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Oct 01 2019
Opinion
If Trump Goes Down, He’s Taking Everyone With Him
The impeachment inquiry is laying him bare. It’s not a pretty sight.
I was based in Washington and reported from Capitol Hill during Bill Clinton’s impeachment, which was the last time the country entered waters like these. It was ugly, and Democrats and Republicans traded vicious words.
But Clinton never publicly accused his detractors of treason or floated the idea that one of
Frank Bruni
Oct 01 2019
News
With liberal bloc aging, Trump may get more Supreme Court appointments
With 86-year-old liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg enduring a series of health scares, the question of whether President Donald Trump will get to make yet another U.S. Supreme Court appointment before the 2020 election lingers as the nine justices prepare to begin their new term next week.
The justices, set to hold a private conference on Tuesday to discuss taking new cases after a
Reuters
Apr 22 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Wiping Out Almost Everyone’s Student Debt
“The time for half-measures is over,” the Democratic presidential candidate said. “My broad cancellation plan is a real solution to our student debt crisis.”
On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a wide-ranging plan to fix the U.S. college system, with proposals including making two-year and four-year public college free and expanding the size and scope of the federal Pell
HuffPost
Nov 14 2013
News
Budget Battle Breeds Dysfunctional Spending
The Oct. 16 deal that ended the shutdown kept the government funded at levels set by last year's budget. For the Secret Service, that meant millions to protect presidential nominees—from 2012.
This is the consequence of Washington's budget dysfunction: Stopgap spending bills that keep the government running, passed by Congress in the absence of a comprehensive deal, often keep federal
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 21 2015
News
HealthCare.gov still fixing tax-form blunder
The administration said Friday it still had to send corrected tax forms to 80,000 of the 820,000 HealthCare.gov customers who received erroneous information from the federal Obamacare exchange earlier this year.
Marketplace CEO Kevin Counihan said the “overwhelming majority” of affected customers — 740,000 — had received amended forms that list the correct benchmark plan by which their
Washington Times
Jun 20 2019
News
U.S. Democratic hopeful Booker proposes clemency for thousands of drug offenders
Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker said on Thursday he would consider releasing thousands of nonviolent drug offenders from federal prisons, vowing to use the president’s pardon power to address inherent inequality in the justice system.
Booker, a U.S. senator from New Jersey and one of two dozen Democrats competing for their party’s nomination for the 2020 presidential
Reuters
Jul 26 2015
News
Presidential Race Just Started? Not According to the Spending
Since late last year, presidential hopefuls have been romancing donors, hiring staff and haunting the diners and senior centers of Manchester and Dubuque.
But on paper, most of the candidates spent virtually no money exploring a presidential bid until very recently. According to campaign disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission last week, the much-promoted campaign staff
New York Times (News)
Apr 18 2019
News
Barr says "no evidence that any Americans" helped Russian government — but one has been charged
Attorney General William Barr asserted in his statement that Robert Mueller found "no evidence that any Americans" helped the Russian government or the Internet Research Agency in their schemes to influence the 2016 election.
But one American was charged with aiding the Internet Research Agency— though he did so without knowing the full extent of the alleged conspiracy — and is serving
CNN Digital
Apr 18 2019
News
Barr defends Trump before release of special counsel's Russia report
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday offered a spirited defense of President Donald Trump ahead of the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, emphasizing that it found no collusion between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
Barr, the top U.S. law enforcement official and a Trump appointee, gave a news conference at the Justice
Reuters
Mar 17 2015
News
House GOP Budget Plan Calls for More Military Spending, Ending Health Law
House Republicans unveiled a budget proposal Tuesday that would eliminate the federal deficit within 10 years, largely by overhauling Medicare and Medicaid and other social safety-net programs.
The proposal uses a contentious tactic designed to placate defense hawks concerned about military spending curbs and deficit hawks uneasy over waning fiscal discipline. It would boost military
Wall Street Journal (News)