over her husband, telling Politico: “He (Trump) left it alone for months out of respect for me. But you think he shouldn’t respond when somebody, a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder? You think he should just take that sitting down?”
A federal judge on Tuesday contradicted the Trump administration’s “incorrect” claim that no legal blocks remain for it to enforce a contentious policy to restrict many transgender individuals from the U.S. armed forces starting on April 12.
Vicky Ward said the president’s grown daughter and son-in-law, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, went into government not for public service but for self-service.
Beto O’Rourke has said that he wants to show up everywhere. Early in his campaign, he has certainly upheld that commitment.
Regardless of Joe Biden’s ultimate decision, it’s clear that the Democratic primary race is about to get even more exciting.
It is essentially up to Congress to go through the list and figure out which projects will not be affected, including military housing, barracks and projects that have already been awarded funding.
Dismissing Donald Trump as you would a child who doesn’t know any better is the surest way to drive him absolutely insane.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his television show “The Apprentice” or delay it until after he leaves the White House. In a 3-2 decision in favor of former contestant Summer Zervos, the…
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior Senate Republican gave a lukewarm welcome to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget plan, complaining on Wednesday that growing debt was taking the country in “an ominous direction.” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi opened a hearing on the Republican president’s proposal with a broad attack on…
No matter who the Democratic nominee is in 2020, Donald Trump’s budget will be a gift to them. The ads will write themselves.
His attorney was not allowed in, but his immigration court case continued anyway – over a video conference line. On Feb. 12, the judge ordered Mejia deported back to Honduras.
Trump’s budget asked for $8.6 billion to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico, more than six times what Congress gave him for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than he has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year after he failed to get the money he wanted.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday asked Congress in his fiscal 2020 budget to slash spending for foreign aid while increasing spending on the military and for the wall he wants to build on the U.S.-Mexico border, a senior administration official told reporters. The budget would raise defense spending by 4 percent…
Vermont senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders promised on Saturday that he will support the eventual nominee.
The 18-foot-high (5.5 meters) steel barrier is meant to deter illegal immigration. But its position inside the border has turned it into a destination for human smugglers trafficking large groups of asylum seekers fleeing poverty and violence.
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, who was considered a top candidate to become the next secretary of defense, has decided to resign after almost two years to return to academia, U.S. officials told Reuters, leaving another vacant post at the top level of the Pentagon. Wilson was not…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) – Two U.S. House Democrats on Thursday asked the White House and Justice Department to turn over documents that could show whether Republican President Donald Trump sought to intervene in the regulatory review of AT&T Inc’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc. In letters released on Thursday, House Judiciary Committee…
U.S. job growth almost stalled in February, with the economy creating only 20,000 jobs as construction and retail payrolls dropped, which could raise concerns about a sharp slowdown in economic activity.
The documents listed 10 journalists, an attorney and 47 others, some of them labeled organizers and instigators from the United States and elsewhere. The NBC affiliate in San Diego, KNSD-TV, said it received the documents from an unidentified source in the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump’s about-face would “block potential competitors from developing the existing property on Pennsylvania Avenue across the street from the Trump Hotel,” the Democrats said.
The Trump slam ‘Summa Cum Liar’ is trending right now on Twitter, largely in part to the man who coined it, George Conway, also known as Kellyanne Conway’s husband.
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress on Wednesday that some reimbursement checks issued to him for hush-money payments to an adult film star were signed by Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer.
By Soyoung Kim HANOI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet on Wednesday for their second summit, betting their personal relationship can break a stalemate over the North’s nuclear weapons and end more than 70 years of hostility. Despite little progress toward his stated goal of ridding North…
As these changes hit taxpayers for the first time in 2019, there are signs that the Trump-GOP tax law is only getting less popular.
No matter who the Democratic nominee is, it will be a challenge to keep track of all the lies Trump will tell during the campaign
If Trump is voted out in 2020 – or removed from office sooner – criminal charges could very likely be waiting for him when his presidency ends.
As millions of Americans continue to feel the impact of the Trump-Republican tax scheme, it will become impossible to defend.
The climate of hate that Trump has created throughout his time in presidential politics is inspiring a new wave of right-wing terrorism.
For two years, Republicans have calculated that it was a smart move to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the five-alarm fire in the White House.
While Democrats roll out policies and proposals that actually benefit middle and low-income workers, Trump will double down on minority resentment.
It’s a pretty clear-cut concept that the president of the United States can’t just concoct a national emergency in order to circumvent Congress.
Donald Trump’s re-election hopes are in big trouble as every declared or potential Democratic contender is winning over 50 percent of the vote.
“We will not stand for this abuse of power and will fight back with every legal tool at our disposal,” New York’s Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released a joint statement Friday morning blasting President Trump for declaring a national emergency, threatening to seek every remedy in the Courts to defend their constitutional authorities.
This national emergency is another massive con job from a desperate president who lacks the ability and willingness to govern the country like a responsible adult.
