Trump And Congress Reach Deal On Budget-Busting Debt Deal
President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.
President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.
On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.
For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.
Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.
The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.
The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.
With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.
The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.
As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.
Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.
The House has passed legislation that would extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans, but it is probably doomed in the Senate.
Attorney General William Barr has opened a new investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, a move that seems suspiciously political.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.
The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.
Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.
Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.
Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.
The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.
Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.
Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.
Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’
The right has spent a seemingly inordinate amount of time focusing on relatively powerless Members of Congress.
The White House isn’t ruling out the idea of a second government shutdown, but Senate Republicans have other ideas.
Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.
As the shutdown drags on, it’s beginning to have an impact on the economy.
The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?
If you’re looking for the biggest obstacle to a resolution to the government shutdown, look no further than President Donald J. Trump.
As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.
As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
As 2018 draws to a close, there’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.
There was no progress on resolving the government shutdown today, and little hope that anything will happen before late next week.
The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.
With just hours to go, a partial government shutdown is becoming more and more likely.
Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.
In a small, but meaningful, step, the Senate has rebuked the Administration’s policies toward the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
House Republicans reportedly don’t have the votes to fund the President’s border wall.
A brewing fight over funding for the President’s border wall could throw a monkey wrench into plans to pass a budget by next Friday.
With one week to go before Election Day, Democrats seem well-positioned to gain control of the House while Republicans seem likely to hold on to the Senate.
Most Americans think Justice Kavanaugh was at least partly deceptive in his response to allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and other women.
Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.
In the past, President Trump has threatened to shut down the government if the doesn’t get what he wants in the budget. The latest budget deal effectively dares him to do it.
With less than two months to go before the midterm elections, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.
It’s not obvious that two more felons in the Trump inner circle will have any immediate impact.
Jim Jordan, who heads the powerful House Freedom Caucus, is being accused of ignoring reports of sexual abuse by a team doctor while he was a coach at The Ohio State University.
There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.
The odds of an immigration bill passing the House were already low. This morning, President Trump pretty much guaranteed failure.
House Republicans are supposed to vote on one or more immigration bills this week, but can’t even agree what their policy should be.
Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?