Voters are resorting to billboards, protests, and petitions to highlight absentee officials.
While some Republican lawmakers have faced angry crowds at town halls this week, many are going out of their way to avoid meeting constituents face-to-face during April's congressional recess. A USA Today analysis published Monday showed that "Reps. Leonard Lance of New Jersey and Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania appear to be the only
Goldman Sachs, once described as ‘a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,’ is serving as fertile ground for Trump appointees.
President Donald Trump has selected yet another Goldman Sachs executive to fill a senior role in his administration, naming the firm's current managing director, James Donovan, to serve as deputy Treasury secretary. Donovan would be the sixth member of Trump's team with ties to Goldman, which was once described as "a great vampire squid wrapped
New government agency blasted as ‘a blatant attempt to humiliate and scare immigrants.’
(REPORT) --- Groans and boos greeted President Donald Trump's announcement of an Orwellian new government agency—"VOICE (Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement)"—during his address to Congress Tuesday night. "I have ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create an office to serve American Victims," Trump said, eliciting gasps. "The
Groups and Democratic senators had called for Pruitt’s confirmation vote to be delayed until the emails could be reviewed, but the GOP-led Senate pushed ahead anyway.
(REPORT) --- Thousands of pages of emails between newly confirmed EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and fossil fuel companies during his time as Oklahoma attorney general—released per court order on Tuesday night—confirm "a close and friendly relationship" between the man now charged with protecting the U.S. environment and entities seeking to hamper
President’s statement denounced as «a pathetic asterisk of condescension.»
(REPORT) --- President Donald Trump finally spoke on Tuesday about a recent rash of anti-Semitic threats and attacks in the U.S., telling one news outlet: "Anti-Semitism is horrible, and it's going to stop." The vague statement was the president's only response thus far to the latest wave of anti-Semitic acts—including 11 new bomb threats
‘I look out into an audience like this, I just kind of think to myself, the founding fathers would say this is what we worked so hard for,’ says Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon.
(REPORT) --- Recess resistance rolled on this weekend, with people packing town hall meetings across the country and constituents increasing the pressure on lawmakers who won't commit to facing voters head-on. Roughly 800 people attended Rep. Karen Bass' (D-Calif.) town hall meeting in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday, raising
While President Donald Trump insists people «don’t care» about his tax returns, marches nationwide on April 15 will demonstrate otherwise.
(REPORT) --- From New York to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to Little Rock, Arkansas, protesters will take to the streets on Saturday, April 15 to show President Donald Trump that the American public does, in fact, care about his tax returns. Trump and his associates have repeatedly claimed that people "don't care" about the returns—a claim