Activists on both sides of the issue say such laws, which are commonly blocked by court injunctions, are aimed at getting a case sent to the U.S. Supreme Court, where conservatives hold a 5-4 majority, to challenge Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
Things are getting nasty in Washington, DC. After special counsel Robert Mueller gave his final report to Attorney General William Barr, members of Congress from both parties immediately entered into a war of words. The fights going on now are not legal, but political. Through the “spinning” of the facts and through a major PR…
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough slammed House Republicans for “shamelessly” covering for President Donald Trump as his former attorney Michael Cohen set forth a nicely detailed road map of his alleged crimes. Scarborough other panelists today agreed that GOP lawmakers exhibited absolutely no curiosity about Trump’s misbehavior and malfeasance during Cohen’s testimony in front of…
But the real reason they were there was basic: Donald Trump. They don’t like the president, and they were not about to vote for anyone, like Brat, who supports him.
“More than the policy, it’s the animosity he is fostering within the country,” Sneed said of Trump.
The U.S. government had a $214 billion budget deficit in August, almost double the amount for the same period last year as outlays swelled, according to Treasury Department data released on Thursday.
That compared to a budget deficit of $108 billion in the same month last year, the department’s monthly budget statement showed.
Trump has made immigration and trade the two centerpiece issues of his midterm election strategy, but a new poll shows that he is losing on both as Democrats have surged to a double-digit lead on enthusiasm.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told House Republicans to wake up and do their jobs of oversight on Trump because America needs them.
“Lawmakers got to change the way they do things. The same old same old just ain’t working. … We need less guns in America, not more guns in America.”
“Since Columbine in 1999, there have been 25 fatal, active school shooting incidents at elementary and high schools in America,” the Fox Host told his viewers.
Fast food company Burger King is taking on the Trump administration’s decision to reverse the landmark 2015 net neutrality rules and making fun of the top U.S. telecommunications regulator in doing so.
Negotiating with Trump is a waste of time. Not only does he lack a firm grasp of the issues, but he often just agrees with the last person he spoke to.
Senate Republicans aren’t likely to win over enough Democrats to pass their cynical spending bill.
Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they’ve held in two decade’s worth of midterm election cycles.
Sanders took a machete to the Republican tax scam on Monday, saying that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why it’s so unpopular.
It doesn’t matter what the issue is. Right-wing Christians have been placing the priorities of the party before the tenants of the faith for decades. However, now they are reaching ever new extremes, emboldened by Donald Trump’s presidency and Republican control of Congress.
The Senate committee searching for Clinton’s alleged wrongdoing is keeping their witness’s name cloaked. However, William D. Campbell, a lobbyist, confirmed to Reuters he is the informant who will testify and provide documents to Congress about the Obama Administration’s 2010 approval of the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian company with uranium mines in the United States, to Russia’s Rosatom.
In the flurry and frenzy of new scandals and tragedies that wear on the spirit of our country, we must not forget the nine million children who have no say in these matters and the 700,000 Dreamers who enrich our country with their lives and service.
If you can’t handle the scrutiny of a political campaign – if you need to postpone it until the smoke of a teenage sex scandal blows over – then you shouldn’t be running in the first place.
In order to pay for the deficit-busting tax plan, the Vermont senator said GOP lawmakers will be taking aim at key programs, like Social Security and Medicare.
To GOP politicians: When you repeatedly shed crocodile tears over mass shootings, then follow it up by refusing to do anything to prevent the next one, nobody hears you anymore.
Leading Republicans in the U.S. Senate, expressing frustration at how slowly President Donald Trump’s nominees are being confirmed, on Tuesday called for changes in the chamber’s procedures to speed up the approval process.
Republicans may continue to live in their NRA-funded bubbles, but it’s clear the American people – Democrats, Independents and Republicans – are still hungry for tougher gun laws.
Those closest to Trump don’t believe he grasps what serious trouble he would be in if Democrats win enough seats to take over the House in 2018.
“This silence has become unintentional endorsement. It’s become a kind of sick complicity.”
Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act aren’t just impractical, but they are cruel.
“I think we will have anywhere from – literally, by rule – 90 seconds to two minutes of debate on this legislation. Now that is an abomination, that is legislative malpractice.”
“[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it’s not what the Senate is supposed to be doing,” he said. “Is it better to be guilty of murder or train robbery?”
Every woman in American knows how it feels to have her family planning and reproductive healthcare choices vetoed by a bunch of privileged white men in Congress.
Like a villain in a horror movie that appears one last time to wreak havoc, Republicans are again making one last attempt to inflict pain on millions.
With the end of September marching closer and 2018 around the bend, Republicans are still unlikely to pass any bill to repeal and replace a law that has saved lives. In other words, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.
This is the kind of unhinged and crackpot rhetoric that is common on Info Wars, but it has no place in American government.
“We have a Medicare system right now. It is a good system. … Let’s expand that program to every man, woman, and child. It’s not a scary proposition.”
It’s hard to gauge the outcome of midterm elections more than a year before they’re held, but Donald Trump’s presidency has motivated progressive and moderate voters in a way they haven’t been in a long time.
The White House wants to see the plan approved by Congress, but not even GOP leadership is interested in pushing the measure through.
The U.S. consumer financial watchdog on Thursday attempted to repel a Trump-administration attack on former President Barack Obama’s sweeping student loan reforms and defended itself against Republican attempts to weaken its powers.
Dent’s retirement is just the latest in a slew of moderate Republicans who are calling it quits as Washington spirals out of control with Trump at the helm.
While the president complains that members of Congress are turning the debt ceiling debate into “a mess,” it is his irresponsible tweets that are turning the simple vote into a political game.
“The president needs to be crystal clear that hatred has no place in our society, but he is currently failing at it.”
The poll released Monday showed Trump’s approval rating at the lowest level in any survey released since he took office.
Donald Trump spent the entire campaign playing the tough guy card, but after six months in the White House, there is not a soul on the planet who takes him seriously.
This week’s epic failure to pass any repeal and replace legislation won’t be the last effort by Donald Trump and Republicans to dismantle former President Obama’s signature achievement.
Outside of the White House and the halls of Congress, it’s clear that people of all political persuasions recognize how devastating this repeal plan would be to millions of Americans.
The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.
The American people rate Trump’s performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.
Republicans are finding it increasingly hard to defend the Trump team’s conduct with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
“I’m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin, to wrap his arms around Putin.”
If there is an upside for Toomey, it’s that Trump’s constant social media outbursts are distracting from the disastrous piece of legislation he’s trying to push through the Senate.
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.
When asked by Pew which freedoms they consider essential, 92% of respondents said freedom of speech and 91 identified the right to vote.
The legislation won’t just hurt millions of Americans who are covered under Medicaid or through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges.
A Center for American Progress analysis found that the GOP health plan will lead to as many as 27,700 more deaths.
The spontaneous demonstrations by pro-ACA activists shows how politically toxic this issue has become for Republicans as they prepare to dismantle Obamacare.
With a slim margin for error and Republicans already backing away, Trumpcare may be on its deathbed before a single vote is cast in the U.S. Senate.
“We have not had one hearing, not one open discussion. And I should think that every Republican should be embarrassed by this, and I know that many of them are embarrassed by it.”
Because of uncertainty caused by Trump and Republicans, at least one swing state will see Obamacare health care premiums spike by more than 40 percent.
The Supreme Court decided to hear a case that will determine if gerrymandering for partisan benefit is constitutional. This will be the landmark case that either shuts down Republican cheating or allows Republicans to use DeVos math to win elections. This case provides the Court with the opportunity to rule in favor of free and…
Republicans may have spent the first few months of Trump’s presidency cowardly refusing to hold him accountable, but even they are starting to recognize his days in the White House may be numbered.
The move by the Senate comes as the White House has repeatedly suggested they would “look at” lifting sanctions on Russia.
Republicans may be forced to remove a portion of their legislation that would essentially doom the bill – again.
This deal was between the Koch brothers and their fossil fuel industry cronies and the Republicans in Congress who routinely forsake the values of the country they swore an oath to uphold to do these billionaire brothers’ bidding.
Republicans say they are just two months away from getting enough votes to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Under the GOP health care plan, millions of low-income children would be at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage.
Last summer, referencing Hillary Clinton, Ryan said: “Individuals who are ‘extremely careless’ with classified information should be denied further access to such information.”
The president admitted that “everybody” wonders why he’s president, and sometimes he is forced to look around and say, “Sorry, folks.”
Trump’s move to fire James Comey could already be backfiring after some Senate Republicans are so troubled by Trump’s actions that they are now considering a special prosecutor to investigate the President Of The United States.
While Republicans are banking on their repeal efforts to excite the base of their party, it’s becoming clear that they are in over their heads.
Maddow interviewed a woman with a brain tumor who was promised by her GOP congressman that he would oppose Trumpcare. Today, he voted for it.
Members of Congress who put their name on this legislation should save themselves the time and not even launch a re-election campaign.
Even when Barack Obama isn’t in the White House, Republicans in Congress are trying to bring him down.
“This will cost American lives if it ever becomes law. This will mean death, pain, and suffering to people’s families.”
As the GOP-controlled government continues to wage war on middle-class Americans, this number will likely get worse.
If Democrats can ride this wave into 2018, they could very well outperform expectations in a year which Republicans are expected to do well.
No matter what happens, this is a good night for Democrats in Kansas and across the country.
Not only is the latest version of Trumpcare already doomed to fail, but it’s guaranteed to drag Republicans down with it.
If there was a time for the president to revive Trumpcare, now would not be it.
When the air we breathe and the water we drink are imminently threatened so that corporations can make more money, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are on the line.
Bearing in mind that this poll tends to lean pro-Trump, the decline in Trump’s approval ratings was sharper among Republicans and Independents than Democrats, and he lost his own supporters by 6 points.
The colossal failure of Donald Trump and Republicans to agree on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is already having wide-ranging effects.
“President Donald Trump did the best he could, but it’s not the same as when Donald Trump in the private sector was trying to market and sell first-class products.”
Democrats aren’t backing away from their commitment to give the American people a fair and independent investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia.
Critical cases are on the line and the civil rights of people hang in the balance for the present and long-term future of our country.
Graham made matters worse by telling the crowd, “You’re not persuading me at all.”
Trump is publicly rooting for the failure of a law that has helped millions of Americans.
Trump can’t even bring Republicans together to do something they have promised to do for the past seven years.
Trumpcare will cost more than initial estimates – and none of the cost increases will go toward covering the 24 million Americans that will lose health insurance under the plan.
Both Democrats and Republicans are now calling on Devin Nunes to step aside from the Trump-Russia investigation.
This is the Republican Party under Donald Trump, and 2018 can’t come soon enough.
As Trump doubles down on defending a disastrous heath care bill, all while peddling paranoid conspiracy theories and covering up his connections to Russia, these numbers aren’t likely to improve anytime soon.
Trumpcare is political suicide for the president and his Republican colleagues in Congress.
With even the most extreme conservatives opposing this plan, Republicans are miles away from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
“If the American people had to decide between continuing with Obamacare the way it is … or going back to the way we were, I’d be for going back the way we were.”
Republicans claim to be doing away with the individual mandate. But their newly released plan would slap uninsured Americans with even bigger penalties.
In record time, most voters are seeing that Trump is just a con artist who cares nothing about making life better for average Americans.
The Democrats will use their first rebuttal speech to go hard after the unpopular president.
Sean Spicer tried to put an end to questions about the need for a special prosecutor to investigate President Trump’s Russian connections with nothing but arrogant outrage.
Spicer demanded, “I guess my question would be, ‘A Special Prosecutor for what?'”
Republicans are learning that they can’t defend the indefensible.
With all due disrespect to the president, the people flooding these town halls in GOP districts are angry. There is nothing “so-called” about it.
It remains to be seen what Donald Trump will do on a national scale as president.
There was a good reason Trump admitted being 3-million votes less “popular” than Hillary Clinton; it fostered his other dangerous lie to kill democracy.
The diverse protesters said that what is about to happen to any American at the hands of Trump Republicans “should never happen to anyone.”