“Steve Bannon motivating Democratic voters,” said one historian in response to comments by the former Trump White House advisor. Far-right podcaster and former top presidential advisor Steve Bannon told a crowd of aspiring conservative staffers on Capitol Hill this week that the job of Republicans between now and the midterm election next year is to seize complete control of […]
“Republicans are rubber stamps for Donald Trump on everything else,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen. “This may be the one area where they’ve decided not to play ball.” President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to escalate his campaign to eliminate the filibuster in the US Senate. According to a Tuesday report from Axios, Trump plans to relentlessly harass Republican senators until they accept […]
“Decisions about the use of American military force are not campaign strategy sessions, and they are not the private property of one political party,” said Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. The Trump administration on Wednesday cut Senate Democrats out of a classified briefing on the US military’s string of deadly strikes on boats that the president and his […]
The power struggles that animate this shutdown are meant to outlast it, leveraging legal ambiguities, executive fiat, and congressional paralysis to redefine “essential” as that which survives unchallenged. What is it about an insidious, long-term plan that causes commercial media to ignore what’s lying in plain sight? With Congress at a standstill, the Republican-led House refusing to return […]