President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may not be on the best of terms after a failure to pass a healthcare overhaul this summer and ahead of expected fiscal fights this fall. But they have at least one shared mission: confirming a bevy of federal judges.
Top Senate Republicans made clear Tuesday they intend to move rapidly to pass Hurricane Harvey disaster relief, a debt ceiling increase and a measure to keep the government funded through the end of the year while they negotiate a longer-term bill.
The State Department's principal spokeswoman said Tuesday the administration is "confident in the legality" of its decision to shutter Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States, despite a Russian threat to sue over the closures.
It's one week until Hillary Clinton's 2016 memoir "What Happened" is officially released. But, in an excerpt that made the rounds today, Clinton writes critically about her 2016 primary opponent Bernie Sanders. Clinton makes the case that Sanders damaged her chances of winning with his pie-in-the-sky proposals that pleased liberals but could never actually become law.
Immigration can be a controversial topic. We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy, and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday threw the fate of 800,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program over to Capitol Hill, where Republican leaders and lawmakers will now have to decide where their party stands on immigration once and for all.
Republican Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake were among the first lawmakers to announce their opposition Tuesday to the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a decision that divides GOP members of Congress.
President Trump is expected to announce that he'll end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects young undocumented immigrants. Follow here for live updates.
DACA recipient Greisa Martinez fired back at the Trump administration's decision to end the immigrant program, saying, "People all across the country are concerned about what's happening to our democracy... and we are ready to fight like hell to protect it."
It's a case with allegations spanning seven years, multiple countries, and involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the center of it: a sitting US senator.
The Environmental Protection Agency has put a political aide in charge of reviewing grant funds that are distributed from the agency, according to a published report.
Javier Palomarez, the head of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said Monday he plans to work until the "bloody end" to sway President Donald Trump to keep intact an Obama-era program extending legal protections to young undocumented immigrants.
If you want to understand the profound impact Donald Trump's candidacy and presidency have had on the Republican Party, you need look no further than Tuesday's announcement that the DACA program will be rescinded.
On a sleepy Saturday morning back in March, Donald Trump dropped this bombshell on the political world: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"
President Donald Trump's expected decision to end DACA, but leave some time to save it, punts the popular program that protects young undocumented immigrants to Congress -- but passage of a legislative solution remains a steep uphill climb.
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