Tag: Democratic Party

Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, smiles after a group photo with the 116th Congress outside the U.S Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Congress returns to work this week with Democrats and Republicans promising to work together to avert a partial government shutdown and pass a handful of other bills, though President Donald Trump's demand to fund his border wall could blow up their plans.

Beltway Confidential

The Left is idolizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez like the Right idolizes Trump

Kimberly Ross · January 24, 2019 3:36 pm

This Oct. 26, 2017, file photo shows prototypes of border walls in San Diego. In his demands that Congress set aside $5.7 billion for a border wall, President Trump insists a physical barrier would stop heroin entering the U.S. from Mexico.

Rep. Tom McClintock: Declare an emergency and build the wall

Rep Tom McClintock · January 24, 2019 5:00 am

Mayor Pete Buttigieg points as he talks to an AP reporter at his office in South Bend, Ind., Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. At 37, Pete Buttigieg is just a few years older than the minimum age required to serve as president of the United States.

Pete Buttigieg: Democrats have let conservatives co-opt the idea of freedom

Naomi Lim · January 23, 2019 10:20 pm

Beltway Confidential

Left-wing group tries to raise money with a Supreme Court-packing fantasy

Philip Wegmann · January 23, 2019 10:09 pm

Furloughed government workers affected by the shutdown hold a silent protest against the ongoing partial government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019.

National Security

Furloughed federal employees stage sit-in at Senate offices

Katelyn Caralle · January 23, 2019 6:25 pm

Mayor Pete Buttigieg points as he talks to an AP reporter at his office in South Bend, Ind., Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. At 37, Pete Buttigieg is just a few years older than the minimum age required to serve as president of the United States.

Beltway Confidential

Republicans try torching Pete Buttigieg before he can rebuild Hillary Clinton’s failed Midwest firewall

Philip Wegmann · January 23, 2019 6:10 pm

Sen. Kamala Harris, right, greets former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after a service celebrating the life of Mayor Ed Lee at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

The San Francisco ghosts in Kamala Harris's past

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 23, 2019 5:08 pm

Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks outside the Statehouse, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Concord, N.H., after filing to be placed on the New Hampshire primary ballot.

Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg adds his name to the 2020 mix: ‘It is a season for boldness’

Katelyn Caralle · January 23, 2019 1:50 pm

President Donald Trump speaks about the partial government shutdown, immigration and border security in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.

Trump’s new border wall slogan: ‘Build a wall and crime will fall’

Katelyn Caralle · January 23, 2019 1:32 pm

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., administers the House oath of office to Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt.

Democratic lawmaker apologizes for saying it was never legal in US history to make people work for free before shutdown

Katelyn Caralle · January 23, 2019 5:12 am

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a health care bill news conference to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

‘Medicare for more’ polls better than ‘Medicare for all’

Kimberly Leonard · January 23, 2019 3:00 am

The Capitol is visible behind signs protesting a government shutdown.

Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives named to House Oversight Committee

Katelyn Caralle · January 23, 2019 1:52 am