Tag: Democratic Party

Energy and Environment

Liberals grow skeptical of carbon tax proposal

Josh Siegel · January 25, 2019 5:00 am

Elizabeth Warren, United States senator from Massachusetts and one of the many Democrats running for president in 2020, speaks at the "Community Conversation about Puerto Rico and its Recovery" held at the Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Theater, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday Jan. 22, 2019. Warren addressed the hardships Puerto Rico has endured in the past two years, particularly its debt crisis and the recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Beltway Confidential

Elizabeth Warren endorses ‘wealth tax’ just in time for presidential run

Philip Wegmann · January 24, 2019 10:31 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Joe Biden offers a hollow, bipartisan confession

Philip Wegmann · January 24, 2019 10:18 pm

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019.

Millennial Democratic presidential candidate says service in Congress is no requirement for White House

Naomi Lim · January 24, 2019 8:30 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., returns to his office at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. The Senate will vote on two competing proposals this week to end the partial government shutdown, but neither seems to have enough votes to advance.

Democrats block Trump’s plan to end shutdown, fund border wall

Susan Ferrechio · January 24, 2019 8:05 pm

Alan Lowenthal speaks.

Energy and Environment

House Democrats accuse Trump of favoring oil and gas during the shutdown

Josh Siegel · January 24, 2019 7:46 pm

Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., speaks to fairgoers at the Des Moines Register Soapbox during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, in Des Moines, Iowa.

New Hampshire editorial board: 2020 Democrat John Delaney is ‘somewhat impressive’

Naomi Lim · January 24, 2019 5:57 pm

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