Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican who is the longest serving member of the Senate, forgot to read the fine print. On Twitter, he thanked the Salt Lake Tribune for naming him “Utahn of the Year.” “Grateful for this great Christmas honor from the Salt Lake Tribune,” he tweeted on Christmas day. If he had actually […]

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. […]

Donald Trump enjoys repeating the lie that the tax package he signed into law is the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. But it isn’t even the biggest tax cut in the last decade. Even when it comes to cutting taxes, which is generally associated with the right than the left, Trump comes up short […]

More than 250 Republicans in the House and Senate are up for re-election next year. And as of right now, you can probably count on two hands how many of them are eager for Donald Trump to campaign for them in 2018. As Trump’s first year comes to close, Republicans are bracing for the consequences […]

Hours after it was exposed as a hotbed of racism, Donald Trump used his Twitter account to praise the conservative activist group Turning Point USA. Trump quoted the group in a tweet bashing the media for accurately covering the repeated failures of his administration. He wrote, “‘The President has accomplished some absolutely historic things during […]

Add American steelworkers to the list of voting groups who are now realizing they were scammed by Donald Trump and his empty campaign promises. Spending most of 2016 railing against existing U.S. trade deals and promising to vitalize manufacturing jobs in America, Trump made explicit pleas to blue-collar employees, such as steelworkers, who cheered Trump’s […]

Donald Trump’s chosen U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands contributed to a growing list of international embarrassments under this administration as he insisted that a reporter had created “fake news,” only to be confronted with video of the incident in question — starring the ambassador himself. Former Republican congressman Pete Hoekstra spoke to a Dutch news […]

If Donald Trump is so proud of the so-called “accomplishments” he has made in the first year of his presidency, why won’t his top aides go on the record with reporters to discuss them? That’s the question reporters asked at the conclusion of a “background” briefing offered to journalists this week. Two figures, who insisted […]

Desperate to take the heat off of their own unpopularity and Donald Trump’s legal problems, a group of House Republicans led by Rep. Devin Nunes are aggressively trying to investigate the FBI and DOJ. They are convinced there was a conspiracy at these agencies to help Hillary Clinton, even though they likely cost her the election. […]

A senior FBI official who can reportedly verify that Donald Trump pressured former FBI Director James Comey to clear him in the ongoing investigation into Russian election interference was quietly reassigned by Trump’s FBI director, according to an explosive new report by the Washington Post. In a sudden and unexpected move, James Baker — the […]

Papa Johns founder and CEO John Schnatter lined himself up with Donald Trump’s attacks on black NFL players — and now he’s paying the price. With the company’s stock tumbling, Schnatter announced Thursday night that he will be leaving his position as the pizza chain’s head honcho. In November, Schnatter said that ongoing protests against police […]

In a move that went largely unnoticed last week, Donald Trump quietly handed Russian President Vladimir Putin the best Christmas gift he could possibly ask for — an invitation to continue undermining American democracy, with no strings attached. Trump made the controversial move last Tuesday night, when most of the country had their eyes on the […]

Foreign relations have been in a tailspin since Donald Trump upended decades of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and declared America would recognize Jerusalem solely as the capital of Israel. On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly voted decisively to condemn Trump and the United States for the Jerusalem decision, by a vote of 128 to 9 […]

In 2017, the Trump White House was pressured into firing a Nazi sympathizer, a white supremacist, and a man who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI (who also took foreign payments despite being warned not to, and was widely seen as a national security risk). Despite these multiple black eyes, Trump officials said on Wednesday […]

Donald Trump and his hardcore defenders have spent the past few months picking a public fight with special counsel Robert Mueller, in a coordinated effort to try to manipulate public perception and discredit any potential wrongdoing by Trump that he might find — and possibly, warm people to the idea of firing him. But a new […]

Fox News’ Sean Hannity is on the top tier of pro-Donald Trump propagandists at the right-wing “news” network, so it is perfectly in character for him to completely fall flat on his face while trying to attack real journalists. In an echo of Trump’s childish taunts about “fake news,” Hannity tweeted a message directed to […]

Donald Trump is such a failure that when he’s not trashing his only real accomplishment as president behind closed doors, he’s undercutting his fake ones. On Thursday morning, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) testified for several hours before the House Rules Committee, in an effort to include the DREAM Act in the current temporary […]

During Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing in January to become Donald Trump’s attorney general, he stressed that he would never personally oversee any investigation of Hillary Clinton. That’s because during the 2016 campaign, he had been so forcefully (and recklessly) critical of her. Sessions announced that meant he had a conflict of interest and would recuse […]

First daughter and senior adviser whose actual job nobody knows Ivanka Trump excels at getting credit for doing nothing, but somehow managed to bungle even that simple task by exposing her ignorance about the GOP tax scam that Congress just passed. During a Thursday morning appearance on her father’s favorite TV show, “Fox & Friends,” […]

Donald Trump has ridden an unbroken streak of using his weaponized Twitter feed to chaotic effect, attacking everything from the First Amendment to the entire religion of Islam, but Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is fine with it as long as Trump isn’t attacking him. During an interview with Axios’ Mike Allen, McConnell was asked […]

The impending human cost of Republicans’ failure to restore funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program for 9 million kids is very real, and growing all the time. Numerous states are warning that enrollment for the popular, bipartisan health program will freeze in a matter of weeks, meaning low-income families all over America will lose […]

Looking to separate himself from Donald Trump’s wildly unpopular tax scheme, while also trying to win re-election in a deeply blue state, Maryland’s Republican governor is moving quickly to try to protect citizens from the GOP tax bill that was just rammed through Congress. Larry Hogan plans to offer a bill to the Maryland General […]

One of the undereported aspects of the GOP tax scam which Donald Trump will sign into law in the coming weeks is its impact on Puerto Rico. Due to the way the bill taxes goods shipped to the mainland, Puerto Rico will see an enormous tax increase on manufacturing businesses, one of the island’s main sources […]

A group of House Republican lawmakers, led by disgraced Rep. Devin Nunes, has been secretly investigating the Justice Department and the FBI for weeks in an attempt to discredit and ultimately undermine the findings of the ongoing Russia investigation, according to an explosive new report. The group, composed of a subset of Republicans on the […]

Utah’s Orrin Hatch, the most senior Republican in the U.S. Senate, spoke at Donald Trump’s ceremony to celebrate the passage of the GOP tax bill and embarrassingly gushed over Trump’s leadership. Hatch told Trump he was “one heck of a leader” who is “living up to everything I thought you would.” He told Trump, who […]

As the investigation into Russia breaks new ground, Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up their baseless attacks on the FBI and senior Justice Department officials for allowing it to continue. And the lack of any meaningful reaction from Republicans in Congress is reprehensible. On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace — communications director for George W. […]

Barely 12 hours after passing a historically unpopular tax scam that creates a $1.4 trillion hole in the federal budget, Republicans are now refusing to reauthorize funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — at least until they can figure out a way to get something for themselves along the way. Federal funds for CHIP, which […]

In a country that remains remarkably polarized, a growing consensus is emerging heading into 2018: Voters want Democrats to control Congress next year. In fact, Democrats have opened up a gigantic 18-point lead on that front, 11 months before the midterm elections take place. All of this is unfolding while Donald Trump and the GOP […]

Donald Trump’s tweets — like the comments he makes when he’s not reading from a teleprompter — are largely incomprehensible and unintelligible. Making sense of his missives could occupy the attention of an entire nation if it were possible to take time away from his other immense failures. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle demonstrated this as she […]

Apparently, passing a massive tax giveaway to the rich isn’t quite enough to soothe Donald Trump’s fragile ego after a year of failure. So someone on his team — his daughter Ivanka? Son-in-law Jared Kushner? Chief of staff John Kelly? — told him his bill did much more than ensure his children will inherit billions […]