J.D. Vance struggled to defend the Trump administration’s decisions when journalists asked him basic questions during a round of TV appearances, with one host getting so frustrated with Vance’s word salad, he cut the interview short in the middle of one of the vice president’s sentences. Vance appeared today on …
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined to explain why he has so far refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani, who resoundingly beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor. “I know him. We have had a good relationship in the past. And we had …
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Jen Psaki is launching a new MSNBC show Tuesday night, at a dark time: four-and-a-half months into Donald Trump’s second presidency. Some of the headlines leading up to the premiere of The Briefing have been about Joe Biden’s decline — and whether Psaki, who served as Biden’s White House press …
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Cameron Allen is close to the Democratic Party’s ideal voter. A millennial lawyer from Kentucky, Allen was part of the wave of energized younger Democrats who sent Andy Beshear to the governor’s office in 2018 and mobilized behind Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. Allen detests Donald Trump and opposes the Republican …
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After caving to Donald Trump and voting for a Republican-backed short-term government funding bill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has faced calls to resign from members of his own party. But Schumer is not backing down on that fight, saying he will not quit his leadership position. “I’m not stepping …
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Senate Minority Leader Schumer’s bowing to Donald Trump and voting for the Republican-backed spending bill could offer House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries the opportunity to lead. Behind the scenes, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has urged him to “Use your power,” CNN reported. The recent disagreement between Jeffries and Schumer have …
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Jon Stewart took aim at the Democrats and their complete lack of response to Donald Trump‘s actions on the latest episode of The Daily Show. He began his monologue by acknowledging, “Ladies and gentlemen, it is Trump’s world and we’re just cowering in it.” The late-night host listed a series …
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has postponed three events on his book tour — including one in Washington, D.C. — amid widespread backlash to his capitulation to Republicans during last week’s spending negotiations. According to multiple outlets, scheduled events in Baltimore, New York City, and Washington, D.C., surrounding the …
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For years, Democrats have stood by as their leaders have insisted they are powerless to do what they’ve promised, only to watch Donald Trump, in his second term, do whatever he feels like, no matter what the law says — be it firing tens of thousands of federal workers, freezing …
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Donald Trump controls the White House. Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate. As the president and his administration disassemble the federal government, the shred of power Democrats still have is the Senate filibuster, which they could use on Friday to block the Republican continuing resolution to keep …
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