Bloomberg View: US will pay for Trump’s global unpopularity

Judging by a just-released poll from the Pew Research Center, President Donald Trump is heading to next week's G-20 meeting in Germany with a resounding global vote of no confidence. Only 22 percent of more than 40,000 respondents from 37 countries had confidence in Trump doing the right thing regarding world affairs; 64 percent felt that way about Barack Obama at the end of his presidency.

Dem congressman: ‘Just plain wrong’ for Trump to hold fundraiser at own hotel

As President Donald Trump holds his first re-election fundraiser Wednesday night at the hotel he owns in Washington, one Democratic congressman is slamming the President over the move, arguing it is "just plain wrong." An invitation to the event, held at the Trump International Hotel, showed that tickets started at $35,000 per person, with a $100,000 price tag to sit on the host committee.

Chaffetz joins Fox News as contributor

As expected, Fox News has signed Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, as a contributor to provide political analysis on the cable news channel starting Saturday. Chaffetz announced in April he would not run for re-election in 2018, then said he would step down June 30 for what he described as a position in the private sector, long believed to be at Fox News.

Trump’s politicking raises ethics red flags

On Wednesday night, he'll attend his first 2020 campaign fundraiser, rubbing elbows with some of the Republican Party's top donors on familiar turf: his own hotel down the street from the White House . He's already spent five evenings on the road at political rallies, always in states that supported him in November and always in front of an audience of thousands of fans who are screened and selected by his campaign aides.

Rick Santorum predicts Senate health care bill will pass with 50 votes, conservative support

Former Sen. Rick Santorum predicted that the Republican health care bill will pass the Senate with exactly 50 votes, saying the measure has enough "core Republican doctrine" to satisfy conservatives even if moderates reject it. At least five Senate Republicans have expressed opposition the bill in its current form to repeal and replace Obamacare, but Mr. Santorum said he believes the conservatives would change their minds.

How Americans think about the economy has changed since Trump won

The Trump presidency appears to have sparked an unprecedented political polarization in consumer confidence, which is often viewed as a leading indicator for the economy's performance. While Democrats and Republicans have similar beliefs about how the economy is performing at the moment, they are now hugely divided over how it will perform in the future, research shows.

Donald Trump on Twitter: Why did Obama do nothing about Russian election meddling?

On Saturday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to respond on Twitter to a report which said Barack Obama was aware of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. On Friday, a Washington Post story stated that the CIA notified Obama that Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in "a cyber campaign to disrupt and discredit the U.S. presidential race."

Trump: Obama a Did Nothinga About Russia Election Meddling

President Donald Trump questioned former President Barack Obama's response to Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election in an interview airing Sunday morning, saying Obama didn't do enough to address the situation. "Well I just heard today for the first time that Obama knew about Russia a long time before the election, and he did nothing about it," Trump said in an excerpt of his interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" released Friday.

Obama Official Lays Into Lawmakers Over Russia Response

An aide to former President Barack Obama laid into lawmakers who decried the response of the previous administration following recent revelations the White House knew in 2016 about Russia's attempts to meddle in last year's presidential election, The Hill reported Friday. "Our critics are judging our actions in mid-2016 based on what we know by mid-2017," Ned Price, a former spokesman for the National Security Council, told MSNBC on Friday.

‘He tweeted his way to treason’: Internet mocks Trump for …

In a rare Friday evening tweet, President Donald Trump appeared to finally admit that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election - and in characteristic fashion, somehow managed to twist that on former President Barack Obama. In response, Twitter users did what they do best - gave him hell for it.

WaPo: Obama admin ‘choked’ on Russia, former official says

A former Obama official said the previous administration "sort of choked" in its effort to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin over his attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor, The Washington Post reported Friday. "It is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend," the former senior Obama administration official told the Post.

Senate GOP unveils – Obamacare’ overhaul, but not all aboard

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to reporters at the Capitol after Republicans released their long-awaited bill to scuttle much of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017. He is one of four GOP senators to say they are opposed it but are open to negotiations, which could put the measure in immediate jeopardy.

Top Republicans reject revised US healthcare bill

US Senate Republicans launched their plan for shriveling Barack Obama's health care law Thursday, edging a step closer to their dream of repeal with a bill that would slice and reshape Medicaid for the poor, relax rules on insurers and end tax increases on higher earners that have helped finance expanded coverage for millions. Four conservative Republican senators quickly announced initial o... US Senate Republicans launched their plan for shriveling Barack Obama's health care law Thursday, edging a step closer to their dream of repeal with a bill that would slice and reshape Medicaid for the poor, relax rules on insurers and end tax increases on higher earners that have helped finance expanded coverage for millions.

Jeh Johnson: Dems declined help from Department of Homeland Security after election hack

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday told the leading House panel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election that much to his "disappointment," the Democratic National Committee declined an offer by his agency to help after they were hacked. In widely anticipated testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Johnson provided tense and at times anguished answers about an unparalleled series of cyberattacks against last year's election.

Trump returns to Iowa and unhappy independent voters

Iowa independents who helped Donald Trump win the presidency see last year's tough-talking candidate as a thin-skinned chief executive and wish he'd show more grace. Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of the electorate in the Midwest state that backed Trump in 2016, after lifting Democrat Barack Obama to the White House in party caucuses and two straight elections.