Senate Republicans head back to work with no health-care deal
By David Weigel, The Washington Post WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans returned to Washington from a holiday recess with new and deepening disagreements about their health-care bill, with key Republicans...
View ArticleWary and weary, progressives celebrate victory over ACA repeal
WASHINGTON – Ben Wikler learned the Affordable Care Act’s fate from a text message. The Washington director of MoveOn.org, who had led nearly daily rallies outside the Capitol to stop repeal, was five...
View ArticleIn Republicans’ repeal failure, Democrats find a potential game plan
WASHINGTON – Outnumbered but emboldened, progressive Democrats who watched Republicans fail to unwind the Affordable Care Act are thinking harder about passing major expansions of health-care coverage....
View ArticleRNC condemns white supremacy but makes no mention of Trump’s remarks
The Republican National Committee on Friday approved a resolution condemning racism and white supremacy at its summer meeting in Nashville – but don’t call it a rebuke of President Donald Trump. “This...
View ArticleGraham-Cassidy bill would cut funding to 34 states, report shows
WASHINGTON – The latest Senate Republican drive to dismantle the Affordable Care Act would sharply reduce federal spending on health insurance and cause 34 states to lose such funding, according to an...
View ArticleKid Rock says Michigan Senate “campaign” was a stunt
Robert “Kid Rock” Ritchie’s months-long flirtation with a Republican Senate bid in Michigan appeared to come to an end Tuesday in an interview with Howard Stern – moments before the rapper-singer...
View ArticleDemocrats angry at report of Hillary Clinton’s influence over DNC
WASHINGTON – Many Democrats expressed outrage Thursday at allegations from a former party chairwoman that an agreement with the Democratic National Committee gave the presidential campaign of Hillary...
View ArticleDNC leaders call for rules reform after 2016 primary revelations
The top two officials in the Democratic National Committee have pledged to reform the party in the wake of revelations that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign got a special joint fundraising...
View ArticleRoy Moore denies sexual misconduct in radio interview with Sean Hannity
WASHINGTON – Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore denied any sexual misconduct in a radio interview with Sean Hannity and said he never knew Leigh Corfman, the woman who accused him of initiating sexual...
View ArticleDemocrats see backlash over Republicans’ tax bill as a key to winning in the...
HOLLIS, N.H. – For decades, the battle lines in New England’s most politically conservative state were clear. Republicans ran on tax cuts. Democrats ran on targeted tax credits. Both parties kept New...
View ArticleRNC to support Moore in Senate race in Alabama, weeks after cutting ties with...
President Trump’s endorsement of Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore on Monday prompted the Republican National Committee and a pro-Trump super PAC to re-enter the state, boosting a candidate who had been...
View ArticleIn Franken’s wake, three senators call on President Trump to resign
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and two of his Democratic colleagues have suggested that President Donald Trump should consider resigning, after a run of sexual harassment scandals that has...
View ArticleNikki Haley says women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct “should be heard”
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Sunday that the women who have accused President Donald Trump of touching or groping them without their consent “should be heard.” Haley’s...
View ArticleAlabama certifies Doug Jones’ victory over Roy Moore in Senate election
Alabama has certified the result of Doug Jones’ upset Senate victory, clearing the Democrat’s path to Washington just hours after his Republican rival filed a lawsuit asking for a new election. On...
View ArticleTrump calls for border wall funding in any DACA deal, but Democrats are...
In an interview with The New York Times and a Friday morning tweet, President Donald Trump said any deal that would grant legal status to immigrants brought to the United States as children needed to...
View ArticleJeff Sessions just injected marijuana into the 2020 presidential race
WASHINGTON – Moments after Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it easier for federal marijuana laws to be enforced in states where possession and use of the substance is legal, the drumbeat began. One...
View ArticleJoe Arpaio, the former sheriff from Arizona, will run for Senate
Joe Arpaio, the longtime Phoenix-area sheriff whose headline-grabbing approach to immigration made him an ally of President Trump, will run in the 2018 Republican primary to replace Sen. Jeff Flake,...
View ArticleDemocratic group will spend $5 million to elect secretaries of state, the...
The left-leaning ballot access group iVote will spend at least $5 million across swing states to elect Democratic secretaries of state – the latest front in the “voting wars” that Democrats worried...
View ArticleBernie Sanders and progressives plan three responses to the State of the Union
Giving the response to a State of the Union address, a 52-year old tradition, is one of the most fraught and thankless tasks in politics. This year, there’ll be more responses than ever. As Democrats...
View ArticleAfter silence on Parkland, NRA pushes back against law enforcement, media,...
After a week of media silence following the school shooting in Florida, the National Rifle Association has gone on the offensive in its first public response to the massacre, pushing back against law...
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