Outside the Beltway

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

Bob Corker, who has served in the Senate since winning election in 2006, announced yesterday that he would not stand for re-election.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

The Trump Administration has been hit with two new lawsuits over the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

America’s longest war seems likely to soon turn into America’s never-ending war.

Notwithstanding his promises during the campaign, President Trump seems likely to go forward with sanctions reductions required under the nuclear deal with Iran.

Once again, Congress is abdicating its Constitutional responsibilities.

The Trump Administration’s effort to impose sanctions against North Korea suffered a significant defeat in the United Nations Security Council.

The University of California has joined the list of Plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration over its decision to end DACA.

Despite pleas from conservative lawmakers, the Dept. of Justice will not reopen the case against former I.R.S. official Lois Lerner.

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

President Trump likes to take credit for the state of the economy, but the truth is that things are actually doing slightly worse under his Administration than they were under his predecessor.

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

At a time when our alliance is more important than ever, President Trump is responding by attacking our ally.

Another Trump lie.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

Trump isn’t going to win any regional popularity awards in LA.

Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

President Trump’s effort to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military faces two new legal challenges.

President Trump’s attempts to interfere in the administration of justice go beyond the Russia investigation.

President Trump’s shameful decision to ban transgender Americans from the military has nothing to do with military readiness and everything to do with pandering to his far-right base.

The Trump Administration has reportedly finalized its order to the Defense Department regarding a ban on military service by transgender soldiers.

Texas suffers another legal setback in its effort to pass a Voter ID law.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

Based on initial reports, Trump’s Afghanistan policy looks a lot like what we’ve seen for the past sixteen years.

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

Just about two weeks after being announced, the President’s proposed ban on military service by transgender troops is being challenged in Court.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

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.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are making clear that President Trump’s tweets are not official policy. At least not yet.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

A good choice for an important position.

New polling indicates that the Affordable Care Act has gained in popularity with the American public, while Republican reform efforts are viewed overwhelmingly negatively.

The June Jobs Report was significantly better than what we saw in May but on the whole not different from what we’ve seen for the last three years or so.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.

No wonder they wrote it in secret and want to move quickly to a vote…

Foolishly, President Trump is rolling back part of President Obama’s opening to Cuba.

The Trump Administration will not try to stop former F.B.I. Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.