Tag: Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a closed-door GOP meeting.

McConnell unsure if Trump’s border emergency is legal after meeting with Pence

Susan Ferrechio · February 26, 2019 9:11 pm

Energy and Environment

McConnell vows vote on Green New Deal by August

Susan Ferrechio · February 26, 2019 8:54 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., steps out of the chamber.

Energy and Environment

McConnell hopes to trap Democrats in their own Green New Deal

Susan Ferrechio · February 24, 2019 5:00 am

Representative Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii and 2020 presidential candidate, pauses while speaking to attendees during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019.

Tulsi Gabbard: I have ‘concerns’ over the ‘Green New Deal’

Naomi Lim · February 20, 2019 5:58 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters.

How Mitch McConnell could save Trump’s border wall

Susan Ferrechio · February 16, 2019 5:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Thune (left), R-S.D., and Majority Whip John Cornyn (right), R-Texas, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in D.C.

McConnell blames Democrats for Trump’s border emergency

Susan Ferrechio · February 15, 2019 7:02 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s emergency declaration stretches the law and violates the separation of powers

Erin Dunne · February 15, 2019 3:52 pm

President Trump speaks during an event.

DOJ warns Trump that border national emergency declaration will be blocked by courts

Caitlin Yilek · February 15, 2019 12:50 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Schumer warns Trump against emergency border declaration: ‘Tremendous mistake’

Joseph Lawler · February 14, 2019 11:36 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, joined by Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., center, and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., right, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the top Senate border security negotiator, speak to reporters about the bipartisan compromise worked out last night to avert another government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

This is not a national emergency: Congress must update the National Emergency Act

Tiana Lowe Doescher · February 14, 2019 9:50 pm

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks with reporters during her weekly news conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019.

Pelosi threat: Democrats could declare national emergency to enact gun control

Susan Ferrechio · February 14, 2019 9:30 pm

President Trump speaks at the Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs Association Joint Conference.

Beltway Confidential

Trump declaring a national emergency to build border wall with McConnell’s support will come back to haunt conservatives

Philip Klein · February 14, 2019 8:52 pm