Mitch McConnell’s empty promises to protect immigrant children mean nothing — and everyone knows it.

“Speaker Ryan should talk to Leader McConnell, who’s the only person in the U.S. Senate standing in the way of paying our troops.”

Paul Ryan raked in a healthy thank-you gift from the Koch brothers following the passage of the tax scam bill. Ryan’s challenger Randy Bryce made sure it didn’t go unnoticed.

Republicans are promoting yet another disinformation campaign to distract from the serious issues coming out of the investigation into Trump and Russia.

Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, who gets paid no matter what, thinks a shutdown would basically just be a holiday for federal workers.

One of the “Mothers of the Movement” is now running for office.

Patty Schachtner is the first Democrat to win Wisconsin’s 10th Senate District in nearly two decades.

California Republicans face a tidal wave of Democrats signing up to run for their seats. And Southern California is square in the middle of Democratic efforts to retake the House of Representatives.

Even before providing the critical vote to pass an unpopular tax bill, Steve Knight faced unhappy constituents in an endangered congressional district.

Thanks to Trump, the GOP leadership has vanishingly little confidence in the party’s ability to make it through the 2018 midterms unscathed.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, Republican from southern California, is embroiled in an ongoing criminal investigation into possible illegal campaign spending. While there are strict laws forbidding the use of campaign funds to personally enrich a candidate or his family, Hunter has several questionable expenditures over the past several years. “Hunter has denied intentional wrongdoing but has […]

This year, Speaker Paul Ryan has tapped a new chairman for his own former haunt, the House Budget Committee. And the man he picked, Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas, is a colorful character to say the least. As a video of his town hall meeting in West Fork in February of last year shows, Womack […]

Donald Trump’s biggest defender in the Russia scandal could not name a single falsehood in the dossier that surfaced during the investigation. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a top Trump defender, was asked point-blank if he could point out anything in the dossier that was false. He tried to […]

The number of retiring House Republicans has now hit 31 — the largest mass midterm exodus by a single party since Democrats fled from Newt Gingrich’s House takeover in 1994. Latest to retire is California Rep. Darrell Issa, the former House Oversight Chairman, along with his fellow Orange County colleague Rep. Ed Royce. These retirements […]

The California Board of Equalization (BOE), the state’s tax collection agency, was in such a state of disarray that state lawmakers chose to strip it of most of its responsibility. Despite that stunning fact, Diane Harkey, the chairwoman of the BOE, is likely to run for retiring Rep. Darrell Issa’s congressional seat. Breitbart reports (so it […]

House Republicans, already growing nervous about the prospects for retaining the majority this year, just hit a new milestone. According to NPR, 30 Republican members of Congress have declined to seek re-election in 2018 — 12 of whom are pursuing runs for higher office, and 18 of whom are retiring outright. The most recent addition […]

Amidst the year-end legislative chaos that unfolded as Republicans scrambled to pass their tax scam and present Donald Trump with a single congressional victory in 2017, there was an attempt to stabilize the health insurance market. The tax bill included a provision that scraps the Obamacare individual mandate, the mechanism that requires Americans to buy […]

The GOP is poised for a crushing defeat in November amid public outrage and rock-bottom polls. But even before a single vote is cast in the 2018 midterm elections, House Republicans are already hemorrhaging powerful members of their caucus as retirement announcements keep coming. Monday afternoon, California Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign […]

Donald Trump wants “Fire and Fury,” the new book exposing his administration, removed from bookshelves as quickly as possible. But billionaire activist Tom Steyer just bought hundreds of copies of the exposé, which will help to keep it on the best-seller list. Trump has been whining about the book, which is based on interviews with […]

Busy mounting the most blatant and un-nuanced congressional attempt to distract from a single president’s troubles, Republicans in the House continue to use whatever gears of the government they have to delay, if not try to dismantle, investigations focusing on Donald Trump and the criminality that surrounds him and his 2016 campaign. With all the […]

As voters head into 2018, backlash against Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress is broad and deep. And it is affect races far down-ticket, even in places which overwhelmingly elected Trump. One such place is Arkansas. According to a report in the Arkansas Times, a new political model forecasts Democrats are poised to flip as […]

More than a dozen lawmakers, including at least one Republican senator, met last month with a Yale University psychiatry professor for two days of briefings about Donald Trump’s fitness for office, Politico reported Wednesday. Dr. Bandy X. Lee reportedly met with the lawmakers on Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 to discuss Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior. […]

Democrats need to flip 24 seats in the House this year in order to gain control from Republicans, and right now it looks like at least half of those wins could come from California alone. That’s where the GOP is currently clinging to life under the historically unpopular Donald Trump. And California is where Trump […]

There are no good hiding places for the GOP. That’s the message a flood of looming Democratic candidates are sending to Republicans as the GOP braces for the 2018 election season, especially after the amazing flip of the Alabama Senate seat earlier this month. Democrats are not only targeting vulnerable Republicans in the House who […]

Still enraptured with the novelty of actually being able to pass legislation Congress (note: it’s their job), giddy Republicans in the House are rewarding themselves with an extra week of vacation in January. JUST IN: Members are advised that the House is no longer scheduled to be in session the week of January 1, 2018. […]

It has finally happened. Despite months of public outrage and protests, despite overwhelming antipathy in polls, despite every commitment made by Republicans to prevent deficit spending and protect their constituents — Republicans in the House and Senate have passed their tax scam. The bill now heads to Donald Trump’s desk for his inevitable signature, just […]

In a matter of hours, Republicans’ tax scam is all but certain to sail through its final vote in the GOP-controlled House, and head to Donald Trump’s desk. And it is already clear that no one is buying House Speaker Paul Ryan’s breathless claims about how much it will grow the economy. Appearing on the “Today” […]

Now that the House has passed the GOP tax scam — with only 12 Republicans voting against it and zero Democrats supporting it — and it is heading to the Senate Tuesday night for a final vote, it is worth considering how shockingly little Republicans know about their own bill. Nothing better exemplifies this than […]

It’s not just the loud mouths on Fox News who are peddling wild conspiracies as they lash out at supposedly dark forces on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team attacking the Trump White House. An increasing number of Republicans are making it plain that any attempt by Trump to fire Mueller would be fine with them. […]

Come 2018, House Speaker Paul Ryan might find himself struggling to keep his seat in Congress. That’s according to a new poll, which shows Ryan — one of the most recognizable names in politics — with a shockingly narrow 6-point lead over Randy Bryce, a largely unknown Democratic challenger. Bryce entered the political scene with […]