Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill — which gave the top 1% fully $118 billion this year in tax cuts — turns a year old this week and Republicans in Congress actually celebrated the largest cuts to food assistance and Medicaid in American history.They told us it was about fraud, about lazy people gaming the …
In a puff profile on Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the Wall Street Journal, the embattled House Speaker complained at length about his job and “demurred” when asked if he wanted to keep it.The Louisiana Republican, now nearly three years into his tenure as speaker, admitted he is under relentless pr…
You cannot be a prominent spokesperson for Donald Trump and not live in a liminal space of existential hypocrisy, and so perhaps one shouldn’t be all that hard on White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who had a less-than-fantastic holiday and summer-opening; it is, after all, her job to defend …
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is slated to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and is expected to face tough questions from members on a number of topics, chief among them his role in the Justice Department’s botched release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.After firin…
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett testified on the need for greater security funding for the Supreme Court, a development that comes after years of threats of violence against judges and occasional horrific murders.But MAGA activists’ reaction to the news was to call for Barrett to resign from…
In the wake of another ICE killing of an innocent man in Biddeford, Maine, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough pounced on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). On Wednesday, the ‘Morning Joe’ co-host went on an extended rant where he raked Collins over the coals over her promise to investigate previous ICE killings when…
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), under fire in her home state after a father was gunned down on Monday by ICE agents she helped fund, is about to suffer another blow courtesy of President Donald Trump, a political analyst argued Wednesday.Appearing on MS NOW on Wednesday morning, John Heilemann said th…
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) declaration that he was not aware of any of the details about the shooting of a young father in Maine by ICE agents earned him a tongue-lashing on MS NOW early Wednesday morning. “Morning Joe” opened with a clip of the GOP leader blowing off questions from a repor…
A growing number of former colleagues of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche have united ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing to beg he not be confirmed. Prosecutors Mimi Rocah and Perry A. Carbone penned Wednesday morning an MS NOW editorial in which they explained why they’ve joined hundreds…
The frustrating thing about telling the truth is knowing that you’re right, but that it ultimately may not make any difference to the people who need to hear it the most.Welcome to my job amid the last 11 years of Trump’s blight on all of our political norms — most significantly in the way he’s abus…