Tag: Minusextra

Luis Gutierrez to skip Trump inauguration to protest ‘hatred, bigotry’

Pete Kasperowicz · December 2, 2016 1:34 pm

Friday's jobs report beat private-sector forecasts, which were for around 170,000 new jobs. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

U.S. adds 178,000 jobs in November, unemployment drops to 4.6 percent

Joseph Lawler · December 2, 2016 1:32 pm

Conway: Trump is ‘receiving information’ about illegal voters

Pete Kasperowicz · December 2, 2016 1:07 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hugs a woman, whose child was killed by a person living in the country without legal permission, after delivering an immigration policy speech during a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Obama sneaks $4 billion for illegals in lame duck budget

Paul Bedard · December 2, 2016 1:00 pm

After the multiple scandals of recent years, this is no time for the Department of Veterans' affairs to be treated like a political bauble to be handed out to a supporter. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

It’s never been more important to pick a serious veterans’ secretary

David Freddoso · December 2, 2016 1:00 pm

The recession hurt the region's construction industry and with it the fortunes of my cousin Jamie Denkenberger's small land surveying company. (Photo/Rachael Trimber Craven)

Thanksgiving in Trump country

Daniel Allott · December 2, 2016 12:57 pm

Whistleblowers said Pete Hegseth, a Fox News contributor and former CEO of Concerned Veterans for America, is the best choice because he understands the need to dramatically reform the broken agency. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Whistleblowers want Pete Hegseth to fix the busted VA

Pete Kasperowicz · December 2, 2016 12:48 pm

Four research hospitals in Chicago will be excluded from the network of providers covered by the insurers selling on the Illinois marketplace in 2017, adding to a list of problems for Obamacare customers in the state as premiums spike and plans shrink their networks. (screenshot)

Ill. Obamacare customers lose access to four top hospitals

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 2, 2016 12:00 pm

Manafort is the second Trump associate to acknowledge his foreign interests, after failing to do so previously. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Russia claims Ukraine set up Manafort to take down Trump

Anna Giaritelli · December 2, 2016 5:18 am

The deal is bad policy because it is loaded with at least $7 million in corporate welfare. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Trump’s Carrier deal confuses corporate welfare with free markets

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2016 5:03 am

The campaign did not respond to questions about the new stances. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Beltway Confidential

Trump can make the US energy independent with clean energy

Michele Combs · December 2, 2016 5:02 am

President-elect's Trump's Carrier deal is proof he's willing to use the power of the government to co-opt big business. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Markets, schmarkets: Trump won’t be shy about picking winners and losers

John Bicknell · December 2, 2016 5:02 am