It was during Congress’ certification of Biden’s win that a mob of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, breaching the building’s walls and temporarily halting the proceedings. Lawmakers were forced to shelter-in-place as both chambers went into lockdown, and at least five people died as a result of the violence — including a Capitol police officer. Immediately prior to the attack, former President Donald Trump ginned up […]
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Demings’ interview on Wednesday morning came as the House prepared to impeach Trump for a second time, setting him up to be the first president in American history to receive such a historic rebuke. But unlike his first impeachment in 2019, when no House Republicans voted to remove the president, at least a handful of the chamber’s GOP lawmakers have turned against him in the aftermath […]
“President Trump will remain in office. This Hail Mary attempt to remove him from the White House is an attack on every American who voted for him,” Taylor Greene wrote in her post, which has since been flagged by Twitter. “Democrats must be held accountable for the political violence inspired by their rhetoric.” Her tweet comes one week after pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol amid Congress’ […]
Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 and currently serves as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. CIA director is perhaps the most high-profile post Biden had yet to fill after weeks of rolling out intended Cabinet nominees and other administration appointments. Burns adds to a foreign policy and national security team […]
The South Carolina Democrat suggested Trump is be unlikely to be removed from office by impeachment with less than two weeks before his term expires. “No, I do not believe 13 or 14 days are enough to run that. But it’s sure enough for the vice president and the Cabinet members,” Clyburn said, before invoking DeVos and Chao. “For two Cabinet members to resign, that says […]
Clark acknowledged that House Democrats “have limited time” to launch the proceedings against the president — who only has 12 days left in office and was already impeached by the chamber in 2019 on charges of abusing his power and obstructing congressional investigations. But Clark insisted that she and her colleagues “can use procedural tools to get articles of impeachment to the floor for a House […]
Several House Republicans and roughly a dozen senators have announced plans to object to individual states’ electoral vote counts. Their effort has virtually no chance of success, and Vice President Mike Pence — who is presiding over the proceedings in a largely ceremonial role — said in a letter to lawmakers that he did not believe he had the power to “reject electoral votes unilaterally.” President […]
On Wednesday, after Trump again insisted upon “$2000 ASAP!” in a tweet, McConnell said the proposal had “no realistic path to quickly pass the Senate” and refused to split the White House’s legislative wish list into separate measures. But that was exactly what Graham pressed the Republican leader to do on Thursday. “Here’s what I’d like: I’d like a stand-alone vote in the new Congress on […]
A former senator from Delaware, Biden had been colleagues with McConnell for decades prior to his election as vice president in 2008. “I think the American people expect us to look for areas of agreement in a divided system while setting aside for debate the things we don’t agree on,” McConnell said. McConnell’s remarks in the interview were some of the most substantive statements he has […]
Schumer, who is 70 years old, was reelected as leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus last month, and Pelosi is positioned to be reelected as speaker in January — all but ensuring the House Democratic Caucus will continue to be governed by the same octogenarian triumvirate that has occupied the party’s top three leadership roles for the past 14 years: the 80-year-old Pelosi, 81-year-old House Majority […]
Numerous members of Congress have tested positive for Covid-19 since the first two lawmakers were diagnosed in March. But some lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have remained skeptical or outright scornful of best practices meant to curb the disease’s spread. Bera, a physician and four-term congressman from the Sacramento area, went on to suggest Wednesday that the anti-mask lawmakers’ attitude toward the personal mitigation measure mirrored the opinions […]
Lawmakers most recently granted a waiver in 2017 to retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, President Donald Trump’s first Defense secretary, and they have expressed reluctance to approving another exception for Biden. Before Mattis, the last retired general to be granted a congressional waiver to become Defense secretary was George Marshall, who served under former President Harry Truman. The United States has a long history of […]
The initial remarks from Graham, the chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, provoked some confusion after Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs tweeted that she and the senator had not spoken. Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske released a similar statement saying she had not spoken to Graham “or any other members of Congress regarding the 2020 general election in Nevada or my role in […]
Ocasio-Cortez is also viewed as one of the likeliest inheritors of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ progressive coalition if she were to run for president. The freshman House lawmaker, who endorsed Sanders in the 2020 White House race, turned 31 earlier this month and would meet the Constitutional presidential age requirement of 35 years by November 2024. Another possibility is Ocasio-Cortez joining a potential Biden administration in […]
“The resulting confusion and inconsistency in operations at postal facilities compounded the significant negative service impacts across the country,” the inspector general wrote. In addition, the inspector general found that the documentation of the operational changes provided by USPS officials to customers and congressional lawmakers “was generally accurate but incomplete.” The “collective results” of the changes by DeJoy and USPS executives, “combined with the ongoing employee […]
The president’s criticism of his own Treasury secretary — who, along with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is representing the administration in relief talks — came after Mnuchin attacked Pelosi’s “all-or-nothing” approach to negotiations earlier Thursday morning. “She is holding out for an all-or-nothing. Whether you want to call that politics or something else, it’s unfortunate, but we’re going to keep trying,” Mnuchin said […]
Lee was one of two GOP senators, along with North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, who contracted the coronavirus in the days after attending a crowded White House Rose Garden ceremony on Sept. 26, where President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A mask-less Lee could be seen embracing other attendees at the ceremony — which was accompanied by […]
The posters went on to write in a 10-part Twitter thread that Hill’s story “is also one of workplace abuse and harassment.” Hill “can be both a victim and perpetrator,” they wrote, arguing that she “is not a hero for women.” “Katie Hill was never investigated by the House Ethics Committee, nor has she been held accountable by anyone other than herself,” the posters wrote. “We […]
President Donald Trump also expressed openness Monday to investigating DeJoy, and even suggested he would be willing to oust his embattled appointee from the administration. “If something can be proven that he did something wrong, always,” Trump told reporters at a White House news conference when asked whether DeJoy should leave his job if he violated campaign finance law. A spokesperson for DeJoy told The Washington […]
“Of course he thinks about war selfishly. He thinks of it as a transactional cost instead of in human lives and American blood spilled, because that’s how he’s viewed his whole life. He doesn’t understand other people’s bravery and courage because he’s never had any of his own.” The press call Friday represented the Biden campaign’s latest effort to seize upon the damaging news stories which […]
Twitter flagged the video, which has since been deleted from Scalise’s Twitter feed, as “manipulated,” while Barkan called for its removal. The Medicare for All advocate has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the incurable disease known as ALS, and he uses eye tracking technology combined with speech-generating devices to help him communicate. “[email protected], These are not my words. I have lost my ability to speak, but not my […]
“Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.” Lewis explained that the ongoing anti-racism protests compelled him to visit the newly established Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White House last month, even though he was admitted to the […]
Congressional Democrats have condemned in harsh terms the Department of Homeland Security agents President Donald Trump deployed to Portland over the July 4 weekend to quash incidents of civil unrest associated with mass demonstrations against racial injustice and police brutality. Critics of the administration have likened the federal force to secret police and characterized their intervention as fascistic — pointing to the officers’ ambiguous military-style clothing, […]
During an exchange with an undercover agent posing as an intermediary for a fictional Arab sheikh, Myers was infamously recorded saying “money talks in this business and bullshit walks.” He was subsequently convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges, and sentenced to serve three years in prison in 1981. Myers is now charged “with conspiring with and bribing” former Philadelphia Judge of Elections Domenick Demuro, who pleaded […]
The president’s repudiation of climate change activists before the assembly of business executives and foreign leaders represented yet another high-profile break between his administration and other Western powers regarding the grave nature of the threat. “They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the ’70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s,” Trump said. “These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute […]
Cheney has grown increasingly vocal in her opposition to some actions by the Trump administration in recent weeks, challenging the president on his foreign policy and management of the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, amid controversy over Trump’s knowledge of reported Russian bounties on American troops in Afghanistan, Cheney openly questioned whether the president was briefed on the alleged intelligence and demanded a more aggressive posture toward […]
Cuccinelli also warned DHS would advance its law enforcement components into other American cities “if we get the same kind of intelligence” about threats to federal facilities or officers, saying: “We would respond the same way.” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler urged the Trump administration Sunday to call off its federal intervention in the city, accusing the militarized government forces of “sharply escalating the situation” and employing […]
But the senator also acknowledged that “we do have blemishes in our history and we need to come together and have some very hard discussions about our past.” She added: “The great thing about this nation is that we can learn from those blemishes, learn from those hard times in the past, and continue to evolve as a continually blessed nation.” Pressed by host Dana Bash […]
Although senior military leaders including Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy have expressed openness to renaming the 10 Army bases and facilities named after Confederate military leaders, President Donald Trump has vocally opposed such revisions — even threatening last week to veto the NDAA if congressional lawmakers approve the measure with Warren’s amendment intact. But Reed, a former Army Ranger who served in […]
“This is causing panic that compromises our economic recovery,” Biggs said. “We can protect our most vulnerable from the COVID-19 outbreak while still protecting lives and livelihoods of the rest of the population. It’s time for the COVID-19 task force to be disbanded so that President Trump’s message is not mitigated or distorted.” The demand from a leading Republican lawmaker and fierce ally of the president […]
Top congressional Democrats unveiled on Monday a sweeping piece of police reform legislation in response to nationwide calls for racial justice after the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by Minneapolis police last month. The measure includes provisions that would ban chokeholds, create a National Police Misconduct Registry, end racial profiling, bar the use of “no-knock” arrest warrants in drug cases and limit “qualified […]
The warning from America’s top diplomat comes after ICC judges in March authorized an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly perpetrated by Afghan government forces, the Taliban, American troops and U.S. foreign intelligence operatives. The inquiry marks the first time the court’s prosecutor had been allowed to scrutinize U.S. forces. Pompeo noted at the time that the U.S. is not a consenting “party” […]
A White House spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment on Kim’s criticism. Since the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, President Donald Trump has argued aggressively for reopening wide swaths of the country, warning repeatedly that “the cure” of lockdown orders “can’t be worse than the problem itself.” Following the expiration of federal social distancing guidelines at the end […]