During his press conference on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked whether the Trump administration plans to crack down on states like Colorado and Washington that have legalized recreational marijuana. Spicer signaled that the Trump administration will break with the Obama administration’s policy of not enforcing federal law criminalizing marijuana in states […]
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Obamacare Is Going To Be Around Longer Than Antincipated
And you thought Obamacare was going to be dead by next year. Two new actions by the Trump administration suggest that the Affordable Care Act may be around for at least a little while more — if not longer. Both moves underscore the difficulty Republicans face in undoing that health-care reform law, as well as […]
Trump Says Anti-Semitism Has To Stop After Uptick In Threats
President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned anti-Semitism in his strongest terms so far after criticism that he failed to respond specifically to recent threats at Jewish community centers. “I will tell you that anti-Semitism is horrible, and it’s going to stop and it has to stop,” Trump told MSNBC in an exclusive interview, saying he […]
Trump Names New National Security Adviser
President Donald Trump on Monday named Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser, a week after Michael Flynn resigned from the post. During a news conference at his Florida resort, Trump said that McMaster was “highly respected by everybody in the military” and is “a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience.” […]
Historians Rank Obama 12th Best President Of All-Time
Barack Obama ranks as the 12th best leader in U.S. presidential history, according to a new survey of 91 presidential historians conducted by C-SPAN. The panel placed the 44th president just below Woodrow Wilson and just above James Monroe. It’s the third such survey by the organization, which began polling the panel of presidential experts […]
Ethics Office Wants White House To Punish Conway
An independent government ethics office has urged the White House to probe and potentially discipline President Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway for comments she made supporting Ivanka Trump’s clothing line. In a letter released Tuesday, Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub told deputy White House counsel Stefan Passantino that Conway appeared to breach a […]
Hillary Received 800000 Votes From Non-Citizens
Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump’s estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud. Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen […]
Trump Freezes Federal Hiring
President Donald Trump announced a series of executive actions Monday focused on trade and the federal workforce, making good on a pair of his core campaign promises. The actions, signed Monday at the White House, implement a federal employee hiring freeze, formally withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and reinstate a GOP-backed […]
Bernie Calls For FBI’s Comey Resignation
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called FBI Director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s emails during the 2016 “outrageous” and said “it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down,” during an interview on ABC’s This Week. “I think that Comey acted in an outrageous way during the campaign,” […]
Obama Warns Putin Is Not On America’s Team
President Barack Obama says he’s concerned about Republican commentators who appear to side with Russia over the US, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin should not be trusted. “What is true is that the Russians intended to meddle and they meddled,” Obama told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired Friday. “One of the […]
Bernie Reveals Giant Trump Tweet On Senate Floor
Bernie Sanders spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday to urge Donald Trump to veto any cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid—and used one of the President-elect’s own tweets to prove his point. As lawmakers debated the repeal of Obamacare, Sanders pointed out that Trump had previously said he would not cut the services […]
Obama Continues To Empty Gitmo Of Terrorists Despite Trump’s Warning
President-elect Donald Trump urged President Obama to hold off on any final transfers from Guantanamo Bay, saying Tuesday that the detainees still being held are “extremely dangerous people.” The administration has signaled it is trying to transfer nearly 20 of the remaining detainees before Mr. Obama leaves office, making as much headway as possible on […]