Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson on Thursday said missing texts from Trump officials on Jan. 6 are problematic. “At the seniormost levels of those departments I’d have to say, it does smell, it is problematic,” he said during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Morning Joe host Willie Geist had asked the former…
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Is Russia high on war crimes?
Remember the bombing of the theater and hospital in Mariupol? Or the destruction of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Kharkiv? Or the mass executions in Irpin and Bucha? The daily rapes? The bombing of the shopping mall in Kremenchuk and the city center in Vinnytsia? And, most recently, the destruction of over 50 Ukrainian POWs and the…
Maloney to Biden: ‘I apologize. I want you to run. I happen to think you won’t be running.’
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) offered an apology to President Biden on Thursday after she declined to say if he should run for reelection in 2024 earlier this week, adding that she wants him to run. “Mr. President, I apologize. I want you to run. I happen to think you won’t be running, but when you…
Congress is finally addressing climate crisis with Inflation Reduction Act
Protecting certain communities while endangering others does not propel our country forward.
Pelosi mum on Taiwan visit during remarks in South Korea
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) avoided discussing her controversial visit to Taiwan during a press event with South Korean Speaker of the Assembly Kim Jin-pyo in Seoul. “The U.S.-Korea relationship is very strong, and we learn from each other,” Pelosi said at the presser, focusing on issues concerning South Korea rather than its…
Immigration reform is the supply-side liberalism we need
Handing out green pieces of paper can make us wealthier, so long as they’re permanent resident cards and not dollars
McConnell dismisses claim he was ‘played’ on reconciliation bill
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) during an interview late Wednesday dismissed the notion that he and other Republicans were “played” on the Inflation Reduction Act negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). “There’s nothing we could’ve done to prevent the Democrats from doing a bill that only they…
Hungary’s authoritarian leader is no gift to US conservatives
Europe is my territory for Human Rights Watch and I rarely take note of political events thousands of miles away in Texas. But the news that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas this week was chilling to me — and should be to anyone who cares…
The Hill’s Morning Report — Sinema’s ask; Rep. Walorski dies in crash
Capitol Hill remained the center of attention on Wednesday, as Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) described her demands for the reconciliation report that could win her support, and Rep. Jackie Walorski (R), 58, died in an auto accident in her home state of Indiana. The future of the Democrats’ $739 billion budget package remains cloudy, in…
What is a Senate vote-a-rama?
Democrats are working quickly to move a sprawling tax, health care and climate plan through the Senate in the coming days using a complex procedure known as budget reconciliation that could allow passage without any Republican votes. If Democrats remain unified in the critical stretch between now and when they bring the bill to a…