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" A top White House aide and a Fox News host lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for saying people think Congress hasn't done anything this year partly because President Donald Trump is inexperienced and had "excessive expectations" about how quickly lawmakers could act. The back and forth was an unusually negative public exchange between Republicans that came less than two weeks after the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Obama health care law was rejected by the Senate.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio said that legislators must take action on tax reform and healthcare to convince voters that they can do their jobs successfully. "I think it's important that we show we can govern and, specifically, we have a great opportunity before us on tax reform," Portman said Wednesday on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
President Donald Trump slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday after the Kentucky Republican said that the president had "excessive expectations" regarding his agenda, particularly on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Senator Mitch McConnell said I had "excessive expectations," but I don't think so.
President Donald Trump's warning of "fire and fury" against North Korea if it threatens the United States were "strong," former Sen. Joe Lieberman said Wednesday, but he is concerned about Kim Jong-un developing the capability for a bioattack on the United States. "We've tried for years and years, really decades with diplomatic language and a lot else with the North Koreans and it hasn't worked," Lieberman, the co-chairman of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Biodefense, told CNN's "New Day" about Trump's tough talk.
Legendary rocker Ted Nugent on Wednesday blasted the "goofball" in the Michigan Republican Party who started the rumor that Kid Rock was going to run for the U.S. Senate. Nugent put to rest any notion that Bob Ritchie - a.k.a Kid Rock - was going to run against Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the Democrat up for re-election in 2018.
North Korea's recent missile tests, and reports of its progress in nuclear warhead design have produced a volatile new urgency in U.S. policy. Threats of war are in the air.
President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" warnings to North Korea over its nuclear capabilities "initially was over the top," but it was effectively "tamped down" by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday, according to former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson. "The president has his own style," Richardson, also a former New Mexico governor, told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" anchor Bill Hemmer.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said he was surprised at the "hysteria" over President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" rhetoric against North Korea. "This is how North Korea talks, so why not give it a shot to say, 'You talk about fire and fury, you say you are going to bury the United States in fire and fury? Hey, we got some fire and fury for you, too, if you want to play that game,'" Kinzinger said Wednesday on CNN's "New Day."
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine returns to her office on Capitol Hill Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, as work in the Senate begins to wind down toward August recess. An early, shadowy poll in Maine's 2018 gubernatorial race that looks aimed to ward off U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, who is considering running to replace Gov. Paul LePage, says she might have trouble surviving a Republican primary.
Protesters against the Republic health care proposals chant slogans and wave protest banners inside the office of Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., at the Russell Senate Office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. DENVER - Charges against five people who protested the Senate health care bill and then refused to leave U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner's Denver office have been dropped.
Several sources report that former U.S. president Bill Clinton, ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton, their daughter Chelsea and their two grandchildren will be staying at the Manoir Hovey. Radio-Canada is reporting the U.S. Secret Service came by last week to inspect the property along the shores of Lake Massawippi in advance of their arrival Sunday.
Rep. Todd Rokita officially jumped into the Indiana Senate race on Wednesday, a long-expected decision that formalizes what's already become a brutal Republican primary in the bid to unseat vulnerable Sen. Joe Donnelly Anti-abortion Democrats fading from the scene Senate Dems unveil trade agenda Senate pivots to tax reform fight MORE The Indiana congressman has long been gearing up for a bid and has not shied away from bruising battles with GOP opponent fellow Rep. Luke Messer , with whom he has sparred for months in one of the more contentious primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms.
Investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III , recently searched a home of President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for tax documents and foreign banking records, according to a person briefed on the matter. Officials did not disclose where the search warrant was carried out.
Warning of "fire and fury," President Donald Trump answered North Korea's threats with rhetoric the nuclear-armed nation might appreciate. The risk now is the tough talk leading to war.
Ever since Donald Trump hit the national stage as a serious presidential candidate, building the wall was a major part of his campaign pitch. The wall, meant to improve border security, has been the controversial focal point of the country's immigration debate.
While the Democrats are pushing some narrative of Russian interference in American elections to ease the pain of their surprising loss of the anointed Hillary Rodham Clinton, a top Democrat is blatantly butting in um, advising another country on its upcoming election, according to the New York Times. The former president, who has largely stayed out of American politics, said there had been "too much incitement" in the election in his father's home country.
In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler presents arguments at the testimony table in favor of HB209, in the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. A voter fraud commission established by President Donald Trump could make it easier for hackers to get voter registration information.
U.S. job openings jumped to a record high in June, outpacing hiring, the latest indication that companies are having trouble finding qualified workers.