Outside the Beltway

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

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.

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Later today, the President is expected to take some form of ‘Executive Action’ in an effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

A weird media narrative has formed.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

Democrats are trying to rein in President Trump. It won’t work.

The Justice Department has released a memo attempting to justify the Administration’s refusal to comply with a subpoena for the President;’s tax returns. Their argument is weak to say the least.

With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The White House is continuing to stonewall legitimate Congressional investigations, but Congress is starting to push back.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

I continue to be opposed to impeachment of the President, but I’m slowly moving in that direction thanks primary to the Administration’s own actions.

Does the House have an obligation to proceed with impeachment?

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment, folks.

President Trump’s stonewalling strategy suffered another legal setback in New York City yesterday.

The Toddler-in-Chief has issued an ultimatum.

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.

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.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

We already know enough to impeach.

Based on the early stages of the campaign for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, it appears as though the party’s progressive wing has misread the signals being sent by the party’s voters.

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

Right now, polling indicates that the American public is reluctant to support impeachment of the President but it’s possible that could change.

Liz Cheney can pretty much write her own political ticket right now.

There are several months to go before a budget must be passed but there are already signs that the White House and Congress could be headed for an impasse.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared “case closed” on the Mueller Report and the Russia investigation. This is far from the truth.

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.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

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.

A new poll finds that most Americans do not support impeaching the President at this time, but they also don’t believe the President on the issues of Russian interference and obstruction.

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is the latest Democrat to enter an already crowded field.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

The law is not on the President’s side.

It now appears that the Attorney General is keeping publicly-releasable information hidden away longer than necessary.

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.

Predictably, news that the investigation has ended has people on both sides cheering. It’s unwarranted.