During their years in the White House, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush sometimes drew criticism from supporters for being overly deferential to their policy advisors — Obama with Wall Street insiders on economic policy, Bush with hawkish neoconservatives on foreign policy. But Pres…
President Donald Trump knows that his nominee for director of national intelligence can’t be confirmed by the Senate. An exclusive Wall Street Journal report revealed that Bill Pulte, who Trump nominated this week, has a reputation of “moves fast and breaks things,” as one CNN reporter said on Tuesd…
President Donald Trump is growing “weaker and weaker” by the day, and according to his one-time biographer, this is all being driven by an incurable flaw in his character. Michael Wolff is a veteran reporter and author, best known for extensive coverage of Trump’s political career, based on contacts…
President Donald Trump is cooking up a new loyalty test for GOP lawmakers, this time driven by clocks, according to Politico, and while the rest of his agenda might be increasingly toxic with voters, this one might actually prove to be fairly popular.As Politico revealed in a Friday morning report, …
In the U.S. House of Representatives, lawmakers have been debating the specifics of a $1.14 trillion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill. And as the bill moves along, according to Punchbowl News, the “fireworks” surrounding the debate continue to intensify.According to Punchbowl reporters…
American democracy, writes political commentator Brian Beutler, is trapped in a precarious contradiction. On one hand, outrage against the corruption and harmful leadership of President Donald Trump has made it likely that he and his party will face backlash at the polls, but at the same time, the l…
The Justice Department was in court on Friday fighting for President Donald Trump’s bulldozing of the White House East Wing for his ballroom.The oral arguments Friday deal with who has the right to sue over the destruction of the White House. Matthew Russell Lee, who runs “Inner City Press,” was liv…
The Iowa primary election ended President Donald Trump’s sweep of his endorsed candidates, with a non-Trump endorsed candidate winning after GOP voters cast ballots for them over the president’s pick. Now, CNN’s data guru is looking at how Trump is working out for those in farm country. “You know, I…
Republicans approved a funding measure that will ultimately cost taxpayers up to $125 million at a time that they’re making drastic cuts to programs like “Meals on Wheels” and Pell grants. Among the measures that passed in the last-minute votes overnight was the House Armed Services vote to formally…
After a lengthy Capitol Hill voting session on funding for immigration and national security agencies, tensions between two prominent Republicans — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) — flared up. Thune argued that Cassidy dragged the sessi…