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Daily Caller reporter Kaitlan Collins recycled tired right-wing media complaints about employee salaries at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an excuse to float the prospect of gutting the agency during today's White House press briefing, neglecting to mention that the financial industry watchdog is not funded by taxpayers. The CFPB has long been a target of right-wing media misinformation campaigns aimed at undermining support for objective oversight of Republican-aligned special interests on Wall Street.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, right, meets with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. Gorsuch has performed a valuable public service by criticizing President Donald Trump's acerbic attacks on the judiciary.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told Fox News viewers Thursday morning to "Go buy Ivanka's stuff," drawing criticism. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer responded.
FILE - This Nov. 25, 2016, file satellite image taken by DigitalGlobe shows the construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline near Cannon Ball, N.D. Opponents of the pipeline called for protests around the world Wednesday... Developments on the Dakota Access pipeline have unfolded swiftly in recent weeks, with many of them propelled by the transition from President Barack Obama's administration to Donald Trump's. Here's a look at what happened involving the $3.8 billion pipeline - and what's yet to come: A company called Energy Transfer Partners has been working for months on the 1,200-mile project as a way to get oil from North Dakota's rich Bakken fields across four states to a shipping point in Illinois.
Gov. Robert Bentley named Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to fill the U.S. Senate ... . Newly appointed Alabama Sen. Luther Strange looks at Gov. Robert Bentley before Bently signed the document officially appointing Strange to the U.S. Senate during a press conference, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala... .
Around 6:30 each evening, Secret Service agents gather in the dim hallways of the West Wing to escort Donald Trump home. For some presidents, the short walk between the Oval Office and the White House residence upstairs is a lifeline to family and a semblance of normal life.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer acknowledged Thursday that President Donald Trump has leveled attacks on the US judiciary and that Judge Neil Gorsuch said attacks on the US judiciary were "demoralizing" and "disheartening." But Spicer repeatedly insisted that Gorsuch's comments had nothing to do with Trump's comments, leading to heated back-and-forth exchanges with White House reporters about the issue.
Top Republicans on the House science committee claim a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist "confirmed" that his NOAA colleagues "manipulated" climate data for a 2015 study. But that scientist denies that he accused NOAA of manipulating data.
This week Betsy DeVos was confirmed as our new Education Secretary and Jeff Sessions as the next Attorney General. There is no sugar coating this: both are disastrous for women, sexual assault survivors, people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the LGBT community.
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder's law firm is reportedly bringing in $25,000 a month in California taxpayers' money for legal counsel about countering the Trump administration. In January the Democrat-dominated California state legislature hired Mr. Holder's and his firm, Covington & Burling, "to assist with legal challenges over everything from immigration to environmental policies," Fox News reported Thursday.
The Trudeau government should admit that its commitment to carbon reduction is increasingly untenable, writes former TransCanada executive Dennis McConaghy Even prior to the election of President Donald Trump, it was evident that Canadian governments had come to terms with providing substantial incremental market access for Canadian energy exports, regardless of the impact that would inevitably have on the country ever meeting its Paris carbon emission reduction targets Put bluntly, governments recognized the need for the cash flow that would come with increased oil and gas exports over the short and medium term in order to sustain their existing social welfare obligations, let alone increase them.
The scholarly journal of the Pentagon's top general published an essay that examines what someone in his position should do if a president ordered the establishment of Muslim internment camps, one day before President Trump signed an executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. The article appears in the most recent issue of Joint Force Quarterly under the headline "The Viability of Moral Dissent by the Military."
A top airline industry lobbyist says President Donald Trump was “extraordinarily positive” when airline executives urged him to support privatizing America's air traffic control system. Nick Calio is president and CEO of Airlines for America, a trade association.
The New York Democrat told reporters on Thursday that Puzder's record as CEO of fast food empire CKE Restaurants, Inc. disqualifies him from advocating for workers as the head of the Labor Department. Senate Democrats on Thursday unveiled another former employee of Puzder's company who says she was mistreated.
President Donald Trump 's unusually personal criticism of federal judges has drawn rebukes from many quarters, including from Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch , but not from the judges themselves. And that's not likely to change, even if the tweeter in chief keeps up his attacks on judges.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Thursday said that several thousand more troops are needed to train and advise Afghan forces and break the "stalemate" in their fight against the Taliban. Army Gen.
Warren surprised the crowd at The Daily Show Wednesday night by appearing to discuss the unfolding circumstances surrounding the appointment of Jeff Sessions as our nation's top prosecutor, a move that she aimed to fight against by reading a 1986 letter written by Coretta Scott King . Host Trevor Noah had a slightly different take on the situation, however, asking Warren, "Do you think you realized in that moment and do you think Mitch McConnell realizes what a solid he's done you?" Warren laughed off the suggestion that the situation is actually working in her favor, but Noah continued.
The former chief photographer for Barack Obama in the White House is throwing some serious shade at President Trump on Instagram, according to many of his followers. As many eagle-eyed people noticed and mentioned in the comments, photographer Pete Souza , who has gathered 824,000 followers since he created the account on Jan. 21, might have set up one of the biggest TTs in the history of the social network.
There is a quote that is often attributed to former U.S. Representative Barney Frank: "'Government' is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together." When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick quoted Rep. Frank at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, I just rolled my eyes.
U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz says President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations was rushed but he thinks it singles out "the right countries" and doesn't target people based on their religion. Muslim leaders told the Republican congressmen that the 18 to 36 month screening process refugees already go through is not an issue.