The Treasury Secretary is declining to comply with a Congressional request for the President’s tax returns. Whether this is proper is a question that will have to be resolved by the courts.
Later this week, the House Judiciary Committee will vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, but it most likely won’t go anywhere.
The move creates a rare Senate opening in the Equality State, and an opportunity for the daughter of a certain former Vice-President.
Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.
Newly discovered evidence shows that foreign governments have expanded their leasing of space from at least one Trump-owned office building in New York City.
New poll numbers suggest that Congressional Democrats need to be careful about how aggressively they pursue their investigations of the Trump White House.
Robert Mueller objected to the Attorney General’s characterization of the final report he submitted, reports indicate.
Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.
200-odd Congressional Democrats are taking an odd route to go after corruption.
In the end, Impeachment is a political act more than a legal one. For that reason, Democrats should not pursue impeachment unless they have a reasonable chance of winning.
President Trump and the top Democrats in Congress announced a purported $2 trillion infrastructure deal but there’s no reason to believe it will ever become law.
Democratic House members are finding that their constituents aren’t quite as eager for impeachment as some party activists are.
Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.
President Trump claims that he’d challenge any effort to impeach him in court, but the law makes clear that he can’t.
The House of Representatives is asking a Federal Judge to block the President’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.
Stephen Moore, who has been nominated to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board by President Trump. has a history of controversial remarks about women.
When it comes to Herman Cain’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board, the answer is officially Nein, Nein, Nein!
Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is the latest Democrat to enter an already crowded field.
The Wall Street Journal tries, and fails, to defend President Trump’s indefensible veto of the Congressional resolution regarding the war on Yemen.
President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.
The White House appears to be preparing for the worst when it comes to the nominations of Herman Cain and Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve Board.
Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.
Roy Moore has not said that he’s running for Senate again in Alabama, but he’s already threatening to up-end the race for the GOP nomination.
Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
A bipartisan bill will protect the tax preparation industry at the expense of the citizenry.
Says “He’s pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal.”
The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.
Senate Republicans are pushing for the end of minority obstruction—and the Democrats can’t wait.
He’s a national treasure who has been appropriately honored for a lifetime of service and sacrifice. But this seems different.
In some expert trolling, the Senate Majority Leader decries “mindless, undiscriminating obstruction for the sake of obstruction.”
The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.
Congress is doing its damned job for a change.
Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.
The Democratic Speaker of the House says there will be no charges against the Republican President barring an “overwhelming and bipartisan” consensus.
President Trump will ask for $8.6 billion for his border wall in his Fiscal Year 2020 budget. He’s unlikely to get it.
Disgraced former Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is apparently “seriously considering” running for Senate in 2020.
It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.
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.
A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.
There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.
Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.
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.
Nancy Pelosi is tired of Democrats voting to please their constituents.
Instead of merely seeking to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, Congress should instead significantly amend the National Emergencies Act.
Michael Cohen pulled back the curtain and revealed much about the true nature of Donald Trump yesterday. It’s not a pretty picture.
Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.