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 […]
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GOP Reveals Obamacare Replacement
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 […]
House Republicans Vote To Cripple Independent Ethics Office
House Republicans, defying their top leaders, voted Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail. The move to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics was not public until late Monday, when Representative Robert Goodlatte, […]
No Surprise, Trump Wins Electoral College
Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States. That’s been the case since Nov. 8, when Trump won 306 electoral votes, despite losing the national popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million. And on Monday, the result was ratified by Electoral College voters, who gathered in state capitols across […]
Trump’s Cabinet Selections Turn The Establishment Upside Down
With the selection of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state and the expected nomination of Rick Perry for the Department of Energy, Donald Trump’s Cabinet has largely taken shape in Trump’s own image — a combination of millionaires, billionaires, outsiders and even a few politicians who oppose the work of the very agencies they’ve been […]
Trump Picks Longtime Washington Insider as Chief of Staff
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to chose Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and a loyal campaign adviser, to be his White House chief of staff, turning to a Washington insider whose friendship with the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, could help secure early legislative victories, according to people […]
Trump Offering Foreign Donors Political Access to Whitehouse
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is facing a fundraising scandal after a Telegraph investigation exposed how key supporters were prepared to accept illicit donations from foreign backers. Senior figures involved with the Great America PAC, one of the leading “independent” groups organising television advertisements and grassroots support for the Republican nominee, sought to channel $2 million […]
Rubio Warns WikiLeaks Could Target GOP Next
Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is urging other Republicans not to use the WikiLeaks revelations given that U.S. intelligence officials say the emails are a product of a hack with foreign government influence. That’s the message Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is sending to his fellow Republicans, as he swears off using campaign material that originates with WikiLeaks. […]
Clinton Running Away With Election
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 […]