President Donald Trump signed a week-long government funding extension Friday as Congress rushed to secure coronavirus spending and relief. The Senate passed the measure in a vote earlier in the day, and the House approved it this week. Funding would have expired on Saturday if Washington hadn’t passed a spending plan. The law will fund…

Americans have lived for some time under a political system that is arguably best characterized as minority tyranny. Certainly the nation has suffered for the past four years under the insidious rule of a president who lost the referendum by 3 million votes in the 2016 election as the nation was embroiled in a devastatingly…

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, December 10, 2019. Al Drago | Reuters Mick Mulvaney, former acting chief of staff to President Donald Trump, plans to raise at least $ 1 million from outside investors for his newly formed hedge fund. Mulvaney, now representing the outgoing administration in Northern Ireland, and his business…

Guests at the White House Christmas party were informed that Trump would not join them or make any remarks after losing in the Supreme Court. Maggie Haberman tweeted: At the Christmas party at the White House, guests were informed about 10 minutes ago that the President would not come to them to comment. – Maggie…

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Chairman of the U.S. Minority Group, speaks during a press conference with fellow U.S. Capitol Republicans on December 10, 2020 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Erin Scott | Reuters Kevin McCarthy, minority chairman of the House of Representatives, R-Calif., Along with 125 other Republican Congressmen, supported the Texas Supreme Court’s longstanding…

Donald Trump hosts maskless indoor events with hundreds of attendees as the number of COVID deaths in America tops about 3,000 a day – and is likely to continue to rise in the coming days and weeks. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow outlined the worrying divide between White House behavior and the growing death toll and infection…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from central Kentucky, wears a protective mask when he returns to his office in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Thursday, December 10, 2020. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Few signs of progress toward a coronavirus relief deal emerged Thursday as Congress moved closer to…

In 2016, the influence of big tech was very beneficial to Republicans. Facebook’s total refusal to remove any kind of misinformation helped bring Donald Trump to the White House. However, the GOP has spent much of the last 4 years beating up social media companies. Donald Trump himself was especially upset that Twitter checked some…

“I take this matter very seriously, but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will show that I have handled my affairs legally and appropriately, with the benefit of professional accountants,” said Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden, an attorney whose late brother Beau Biden was the Delaware attorney general prior to…

President Donald Trump stressed that his election fraud lawsuits, thrown out of court for lack of credible evidence and symbolizing his crusade to reverse the results of an election decisively won by President-elect Joe Biden, would soon teach American voters “courage “and” saving our country “. “I have received hundreds of thousands of legal votes…