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A Chicago businessman who has donated more than $1 million to President Trump's inaugural committee announced he will not support any GOP candidates who oppose the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. David MacNeil, a businessman from the Chicago area who has contributed more than $1 million to President Trump's inaugural committee, is warning that he will withhold financial support from GOP candidates unless they hash out a solution regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Mark Inch, stepped down from his post last week due to his strained relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, according to a report Thursday. Inch, a retired Army major general, claimed that he had been barred from weighing in on important decisions by Kushner and Sessions, and noted there was a disregard for "departmental norms" when he announced he was resigning, the New York Times reports .
National Democrats announced Friday that they would back businessman Harley Rouda in the crowded field to unseat GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, hoping to avoid being locked out of a targeted race that could prove pivotal to the Democrats' effort to retake the House. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Friday added Rouda to its Red to Blue program, tantamount to an endorsement in the race for the 48th Congressional District, which extends from Laguna Beach to Seal Beach.
Democrats are packing U.S. House contests in California with hopes of seizing long-held Republican seats as part of a much-anticipated "blue wave." California's open primary sends the two highest vote-getters in June to the general election regardless of party.
In this Dec. 21, 2106 file photo, the Trump International Hotel in Washington. An electrical subcontractor who worked on the Trump International Hotel in Washington has sued a company owned by President Donald Trump for more than $2 million, alleging it was not fully paid.
One of the major story lines since Trump entered the White House has been the way that Republicans have come to his defense rather than hold him accountable. For example, with all that they know about the president by now, this staged photo-op from yesterday is stomach-turning: Honored to have Republican Congressional Leadership join me at the @WhiteHouse this evening.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers, an Ohio Republican, Chair of National Republican Congressional Committee, speaks during a news briefing at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference Feb. 1, 2018, at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. IRVINE, Calif.
The Fountain Valley, California, city council couldn't afford to file an amicus brief supporting the Justice Department's lawsuit against the state's sanctuary city law protecting illegal immigrants. So, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher stepped up and offered to foot the bill.
An officer picks up money that spilled from an ATM that was cut open after Sky High marijuana collective raided by Santa Ana city code officials, law enforcement in Santa Ana, CA, on Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018. The medical-marijuana dispensary gained national attention after Santa Ana police officers were caught on video eating snacks there during a 2015 raid.
Joseph Kopser, a candidate for Texas' 21st District seat, speaks at a forum focused on environmental issues at Scholz Garten in Austin. Joseph Kopser, a candidate for Texas' 21st District seat, speaks at a forum focused on environmental issues at Scholz Garten in Austin.
California Democrats struggled to narrow the field Saturday in several U.S. House races critical to the party's hope of taking back Congress in the midterm elections. None of the five candidates in the Orange County district currently held by retiring Republican Rep. Darrell Issa gained enough support to win the party's official endorsement, exacerbating concerns that a crowded field could make it easier for Republicans to hold the seat.
The most dramatic news in the year's first big round of political polling, out a few days ago, was that Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, once the presumptive frontrunner in the run for governor, has fallen into a virtual tie for first place with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the seven-candidate field of significant candidates.
Many Russian elites attended President Donald Trump's inauguration last year, anticipating improved relations with the U.S. after the Republican praised President Vladimir Putin during the campaign, The Washington Post reported Saturday. "It was a great, amazing experience," Alexey Repik, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive, told the Post of last year's festivities.
On a Thursday morning in early January, most of official Washington was contending with a road-clogging snowstorm when Attorney General Jeff Sessions triggered another form of chaos on Capitol Hill and inside the federal banking agencies. Sessions announced that the Justice Department was rescinding an Obama-era memo on marijuana enforcement, a move that carried big implications for banks and credit unions in California, Colorado, Oregon and a handful of other states that have legalized recreational pot use.
California legislators are fighting back against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' attempt to crack down on state cannabis programs, launching letter-writing campaigns, proposing new laws and discussing federal lawsuits to safeguard legal marijuana. "The genie is out of the bottle, so to speak," said Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, who's calling for federal legislators to block Department of Justice appointments until the Trump administration changes its stance on marijuana.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's unilateral release of the Senate Judiciary Committee's August interview with Fusion GPS cofounder Glenn Simpson was applauded by those who called it a win for transparency - and a nail in the coffin of GOP lawmakers' attempts to distract from the probe into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Others, however, viewed the content of Simpson's testimony as validation of a talking point often repeated by President Donald Trump and his allies in the media and Congress: Fusion GPS was working both for the Russians and against Trump - albeit on separate projects - during the 2016 election.
Longtime Orange County congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the high-profile Foreign Affairs Committee, announced Monday that he will retire when his current term is completed at the end of the year. The conservative Republican, 66, has repeatedly won reelection by broad margins but has seen the GOP advantage in his district slip to less than 2-percentages.
When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions green-lighted federal prosecutions of marijuana lawbreakers, the vast majority of U.S. states that allow some form of medical marijuana were unexpectedly placed at risk of a crackdown and are warily watching developments. Forty-six states - including Sessions' home state of Alabama - have legalized some form of medical marijuana in recent years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
On December 19, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 1, the tax bill. There are eighteen Republicans in the U.S. House from the two states that use the top-two system.
With the tax bill complete and two key Senate Republicans promising a "yes" vote Friday, Republicans are rolling at full speed to pass the bill through Congress and land it on President Donald Trump's desk before the end of the week. Both chambers had planned to go into holiday recess at the end of last week, but delayed it a week to push through the tax reform vote and get home before Christmas.