President Donald Trump fired Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin last month after a glut of bad reports about Shulkin’s spending habits and feuds with administration appointees, not to mention his resistance to privatizing the VA. His nominee to replace him, White House doctor Ronny Jackson, might not even get…
Scott Pruitt’s well-worn path of corruption is so bad that it’s even giving some in his own party pause, as three different Republican U.S. Senators went on morning television shows today to criticize the battled EPA administrator. None of the three, however, would definitively say that Pruitt should lose his job.
Nearly a month ago, Democrats ceded what little leverage they had by ending a short-lived shutdown and voting to reopen the government based on the flimsy promise of a DACA vote by Mitch McConnell. On Thursday, three bipartisan immigration bills were voted down in quick succession, making DACA recipients’ futures more…
In an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition on Thursday, Republican Senator Mike Rounds, of South Dakota, was asked what Congress should do about mass shootings after yesterday’s horrific shooting in Parkland, FL.
In theory, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should be very, very unhappy about the healthcare bill he’s trying to force through the Senate. The Congressional Budget Office hasn’t issued a score on it; most Republicans say they have no idea what’s in it; the Democrats literally can’t figure out where to find it;…
