Pelosi: No Dem counteroffer on border security
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that House Democrats are not working behind the scenes to craft a counteroffer to President Trump’s border wall demands as a strategy for ending the...
View ArticlePelosi hammers Ross for ‘let them eat cake’ moment
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday went after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for questioning why some federal workers, thousands of whom have gone without pay during the partial government...
View ArticleHouse Democrats march to Senate for shutdown votes
About 20 House Democrats on Thursday marched across the Capitol onto the Senate floor to urge senators to vote to reopen the government.The visit came as the Senate began voting on two dueling bills...
View ArticleDem invites Ross to food bank to see plight of furloughed workers
A Democratic lawmaker is inviting Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to visit a food bank in Washington, D.C., after the Cabinet official said he doesn't understand why furloughed federal employees need...
View ArticlePelosi on shutdown: 'We're doing serious damage to our country,...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took to the House floor to highlight the "serious damage" being caused by the ongoing partial government shutdown, joining dozens of rank-and-file members in casting...
View ArticlePelosi rejects Trump’s wall ‘down payment’ proposal
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wasted no time Thursday rejecting President Trump’s proposal for a “down payment” on a border wall as a condition to reopen the government.Walking off the House floor,...
View ArticleGOP dismisses polls showing losing battle on shutdown
Congressional Republicans are dismissing a slew of polls showing that Americans blame President Trump and the GOP for the record-long partial government shutdown.“I don’t think you should legislate on...
View ArticleHouse Dems postpone unveiling border plan amid Senate talks
House Democrats on Friday postponed unveiling their border security proposal as they await the outcome of bipartisan Senate talks aimed at ending the partial government shutdown. "It is postponed...
View ArticleWaPo fact-checker fires back at Ocasio-Cortez criticism over rating:...
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler is defending a "three-Pinocchio" rating given to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) over her comments regarding minimum wage earners. An article by...
View ArticleOcasio-Cortez on shutdown: 'GOP senators should be scared for their jobs...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday warned that Republicans should be “scared for their jobs in 2020” following the longest government shutdown in U.S. History.Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about...
View ArticleDem rep: 'Clear' that Trump campaign team was trying to...
Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) said that Friday's indictment of former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone shows that the president's campaign team was working in a "coordinated" fashion to secure the public...
View ArticlePelosi: Trump 'pushing airspace to the breaking point' with shutdown
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday said the news of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halting flights into LaGuardia Airport was evidence that President Trump is "pushing our airspace to...
View ArticlePelosi takes shot at Trump in response to Stone indictment
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took a shot at President Trump over the arrest of his longtime associate Roger Stone, saying it was "very interesting" to see the "kinds of people" Trump surrounds...
View ArticleGOP rep on Stone: We can't investigate if witnesses are...
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) on Friday said he was angered by allegations that Roger Stone, an informal adviser to the Trump campaign in 2016, lied to the House Intelligence Committee.Stewart, who's a...
View ArticleNew Dem Rep. Omar: US shouldn't 'hand pick' leaders in...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) urged the Trump administration on Friday against supporting the opposition to Nicolás Maduro's government in Venezuela.In a series of tweets, the lawmaker wrote that the U.S....
View ArticleSchiff: House Intel will release all Russia probe transcripts to Mueller
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Friday that the House Intelligence Committee will release all interview transcripts from its Russia probe to special counsel Robert Mueller.Schiff announced the...
View ArticleDem lawmaker shares mock version of 'Art of the Deal' with Pelosi...
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) celebrated a breakthrough in negotiations to end the government shutdown on Friday with a mock-up of the president's signature book, "The Art of the Deal," featuring Speaker...
View ArticleHouse votes to reopen government, sending bill to Trump
The House on Friday passed a three-week continuing resolution (CR) to temporarily reopen the government by unanimous consent on Friday, moving to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history.The stopgap...
View ArticlePelosi after Stone indictment: 'What does Putin have on the...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that the arrest of Roger Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, "makes clear that there was a deliberate, coordinated attempt by top Trump...
View Article'Fox & Friends' host to Trump aide: Who are these...
"Fox & Friends Weekend" co-host Pete Hegseth on Saturday pressed a White House spokesman to identify the "unicorn" Democratic lawmakers he suggested would be willing to work with President Trump on...
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