Tag: Democratic Party

On Friday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., (pictured center) said, "It turns out that Donald Trump's campaign talk about helping the 'forgotten men and women' was just that - talk." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats berate Trump for ‘severely’ testing US democracy in his first year

Anna Giaritelli · January 19, 2018 7:50 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., accused Democrats of favoring a fast remedy for illegal immigration over the need to keep the government, including the military, fully funded. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell asks Democrats to support funding: ‘Stop the wild goose chase’

Susan Ferrechio · January 19, 2018 4:48 pm

Sixty-six Democrats voted against Rep. Kevin McCarthy's motion to table Rep. Al Green's proposal, a bit more than the 58 who voted the same way in December. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump impeachment gaining support among House Democrats

Pete Kasperowicz · January 19, 2018 4:21 pm

Conservative Internet pundits Diamond and Silk tell Democrats, "I understand that they are so keen on DACA. But listen, this is not Burger King, you can't have everything your way. You gonna have to come to the table. You have to negotiate."

Diamond and Silk tell Democrats: ‘This is not Burger King, you can’t have everything your way’

Anna Giaritelli · January 19, 2018 3:41 pm

Less than an hour after the House passed a temporary stopgap spending bill, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Senate Democrats are the "only thing standing in the way" of government funding and other resources and programs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Paul Ryan: Senate Democrats are ‘the only thing standing in the way’ of averting government shutdown

Diana Stancy Correll · January 19, 2018 1:30 am

A National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the 2013 government shutdown.

Beltway Confidential

Nobody wins in a government shutdown

Emily Jashinsky · January 18, 2018 8:17 pm

Paul Ryan suggested that even without Democrats, the measure can pass the House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Paul Ryan: ‘I think we are in a good place’ on spending vote

Susan Ferrechio · January 18, 2018 5:16 pm

The Republican National Committee hauled in $11.1 million in December, making it one of nine months in 2017 that it broke its fundraising records for those months.(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

GOP expects to double up Democrats on 2017 donations

Anna Giaritelli · January 18, 2018 4:13 pm

Declines in spending in recent years have left the military too small, over-worked, and saddled with aging aircraft that cannot fly, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Paul Ryan: ‘We have simply pushed our military past the breaking point’

Travis J. Tritten · January 18, 2018 1:45 pm

A loud and influential coalition of grassroots progressives has applied enormous pressure on the party for months to demand a clean Dream Act from Republicans and nothing less. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Beltway Confidential

DACA negotiations reveal consequences of Democrats’ increasingly radical base

Emily Jashinsky · January 18, 2018 4:06 am

"It's the opposite of what I campaigned for," President Trump said of the deal. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump slams ‘horrible’ and ‘very, very weak’ bipartisan immigration deal

Sarah Bedford · January 17, 2018 8:51 pm

Sen. Cory Booker blew up at Kirstjen Nielsen after she said she never heard President Trump say some countries in Africa and elsewhere are "shithole" countries. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

RNC: Dems silent after Cory Booker’s ‘mansplaining’ to DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen

Pete Kasperowicz · January 17, 2018 7:23 pm