Tag: Barack Obama

Donald Trump and talks with former President Barack Obama on Trump's Inauguration Day. The Wall Street Journal reported Obama is livid at Trump following his weekend tweets accusing the former president of ordering an illegal wiretap. (Rob Carr/Pool Photo via AP)

Obama livid at Trump, didn’t return his phone call after inauguration: Report

Kyle Feldscher · March 8, 2017 3:04 pm

Republicans are facing deep political potholes as they move down the road of repealing and replacing Obamacare. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

The road to Obamacare replacement is getting rockier

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 8, 2017 5:07 am

A mainstream media wholly invested in the political failure of a replacement to Obamacare will not be helpful. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Facts…and opinions

Robert Ehrlich · March 8, 2017 5:03 am

The president said the American Health Care Act is "getting better and better." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Half-baked Obamacare is recipe for GOP failure

Washington Examiner · March 8, 2017 5:01 am

The rule was a very big deal out West, where most federal land is located. Its critics included Western state and local governments and local stakeholders affected by BLM decisions. (Bureau of Land Management via AP, file)

Beltway Confidential

Congress buries Obama’s public lands rule

David Freddoso · March 8, 2017 1:43 am

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., center, joined by, from left, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks about health care during a news conference. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump whipping Rand Paul to support healthcare bill

Anna Giaritelli · March 8, 2017 12:42 am

Spicer attempts to explain why Trump can’t disclose proof of wiretapping

Gabby Morrongiello · March 7, 2017 9:44 pm

Beltway Confidential

Ben Carson’s immigrant/slave speech is remarkably similar to an address Obama gave last year

Becket Adams · March 7, 2017 9:34 pm

The resolution, which passed 51-48, would dismantle the Bureau of Land Management's land planning and management rule, a sprawling regulation that would make mining and resource development more difficult on federal lands. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

Energy and Environment

Senate scraps Obama land management rule

John Siciliano · March 7, 2017 9:31 pm

White House press secretary Sean Spicer declined to say whether he believes President Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped members of his campaign just before the election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘That’s a cute question’: Spicer won’t say if he believes Trump’s wiretap claims

Gabby Morrongiello · March 7, 2017 7:36 pm

A new poll released Tuesday found that 84 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the total cost of healthcare in the country. (AP Photo/Jim Mone,File)

Beltway Confidential

After seven years of Obamacare Americans are less satisfied with healthcare costs, poll finds

Emily Jashinsky · March 7, 2017 4:49 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, critiqued his Democratic colleagues for calling for a special counsel to investigate possible ties between the Trump administration and the Russian government. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Grassley: Where were the calls for a special counsel under Obama DOJ?

Kelly Cohen · March 7, 2017 3:53 pm