President Donald Trump’s openly racist and xenophobic attacks on four Democratic House women of color, like his threatened immigration enforcement raids in major cities and the sweeping proposed new restrictions on asylum seekers that he announced Monday, underscores his transformation of the Republican Party into a coalition centered on the voters and places in America…… MORE
Washington’s newest political force — the four progressive women of color hit by racist Donald Trump tweets — are determined not to take the President’s bait, but they’re not going to take his attacks, either. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remained defiant Tuesday morning, responding to new Trump taunts by reminding him of his crude comments he…… MORE
The small-dollar fundraising machine Beto O’Rourke expected to power his presidential bid sputtered in 2019’s second quarter, with O’Rourke’s $3.6 million haul falling short of the torrid pace he’d set in the early days of his campaign. The former Texas congressman’s drop from $9.4 million in the first quarter — which at the time was…… MORE
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Monday said the panel will vote to hold White House counselor Kellyanne Conway in contempt of Congress later this month unless she agrees to appear to testify in a hearing. Despite a subpoena to testify last month, Conway did not appear at the committee’s hearing Monday. Chairman…… MORE
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Four first-term, progressive Democratic congresswomen — known as “The Squad” on Capitol Hill — were the target of racist tweets from President Donald Trump this weekend. Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts have found themselves at odds with leaders in their own…… MORE
The Trump administration will withhold funds from the United Nations agency focused on reproductive and maternal health care for a third consecutive year, though critics and lawmakers say the decision will hurt vulnerable women and children, undermine US interests and is not based on evidence. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo authorized the move to cut…… MORE
Prosecutors and defense attorneys spent the first day of the trial for retired Gen. Michael Flynn’s ex-lobbying partner focused on a September 2016 meeting Flynn and others had with Turkish officials and an opinion piece Flynn published online on election day 2016. Flynn’s admitted crime of lying to federal authorities has hovered over the trial.…… MORE
For many Republicans in Congress, President Donald Trump’s call for some Democratic congresswomen to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” was worthy of a rare rebuke. As she entered Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office in the Capitol on Monday evening, GOP Sen. Joni Ernst…… MORE
In an interview with The New York Times Book Review podcast, longtime conservative commentator George Will offered a stirring and stark assessment of what Donald Trump’s presidency will mean for our politics and our culture. Here’s the key bit: “I believe that what this president has done to our culture, to our civic discourse ……… MORE
