Tag: Democratic Party

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

Demonstrators hold posters of Kamala Harris 2020 during the Women's March.

Kamala Harris enlists ex-Hillary Clinton team members for 2020 campaign

Katelyn Caralle · January 22, 2019 11:51 pm

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee points as he steps into his car after speaking at Saint Anselm College, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Manchester, N.H.

Beltway Confidential

Presidential hopes of climate change Democrat Jay Inslee at risk of freezing in New Hampshire

Philip Wegmann · January 22, 2019 8:03 pm

In this Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Washington Secrets

Surging Biden ‘in the driver’s seat,’ 14-point 2020 lead over Sanders

Paul Bedard · January 22, 2019 5:53 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., waves to the crowd as she steps onto the stage at the Women's Unity Rally organized by Women's March NYC in Lower Manhattan, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, in New York.

Poll: Lots of Democrats open to voting for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president

Dominick Mastrangelo · January 22, 2019 5:44 pm