President Donald Trump and his allies are plotting to push Congress to void his past two impeachments from the record—even though it’s not constitutionally possible.
A measure to expunge Trump’s 2019 and 2021 impeachments likely wouldn’t be considered until after the midterm elections, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal Thursday night.
“It should be done because I did…
In Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, the epigram-spouting Lady Bracknell is told by Jack Worthing, her daughter’s suitor, that he’s lost both his parents. To this, the lady replies imperiously: “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” I thought of Lady Bracknell this week on learning that Republican House…
We kick off today’s BradCast with a story that makes all the ones that follow seem not nearly as bad….right? [Audio to full show follows below.] FIRST UP… In most Ebola outbreaks, fewer than 500 people are infected by the grotesquely deadly disease before it is finally contained. But the worst Ebola outbreak in history, […]
The White House is corroding from the inside.
The president is reportedly “pissed” and “increasingly frustrated with everyone” surrounding him—though the drama seems to be a mess of his own creation.
The pressing issue started last week, when Donald Trump suddenly appointed Bill Pulte—a national real estate developer serving as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—to run U.S.…
House Speaker Mike Johnson failed Tuesday to convince President Donald Trump to sacrifice his crooked crony in order to save FISA.
In a meeting at the White House, Trump indicated that he would not nominate a replacement for Bill Pulte, the wildly inexperienced housing official he appointed as acting director of national intelligence.
Pulte’s appointment prompted Democrats to pull their support…
Asked whether he thought the Los Angeles mayoral election was rigged, House Speaker Mike Johnson did what he does best: steer away from facts and embrace nebulous speculation.
“I’m not saying it’s rigged, I’m saying it stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that,” Johnson said to a gaggle of reporters Monday evening. “Let’s remove the appearance of impropriety—what a concept. Let’s have…
04 de junho de 2026 – A Câmara dos Estados Unidos aprovou, nesta quarta-feira (03/06), uma resolução para limitar os poderes do presidente Donald Trump sobre a guerra no Irã. A proposta foi aprovada por 215 […]
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04 de junho de 2026 – A Câmara dos Estados Unidos aprovou, nesta quarta-feira (03/06), uma resolução para limitar os poderes do presidente Donald Trump sobre a guerra no Irã. A proposta foi aprovada por 215 […]
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The House for the first time Wednesday approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long conflict that has reordered politics at home and abroad.
The post House Approves War Powers Resolution to Halt Military Action Against Iran, in a Rebuke of Trump…
In an attempt to claim that judges, rather than Members of Congress, forced Trump to back off plans for a Terrorist Slush Fund, anonymous sources and DOJ falsely claimed that any judge had permanently ruled against the Slush Fund.
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It is more urgent to hold Trump accountable and have a plan to use the inevitable bailout to reclaim democracy than it is to lay out plans for 2029, because we're unlikely to make it that far without a massive crisis first.
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By now, we know that the blasphemy brothers Donald Trump and Mike Johnson have completely done away with a cornerstone our founders established in the Constitution: the separation of church and state.
What little was left of that provision eroded completely on the National Mall last Sunday during a nine-hour, state-sponsored prayer service purportedly about patriotism that was really about…
The continuing negative fallout from Trump’s crusades against his own party’s incumbents
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That's his ticket for midterms.
Practically no one attended Donald Trump’s eight-hour religious program Sunday on Washington’s National Mall.
Even the president—or his cabinet members—couldn’t be bothered to show up to Rededicate 250, which was billed as a “national jubilee of prayer, praise and thanksgiving.” A smattering of people attended the outdoor event, held during 90-degree weather and high humidity in the nation’s…
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The speakers largely advanced the ideas that the U.S. has a religious — and particularly Christian — founding and that its future success depends on prayer.
Today the Trump administration is hosting an all-day prayer festival on the National Mall, partially funded with millions in taxpayer dollars, to “rededicate” America to God — and to promote Christian nationalism. It’s all part of America’s 250th birthday celebration, which has been co-opted by the current administration and its minions to convey an overtly […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson still doesn’t know anything about what Donald Trump is saying.
Johnson has spent the bulk of his time atop the House dodging attempts by reporters to pin down his opinion on the Trump administration’s various machinations. That remained true during a press huddle Friday, when a journalist asked Johnson about the president’s relaxed approach to safeguarding Taiwan from…
(RNS) — But a new poll finds many Americans aren’t comfortable mixing religion and politics.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 14 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
Greg****Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with Donald Trump’s war with Iran. Three GOP senators just voted with Democrats to…
The fallout continues from Donald Trump’s startling rant admitting that he isn’t concerned with how the Iran war is impacting Americans’ finances. On Wednesday, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, and numerous other Republicans struggled to spin away the damage, but they appeared visibly flummoxed. Indeed, the GOP cracks are worsening: Three GOP Senators just voted to end the war. And shocking leaks to _The…
In September 1925, a month after some 30,000 hooded Klansmen paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in the largest Klan rally in Washington's history, the satirical weekly Judge declared the Ku Klux Klan effectively dead. What remained, the editorial argued, was a fraternal dress-up order, no more threatening than the Shriners. — Read the rest
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WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday pressed for increased funding for the Secret Service, arguing most of the money Senate Republicans included for the agency in their immigration enforcement bill is for security needs, not building a new ballroom at the White House. But the Louisiana Republican added during a morning press […]
"How can you tell me you honor God and believe that your sexuality can be changed?”
There are a lot of things wrong with today’s Republican Party. They lie. They lie about how much they lie. They have handed their party and our democracy to a conscience-less kleptocrat, and they adulate him the way Russian communists once lionized Stalin (massive, Stalinesque banners of Trump now adorn at least two federal office buildings, the Justice
Department and the Department
of…
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy appeared on __Fox News__ this week to mock Barack Obama’s interview with Stephen Colbert, suggesting the two should “get a motel room” because of their supposed mutual admiration.
Kennedy’s motel room quip came after Obama appeared on Colbert’s _Late Show_ , where the two discussed and joked about presidential powers, executive authority, and job searches,…
Party lines only hold for so long.
Washington, DC, is gearing up for "Rededicate 250," which will take place May 17 on the National Mall and is described as a "National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving."
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Insecurity about the midterms is rising—and Republicans are shoving some of the blame onto House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Concern is spreading that Johnson has “lost control of his conference,” creating an environment that is unlikely to pass meaningful legislation before the November elections, The Hill reported Monday.
North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer warned that the caucus’s relentless…
One said it may not be so bad if Republicans lose the House majority.