President Donald Trump said he would fund his lavish 90,000-square-foot ballroom with donations from corporations and individuals, and now they’re getting their return on investment. The New Republic’s Finn Hartnett cited a recent report from the nonprofit government watchdog group, Public Citizen,…
As NewsNation contributor Lindsey Granger pointed out on Friday, the previous week had two trends butting up against one another: the final hour for the GOP to advance key agenda priorities, and the fight over some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial actions yet. And as Granger concludes,…
Republicans in Congress have gotten plaudits for their recent opposition to President Donald Trump’s DOJ “slush fund,” which may be temporarily stalled now, but according to a new breakdown from MS NOW, the achievement reveals something more damning about the “feckless party.”Last month, the Justice…
Longtime financial pundit Jim Cramer is worried. While President Donald Trump and his allies applaud Friday’s positive jobs report, Cramer thinks they’re not paying enough attention to the economic needs of “struggling Americans.”While the news that job numbers have increased by 172,000 is theoretic…
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…