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Moments after the Senate passed a massive fiscal year 2018 budget with only Republican votes, Democrats slammed the resolution and it's pathway towards passing a GOP tax reform plan. This nasty and backwards budget green lights cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in order to give a tax break to big corporations and the wealthiest Americans.
President Donald Trump on Thursday once again refuted a congresswoman's account of his call with the grieving wife of a slain US service member, deeming it a "total lie" hours after his own chief of staff seemed to bolster a key piece of her story. "The Fake News is going crazy with wacky Congresswoman Wilson , who was SECRETLY on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content!" Trump tweeted Thursday evening.
Lost in the storm and anguish over John Kelly's attacks today was a sobering reality. The ideological and rhetorical spine of his remarks was a paean to MAGA.
Ex Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks during a campaign event at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, for Omar Navarro, a South Bay Republican challenger to incumbent Rep. Maxine Waters. Rancho Palos Verdes Calif., Thursday, October 18, 2017.
President Donald Trump strongly rejected the claim Wednesday that was he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain Army sergeant. President Donald Trump strongly rejected the claim Wednesday that was he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain Army sergeant.
A key moderate Republican is urging President Donald Trump to support a bipartisan Senate effort to reinstate insurer payments, calling his move to halt the subsidies an immediate threat to millions of Americans who could now face rising premiums and lost health care coverage. "What the president is doing is affecting people's access and the cost of health care right now," said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has cast pivotal votes on health care in the narrowly divided Senate.
Trump is repeating his predecessors' mistakes but in the opposite ideological direction, failing to address the concerns that led to his election and in the process rehabilitating the political forces he opposes. Maybe President Trump can bring peace to the Middle East after all.
Apparently, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is considering a professorship role at Columbia University. With this Ivy League institution's tolerance for liberal activism and distracting outbursts of feminist dissent, Clinton's transition " out of the woods " and into the halls of higher learning should prove to be effortless.
So, in recent weeks, the following events have raised some very serious concerns and questions regarding Mr. Trump's understanding of his responsibilities and duties as President of the United States, as well as his ability and willingness to effectively handle them. 1) Mr.Trump attacked the 1st Amendment, which he has taken an oath to uphold and defend, by threatening to of news organizations which report news which he dislikes.
The White House chief of staff, retired four-star Marine general John Kelly, expressed shock and anger at a Florida congresswoman who recounted the contents of the U.S. president's telephone call to the widow of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger. Kelly whose own son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, said Thursday he thought the privacy of such calls was sacred.
The Latest on former President Barack Obama campaigning for Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia : Virginia's Democratic governor says the Republican candidate for the state's highest office is treating President Donald Trump like he has a "communicable disease." Gov. Terry McAuliffe's comments mocking Ed Gillespie's reluctance to campaign with Trump came as former President Barack Obama visited the state in support of Virginia Democrats ahead of next month's elections.
AP obtains a recording of what some U.S. embassy workers heard in Havana as they were attacked by what investigators initially believed was a sonic weapon. The recording of a high-pitched noise is one of many taken in Cuba since attacks started.
President Donald Trump strongly rejected the claim Wednesday that was he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain Army sergeant. President Donald Trump strongly rejected the claim Wednesday that was he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain Army sergeant.
A bipartisan proposal to calm churning health insurance markets gained momentum Thursday when enough lawmakers rallied behind it to give it potentially unstoppable Senate support. But its fate remained unclear as some Republicans sought changes that could threaten Democratic backing.
Kelly, in an unexpected and emotional appearance in the White House briefing room, invoked the death of his own son, killed in Afghanistan in 2010, as he lashed out at Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida, who earl Kelly defends Trump's call to war widow Kelly, in an unexpected and emotional appearance in the White House briefing room, invoked the death of his own son, killed in Afghanistan in 2010, as he lashed out at Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida, who earl Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly pauses as he speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.
White House chief of staff John Kelly said he was "stunned and broken-hearted" after President Trump was criticized for attempting to console military widow. John Kelly: 'Stunned and broken-hearted' Trump criticized for trying to console military widow White House chief of staff John Kelly said he was "stunned and broken-hearted" after President Trump was criticized for attempting to console military widow.
The National Association of Manufacturers announced in a letter to U.S. senators that it will key-vote H. Con. Res. 71, the vehicle for the Senate's FY 2018 Budget Resolution.
Senate action on a budget resolution this week obscures continued dysfunction with the budget-making and appropriations process, according to new Healthy Congress Index data released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center. Congress is now more than six months behind its April 15 deadline to enact a fiscal year 2018 budget.
Returning to the campaign trail nine months after he left the presidency, Barack Obama laced into Donald Trump's presidency as dismantling the gains of his two terms in office and taking America backward. Obama did not utter Trump's name during his speech at a rally in Newark for Phil Murphy, the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey.
Enraged and rattled by the political brawl over military mourning, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly returned this week to the one place he could go clear his head - Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, some of the saddest ground in America. There, amid the memorials to the recent war dead is Grave 9480, the final resting place of Kelly's son, Robert, a Marine killed in 2010 in Afghanistan.