All Politics
- With health-care vote, Republicans seek to prove they can get things doneWith the outcome of the American Health Care Act still up in the air, President Trump headed to the Capitol to lobby his party Tuesday. This week's vote is the GOP's first big legislative test as a governing party.
- First LookIvanka Trump gets West Wing office, access to classified informationThough she is not technically a government employee, first daughter Ivanka Trump is now聽working out of a West Wing office and will get access to classified information.
- In day of testimony, 'Russia problem' deepens for Trump White HouseAn FBI probe of possible Russian links with the Trump campaign has gone on for months, Director Comey confirms. Testifying to a House panel, he and NSA Director Rogers agree: Russian attempts to meddle in US elections are 'not likely to stop.'
- Pressure builds on Trump to back off wiretap accusationsThe White House has refused to back down from Trump's claim that his predecessor wiretapped him, despite the lack of reported evidence and amidst concerns it could distract from campaign promises and alienate key allies.
- In Iowa, more constituents flood a GOP town hall to protest Trump policiesSen. Joni Ernst (R) of Iowa faced a sea of frustrated constituents at a town hall Friday. She's just one of many GOP legislators to face backlash for what voters see as complacency in the Trump agenda.聽
- Trump's budget cuts dampen 50th anniversary of public broadcastingAs Trump attempts to dismantle the culture agencies, public media worry about forced privatization.
- Secret Service laptop stolen: Can the agency shake its scandals?Congress made recommendations for the Secret Service in 2015. But a theft in Brooklyn echoes earlier incidents.
- First LookWhy Trump wants power to remove director of Consumer Financial Protection BureauOn Friday, the DOJ joined a legal challenge to the CFPB, the government鈥檚 consumer watchdog for financial affairs. Declaring the CFPB鈥檚 structure unconstitutional, as the lawsuit seeks to do, might support the Trump administration鈥檚 deregulation efforts.
- Why Trump's budget may be 'devastating' to his supportersRep. Hal Rogers (R) of Kentucky said his poor, rural district 鈥 which voted 80 percent in favor of Trump 鈥 would be hit harder than anywhere else in the country.
- New twist for deportation opponents: sanctuary in the streetsAs the 'sanctuary church' movement gains steam, many聽congregations are exploring a more vigorous theology of resistance, where believers hold services in the homes of immigrants about to be deported.聽
- What Trump鈥檚 stark budget says about his prioritiesAt the heart of the plan lie two core Trump goals: a reduced role for government in American life, and an emphasis on military power in the global arena.
- Why GOP plan's 'historic' reform of Medicaid has many worriedUnder the plan, states would lose $880 billion in Medicaid funding over the next decade as the federal government shifted more of the system's cost and responsibility to the states.
- Why Trump tax revelation leaves many unsatisfiedThe fact that Trump paid taxes at all disproves Democratic claims. But the newly revealed summary of his 2005 return did nothing to answer questions about his business dealings.
- Obamacare's stubborn legacy looms over GOP health billRepublicans can repeal the Affordable Care Act. But Obamacare's legacy lives on in the public's expectations for health policy and the very framework of the internal GOP debate.
- Why Trump immigration reform faces uphill battle? The GOP.A big divide between pro-business Republicans and cultural conservatives will make it hard for President Trump to push through comprehensive immigration reform. 聽
- Obamacare overhaul: Why GOP says it's not about the number of people coveredThe independent Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday that under the GOP plan the number of uninsured Americans would rise by a total of 24 million by 2026.
- First LookAre this Iowa congressman's views on immigration racist?Rep. Steve King has come under fire for tweeting that Americans 'can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.'聽
- First LookCan Trump unite Republicans over healthcare and a new budget?The president is set to reveal his fiscal budget for 2018 on Thursday, potentially deepening existing divides between GOP lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Congress.聽
- Will gerrymandering ruling turn Texas blue?In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of federal judges invalidated three Texas districts late Friday, saying the GOP-controlled state legislature had unconstitutionally drawn boundaries to discriminate against minorities.
- Cover StoryTrump vs. the media: the war over factsThe president's collision with the media is changing the way newsrooms operate 鈥 and may rejuvenate journalism.聽