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U.S. President Donald Trump was furious when, on January 8, five GOP senators — Kentucky's Rand Paul, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, Maine's Susan Collins, Missouri's Josh Hawley, and Indiana's Todd Young — joined Senate Democrats in a War Powers Act resolution opposing military escalation in Venezuela. Trump railed against them relentlessly, saying that they "should be ashamed" and "should never be elected to office again."But in a column published on Thursday, Janua

President Donald Trump may be inching toward his "lame duck" years in office, but one Republican strategist explained that it won't stop him from any irrational moves because he's operating on a YOLO philosophy, an acronym for "You Only Live Once."Speaking to CNN on Thursday, GOP strategist Doug Heye said Trump is well aware that his polling is terrible. "Look, he would love to be at 55 percent approval or 100 percent approval," he said. "Obviously, if everything's big and bold and beautiful. But Donald Trump, we use this term lame duck. And I don't think it really applies to Donald Trump, even though he is technically in a lame duck status. Donald Trump doesn't live in a lame duck world. He lives in a YOLO

If Democrats win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, multiple investigations into senior Trump administration officials would begin, a Democratic lawmaker said.“Stephen Miller should lawyer up,” said U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY), responding to video of his remarks earlier Thursday. Congressman Ryan had been speaking with Pablo Manríquez, the editor of Migrant Insider on Substack, who said to the New York Democrat that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller “seems to be operating sort of as a shadow president at this point.” “Can you think of any legal l

Donald Trump remains as committed as ever to his obsession with annexing Greenland, but during an MS NOW appearance Thursday, one senator involved in the fight to stop him warned that this "dumb" idea would "economically destroy" the United States.Trump has expressed a desire to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, since his first term in the White House, but the idea has built up considerable urgency and hostility during his second term, with the president refusing to rule out the use of military force and dismissing any compromises. Such an attack, leaders and experts warn,

President Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act while people in Minnesota are pushing back against the 3,000 immigration agents who have been sent to the city. "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State," Trump

After leaving the U.S. Senate, Arizona centrist Kyrsten Sinema — a former Democrat turned independent — entered the private sector, where she is now an attorney for the law firm Hogan Lovells. The firm, a merger of Hogan & Hartson (founded in 1904) and the UK-based Lovells, has offices in Washington, D.C., London, New York City, Philadelphia, and other major cities. And Sinema is employed by the D.C. office. Now, according to Law360, she is facing a legal problem of her own in the form of a civil lawsuit in the case Ammel v. Sinema.Law360's Abigail Harrison, in an article published o

President Donald Trump, rejecting criticism from within his own party, the economic challenges facing the American people, and polling on Greenland, suggested that his second-term accomplishments were so extensive that they should render the 2026 midterm elections unnecessary.In an interview with Reuters, President Trump “expressed frustration” that Republicans may lose control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in the November midterm elections. Calling it “some deep psychological thing,” Trump told Reuters that “when you win

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday refused to say whether Americans should carry their own citizenship papers to protect themselves from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), instead claiming the federal agents — even those "asking for papers" — are following the law.A reporter at the White House asked Noem if she is "okay with federal agents and officers violating people's Fourth Amendment rights by asking for papers without reasonable suspicion?"Noem replied: "Every single action that our ICE officers take is according to the law and following protocols that we have used for years that this administration has used, that the previous administration used. They are doi

Donald Trump and his administration have put a massive spotlight on welfare fraud in Minnesota in recent weeks, threatening to pull all federal welfare funds from the blue state, but according to a Thursday report from HuffPost, his administration "gave a red state a pass" after it had been caught up in "one of the biggest welfare fraud scandals of all time."According to the report, in the waning days of Joe Biden's presidency, the Department of Heal

Democratic strategists know that in the 2026 midterms, their chances of flipping the U.S. House of Representatives are much better than their chances of flipping the U.S. Senate — where they will need to capture at least four GOP-held seats in order to win a majority. But Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chair Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) is arguing that the political environment for Republicans has become so "toxic" that flipping the Senate in November isn't out of the question for Democrats.In an article published on January 15