Mulvaney’s Advice to Warren: Anyone’s Better Than Me at CFPB

Mick Mulvaney is using a curious tactic to encourage Senator Elizabeth Warren to drop her opposition to the Trump administration's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. "Anybody has to be better than me," Mulvaney, who has been leading the financial regulator part-time on an acting basis since November, said Wednesday.

A day on the ground with U.S. Sen. Doug Jones

Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s. Kirsten Fiscus / The Anniston Star Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s.

Governors in U.S.-Mexico border states largely absent on migrant…

EL PASO, Texas The ongoing separation of migrant children from their families at the border has been denounced by five first ladies, prompted millions of dollars in donations and drawn rebuke from religious leaders across the country. But the governors who represent the states along the 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico have been largely absent from the national conversation .

President Donald Trump, VP Pence, to campaign for McMaster in Columbia

Both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence intend on visiting Columbia to campaign on behalf of Governor Henry McMaster, who is headed into a competitive runoff election for the Republican ticket in the governor's race. WIS has independently confirmed through sources close to McMaster's campaign that a Trump visit is imminent is tentatively planned for Monday; the plans were first published in the New York Times .

Senate blocks Trump plan to cut $15B in unused spending

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ride the Senate subway as they head to a vote on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Washington. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ride the Senate subway as they head to a vote on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Washington.

Trump signs executive order he says will keep immigrant families together

President Donald Trump , under growing pressure to act unilaterally to address the immigration crisis, Wednesday signed an exeutive order that he said would keep immigrant families at the border together. Add Immigration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Immigration news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

House to vote on bill to end immigrant children separations: What we know now

House Speaker Paul Ryan accompanies President Trump as he arrives at a meeting with House Republicans at the U.S. Capitol June 19, 2018 in Washington. Amid a national outcry over family separations among immigrants at the southern border, House Speaker Paul Ryan says the House will vote on a comprehensive immigration bill Thursday to address the emotional issue, but a solution appears to be hard to reach in the short term.

The Latest: Ryan says House votes Thurs. on immigration

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, and White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, right, arrive for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, as Trump rallies Republicans around a GOP immigration bill.

House will vote on farm bill and immigration measures Thursday

The House of Representatives on Thursday will take up the 2018 farm bill, alongside immigration reform bills authored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. and Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., which would include a measure aimed at fixing the controversial family separation policy.

Contentious Dem Primary in U.S. House District 2 Heads to Runoff

While the first round of voting in the Democratic primary for U.S. House of Representatives in District 2 is over, it appears the caustic, acrimonious showdown between Sean Carrigan and Annabelle Robertson will be a fight to the bitter end as the race heads to a runoff. Robertson, a progressive activist and attorney, picked up 42 percent of the vote in the June 12 primary, edging Carrigan, a real estate agent and retired military veteran, who picked up 40 percent.

Five things to watch in immigration debate this week

House Republicans this week will vote for the first time in their running eight-year majority on the divisive issue of legalizing certain undocumented immigrants. The House is expected to hold Thursday votes on two immigration bills that address the legal status of so-called Dreamers, young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, as well as border security and enforcement.

California officials divided on ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy

WEBVTT [CHANTING] VICK ACROSS CALIFORNIA, PASSIONATELY DIVIDED RESPONSES OVER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY OF SEPARATING FAMILIES ACCUSED OF CROSSING THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. THE RESCUE BRIGADE OF GRANDPARENTS DEMONSTRATING OUTSIDE RIO COSUMNES CORRECTIONAL CENTER, ELK GROVE'S ICE DETENTION FACILITY.

Grimm compares kids crying at border to daycare drop off

Staten Island Republican congressional candidate Michael Grimm said Tuesday that the cries of children being taken away from their parents at the border are no worse than the sobs of kids being dropped off at daycare. The convicted tax cheat , running for his old congressional seat, said Americans shouldn't put too much stock into recordings recently released of children sobbing at immigration shelters after they'd been taken from their parents at the border.

Marsha Blackburn says liberals, liberal judges to blame for US-Mexico border mess

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn pointed the finger Tuesday at "liberals" and "liberal judges," blaming them for the family separations underway at the U.S.-Mexico border. "As a mother," the Tennessee Republican said in a statement released by her office, "my heart breaks for the families who are separated at the border, but we are in this position because liberals would not pay to enforce our immigration laws or build appropriate facilities for asylum-seekers."

IL Congressman Hultgren disagrees with US pulling out of UN Human Rights Council

Congressmen Randy Hultgren and Jim McGovern , Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, say they "regret"Tuesday's decision by the Trump Administration to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The announcement to withdraw from the Council was made by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Dear Senator Grassley, Don’t Let The FBI Get Away With It

Just over 14 years ago, The Washington Post began dropping its jilted-lover inspired bombshell stories on the Jack Abramoff lobbying affair. The Post's stories led to literally thousands of additional follow-up pieces from just about every publication on the planet.

Feinstein’s migrant family bill puts her at center of opposition

For months, Los Angeles state Sen. Kevin de Len has been using the immigration issue to hammer on Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the fellow Democrat he will challenge in November. From saying in a Sacramento Bee interview that Feinstein's "natural inclination is to be anti-immigrant" to arguing at February's state Democratic convention that Californians need a leader who will "fight each and every day to protect ... our immigrant families," de Len - author of California's sanctuary state law - has banked on a hope that his long record of vocal support for immigrants and immigration would translate to support at the polls.