Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is not shy about flouting Senate rules and traditions to put his party before his country and constitutional obligations. He was perfectly willing to obstruct President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination for the better part of the year in order to steal the seat for the Republican Party. And when he […]

Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, told Forbes that “nepotism is kind of a factor of life,” a statement that again highlights how out of touch the Trump clan is with average Americans, and how that mindset has created an ethical swamp at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Eric went on to say, “We might be here because of […]

Ivanka Trump is out with a new book, undoubtedly intended to humanize her by describing the struggles she faces as a working mom, like so many millions of mothers in America. But recently released excerpts reveal her to be as out-of-touch with the lives and concerns of regular Americans as her father. Of her life on the […]

In his inauguration address, Donald Trump told the nation, “We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.” But between election day on November 8 and February 26, his daughter Ivanka Trump’s clothing line has imported tons of merchandise that was made in China. An investigation from AFP found that Ivanka’s company brought […]

Jim DeMint has been fired as the head of the conservative Heritage Foundation, only days after Donald Trump praised “all of the people” at the foundation and described DeMint’s leadership as “amazing.” The board of trustees held a meeting Tuesday to vote on DeMint’s future with the foundation and issued statement that “by a unanimous vote, [the board] […]

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is in a heap of trouble, after years of sexual harassment accusations finally caught up to him in the form of a New York Times exposé detailing the $13 million that has been paid out to his accusers over the years. That story has resulted in a mass exodus of […]

Donald Trump’s administration never met a lie on which they could not triple-down, whether it is Kellyanne Conway adding microwave ovens to the list of villains who are wiretapping Trump, or the ongoing lie that the GOP repeal plan will cover more Americans than Obamacare. And at a White House briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer […]

A very small number of elected Republicans have denounced Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for this overtly racist and xenophobic tweet: Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017 Those Republicans who have failed to repudiate King’s widely-reported […]

In an interview with the AM Tampa Bay radio show, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) pointed out that the horrific gas attack ordered by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad — in which dozens of children died, and the use of a nerve agent or other banned chemicals is suspected — took place after Secretary of State Rex […]

Donald Trump plans to host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a summit next month in the United States. In advance of the meeting, a large Chinese holding company has announced a deal involving the multi-billion dollar real estate development company owned by the family of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and for which Kushner previously served as […]

Vice President Mike Pence used his commencement speech at a small Christian college in western Pennsylvania Saturday to hold up Donald Trump as an example to students. “Aspire to be men and women of character,” Pence told Grove City College graduates. “Servant leadership must be the animating force.” Earlier this week, Trump displayed a stunning lack […]

Vice President Mike Pence went to Capitol Hill to try to shore up Republican support for the latest Obamacare repeal bill, but at least one House member was unpersuaded. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) walked out of the meeting before it even ended, telling reporters that Pence had not changed his mind. “He knows where I am and what […]

Donald Trump seems to have committed an impeachable offense by libeling President Obama. After Trump declared, as fact, that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, the White House immediately announced it would comment no further until Congress investigated his unsubstantiated claim. But that bluff is coming due: The House Intelligence Committee has set a deadline for the White […]

Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a business partner with the investment firm Goldman Sachs, according to unearthed documents Kushner failed to disclose when he was given his White House job. Kushner is an investor in Cadre, a tech startup, which the Wall Street Journal reports, “means the senior White House official is […]

Donald Trump is never more at home when he is lying, with the possible exception of when he is being an overt racist. He recently combined both of those pastimes during a “CEO Town Hall on Unleashing American Business” in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Along with his usual boasts about the […]

Donald Trump made the unusual decision to spend his first 100 days in office traveling not to visit foreign leaders but to promote his own golf courses in the United States. Now, Trump is on his first international trip as president, in a journey that is ripe with potential for Trump to further embarrass himself and America on […]

While shopping in an Apple Store, an American woman took advantage of a chance meeting with Donald Trump’s Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, to ask him some questions about his and the Trump administration’s actions: Asking @PressSec questions in Apple Store since he doesn't like the press. https://t.co/l493z2gG4x — Shree ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸 (@shreec) March 11, 2017 Notably, […]

Republican attempts to repeal Obamacare have not gone as smoothly as they promised last November — or for the last seven years. The House, which passed its bill without waiting for a score from the Congressional Budget Office, may have to completely redo it, and the Senate is writing its own fresh bill amid a shroud […]

Donald Trump summarily demanded the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys, one of whom had good reason to refuse to go along. Preet Bharara, who was at the time the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, had stated previously that Trump had personally asked him to stay on at a November 30 meeting […]

Donald Trump’s first few months in the White House have been a disaster. The opposition to his agenda continues to grow stronger, so he is now calling for a government shutdown, with no concern for the damage that would do to America. Trump took Twitter — his preferred outlet for whining when he does not […]

White House spokespeople frequently refer reporters to other sources for information, sometimes out of necessity, and sometimes as a convenient way to avoid answering a question. But typically, they refer reporters to some other government agency, or to an elected official, or to some other accountable body. In fact, a review of White House briefings […]

Donald Trump told reporters he had “respect” for the Justice Department’s decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate him, but less than 24 hours after the remark, he began using it to raise money for his re-election campaign. Trump is using his and Mike Pence’s Facebook accounts to run advertising describing the investigation as […]

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is currently investigating Russia’s interference in the election and the Trump campaign’s contacts with them, reportedly believes that Donald Trump will not complete his first term in office as president. According to a report from The New Yorker, Warner “privately told friends that […]

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s Inequality Media produces a regular video segment on Facebook called The Resistance Report. In his most recent dispatch, Reich deconstructs the Republican effort to discredit the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is set to analyze the GOP’s attempt to dismantle Obamacare under the guise of the “American Health Care […]

Donald Trump is continuing his pattern of lashing out at the successful Obama administration as his presidency treads water and is engulfed in sordid scandals. In his latest spiteful act, Trump is ending the “Let Girls Learn” program begun in 2015 by former First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama. The program was designed to […]

As Donald Trump and the GOP focused their attention this week on their harmful plan to repeal Obamacare, Senate Republicans voted, without fanfare and with minimal media attention, to eliminate the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule signed by President Barack Obama in 2014, which protected workers employed by federal contractors from wage theft, unsafe working conditions, and other unlawful […]

Donald Trump has failed to fill almost 700 positions at the Centers for Disease Control, including many vital to emergency preparedness for potential pandemics and epidemics within the United States. While Trump has officially lifted the federal hiring freeze, the White House and its appointees have issued internal directives within even the most critical agencies of […]

CNN reports troubling new details of the FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, including possible ties between Vladimir Putin’s government and Donald Trump’s election team. The network quotes a source who states that there are “five to 10 fewer” agents assigned to the Russian investigation than there were on the inquiry […]

Donald Trump was quick to retweet a Drudge report headline trumpeting February jobs numbers that were, in Drudge’s words, “great again,” but were actually a continuation of the record-setting trend set by President Barack Obama: https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/840195842183127040 It is definitely too early to tell what effect, if any, Trump’s election has had on employment. But during […]

A leaked version of the Trump administration’s proposed 2018 budget reveals major cuts to domestic and international programs that would, in the words of one expert, “kill a lot of people.” The group Third Way released a spreadsheet they received with information on the proposed budget, noting, “With the interest of the American public in mind — and […]