GOP senator defies Trump: Ukraine whistleblower ‘ought to be heard out and protected’
The Senate’s most senior Republican indirectly scolded Trump for threatening the Ukraine scandal whistleblower.
By Josh Israel - October 01, 2019The Senate’s most senior Republican indirectly scolded Trump for threatening the Ukraine scandal whistleblower.
By Josh Israel - October 01, 2019The host of the event blamed mass shootings on ‘idiotic far-left ideology.’
By Oliver Willis - August 06, 2019Sen. Chuck Grassley is upset that nonpartisan research debunked his lies about the GOP tax scam.
By Oliver Willis - June 24, 2019Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley is writing Trump a letter objecting to his destructive trade war — even though Trump notoriously doesn’t read.
By Emily Singer - May 14, 2019Chuck Grassley says it doesn’t matter that he voted seven times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, because Congress doesn’t have the votes to do it anymore.
By Oliver Willis - April 26, 2019Trump’s defense of hiding his tax returns takes friendly fire from a Republican senator.
By Oliver Willis - April 08, 2019Sometimes Trump is too much even for other Republicans.
By Emily Singer - April 04, 2019Republican senators are taking a page from the Paul Ryan playbook by pretending they don’t know enough about Trump’s illegal hush money payments to comment on them — or investigate them.
By Emily Singer - March 06, 2019The GOP tax scam was always meant to help the rich and powerful, not middle-class families.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 01, 2019The average tax refund is down nearly 17 percent. Chuck Grassley and the rest of the GOP wish people would stop talking about it.
By Lisa Needham - February 25, 2019Sen. Chuck Grassley is using all the tools on heaven and earth to prevent Trump from forcing another disastrous government shutdown.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 14, 2019In a desperate attempt to solve an optics problem, Republicans cave, allowing women on the Judiciary Committee for the first time ever.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 03, 2019Faced with new evidence that Don Jr. may have perjured himself, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is providing cover instead of oversight.
By Caroline Orr - December 04, 2018Mazie Hirono is right: Republicans are only pretending to care what Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has to say about Brett Kavanaugh.
By Emily Crockett - September 20, 2018It’s clear Republican senators aren’t interested in the truth.
By Kaili Joy Gray - September 18, 2018Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is leading a reprehensible response to a sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh.
By Tommy Christopher - September 17, 2018Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks Republican Supreme Court nominees should never be criticized.
By Oliver Willis - September 04, 2018Nevermind that dismissing the attorney general would set off a full-blown crisis.
By Eric Boehlert - August 23, 2018Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley abandons his beliefs in the Senate’s constitutional duty to advise and consent, and chooses to carry water for Trump instead.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 31, 2018Republicans still refuse to stand up to Trump, even as red states take big hits.
By Eric Boehlert - July 11, 2018Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley admits Trump’s ill-considered trade war is ‘catastrophic’ for American farmers.
By Oliver Willis - July 11, 2018The Trump team has a new and pathetically desperate legal theory that no one else is buying.
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 04, 2018After helping to steal a Supreme Court seat during President Obama’s last year in office, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is now trying to engineer retirements.
By Eric Boehlert - May 10, 2018Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now in a very tough spot — and his fellow Republicans helped put him there.
By Tommy Christopher - April 26, 2018Within hours of stating otherwise, several Republicans in the Senate led by Chuck Grassley are now mysteriously backing legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from Trump’s anger.
By Oliver Willis - April 11, 2018Trump just issued his most direct hint that he’s looking to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. His Republican enablers in the Senate still refuse to do anything about it.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 10, 2018After passing a disastrous, error-ridden tax bill with zero Democratic support or input, Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks it’s only fair Democrats vote for all the changes Republicans need.
By Matthew Chapman - March 19, 2018Republicans like Sen. Chuck Grassley are hearing from teenagers across the country.
By Tommy Christopher - February 25, 2018Harrison County, Iowa is not a place where you would expect to find discontent with Donald Trump. He carried it by 38 points. And yet when GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley paid a visit to the small town of Logan, he was not met with universal enthusiasm. Indeed, according to the Des Moines Register, Grassley found […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 12, 2018