Tag: Bernie Sanders

Some of the Facebook and Instagram ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir up tensions around divisive social issues.

National Security

Russian troll farm targeted US election 13 months before Trump candidacy, indictment shows

Steven Nelson · February 16, 2018 7:53 pm

"Because of the corrosive effect of corporate money in politics, I've decided from this point on I am no longer accepting corporate PAC checks into my campaign," Kirsten Gillibrand said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kirsten Gillibrand vows to reject campaign contributions from corporate PACs

Melissa Quinn · February 13, 2018 7:52 pm

Unlike some of his colleagues, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, made his questions the centerpiece of his allotted time in his attempt to get answers from U.S. intelligence officials. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Angus King teaches senators how to question

Tom Rogan · February 13, 2018 6:33 pm

"I'll tell you that I believe that in 2020, the American people are going to be looking for a new generation of leadership," former secretary of housing and urban development Julian Castro said on Thursday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Beltway Confidential

Looking to 2020, Julián Castro burns Bernie and Biden

Tom Rogan · February 8, 2018 10:50 pm

Mocking a newly pregnant 25-year old who admitted she was struggling to "keep her chin up" about the news is a bad look on anybody, let alone a self-styled champion of women. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Democratic candidate Randy Bryce once used Bristol Palin’s pregnancy announcement to suggest she sell condoms

Emily Jashinsky · February 7, 2018 11:31 pm

In late January, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., hosted a town hall to discuss socializing Medicare even further. No mainstream media carried the event. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Bernie Sanders puts lipstick on the ‘Medicare for all’ pig

Sally Pipes · February 6, 2018 1:23 am

Myron Ebell, Trump's EPA transition chief, and the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's energy and environment office, has petitioned "the EPA to re-open the endangerment finding," he told the Washington Examiner in an email. Ebell is part of an effort by anti-climate change hawks to get rid of a finding that gives the EPA broad authority to regulate greenhouse gases. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Anti-climate change hawks have a bone to pick with Trump, too

John Siciliano · February 5, 2018 5:01 am

DNC unleashed nearly $1 million for the first wave of the State Party Innovation Fund grant program on Jan. 24. States targeted include Nevada, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota.

Some Democrats aren’t buying the DNC’s new 50-state strategy

Laura Barrón-López · February 4, 2018 5:01 am

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., both signed a letter pushing President Trump to end the investor-state dispute settlement system established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Liberals urge Trump to stick with NAFTA reforms

Sean Higgins · February 2, 2018 9:45 pm

There's no room for lower taxes, economic expansion, and free market principles in today's Democratic Party. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

The Democrats aren’t the party of the people, they’re the party of Elizabeth Warren

Jake Kastan · February 2, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., appeared at a summit Wednesday hosted by the anti-fossil fuel activist group 350.org and its founder Bill McKibben. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Energy and Environment

Bernie Sanders: Trump’s ‘days are numbered’ for ignoring climate change

John Siciliano · February 1, 2018 4:23 am

An Amtrak passenger train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Va. No lawmakers were believed injured, but it at least one person in the truck was said to be seriously injured. (Allison Wrabel/The Daily Progress via AP)

Former Bernie Sanders surrogate on GOP train crash and Trey Gowdy’s resignation: God is working hard ‘to clean up the stink’

Naomi Lim · January 31, 2018 6:49 pm