Tag: Minusextra

The Trump administration did not go it alone when crafting last Friday's executive action on immigration from Middle Eastern and North African countries. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Trump aide: Many in Obama’s DOJ ‘approved’ refugee ban as ‘fully legal’

Anna Giaritelli · January 31, 2017 3:10 am

Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump fires acting attorney general: She ‘betrayed’ the DOJ

Gabby Morrongiello · January 31, 2017 2:32 am

Legislation would prohibit workers nationwide from being forced to support a union. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

GOP introduces national right-to-work legislation

Sean Higgins · January 31, 2017 2:14 am

Sean Spicer offered an impassioned defense on Monday of the Trump administration's treatment of reporters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Spicer: Trump’s treatment of reporters has ‘been above and beyond’

Gabby Morrongiello · January 31, 2017 1:35 am

Trump attacks Democrats for obstructing Senate confirmation process

Anna Giaritelli · January 31, 2017 1:32 am

Lawmakers introduce resolutions to undo Obama's coal and methane regulations. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Energy and Environment

GOP lines up to scrap midnight energy rules

John Siciliano · January 31, 2017 1:00 am

Political leaders in California have said they will not enforce any of Trump's orders on sanctuary cities. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s disorderly executive order on refugees

Saikrishna Prakash · January 31, 2017 1:00 am

House and Democrats vowed to fight Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats vow to fight Trump’s immigration executive orders

Al Weaver, Susan Ferrechio · January 31, 2017 12:50 am

Wyden said both candidates have "seriously misled the public about issues in their backgrounds." (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

Finance and Economy

Top finance Dem Wyden to oppose Price, Mnuchin

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 31, 2017 12:40 am

A Syrian woman with her kids remove the snow from the entrance of her tent, at an informal refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. President Donald Trump has barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, and indefinitely halted any from Syria, saying the ban is needed to keep out "radical Islamic terrorists." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Beltway Confidential

Trump is right to push for safe zones in Syria

Philippe Nassif · January 31, 2017 12:00 am

In a four-way race, DeWine has 47 percent support among GOP voters in Ohio. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Beltway Confidential

DeWine begins primary for Ohio governor with a big advantage

David Freddoso · January 30, 2017 11:56 pm

The Obama appointee says she does not believe President Trump's order was lawful. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Acting attorney general won’t allow Justice Department to defend Trump’s refugee ban

Anna Giaritelli · January 30, 2017 11:54 pm