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President Trump vowed not to back down Monday from plans for tariffs on steel and aluminum that sent shock waves across America's political landscape, deepening a rift with Congress' Republican leaders. Republican opposition to the plan intensified, with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan saying the president risked undermining the economic gains from tax cuts.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Monday that the House panel needs to interview former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg as part of its Russia investigation. Schiff said Nunberg's assertion that President Donald Trump may have known about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting before it occurred is an area that the committee needs to explore.
Sen. Thad Cochran announced Monday that he will vacate his seat on April 1, setting up a special election in Mississippi that will take place on Election Day in November. Republicans are favored to hold on to the seat in a state as red as Mississippi.
A black congresswoman says President Donald Trump is racist for joking about her intelligence and again called for his impeachment. Democrat Maxine Waters of California fired back after Trump referred to Waters' previous calls for his impeachment at the Gridiron Dinner this weekend in Washington.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and other young immigrants march with supporters as they arrive at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 5, 2018. The program that temporarily shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation was scheduled to end Monday by order of President Donald Trump but court orders have forced the Trump administration to keep issuing renewals.
"What we're going to see on Tuesday is a tremendous amount of Democratic enthusiasm," Castro, who served as Housing and Urban Development secretary under President Barack Obama and is considering a presidential run in 2020, told ABC News' Rick Klein on the Powerhouse Politics podcast. Castro, who recently founded Opportunity First, a super PAC that supports young candidates for federal and state offices, said he will decide on a White House run by the end of 2018, but that right now his sole aim is to get Democrats elected.
In this Feb. 27, 2018 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott talks alongside Andrew Pollack, right, whose daughter Meadow was murdered in Parkland during press conference at Miami-Dade Police Department in Doral, Fla. The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has put guns at the forefront, for now, in the U.S. Senate campaign in Florida.
Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Peter Hasson has been in something of a running sparring match with Illinois Congressman Danny Davis. Rather than picking apart the gun control debate or the Me Too moment, Davis can't seem to stop talking about Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
In this Feb. 21, 2018 file photo, Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during a CNN town hall meeting in Sunrise, Fla. The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has put guns at the forefront, for now, in the U.S. Senate campaign in Florida.
President Donald Trump's administration appears unbowed by broad domestic and international criticism of his planned import tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying Sunday that the president is not planning on exempting any countries from the stiff duties. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union , White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said: "At this point in time there's no country exclusions."
An influential U.S. lawmaker said on Sunday all fairly traded steel and aluminum, especially from Canada and Mexico, should be excluded from President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs, as he sought to calm tensions at major trade talks in Mexico. Kevin Brady, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over U.S. trade policy, was speaking on the sidelines of the latest round of NAFTA talks among the United States, Canada and Mexico, where he said there had been progress in reworking the 24-year-old trade deal.
Booker, D-N.J., said he has talked to a number of federal lawmakers of both parties, who come from states that have legalized the drug and are opposed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement in January that the Justice Department once again would prosecute marijuana cases in states that have legalized the drug. Under President Barack Obama, Justice officials said they would let states enforce their own laws while the federal agency focused on drug cartels, on transporting marijuana into states that have not legalized it, and on making sure legal marijuana businesses are not used as a cover for illegal activities, including selling other drugs.
Two Rio Grande Valley congressmen are pushing back against President Donald Trump's Easter Sunday declaration that any deal to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, is off the table. In a flurry of Easter tweets, Trump reversed his February claim that Republicans haven't forgotten young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents and were working hard to pass legislation regarding their temporary status.
President Donald Trump is embracing the potential for a trade war after announcing his intent to place tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, as he rebuffs allies who have pushed to be exempted from the stiff duties. The protectionist policy will be made official in the next two weeks, White House officials said Sunday, as the administration defended the decision from critics in Washington and overseas.
Former Trump adviser Carl Icahn apparently sold off millions of dollars of steel industry stock one week before Trump made his announcement. For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.
Radio legend Michael Savage revealed Sunday night that his secret homes were visited by political operatives in the past view days. The conservative firebrand is currently weighing a Senate bid in the state of California.
'This Is On Them 100%': Fire Chief Blasts National Grid For Storm Response The fire chief in Hull took to Facebook to express his frustration with National Grid after power was knocked out in town for several days. More Than 100,000 Mass.
Several members of Congress joined civil rights activists and others Sunday afternoon for the annual commemoration of a day of racial violence in Selma dating to 1965. A bipartisan group including Rep. John Lewis of Georgia led the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Last week President Trump announced a new 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent hike on aluminum imports. Foreign leaders like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the move "unacceptable" and the European Union threatened to respond to the U.S. with their own tariff.
Congressman John Lewis embraces Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer, while touching the Civil Rights Memorial during a wreath laying ceremony in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, March 3, 2018. Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017, while protesting the Unite the Right rally.