Outside the Beltway

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

With a third Democrat crossing the aisle to support her, Gina Haspel now has the votes she needs to become the next C.I.A. Director.

Quietly, Mike Pence is seeking to create his own power base inside the GOP even as the White House pushes back.

Don’t look for a Trump agenda for the rest of the year. It doesn’t exist.

When it comes to the Trump White House, the fish rots from the head down.

A small group of Republican rebels in the House are attempting to push legislation protecting DACA beneficiaries to a floor vote. Unfortunately, they’re not likely to succeed.

Republicans joined with Democrats to advance a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but it’s unlikely to go anywhere beyond that.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and in positions of power are slavishly backing their President over their country. They should be ashamed.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

In a bizarre Twitter rant, President Trump declared a DACA deal “dead,” blaming Democrats when it’s clear that it’s largely his fault.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says war against North Korea would be worth it. Ignoring the fact that it would result in casualties unlike anything America has seen since the Vietnam War.

A group of twenty states have revived an old argument to mount a new legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

The prospect for a fix to help DACA beneficiaries is looking gloomier than ever.

A bipartisan group of Senators has proposed a largely reasonable fix to the DACA problem, but its fate remains unclear.

Congress seems no closer to a DACA deal than they were in January.

After spending much of 2017 trying to do it, Republicans are giving up on any effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act before the midterms.

The White House’s immigration plan is facing opposition in both chambers of Congress from moderate and conservative Republicans alike.

The prospects for a deal in Congress on DACA are starting to look grim.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

Less than a day after the President appeared to make a major concession regarding DACA, the White House has thrown a monkey wrench into the whole process.

Getting to a DACA deal isn’t going to be easy.

President Trump called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster to resolve the government shutdown. That’s not going to happen.

It’s Day Two of the Federal Government shutdown and there are few signs of a quick resolution.

Both #TrumpShutdown and #SchumerShutdown put the blame in the wrong place.

With just hours to go, it seems increasingly unlikely that the Senate can reach a deal to keep the government open.

With less than two days to go, the prospects for Congress finding a way to prevent a government shutdown aren’t looking good.

With only days to go, Congress seems unable to come up with either a funding deal for the Federal Government or a solution to the DACA issue.

Once again, President Trump opens his mouth and proceeds to insult a good part of the world while embarrassing the country.

After forty years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch announced that he will not seek re-election this year, thus opening the door for Mitt Romney to succeed him.

Another Alabama woman accuses Roy Moore of sexually assaulting him when she was a teenager.

As a candidate, Donald Trump liked to claim that he only hired the “top people.” and said he would do the same thing as President. So far, it isn’t working out that way.

Notwithstanding overwhelming public support, Congress is not moving forward on a proposal to ban bump stocks.

At least for now, Republicans seem to be giving up on repealing and replacing the PPACA. That’s not going to make the base happy.

Don’t hold your breath, but the Las Vegas shooting may actually prompt Congress to do something.

The latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act appears to be dead.

Senate Republicans have ten days to act on their last-ditch attempt to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, and it’s not at all clear if they have the votes to do so.

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

The effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is dead for now.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

The President has endorsed a bill that would cut legal immigration in half.

A new poll shows that most Americans want Republicans want to move on from their failed effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

Once again, Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to attack women, embarrass himself, and embarrass the nation he purports to represent.

Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.

Congress is running out of time in its effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.