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White House Director of Social Media Dan Scavino, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, White House personnel director Johnny DeStefano, and National Security Council Chief of Staff Keith Kellogg follow President Donald Trump as they walk to board Marine One from the Oval Office in February. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford WASHINGTON - An obscure White House office responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the Trump administration's efforts to place qualified people in key posts across government, documents and interviews show.
The Environmental Protection Agency has handed documents to Congress that show new travel expenses from agency administrator Scott Pruitt, totaling some $68,000 in hotel stays and air travel, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency has handed documents to Congress that show new travel expenses from agency administrator Scott Pruitt, totaling some $68,000 in hotel stays and air travel, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough argues in a new op-ed that the Trump administration is "doomed to fail" due to Donald John Trump Accuser says Trump should be afraid of the truth Woman behind pro-Trump Facebook page denies being influenced by Russians Shulkin says he has White House approval to root out 'subversion' at VA MORE Writing in The Washington Post , Scarborough argues that voters will reject Trump's agenda in November's midterm elections and leave the Trump administration with an unfriendly Democratic Congress, similar to how President Obama was stymied by Republicans after they seized control of Congress in 2010.
In one bizarre, unguarded moment at a private fundraiser in Missouri, Donald Trump showed why months of trade negotiations between Canada, Mexico and the United States have been fitful, frustrating, and fruitless. In an earlier conversation with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the President made up facts about the balance of trade with Canada - and later boasted about it.
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to offer Canada and Mexico a 30-day exemption from planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which could be extended based on progress in NAFTA talks, a White House official said on Wednesday night.The move, first reported by the Washington Post, followed comments earlier in the day by a White House spokeswoman that the impending tariffs could exclude Canada, Mexico and a clutch of other countries "based on national security." Trump was expected to sign a presidential proclamation to establish the tariffs during a ceremony on Thursday, but a White House official said later it could slide into Friday because documents had to be cleared through a legal process.
From left, President Donald Trump, chief economic director Gary Cohn and budget director Mick Mulvaney sit for a radio interview last year. From left, President Donald Trump, chief economic director Gary Cohn and budget director Mick Mulvaney sit for a radio interview last year.
The human-egg hybrid that is CNN "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter wants us to take a trip with him to "President Trump's Fantasyland." Is there no Brian Stelter fantasyland where a supposed media reporter feverishly forgets that his job is to cover the media - and instead expresses his puke-y hatred and disgust for President Trump ? I'm thankful for only one thing today - that Brian hasn't attempted the male facial hair trend that Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker has been trying as of late - skimming his jaw line with whiskers.
President Donald Trump told lawmakers last month he would sign any immigration bill that made it to his desk. Then his administration shot down a bipartisan bill before it could.
For generations, as America's authoritarian rivals strutted their tanks, troops and jets through main thoroughfares in dramatic displays of strength, the United States watched from afar, but did not emulate. Widely accepted as the world's mightiest, the U.S. military has no tradition of putting itself on parade like in Russia, North Korea or China.
Newsweek is in the news-raided by the police last month as part of a probe into the owners' shady finances, then subjected to a crude purge on Monday, when the owners sacked the editors and reporters who tried to write about the scandal. This was the cinematic coda to a decade of collapse.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes speaks to the media about President Donald Trump's allegation that his campaign was the target of wiretaps on Capitol Hill in Washington March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein Longtime FBI agents - as well as other law enforcement officials - are furious with the Republican Party over the release of a memo compiled by the office of House intel head Rep. Devin Nunes that attacks an ongoing investigation into the Trump White House, saying conservatives have done irreparable damage to the agency that has always been considered a bastion of rectitude.
Donald John Trump Stormy Daniels on statement denying Trump affair: 'I do not know where it came from' Five Takeaways from Trump's State of the Union Van Jones: Trump 'selling sweet-tasting candy with poison in it' MORE 's State of the Union address, The Washington Post on Wednesday explained that the update to the headline was not due to complaints. The newspaper changed the headlines multiple times after the first edition, but a spokesperson told the Washington Examiner it was to reflect the paper's coverage, not because of complaints on Twitter.
Oh, this is a great laugh. Alex Griswold of The Washington Free Beacon captured classic Trump Derangement Syndrome hours before the president's State of the Union address slated for 9 P.M. EST.
President Trump waves after speaking to the March for Life participants from an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington this month. President Trump is seeking to parlay his first State of the Union address on Tuesday into cash for his reelection campaign by offering supporters a chance to see their name flashed on the screen during a broadcast of the speech.
WASHINGTON: The nation's organic food movement, representing dozens of brands, thousands of organic farmers and millions of organic consumers, as well as retailers, certifiers, and organizations, published an open letter in the Washington Post. The cosigners are demanding that the USDA stop interfering with the public process that has created clear standards for animal welfare in organic food production.
I was afraid that The Post would give us a Hollywood film version of the publication of the Pentagon Papers and manage never to say what was in the Pentagon Papers. I was afraid it would be turned into a pro-war movie.
AT&T is calling on Congress for a national net neutrality law that would govern internet providers and tech companies alike, which the telecom giant says would end a fractious, years-long debate over the future of the web. In a series of full-page ads Wednesday in major newspapers such as The Washington Post and the New York Times, AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson proposed an "Internet Bill of Rights" that could help guarantee an open internet, one in which online content is not blocked or slowed down by telecom or cable companies, nor by internet companies such as Google or Facebook.
Washington a As the federal government hurtled toward a shutdown this last week, lawmakers played a now-familiar parlor game: What on Earth does President Trump want? On Wednesday, the White House issued an official statement saying it supported a 30-day spending bill to avert a shutdown that included a six-year extension of the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. But Thursday dawned to see Trump declaring the opposite.
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.
If Congress doesn't reach agreement on crucial immigration issues and pass a spending bill, the costly consequence would be a government shutdown. We don't know whether the government will shut down yet , but lawmakers are already playing the blame game.