Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday blasted a Democratic-backed election reform bill as “the biggest power grab in the history of the country.” In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Graham said he won’t support a compromise on the “For the People Act” offered by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., because it doesn’t address redistricting. “In […]
Democrats went into election night confident they would increase their majority in the House of Representatives — but they appear to have lost a number of key seats that were won in 2018 while failing to flip seats held by vulnerable Republicans. House Democrats had hoped for an increase in seats, with a gain of […]
After weeks of secret negotiations, the US Senate has released its draft of a bill that could upend the healthcare system for millions of Americans. The Senate’s 142-page proposal, unveiled on Thursday, would eliminate or reduce key benefits provided by Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act; lower taxes for the wealthy; strip funding from the women’s […]
President Donald Trumpreportedly handed German Chancellor Angela Merkel a bill for around £300 billion ($374 billion) for the money her country “owed” Nato for defending it, a report said on Sunday, a claim that was flatly rejected by the White House. The Times, a U.K.-based publication, cited unnamed sources that claimed Trump handed Merkel a […]
House Republicans released draft legislation Monday to replace former president Barack Obama’s signature health care law, proposing to phase out the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and change the law’s subsidies for private insurance. The bill’s details released Monday do not say how many people would have coverage compared with Obamacare. But federal support would be […]
A growing group of Democratic lawmakers will boycott President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday to protest what they described as his alarming and divisive policies, foreign interference in his election and his criticism of civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia. There are now more than 60 House Democrats — 65, at last count […]
By the time all the ballots are counted, she seems likely to be ahead by more than 2 million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points, according to my Times colleague Nate Cohn. She will have won by a wider percentage margin than not only Al Gore in 2000 but also Richard Nixon in 1968 […]
Let’s make one thing clear: Three weeks out from this election, Hillary Clinton is winning — and it’s not close. Yes, people still have to vote, but if Democratic groups come out — and the Trump scorched-earth campaign is more like a white flag than an actual strategy — Hillary Clinton will be the next […]
