An MS NOW panel on Thursday evening was floored by the meltdown of Republicans on Capitol Hill, as Trump alienated them with his “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and demanded politically toxic votes from them.Anchor Chris Hayes began by turning to Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez. “There’s … t…
Month: May 2026
A local GOP candidate is bragging about her election victory this week despite running unopposed. The New York Post reported that Tiffany Henyard won her GOP primary race for a commissioner’s seat in Fulton County, Georgia. However, as the Post noted, she ran unopposed. “Thank you, Fulton County! We…
WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a rare split with the president over his new “anti-weaponization” fund.The administration dispatched Acting Attorney General…
The Supreme Court revealed that a principle it used to rule on election cases was pure “legal fiction,” according to one lawyer. Marc Elias, a lawyer and lead plaintiff in multiple recent redistricting cases, said during a new episode of his “Democracy Docket” podcast that the Supreme Court has reli…
President Donald Trump seemed poised to lead the charge in regulating artificial intelligence this week, until some of his business buddies intervened, according to a new report. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump reversed course on his planned executive order regulating AI at the e…
Veteran journalist Dan Rather sees potential good that can come out of the GOP’s “never-ending trainwreck” playing out before him. In his latest Substack piece, Rather wrote that infighting between Republicans and Trump will “be good for the country” if it manages to nix some of the president’s more…
New York lawmakers want the Trump administration to know they’re not scared as they doubled down on restrictions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a new report. “Tom Homan can shove it,” Democratic New York state Sen. Andrew Gounardes told reporters in reference to Trump’s …
A political analyst was stunned on Thursday after one of President Donald Trump’s federal fraud investigators refused to answer a reporter’s question. Colin McDonald, an assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement, spoke at a press conference announcing criminal charges against 15 orga…
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is continuing to campaign in the primary runoff after President Donald Trump dealt a crushing blow by endorsing his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — but his latest stunt is meeting a wave of ridicule.”Stopped by @DairyQueen in Sealy, Texas, otherwise known as the…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) skipped a White House meeting Thursday — and sources say it wasn’t an accident.Two aides familiar with the cancellation told reporter Pablo Manríquez that Johnson flatly refused to attend, marking what may be the first time the Speaker has said no to Donald Trump.Th…