Outside the Beltway

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

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

Republicans now face a stark choice.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

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

A big but not unexpected personnel change at the White House.

What looks like it will be the Senate GOP’s last effort on the issue of health care reform died less than a day after being put on the table.

The revelations about Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with someone represented as being a Russian government official just keep getting worse.

After seven years that mostly consisted of losing elections, there’s a battle going on over which direction the party should head.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.

Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidates for 2017’s Governor’s race, but the biggest name is likely to be one not on the ballot, Donald Trump.

In addition to everything else on its plate, Congress will have to revisit raising the debt ceiling again sometime this summer.

Congress is running out of time in its effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords was neither the big win his supporters claim nor the disaster his critics fear.

Despite campaign promises, President Trump won’t be moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem anytime soon.

Despite campaign rhetoric, President Trump won’t be moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel anytime soon.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

In Fox News Channel’s America, Donald Trump can do no wrong and Hillary Clinton is still a threat.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the American Health Care Act.

There’s been a palace coup at The Heritage Foundation.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

Polling indicates that voters find the Democratic Party to be even more out of step than the Republican Party.

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

President Trump’s job approval woes are starting to impact the GOP as a whole.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

A big win for opponents of Voter ID laws.

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

Republicans are going to find it difficult to distance themselves from Donald Trump.

After just sixty-six days, there are some disturbing patterns emerging from the Trump Administration.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

Republicans in Congress are slavishly seeking to divert attention from wrongdoing by Donald Trump, or Russia.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Can the GOP govern? Do they want to or know how to? (Does it matter?).

Well, at least someone has a backbone.

A new head for the DNC at a time when the Democratic Party finds itself reeling and eager to take on Donald Trump.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.