Senate Republicans failed to pass Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed “skinny repeal” amendment in a vote Friday morning, signaling what could be the end to any hopes of repealing and replacing ObamaCare. As the clock neared 2 a.m. ET, the amendment proposal failed, 51-49, with Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine
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Conservative Leaders Demand Full Repeal of Obamacare
Gage Cohen | CNS News, “The Affordable Care Act is unsustainable,” said Senator DeMint. During a conference call on Friday, conservative leaders from organizations including the Tea Party Patriots, Club for Growth, and ForAmerica, as well as former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), demanded that Republicans in Congress completely repeal the Affordable Care Act, popularly
Refocusing a Chicago Water Summit
Paul Driessen, President Trump’s proposal to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s $8.1-billion budget by $1.6 billion was cut to an $80-million trim in the omnibus spending bill. However, the EPA funding and staff controversy will undoubtedly resume during the next budgetary battles in September. That’s fueling consternation and con jobs in the heartland. According to
President Trump on Paris: ‘It Looks Like Another Terrorist Attack… It Never Ends’
Michelle Moons, WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump responded during a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni to a question on the shooting of a police officer in Paris on Thursday. “Our condolences from our country to the people of France,” said President Trump. “It looks like another terrorist attack,” he continued.
Trump on Freedom Caucus: ‘We must fight them’
President Trump on Thursday struck back at the House caucus that sunk his ObamaCare replacement bill, threatening their legislative careers if the staunchly conservative members refuse to get on board with the new president’s agenda. “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast. We must
Funding Sanctuary Cites May Be the Definition of Insanity
Nick Giampia, Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Tuesday he agrees with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the federal government should not fund cities that harbor illegal immigrants. “The idea that the federal government should fund belligerent resistance to federal government policies is maybe the definition of insanity,” he told the FOX
Trump handed Merkel $374B NATO bill during talks
President Trump handed a bill to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for about $400 billion — money he claims Germany owes NATO — during their White House meeting earlier this month, according to a British newspaper. Trump has been outspoken about NATO countries not meeting their pledge to spend at last 2 percent of GDP on
Nunes “Peculiar Midnight Run” Led to Trump Surveillance Presser
Jennifer Van Laar, We now know what led up to Rep. Devin Nunes’ hastily-called press conference Wednesday in which he told reporters he had evidence that members of the Trump transition team had been incidentally surveilled. The Daily Beast received information from “three committee officials and a former national security official with ties to the
Rep. Devin Nunes: The man in the DC spotlight
The most talked-about man in Washington this week might have gone unrecognized outside the beltway before a dramatic press conference at which he claimed to have seen evidence President Trump was spied on. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is now solidly in the public eye as he leads the charge on two major
Mingling with Foes: Phyllis Chesler, Zionists not welcome in the ‘Feminist’ camp?
Eileen F. Toplansky, On November 19, 2003, Phyllis Chesler wrote a searing piece recounting the time when she addressed a women’s “networking” conference of “mainly African-American and Hispanic-American womanists and feminists at Barnard College.” Her son accompanied her to this conference. One of the organizers at the event inquired as to what Chesler’s latest book was and
We Need a Independent Investigation of Obama not Trump
Rich Galen, We need an independent investigation into the doings of the Donald Trump and the people around him during and after the campaign as they pertain to Russia. Yesterday, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Ca), got some information, shared it with Speaker Paul Ryan, held a
Conservatives Cheer Plan to End Subsidies for Public Broadcasting
Edmund Kozak, Trump proposes cuts to federal funding of PBS, NPR — both long criticized for left-wing bias. President Donald Trump’s administration proposed to fully defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and its subsidiaries National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in a budget blueprint released Thursday. “You won’t see a zero next