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Despite their razor-thin numerical advantage over Democrats, Senate Republicans were able to put together a long and impressive winning streak in confirming President Trump's court of appeals nominees. That winning streak came to an ignominious end today.
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In a loud, bipartisan message from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and across the landscape of American business and agriculture, President Donald Trump is facing sharp questions about his tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and Europe, as businesses and farmers say they're being economically harmed by the President's actions on trade. In hearings this week in Congress and at the Commerce Department, in speeches on the floors of the House and Senate, and in news conferences outside the Capitol, the message has been simple the Trump Tariffs are hurting, and more won't help.
In a loud, bipartisan message from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and across the landscape of American business and agriculture, President Donald Trump is facing sharp questions about his tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and Europe, as businesses and farmers say they're being economically harmed by the President's actions on trade. In hearings this week in Congress and at the Commerce Department, in speeches on the floors of the House and Senate, and in news conferences outside the Capitol, the message has been simple - the Trump Tariffs are hurting, and more won't help.
Two luminaries in the democratic socialist movement - one its national leader, the other its new star - are descending on solidly Republican Kansas on Friday, taking their emboldened liberal message to an unlikely testing ground before next month's congressional primaries. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who rose to fame following her surprise win in last month's New York congressional primary, see an opportunity to influence Democratic voters in Kansas ahead of the state's Aug. 7 primary.
President Donald Trump spent much of Thursday playing up his economic accomplishments and attacking his regular list of rivals, including Hillary Clinton and the news media, which he again called the enemy of the people. As he tried to leave in his wake Monday's news conference with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, analysts and critics spent the day wondering whether the misstep would create a lasting problem for him.
It's been five months since they have seen their infant son Johan Bueso Castillo who was separ... A Honduran man who was separated from his baby son at the Texas border and then deported without him soon will hold the boy again. A Honduran man who was separated from his baby son at the Texas border and then deported without him soon will hold the boy again.
In stunning move, Mitch McConnell withdrew the nomination of Ryan Bounds for a federal appeals court seat minutes before a Senate vote Tim Scott, the South Carolina senator who is the Republican's only African-American member of the senate, said he could not vote for Bounds Writings from his time as a Stanford student showed Bounds, 45, had called multicultural groups at the university 'feel-good ethnic hoedowns' In a stunning move, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has withdrawn one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees just minutes before he was set for a confirmation vote. Trump had nominated the assistant U.S. attorney in Oregon to be a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Since President Trump's press conference in Helsinki on Monday, many in the liberal media have hyperventilated about how his lack of aggression toward Russian President Putin makes him somehow guilty of treason. Nevertheless, in a Tuesday interview with Rep. Chris Collins on Cuomo Primetime , CNN's Chris Cuomo bristled at the Congressman's allegations that the media had played any role in the word's newfound ubiquity.
In this May 15, 2018, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pauses as he speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington. In a surprise move, McConnell has withdrawn one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees just minutes before he was set for a confirmation vote.
There were heated exchanges in U.S. Congress on Thursday as Democratic lawmakers grilled President Donald Trump's pick to lead the country's consumer watchdog on her involvement in the government's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. Democratic senators repeatedly pressed Kathy Kraninger, a senior government official, on her role in setting and implementing the policy slammed by both Democrats and Republicans and on whether she had relevant experience to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .
His unfounded assertions come days after a summit with Putin in Helsinki, after which Trump was widely condemned for seeming to side with Putin over U.S. intelligence officials WASHINGTON President Donald Trump lashed out anew at the news media on Thursday, suggesting that reporters are slanting their coverage of his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin with the aim of provoking a possible war. "The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war," the president wrote amid a series of morning tweets.
U.S. lawmakers have reached an agreement that puts a measure to strengthen oversight of foreign investment from countries such as China into a must-pass defense policy bill, Representative Robert Pittenger's office said on Thursday. U.S. Representative Robert Pittenger speaks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina July 26, 2016.
WASHINGTON Political groups aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell started July with nearly $44 million in available cash and will unleash a major advertising onslaught next month, according to figures figured provided first to USA TODAY. One Nation, the best-financed group in the McConnell orbit, plans to spend $16 million in August in five Senate contests crucial to Republicans.
As with a rotting fish, the stench from President Donald Trump's execrable performance in Helsinki only grows more putrid with the passage of time. The leader of the sole superpower was simpering and submissive in the face of a murderous dictator's "strong and powerful" lies.
Donald Trump has rejected Vladimir Putin's offer to allow the US to question 12 Russians accused of interfering in the 2016 election. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the proposal was "made in sincerity" by the Russian president but Mr Trump "disagrees with it".
Vice President Mike Pence is set to attend a rally in Macon, Georgia, Saturday to support Secretary of State Brian Kemp's bid for governor, days before the contentious GOP runoff is decided. The White House confirmed the news to The Associated Press on Thursday, one day after President Donald Trump tweeted his "full and total endorsement" for Kemp in the runoff against Lt.
Russian Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian ambassadors to foreign countries in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 19, 2018. Putin says his first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump was "successful" and is accusing Trump's opponents in the U.S. of hampering any progress on the issues they discussed.