Tired of lapdog congressional Republicans who refuse to refuse to hold the serially lying, intelligence-leaking, race-baiting, golf-loving, nepotism-flouting Donald Trump accountable for any of his unethical, illegal, and possibly unconstitutional behavior, Democrats are taking matters into their own hands. And they are doing so in record numbers. At this point in 2009, Republicans had recruited a […]

One of the most curious things about U.S. military policy is that the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is still in effect. The law, enacted in response to 9/11, grants the President of the United States essentially unlimited power to strike anyone in the world suspected of “international terrorism.” Congress never attached a sunset clause […]

Paul Ryan, the uber-conservative Wisconsin Republican who reluctantly accepted the role of House speaker in 2015 after no one else would take it, is failing. Badly. And Americans are not happy about it. Only 34 percent have a favorable view of him, compared with 48 percent who do not, according to a new Bloomberg poll. […]

One year ago, a super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) used documents stolen by Russian hackers to attack Democratic congressional candidates. But on Wednesday, the Republican congressman refused to say whether he’d be willing to take a meeting with foreign operatives promising to deliver opposition research on his political opponents. In the wake […]

The White House’s new attempt to blockade a nearly unanimous Senate sanctions bill that aims to punish Russia for interfering in last year’s election is infuriating Democrats. And they’re demanding House Speaker Paul Ryan finally stand up to Donald Trump, as his administration becomes further embroiled in its own Russia scandal. “Speaker Ryan needs to […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t have the guts to face his constituents and explain his disastrous health care bill, but that doesn’t stop him from going on the GOP-friendly Fox News. During a recent interview, Ryan defended his party’s plan to repeal Obamacare and give tax cuts to the rich by attacking “the left.” “I think […]

One of the biggest lies Republicans are telling about their dangerous health care plan is that millions of Americans simply do not want to have health care. In an interview with Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade, Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed the finding of the Congressional Budget Office that under the Senate’s version of the bill, 22 […]

One year ago, House Democrats engaged in a powerful act of protest right on the House floor. Led by Rep. John Lewis, lawmakers held a 25+ hour sit-in to call out Congressional inaction on gun safety legislation. As Lewis noted at the time, “Sometimes you have to violate a rule of law to uphold a […]

Republicans are using the same technique they used to draft the health care bill in total secrecy in order to jam through tax reform legislation aimed at rewarding the wealthiest Americans. The Associated Press reports that the Trump White House, working in concert with top Republican leadership in Congress, will draft the legislation affecting the […]

Following the horrifying shooting by a lone gunman during a congressional baseball team practice, the leaders in the House of both parties showed what it truly means to be connected as Americans. After leading the House in the pledge of allegiance, Speaker Paul Ryan offered powerful words of resilience and camaraderie. “We are united,” Ryan […]

Republicans are once again trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act after the first attempt at “Trumpcare” went down in flames. The new effort appears to be an attempt to show progress before Trump hits 100 days in office, a key date for an administration that nearly across the board has failed to deliver on lofty […]

With their health insurance market on fire, Iowa is forced to turn to the man holding an empty gas can and a smoldering match: Donald Trump. Insurers are pulling out of huge sections of the state, which would leave more than 70,000 Iowans uninsured. This instability is not an accident — it is a direct, […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan wants the American people to know that they should excuse Donald Trump’s multiple, ongoing failures during his presidency because he is “new to this.” Ryan made his remark about Trump during his weekly news conference, conducted while former FBI director James Comey was detailing how Trump repeatedly leaned on him to […]

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield will pull out of the health exchange set up in Ohio by the Affordable Care Act, leaving 18 counties in that state without an insurance option and hurting about 10,500 people. In a statement to the Dayton Daily News, the company directly blamed the Trump administration and congressional Republicans […]

Donald Trump has plunged the nation headlong into a constitutional crisis by firing FBI Director James Comey as the bureau investigates his own collusion with Russia. It is one of Trump’s most brazen abuses of power so far, intensifying calls for his impeachment. Trump is the most unqualified president of our time, and certainly one of the most […]

Instead of facing his constituents at a town hall, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was caught spending the congressional recess on vacation at Universal Studios Hollywood. TMZ found Ryan “strolling the grounds in a cerulean blue shirt” and reported that another theme park visitor saw him “at Ollivanders, where Harry Potter got his magic wand.” (Ollivanders […]

One hundred middle school students, on a field trip to Washington, D.C. from South Orange, New Jersey, refused to be photographed next to House Speaker Paul Ryan. Eighth-grader Matthew Malespina told WABC that he and his fellow students stood aside because “it’s not just a picture” but about “being associated with a person who puts […]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is in a heap of trouble following the defeat of the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. And although Donald Trump initially blamed this humiliation on Democrats, his subsequent actions have seemed belie that, in a notably pointed way. Trump tweeted a message directing his followers to a Fox News […]

The resistance needs courageous moral voices, and that is exactly what Rev. William Barber is. His highly impactful Moral Mondays Movement in North Carolina has spread nationwide, and now he is firing his moral power at GOP health care repeal. At a Moral Rally to Preserve Healthcare at the U.S. Capitol, Rev. Barber called it “an unmerciful act of meanness” that […]

The Trump budget’s draconian cuts for services for the poor and middle class target popular government programs like Medicaid and Social Security, as well as funding for groups like PBS and Special Olympics that are supported by a large swath of Americans. So Republicans have responded by attempting to distance themselves from the budget, fearful […]

One of the key features of the American Health Care Act, the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare, is the conversion of the Medicaid program into a block grant for the states. Disguised as choice and flexibility for governors, the real-world effect of this idea would be to reduce the program’s funding, limiting its current ability […]

In the face of public pressure over his unethical secret meeting with the White House, and an Ethics Committee investigation into his possible exposure of classified information, House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) has reluctantly agreed to recuse himself from the investigation into Russia’s efforts to swing the presidential election for Donald Trump. This is a […]

Breitbart, the white nationalist right-wing tabloid website, is making a mess of Trump’s campaign to repeal and replace Obamacare with the completely inadequate American Health Care Act. Since Trump launched his presidential campaign, Breitbart has been the top fan site for his political ambitions, so much so that he hired the chairman of the company, […]

The news just keeps getting worse for the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. On the heels of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report showing that 24 million people would lose their health care under the plan, and the Trump administration’s own report showing 26 million being thrown off of their health insurance, a new poll […]

In the health care debate, the only thing that is arguably worse than the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare are the ways in which Republicans are attempting to sell the plan to the American people. They began by ignoring the fact that millions will lose insurance, then moved on to asserting that insurance “is not really the end […]

In an interview with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) added to the list of increasingly mean-spirited and shortsighted comments made by Republicans over concerns about their Obamacare repeal plan. Ryan dismissed the fears expressed by millions about having the rug pulled out from under them, as the Republican “American Health […]

The Washington Post uncovered an audio recording of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) discussing the possibility that Donald Trump had been paid off by the Russian government. On the recording, McCarthy said, “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” According to the Post, “House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, […]

Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY) has confirmed that the revamped Republican health care plan is a disaster for people with pre-existing medical conditions. The plan is the second attempt from Donald Trump and Republicans, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan, to repeal Obamacare. The first version of their plan, which would have stripped health insurance from […]

Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed to reporters that he now has “full confidence” in Donald Trump. Ryan, who expressed extreme skepticism about Trump during the presidential campaign, gave his full-throated endorsement of Trump during his weekly press briefing. Ryan’s new confidence comes in the midst of an incredible series of scandals unfolding before the public, from […]

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats backing her stood up to Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, and secured two major concessions after both men had made a lot of noise in the preceding weeks. Trump had initially insisted that funding for his ridiculous border wall be included in the short term […]