Immigration watch: Senators hunt for a 60-vote plan
Democrats haven't coalesced around a single proposal. Bipartisan moderates haven't either.
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Senate to take up immigration negotiation
The Senate will open up a rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the fate of the "Dreamer" aliens today. But President Donald Trump is a crucial and, at times, complicating player.
Trump support vital as Congress tackles immigration issue
The Senate will open up a rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the fate of the "Dreamer" immigrants on Monday. But the most influential voice in the conversation may be on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jeff Flake: Rob Porter scandal could hurt the GOP in the midterms
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said the way the White House handled the domestic violence abuse allegations against former staff secretary Rob Porter could hurt the GOP at the ballot box in November. Flake said on NBC's "Meet The Press" the situation in the White House, and President Trump's failure to express sympathy for the two women Porter allegedly abused, could be a political problem for the party.
Senate to debate immigration, but Trump is the question mark
The Senate will open up a rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the fate of the "Dreamer" immigrants on Monday. But the most influential voice in the conversation may be on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Immigration fight looks tougher after budget debate
Republican leaders, top Democrats and President Donald Trump are all claiming big wins in the $400 billion budget agreement signed into law Friday. But the push to pass the massive legislation underscored enduring divisions within both parties, and those rifts are likely to make the next fight over immigration even more challenging.
All sides claim budget win; immigration fight looks tougher
Republican leaders, top Democrats and President Donald Trump are all claiming big wins in the $400 billion budget agreement signed into law Friday. But the push to pass the massive legislation underscored enduring divisions within both parties, and those rifts are likely to make the next fight over immigration even more challenging.
Senate stumbles shutdown, as Rand Paul blocks vote
The government stumbled into a midnight shutdown Thursday as a rogue Senate Republican blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal, protesting the return of trillion-dollar deficits on the watch of Republicans controlling Washington. A shutdown - technically a lapse in agency appropriations - became inevitable as GOP Sen. Rand Paul repeatedly held up votes on the budget plan, which is married to a six-week government-wide spending measure.
Lawmakers push for budget vote to avert government shutdown
Lawmakers pushed to enact a massive budget deal Thursday along with a stopgap temporary measure to prevent a government shutdown at midnight. GOP leaders tried to shore up support among conservatives for a plan that would shower the Pentagon with the billions they favor but also balloon the deficits they despise.
A House-vs.-Senate GOP Split on Intel Memo
The clearest sign that the House Republican memo criticizing the FBI's surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide won't be a blow to special prosecutor Robert Mueller is the reaction of Republicans in the Senate. While President Trump claimed that the memo "totally vindicates" him, no Republican senator has since come forward and joined him in that view.
Arizona Senate candidate Arpaio ‘unaware’ he granted interview to anti-Semitic publication
Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who is now running for US Senate, is distancing himself from a fringe publication that promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that he's given multiple interviews to. The Republican candidate said Thursday he does not support anti-Semitism and was not aware the American Free Press published anti-Semitic articles.
Joe Arpaio has given at least 5 interviews to anti-Semitic publication
Maricopa County's controversial former sheriff who's now a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate has given several interviews to a publication that traffics in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Joe Arpaio, whom President Trump pardoned last year after he was convicted of criminal contempt of court in connection with a federal civil-rights case, declined an opportunity Wednesday to distance himself from the extremist material.
Dana Milbank: Democrats are setting themselves up to lose
President Trump's job approval rating fell to just 33 percent in a Gallup poll this week. One of his campaign aides pleaded guilty in the Russia probe and two more were indicted.
GOP lawmakers put medical skills to work after train crash
Emergency personnel inspect the lead engine of an Amtrak train that was carrying multiple Republican lawmakers that crashed into a garbage truck in Crozet, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town Wednesday.
Melanie Sykes spills secrets behind her physique
Train carrying Republicans including Jeff Flake and Paul Ryan to a West Virginia address by Trump hits a garbage truck - with one truck passenger DEAD two injured, including Rep Jason Lewis Scott Baio orders Nicole Eggert to stop claiming he molested her for the sake of his daughter, 10, while posting 2017 tweet from actress saying she was 'missing' her Charles in Charge co-star FBI issues stinging attack on Republicans' classified memo accusing them of 'material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy' Girl, 4, is the first child to die of flu in New Jersey as national death toll keeps on climbing EXCLUSIVE: 'They have smeared my name to hell and back.'
The scene: Transgender vet to attend SOTU as Kennedy guest
Scenes from the Capitol on a night of pomp, pageantry and politics for President Donald Trump's State of the Union address: Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King, the first person to have sex reassignment surgery paid for by the military, is attending the State of the Union address.
Trump’s First Year: The Ominous Signs Aheadby Dan McLaughlin In Part…
In Part II , I went over his ten worst lowlights. We can't know what the future holds, but the bad news so far is a bad sign.
Trump Isn’t Just Incompetent and His Agenda Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Evil.
After a year that's brought us closer to nuclear war, ethnic cleansing, and climate catastrophe, it's time to consider that the Trump-GOP agenda may be genuinely evil. Evil is a popular topic in Hollywood, from The Evil Dead franchise to Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies.
Is there something wrong with democracy?
For years, the number of democracies in the world had been on the rise, but recently the trend has stalled. The New York Times journalists Max Fisher and Amanda Taub explore why some democratic countries have backslid, while others never quite made it.
Congress will try again on immigration reform – but will this time be different?
Demonstrators outside the Capitol rally during the federal shutdown in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that protects so-called Dreamers from deportation. Demonstrators outside the Capitol rally during the federal shutdown in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that protects so-called Dreamers from deportation.