CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s report on the investigation into Russia’s election interference will be made public by mid-April, Attorney General William P. Barr told lawmakers on Friday, adding that the White House would not see the document before he sent it to Congress…Prosecutors from the office of the special counsel, Robert […]
Category: Congress
3/28/2019
CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 5:43 am […]
3/27/2019
CONGRESS/POLLS/TRUMP TAXES: “There’s no groundswell among voters for Congress to force President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Half of those surveyed said it should be a priority for Congress, while 40 percent said it wasn’t very important or shouldn’t be done at all. The rest said […]
3/27/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the days since Attorney General William P. Barr wrote to Congress describing the still secret report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, a mystery he introduced remains pressing: Why did Mr. Mueller take no position on whether President Trump obstructed justice? Mr. Barr spoke briefly by phone on Wednesday […]
3/27/2019
CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s surprise decision to press for a court-ordered demolition of the Affordable Care Act came after a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, where the president’s acting chief of staff and others convinced him that he could do through the courts what he could not do […]
3/26/2019
CONGRESS/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday [3-26-19], just 36 hours removed from one of the best moments of his presidency: Attorney General Bill Barr announcing — via a letter to Congress — that special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish any conspiracy or coordination between the President’s 2016 […]
3/26/2019
CONGRESS/FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [3-26-19] unanimously approved a resolution directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Donald Trump. In a surprising show of bipartisanship, days after U.S. Attorney General William Barr told Congress he did […]
3/25/2019
CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump brags that his new NAFTA deal is the most important trade agreement in U.S. history, but a congressionally mandated analysis due out next month is expected to show that it will provide only a slight boost to economic growth — or even a small negative impact. Laura Baughman, […]
3/25/2019
CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today’s letter from Attorney General William Barr to Congress summarizing the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller is an enormous win, legally and politically, for President Donald Trump. But many political and legal battles of enormous consequence still lie ahead. Two critical points at the outset. First, Barr’s letter is […]
3/18/2019
BUDGET/CONGRESS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (the ‘Act’), as amended, 2 U.S.C. 901a, I hereby order that, on October 1, 2019, direct spending budgetary resources for […]
3/25/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION: “Congress’s vote to deny the crisis on the southern border is a vote against reality. It’s against reality. It is a tremendous national emergency. It is a tremendous crisis. Last month, more than 76,000 illegal migrants arrived at our border. We’re on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders. People hate […]
3/14/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prominent legal scholars agree that our actions to address the National Emergency at the Southern Border and to protect the American people are both CONSTITUTIONAL and EXPRESSLY authorized by Congress….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 14, 2019 9:13 am […]
3/14/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….If, at a later date, Congress wants to update the law, I will support those efforts, but today’s issue is BORDER SECURITY and Crime!!! Don’t vote with Pelosi!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 14, 2019 9:13 am […]
3/14/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “…A quick catch-up: Today, a dozen Republicans in the Senate voted with Democrats to reject President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for his border wall. Their rebuke comes just hours after the House — in an overwhelming, bipartisan, 420-0 vote — backed a resolution urging the Justice […]
3/14/2019
CONGRESS/MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Time and again — when President Trump stood by Saudi Arabia after the killing of a Virginia-based journalist, when it looked as if he might intervene in the special counsel’s Russia investigation and when he threatened to declare a national emergency to pay for his border wall — lawmakers on Capitol […]
3/13/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On the eve of Congress’ unprecedented rebuke of President Donald Trump, a majority of voters continue to oppose his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The poll shows that Trump has failed to build support for his declaration in the face of congressional […]
3/12/2019
CONGRESS/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Jim_Jordan: Why did @AdamSchiff try to block Congress from learning that the Clinton campaign paid for the Dossier?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 12, 2019 11:05 pm […]
3/12/2019
AIRLINE INDUSTRY/CONGRESS/FAA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Boeing’s beleaguered 737 MAX 8 jetliner, despite pleas from lawmakers of both parties who said the U.S. should join a growing list of governments that have barred the plane amid questions about two deadly air crashes. The FAA’s action avoided the major disruptions that could occur if regulators were to sideline […]
3/12/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House and Republican senators sought compromise Tuesday [3-12-19] on limiting presidents’ powers to unilaterally declare national emergencies, as chances improved that President Donald Trump might avoid a long-expected rejection by Congress of his effort to divert billions more for building barriers along the Mexican border. As a Thursday [3-14-19] showdown […]
3/12/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Democrats in Congress prepare to scrutinize President Donald Trump’s review of 27 national monuments, most of the recommendations made by ex-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke remain unfinished as other matters consume the White House. Trump acted quickly in December 2017 on Zinke’s recommendations to shrink two sprawling Utah monuments that had been […]
3/11/2019
BUDGET/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump sent his annual budget vision to Congress on Monday [3-11-19], starting a new battle over how to fund the government that sets up the nation for an even more destructive shutdown when money runs out later this year. The president’s plan seeks deep cuts from agencies like the Department […]
3/11/2019
BUDGET/CONGRESS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump sent Congress on Monday [3-11-19] a record $4.75 trillion budget plan that calls for increased military spending and sharp cuts to domestic programs like education and environmental protection for the 2020 fiscal year. Mr. Trump’s budget, the largest in federal history, includes a nearly 5 percent increase in military spending […]
3/8/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/LEGISLATION/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump today said he plans to send the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to Congress very soon, which would start a 90-day clock for lawmakers to approve or reject the plan without any changes…The comment came as many Democrats are demanding the Trump administration reopen the agreement to strengthen labor and environmental […]
3/7/2019
CONGRESS/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An internal federal government watchdog told Congress on Thursday that it found the White House’s first drug control strategy out of compliance with legal requirements. The Government Accountability Office’s acting Director for Strategic Issues Triana McNeil told a panel of lawmakers the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy’s 2019 drug […]
3/7/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are on track to APPREHEND more than one million people coming across the Southern Border this year. Great job by Border Patrol (and others) who are working in a Broken System. Can be fixed by Congress so easily and quickly if only the Democrats would get on board!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
3/6/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen provided the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee with new documents and may hand over more, the panel’s chairman said after a day-long hearing behind closed doors. Democratic Representative Adam Schiff told reporters that Cohen was cooperative and the eight-hour hearing was ‘very […]
3/6/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal government is doing a worse job managing the problem of climate change under President Donald Trump, according to an investigation from the Government Accountability Office that included climate change on its High Risk List report on Wednesday [3-6-19]. This year’s High Risk List is a 293-page assessment of the […]
3/6/2019
CONGRESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen on Wednesday [3-6-19] provided the House Intelligence Committee with new documents showing edits to the false written statement he delivered to Congress in 2017 about the Trump Organization’s pursuit of the Trump Tower Moscow project into the 2016 campaign season, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. […]
3/6/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressman Chris Stewart: ‘No one is accusing the President of a crime and yet they (the Democrats) are issuing hundreds of subpoenas. This is unprecedented.’ They are desperately trying to find anything they can, even a punctuation mistake in a document!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 6, 2019 6:56 pm […]
3/5/2019
CONGRESS/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Federal Reserve may soon tighten restrictions on foreign banks to prevent them from relying too much on the U.S. central bank in a crisis, a move that’s likely to face pushback from the industry, Republicans in Congress and other countries. The Fed, under leaders appointed by President Barack Obama, ramped […]
3/4/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “With Senator Rand Paul’s decision to support a resolution to block President Trump’s emergency declaration, Congress appears ready to deliver a stern rebuke to the president over his border wall and a clear statement that it will defend its ability to control federal spending. Senator Paul, a libertarian-minded Kentuckian, said he will […]
3/3/2019
CONGRESS: “We have people in Congress — right now, we have people in Congress that hate our country… They hate our country. It’s sad. It’s very sad.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference,” whitehouse.gov, Mar. 3, 2019 […]
3/1/2019
CONGRESS/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump claimed Friday [3-1-19] that his former lawyer Michael Cohen shopped a book to publishers that portrayed Trump in a favorable light, vastly at odds with Cohen’s damning testimony to Congress. In a tweet, Trump said that Cohen’s manuscript was a ‘love letter’ to him and that Congress should […]
3/1/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors, several U.S. congressional committees are pursuing investigations focusing on President Donald Trump, looking at questions regarding Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election as well as the Republican president’s finances. Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in […]
3/1/2019
CONGRESS/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Saturday [3-2-19] that a just-released manuscript of a book written by Michael Cohen would show his longtime personal lawyer had lied to Congress without offering evidence for the explosive claim…It’s unclear whether any such manuscript exists, whether Trump has seen it or whether the president is continuing […]
3/1/2019
CONGRESS/DEFICIT/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The self-described ‘king of debt’ is about to get religion. In the next several months, the Trump administration faces several big spending and budget showdowns with Congress. And after mostly brushing off deficit concerns while pushing through a costly tax-cut plan, the White House now plans to reposition itself as an unlikely […]
3/1/2019
CONGRESS/SPACE FORCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon has sent a legislative proposal to Congress calling for the establishment of a Space Force within the United States military, a top defense priority for the Trump administration, senior defense officials said Friday [3-1-19]. If authorized by Congress, the proposal would allow for the creation of a sixth service […]
3/1/2019
CONGRESS/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago. Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony. Like a different person! He is totally discredited!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 1, 2019 8:08 am […]
2/28/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As Michael Cohen shed new light on the inner workings of President Donald Trump’s family business Wednesday [2-27-19], he rattled off a list of Trump Organization officials who are now likely to face congressional scrutiny of their own. Under questioning by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, Trump’s former personal […]
2/28/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Long before Michael Cohen came to Congress to cast President Donald Trump as a ‘con man’ and possibly a criminal, the president’s longtime personal attorney had given doubters plenty to chew on. Cohen arrived at House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s much-anticipated hearing on Wednesday [2-27-19] just two months removed from […]
2/28/2019
CONGRESS/HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump criticized the congressional testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen as ‘shameful’ and accused Cohen of lying ‘a lot.’ Trump’s remarks Thursday [2-28-19] came just hours after Cohen, during extraordinary testimony before a House committee, branded Trump as a ‘con man’ and a racist and accused […]
2/28/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “Yesterday’s testimony by Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, before the House Oversight Committee was full of theatrics. But between allegations of presidential lawbreaking and racism were revelations about how the Trump Organization operated. They weren’t flattering. Mr. Trump inflated his net worth to apply for bank loans, according […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the high-stakes battle between President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen, some of the people in their immediate orbit are ending up as collateral hits. Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer dropped several names of people in Trump’s inner circle Wednesday during his nationally televised testimony before the […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer on Wednesday [2-27-19] laid out a series of damning accusations against the president, presenting evidence of alleged lies and criminal conduct and expressing remorse over his decade of service to a man he described as unstable and racist. Michael Cohen testified to the House […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The witness slumped a bit, digging his dress shoes into the blue diamond carpet pattern, mouth sagging at the sides like a hound who knows he has defied his master. From the start on Wednesday [2-27-19], Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, had been willing to concede quite […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/ETHICS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael D. Cohen’s congressional testimony on Wednesday [2-27-19] revived questions about whether President Trump broke the law by failing to disclose that he footed the bill for a hush payment to a pornographic film actress. Members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee grilled Mr. Cohen, who served for a decade […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In early 2014, Donald J. Trump approached his personal bankers at Deutsche Bank to sound them out about potentially lending him money to buy the Buffalo Bills. He provided the bankers with a collection of bare-bones personal financial statements. The documents were provided so that Deutsche Bank — the only […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former lawyer told Congress on Wednesday [2-27-19] that Mr. Trump remained deeply involved in the arrangement to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress, even while in the White House, telling him just a year ago to lie to a journalist about the president’s involvement. Testifying before […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/CONGRESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The dramatic public testimony to Congress on Wednesday [2-27-19] morning by President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, could intensify the legal issues facing the president in the criminal and civil investigations that are swirling around him, legal experts said. Mr. Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight and Reform […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer accused him on Wednesday [2-27-19] of an expansive pattern of lies and criminality, offering a damning portrayal of life inside the president’s orbit where he said advisers sacrificed integrity for proximity to power. Michael D. Cohen, who represented Mr. Trump for a decade, laid […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “It was a moment of diplomatic stagecraft months in the making. But it didn’t take long for President Donald Trump’s domestic troubles to get in the way. As Trump sat alongside the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, at a luxury hotel here, he was immediately confronted by the explosive […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress on Wednesday [2-27-19] that some reimbursement checks issued to him for hush-money payments to an adult film star were signed by Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer. Cohen said Donald Trump himself, while president, signed a […]
2/26/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and his national emergency declaration(all times local): 6:30 p.m. The House has voted to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration, a measure intended get him billions of extra dollars to build his border wall. Democrats pushed the measure through the chamber by 245-182, with 13 Republicans […]
2/26/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “More than a dozen Republicans voted with Democrats to block President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the United States border with Mexico. If the Senate also passes the bill, Mr. Trump has promised that he would veto the bill to protect his emergency declaration. Several Republicans voted to block President […]
2/26/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen expressed contrition Tuesday [2-26-19] upon his return to Capitol Hill, apologizing to the Senate Intelligence Committee for the lies he told during his 2017 testimony, according to multiple sources familiar with his interview. Cohen testified for roughly nine hours behind closed […]
2/26/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The House voted Tuesday [2-26-19] to overturn President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, delivering a harsh rebuke to the president’s attempt to go around Congress to fund a border wall. Every Democrat voted in favor, along with 13 Republicans. The Senate, which needs just fourGOP votes to approve it and send it […]
2/26/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Democratic lawmakers will question U.S. President Donald Trump’s former aide Michael Cohen at a public hearing on Wednesday [2-27-19] over whether Trump’s lawyers misled ethics officials about illegal hush payments to women during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Cohen will be asked in the House […]
2/26/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen plans to tell U.S. lawmakers this week that Trump asked him several times about a proposed skyscraper project in Moscow long after he secured the Republican presidential nomination, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen’s assertion that Trump was inquiring […]
2/26/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, will provide documents to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday [2-27-19] that he says prove Trump committed ‘illicit’ acts, according to prepared congressional testimony obtained by POLITICO. The documents include one of 11 checks that Trump purportedly wrote after he became president […]
2/22/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Latest on President Donald Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border to get financing of a wall on that border (all times local): 3:40 p.m. President Donald Trump is pledging a veto if Congress passes a resolution blocking his use of a national emergency declaration to fund […]
2/21/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just a week before President Donald Trump is set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, key Democratic House chairmen accused the president on Thursday [2-21-19] of withholding information about his administration’s negotiations with North Korea…Their letter comes as Trump is preparing to meet for a second time […]
2/20/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urged members of Congress on Wednesday [2-20-19] to back a resolution halting the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to fund a border wall. Pelosi’s call to action comes as the White House plows ahead on transferring federal funds not contingent on Trump’s declaration […]
2/20/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi is throwing her muscle behind a legislative effort to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, the first formal step to counter Trump and squeeze Republicans on the border wall. Democrats will introduce legislation Friday [2-22-19] to terminate the emergency proclamation and Pelosi is urging House colleagues on […]
2/20/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to introduce a resolution on Friday [2-22-19] to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on border security, according to aides to Representative Joaquin Castro. So far, 92 lawmakers have joined Castro in backing the legislation, which under House rules could advance within weeks […]
2/19/2019
CONGRESS/MILITARY/SPACE FORCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed a new policy directive Tuesday [2-19-19] laying out his administration’s long-awaited plans for establishing a Space Force…The document, officially called Space Policy Directive-4, was discussed earlier Tuesday by Gen. David Goldfein, the chief of staff of the Air Force…Defense officials tell CNN that following Trump’s signing of […]
2/19/2019
CONGRESS/DEFENSE/SPACE FORCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump moved forward with his planned United States Space Force on Tuesday [2-19-19], signing an order to begin the process for establishing a new branch of the military that would be dedicated to handling threats in space. Mr. Trump’s directive orders the Defense Department to ‘marshal its space resources to […]
2/18/2019
CONGRESS/MILITARY/SPACE FORCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will sign a directive on Tuesday [[2-19-19] to establish a new branch of the military dedicated to space but instead of being a fully independent department it will remain part of the Air Force to assuage concerns in Congress, a senior administration official told POLITICO. The presidential directive, […]
2/15/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We’re ending the week on a high note: The government isn’t going to shut down tonight! Republicans, Democrats, Congress and the President came together (mostly), put aside their differences (kinda), and have passed a stopgap spending bill that lacks Trump’s stated $5.7 billion for the border wall. He officially signed the bill […]
2/15/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As President Trump declared a national emergency on Friday [2-15-19] to bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall, he again painted a portrait of a lawless, chaotic border and cited arguments about the effectiveness of the kind of barrier he has in mind that were not rooted in facts. Illegal border crossings […]
2/15/2019
CONGRESS/GOP/OBAMA/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Outraged House Republicans sued President Barack Obama in 2014 for spending billions of federal dollars without congressional approval — and won. Now many House and Senate Republicans could side with President Trump for doing what they saw as a grave abuse of power by Mr. Obama — circumventing an unwilling Congress in […]
2/15/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump met his day of defeat with a list of grievances. He lashed out at Congress for denying him the money to build a border wall. He called his Democratic rivals liars. He blasted former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan for inaction when the GOP controlled Congress. And, of course, […]
2/15/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s attempt to circumvent Congress to fund his border wall has set off an intense scramble by Democratic leaders to reject the move — with efforts to halt his emergency declaration set to come before Congress and the courts. The Democratic-controlled House plans to pursue that two-track approach immediately. Plans […]
2/11/2019
CONGRESS/FOREIGN POLICY/MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are fuming at President Donald Trump for telling lawmakers he would disregard a law requiring a report to Congress determining who is responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The uproar among Republicans is just the latest example of their deep discontent with the president’s foreign […]
2/9/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats in Congress yesterday were vicious and totally showed their cards for everyone to see. When the Republicans had the Majority they never acted with such hatred and scorn! The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 9, […]
2/8/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump refused to provide Congress a report on Friday [2-8-19] determining who killed the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, defying a demand by lawmakers intent on establishing whether the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was behind the grisly assassination. Mr. Trump effectively bypassed a deadline set by law as his administration argued […]
2/7/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional negotiators are nearing a deal on border security to avoid a government shutdown — if the president will accept it. Democrats and Republicans have been trading offers all week; any deal is likely to provide funding for technology and fencing on the southern border, according to senators and aides. Republicans were […]
2/7/2019
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump accused Democrats on Thursday [2-7-19] morning of ‘presidential harassment’ over congressional investigations into his finances, and he mocked Virginia politicians whose jobs are in peril after revelations they appeared in blackface. Then, the president went to the annual National Prayer Breakfast, where he implored attendees to open up to […]
2/7/2019
CONGRESS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So now Congressman Adam Schiff announces, after having found zero Russian Collusion, that he is going to be looking at every aspect of my life, both financial and personal, even though there is no reason to be doing so. Never happened before! Unlimited Presidential Harassment….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 7, 2019 6:13 […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [2-6-19] he wants to see more legal immigration because additional workers are needed by companies moving back to the United States…Trump’s remarks followed an unscripted comment in his State of the Union address Tuesday [2-5-19] in which he called for immigrants to enter the U.S. legally in […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/FOREIGN POLICY/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress inched closer to a major foreign-policy rebuke of President Donald Trump on Wednesday [2-6-19] when the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bill to cut off U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen’s bloody civil war. In a party-line vote, the panel’s Democrats sent a War Powers […]
2/8/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, President George W. Bush declared a national emergency to do something Republicans had long wanted to do anyway: He suspended prevailing wage laws on federal contracts to rebuild the region. Labor unions protested. Democrats signed on to a bill to rewrite the law. […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “You might say that Donald Trump’s presidency seems to be heading toward a wall. Trump strode down the center aisle of the House of Representatives chamber Tuesday [2-5-19] night just as he did at last year’s State of the Union. Once again, he stuck to a script – an evening for Teleprompter […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats accused President Donald Trump of using Nixonian intimidation tactics during his State of the Union address when he denounced ‘ridiculous partisan investigations,’ vowing to press on with their probes into the president’s administration, campaign and personal finances…Connolly’s disgust — accentuated by his head-shaking as he left the chamber — came […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump will return to the U.S.-Mexico border next week amid ongoing negotiations to avoid another government shutdown and as the White House lays the groundwork for declaring a national emergency to build a border wall. A day after a State of the Union address in which Trump discussed the need […]
2/6/2019
CHUCK SCHUMER/CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday [2-6-19] that President Donald Trump’s oblique denunciation of probes into his administration was a signal that he is ‘scared’ of such inquiries and ‘has something to hide.’ Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the president touted his administration’s claimed […]
2/6/2019
CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump lauded his new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico in his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] and urged Congress to pass the revised pact. The deal, he argued, will help American farmers and workers and ensure ‘that more cars are proudly stamped with the four beautiful […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “As President Donald Trump highlighted the number of women who now have jobs thanks to his administration, the record number of Democratic women elected to Congress last year rose to their feet and cheered. The moment during Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night allowed for a rare bipartisan moment, […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump appeared before a divided Congress for the first time on Tuesday [2-5-19] to appeal to lawmakers’ sense of unity at a moment of deepening partisan spite. His calls for conciliation were met with mostly stone-faced silence from Democrats, who bitterly oppose his agenda and accuse him of hastening […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump came to the House chamber on Tuesday [2-5-19] night pushing a message of unity, but the deep divisions that have ripped this city apart over the last two years were on vivid display throughout the night. The Democrats in the audience — many of whom wore white, the […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stacey Abrams, who nearly became both the first African-American and first woman to be governor of Georgia, will deliver the Democrats’ response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19], test-driving the party’s 2020 challenge to President Donald Trump. After losing a Southern state that Trump won in 2016 by […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/INFRASTRUCTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will ask Congress in his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] to pass legislation to boost the nation’s aging infrastructure, but will not explain how to pay for it, administration officials said. Trump is likely to set a benchmark of investing at least $1 trillion to build […]
2/5/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump delivered a message of bipartisan unity on Tuesday [2-5-19] night in his first address to Congress in the new era of divided government, but any hope of enduring harmony was dispelled long before he arrived at the Capitol. Mr. Trump, who has warred with Democrats for weeks over his plan […]
2/4/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than a handful of those sitting in the House chamber Tuesday [2-5-19] evening to hear President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address hope to replace him in two years’ time. And these Democratic 2020 hopefuls are making statements of their own by who will be joining them for the primetime […]
2/1/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under pressure from fellow Republicans to reset his contentious presidency, Donald Trump plans to offer Democrats a choice in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday [2-5-19]: Work together to make progress, or fight each other and get nothing done. He signaled on Friday that the address, an annual rite of […]
2/1/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is doing all he can to blow up border security spending talks. But few people on Capitol Hill are listening. Lawmakers and aides from both parties are plowing ahead with negotiations this weekend, ignoring Trump’s growing public disgust for a closed-door process that is increasingly unlikely to deliver a […]
2/1/2019
AFGHANISTAN/CONGRESS/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump defended his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan in a series of tweets Friday [2-1-19] morning, a day after the Senate issued a rebuke of the president cautioning against the ‘precipitous withdrawal’ of military forces. Trump said he inherited ‘a total mess in Syria and Afghanistan,’ wars […]
1/31/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [1-31-19] that ‘unity’ will be the theme of his first State of the Union address under divided government and that he respects Stacey Abrams, who will give the Democratic response. ‘I hope she does a good job. I respect her,’ Trump said of Abrams, who will be […]
1/31/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump proclaimed on Thursday [1-31-19] that without funding for his wall at the southwestern border, the panel of lawmakers negotiating a broad compromise on border security would be ‘wasting their time,’ issuing what appeared to be an ultimatum even as lawmakers pleaded for a chance to reach a deal that would […]
1/30/2019
CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An undocumented employee who was recently fired from President Donald Trump’s golf club in New Jersey will attend the State of the Union address next week. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J) invited Victorina Morales, who worked at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., as her guest for the president’s address […]
1/30/2019
CONGRESS/INTELLIGENCE/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lashed out at his intelligence chiefs on Wednesday [1-10-19] after they told Congress that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and that the Iran nuclear deal is working. ‘Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!’ Trump tweeted. Democratic lawmakers serving on Congress’ intelligence committees accused […]