Mulvaney: Trump regularly asks why Roy Moore lost
President Trump remains dissatisfied with the performance of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) in the state's special election last year and regularly questions why Moore lost, according to a top...
View ArticleRNC chairwoman: ‘Democrats have energy right now’
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said Sunday that Democrats have an advantage in voter enthusiasm heading into November's midterms.Speaking on AM 970 in New York, McDaniel...
View ArticleFormer Cruz spokesman: 'It's possible' O'Rourke could win
Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) former campaign spokesman said that it’s “possible” for Cruz to lose his reelection bid to Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke.Rick Tyler, who served as Cruz’s former communications...
View ArticleWarren suggests Mulvaney broke law by speaking to GOP donors
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday said that White House budget director Mick Mulvaney might have broken the federal Hatch Act by meeting with Republican donors and campaign officials earlier...
View ArticleProtect the Military Lending Act
Standing with the troops requires more than lip service. It also requires action. When the Pentagon found that predatory payday loan shops and unethical car dealers were trolling military bases and...
View ArticleTop House Budget Dem predicts a 'nonconfrontational' committee...
The ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Rep. John Yarmuth (Ky.), said he hopes to have a nonconfrontational budget committee when Democrats officially take control of the House in January....
View ArticleA Senate vote for Kraninger is a vote against Main Street
Senators who vote this week to confirm Kathleen Kraninger as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be endorsing the pro-industry, anti-consumer track record of current Director Mick...
View ArticleLame-duck session need not be lame for consumers
After an election, Congress occasionally holds a “lame-duck session” to tidy up outstanding legislative matters, such as completing budget appropriations or electing to address or defer a major...
View ArticlePut 'regulation by enforcement' where it belongs: The trash
In a welcome announcement, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Acting Director Mick Mulvaney declared an end to “regulation by enforcement.” For nearly a decade, the bureau has had free rein to...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker jokes about Trump's next Interior chief: It's going to...
A GOP lawmaker joked Saturday that President Trump already has someone in place who could succeed outgoing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney.Mulvaney, a former...
View ArticleSupreme Court should do what Congress won’t: Rein in the Bureau of Consumer...
This April, something remarkable happened in Washington D.C. The acting head of a federal agency told Congress that the agency he directs “is far too powerful,” has “precious little oversight of its...
View ArticleShutdown begins as lawmakers wrestle over Trump's border wall
Congress failed to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday and doesn’t appear to have a clear path forward as lawmakers continue to squabble over funding for President Trump’s border wall.Senate...
View ArticleSunday shows preview: Washington heads into multi-day shutdown
Washington insiders will debate the partial shutdown of the federal government and other topics on the Sunday's news shows as the Trump administration heads into the second day of reduced operations as...
View ArticleSwalwell says favorite 2018 meme depicts Trump's chief-of-staff search
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told Hill.TV that his favorite political meme of 2018 depicted President Trump's search for a new White House chief of staff."I have been the subject of political memes,...
View ArticleChallenge for new chief-of-staff: Restraining Trump's impulse to...
In Hyphenated America, descriptors such as Conservative, LGBT, African and Catholic often serve as a competent bellwether of personal preferences. But if identity politics have been a fixture of...
View ArticleTrump will stay in DC through the shutdown
President Trump will remain in Washington, D.C., over the New Year's holiday as the White House attempts to negotiate an end to the partial shutdown of the federal government with Democrats in...
View ArticleMaxine Waters: Much of my work will be undoing Mulvaney's...
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said one of her top priorities will be undoing the damage by former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Mick Mulvaney now that Democrats control the House.In an...
View ArticleCFPB confusing 'freedom of choice' with 'freedom to be...
Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee will convene a hearing to review the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). They have a difficult task in front of them.Some Americans may doubt...
View ArticleStates sue Trump admin over deregulations executive order
A group of three states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging President Trump’s 2017 executive order requiring federal agencies to repeal at least two standing regulations for each new regulation...
View Article'Distractor in Chief' has made room for unprecedented regulatory...
With the media electing to focus only on the salacious and scandalous, it’s natural for Americans to wonder what “news” has been getting brushed aside by the Mueller Report, Michael Avenatti, et...
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