Fifty years ago today (June 15) then-President Richard Nixon declared the “war on drugs." Today, Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Cori Bush (D-MO) filed a bill in Congress to finally end it. ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to be expelled from Congress. (Govt. Photo)
Marjorie Taylor Greene is so desperate to cling to power she has renounced nearly all of her crackpot, insurrectionist views and violent threats, but it's not enough.
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Attorney General William Barr's ability to maintain “public confidence in the fair and impartial administration of justice,” is under fire in a scathing New York City Bar Association letter. ...
Top Trump officials who have refused subpoenas to testify in impeachment hearings should face a long-standing process as old as the nation itself. They should be held in contempt of Congress....
After two years in office, Donald Trump has finally laid out most of his cards on taxes, tariffs and the economy; they eerily parallel President Herbert Hoover’s disastrous policies leading to the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s....
Donald Trump is merely a symptom, and perhaps the denouement, of a long-term trend that has seen wealthy elites and corporate interests take over and dominate government policy, marginalizing and disenfranchising the majority of average citizens....
Donald Trump’s options are increasingly being foreclosed by the Russia investigation, which almost certainly will lead to criminal charges against sons Donald Jr and Eric Trump, daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner Jr., leaving his resignation the best possible exit strategy to end one of the most divisive periods in modern U.S. history....
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress threw caution and six decades of GOP economic orthodoxy to the wind when they passed the massive, $1 trillion tax cut for corporations and the wealthy....
President Trump, as usual, has been all over the map about congressional health care legislation. The sad fact is he’ll say anything to advance the GOP agenda and to satisfy his political vendetta against former President Barack Obama. On Capitol Hill, the hypocrisy is just as palpable. ...
Donald Trump is engaging in “unprecedented constitutional violations” of the U.S, Constitution for accepting millions of dollars from foreign governments through his various business entities, of which he’s never relinquished his interest, according to a lawsuit filed by Maryland and the District of Columbia. The lawsuit presents the first major challenge over alleged Trump corruption under the emoluments clause of the Constitution....
Donald Trump is intent on pursing his pipe dream of a major wall along the Mexican border, but the project is likely to become a major boondoggle, with costs as high as triple the estimates by the administration and Republican leaders in Congress–all paid for by U.S. taxpayers. The issue surfaced today (Jan. 26) after Trump signed an executive order authorizing construction at the same time Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto categorically rejected any suggestion Mexico will pay for construction....
Betsy DeVos, the billionaire businesswoman Donald Trump has picked as Education Secretary, proved to be remarkably clueless about federal education policy during a Senate confirmation hearing and flunked a key question about her position on allowing guns in schools. DeVos is best known as the chairwoman of the Windquest Group, a private investment firm. She has never spent a day much less a career teaching in the nation’s public schools and educated her children at private schools....