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Senate leaders brokered a long-sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $300 billion over the next two years. But both Democratic liberals and GOP tea party forces swung against the plan, raising questions about its chances just a day before the latest government shutdown deadline.
Eric Holder, the only U.S. attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, emerged from relative obscurity Wednesday night to denounce "spurious attacks" on the FBI and Justice Department. Holder, a close friend of his former boss, President Barack Obama, appeared on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show Wednesday night, ostensibly to discuss his congressional redistricting project, but also to criticize the current president and attorney general for "discrediting" the FBI and Justice Department.
More specifically: The GOP-passed tax plan that led companies to announce bonuses that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed as "crumbs" compared with "the bonus that corporate America received" may be popular enough that it can lessen the danger of Republicans being wiped out by a blue wave in this year's midterm elections. Near Cincinnati on Monday, President Donald Trump compared Pelosi's "crumbs" comment to Hillary Clinton referring to half of Trump's supporters as belonging in a "basket of deplorables" during the 2016 presidential election.
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In this file photo from January 2016, Rep. John Martin, D-Eagle Lake, speaks with House Minority Leader Ken Fredette, R-Newport, at the State House in Augusta. During his first term in office, Gov. Paul LePage became famous - or perhaps infamous, depending on your perspective - for his brash rhetoric and personal attacks, but in light of his success, the question becomes "Is it working?" There's no denying Maine's political discourse has become more uncivil.
A year into the Trump administration, the White House website still has no Spanish-language content, unlike during the two previous administrations and even though nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States speaks Spanish. Even Iran and reclusive North Korea have made efforts to reach out to the Spanish-speaking world.
Senate leaders brokered a long-sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $300 billion over the next two years. But both Democratic liberals and GOP tea party forces swung against the plan, raising questions about its chances just a day before the latest government shutdown deadline.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walk to the chamber after collaborating on an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 7. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walk to the chamber after collaborating on an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 7. WASHINGTON - Senate leaders brokered a long-sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $300 billion over the next two years.
A Justice Department official who helped oversee the controversial probes of Hillary Clinton 's use of a private email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election stepped down this week. David Laufman, an experienced federal prosecutor who in 2014 became chief of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, said farewell to colleagues Wednesday.
Yet again, President Trump and his supporters have found a Peter Strzok text message of which they're quite fond. They previously highlighted Strzok's " insurance policy " and " secret society " text messages, and now they've uncovered a new alleged smoking gun: A Sept.
Midterm elections in the U.S., whose intelligence community accused the Kremlin of meddling in the 2016 election to support President Trump, are a target of a repeat effort, Tillerson told Fox News in an interview from Bogota, Colombia. ""There are a lot of ways the Russians can meddle in the elections, a lot of different tools they can use," he said.
As Washington barrels toward another immigration showdown, the fate of nearly two million people brought to the US illegally as kids, who face the loss of work and study privileges and even deportation again rests on the President. The repeated tussles over the fate of people protected by the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have shown that only the President has the weight and political capital to ultimately frame a deal on treacherous political ground and to sell it to grassroots GOP voters.
Buoyed by the sudden likelihood of a budget pact, lawmakers are on track avoid a repeat of last month's government shutdown - though President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the possibility of closing things down again if he can't have his way on immigration. "I'd love to see a shutdown if we can't get this stuff taken care of," Trump declared Tuesday, repeating the sentiment for emphasis.
In an interview this week, former San Antonio Mayor Julin Castro gave the strongest indication yet that he's interested in running for president in 2020. Castro, a Democrat who led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, told NBC News that he has "every interest in running."
It's time for a revolution in the way women are treated in our societies, from the youngest of girls to the budding professionals to experienced business leaders being considered or passed over for corporate boards and executive posts. That was the message former first lady Michelle Obama brought to Montreal for one of the few appearances she has made since she and former U.S. president Barack Obama left the White House just over a year ago.
Comedy and Massachusetts politics may seem like entirely different worlds, but comedian Jimmy Tingle doesn't see it that way. The Boston comedian, who is breaking into the political scene with a Democratic run for lieutenant governor, says the large crowds, meet and greets, and conversations about various social issues translate well from comedy to politics.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late on Monday that US President Donald Trump is very dissatisfied with the JCPOA and is attempting to find ways to kill the deal. In a televised speech themed ?Iran's Regional and International Relations', he added: "The US is trying to distort realities but the JCPOA is part of the UN resolution 2231."
House Republican leaders have come out with a plan to keep the government open for six more weeks while Washington grapples with a potential follow-up budget pact and, perhaps, immigration legislation. GOP leaders announced they would seek to pass the stopgap spending bill by marrying it with a full-year, $659 billion Pentagon spending bill that's a top priority of the party's legion of defense hawks.
Hitting North Korea with U.S. military strikes to dismantle or disrupt Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons capabilities is a "pretty big gamble I wouldn't want to take" because of the millions of lives at risk from the likely response, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. "I know something about this business, and I know the kind of conventional capability North Korea has," Hagel, a former Republican senator who led the Pentagon under President Barack Obama, said in an interview published Monday by Defense News.