Democrats

  • Burgess Owens: Americans proud of Trump

    Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is making waves, and Americans get the benefit. “We finally have a leader that the world respects, and that goes a long way. When we have respect, not only are you willing to listen, but you know that there’s going to be some type of…

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  • New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday. Patel could be sworn in next week, the official said, putting Patel in charge of two of the Justice Department’s largest agencies in an unusual arrangement that…

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  • Border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax on Saturday that he continues to be perplexed at the pushback the Trump administration is getting from Democrat politicians across the country saying “national security threats should be a nonpartisan issue.” Earlier this week President Donald Trump removed top ICE official Caleb Vitello expressing frustration that the number of deportations of…

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  • Protests: US residents rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk

    Demonstrators gathered across the USA on Wednesday to protest actions taken by recently inaugurated US President Donald Trump. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early actions, decrying everything from the president’s immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer…

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  • President Donald Trump expressed his appreciation on Tuesday for the letter former President Joe Biden left him in the Resolute Desk. “It was a very nice letter. I could show it because I think it was a nice letter,” Trump said, according to The Hill. “It was a little bit of an inspirational type of letter.…

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  • Comer expects Democrats to ‘show off,’ delay confirmation of Trump’s nominees

    Senate Democrats will “do what they always do” while pushing back against the confirmation of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said on Newsmax Tuesday. “They’re going to show off,” the Kentucky Republican and author of the new book “All the President’s Money,” told Newsmax’s “Wake Up…

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  • Making Britain better off will be “at the forefront of the chancellor’s mind” during her visit to China, the Treasury has said amid controversy over the trip. Rachel Reeves flew out on Friday after ignoring calls from opposition parties to cancel the long-planned venture because of market turmoil at home. The past week has seen a drop…

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  • Donald Trump’s team is crafting an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, a monumental move the president-elect’s allies say is a key step in their long-term strategy: getting the issue before the Supreme Court. The effect of Trump’s order would be to exclude the children of undocumented immigrants and…

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  • Jamal Simmons, a former communications director for Kamala Harris, made an unlikely suggestion about how the vice president might still have a chance of becoming president in 2024: If Joe Biden steps down from office. Asked on Sunday what they thought would be the most important thing to watch for in the 71 days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, panelists on…

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  • Democrats concerned over mass exodus of members to Trump’s party

    Demoralized Democrats are soul-searching and blaming each other after President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding election victory exposed erosion among working-class support for Democrats that poses a potential long-term crisis for the party. Democrats − who have long prided themselves as the party for the little guy − instead strengthened their emerging base of financially secure college graduates…

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  • NOT ALLOWED: Joe Biden should never do this again

    This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Joe’s Gotta’ Go. Talk with just about any professional Democrat in Washington or with a state party or even in a local race for utility commission, and that’s the overwhelming and increasingly contemptuous verdict when it comes to President Joe Biden in the final…

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  • POLITICAL STRATEGY: Why Dems opened headquarters in the strongest of Trump’s Pennsylvania strongholds

    “All eyes” — as the cliché goes these days — will be on… well, never mind. Scratch that. They will most certainly not be on Fulton County, Pennsylvania. But should they be? Analysts everywhere are focusing on which bellwether purple areas of this purplest state — and most populous of all the purple states — might report results election…

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  • While the race for the White House between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is demanding the most attention ahead of Election Day, the outcome of Congressional elections could determine the success of a Harris or Trump presidency. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for reelection this year, and Democrats are…

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  • Trump will close southern border to illegal migration on inauguration day – Vance

    At a town hall event in North Carolina, Donald Trump’s VP pick was asked by an attendee when the southern US border will be “closed” in order to stop illegal immigration. JD Vance replied: “I think that President Trump will close the border – I’m just guessing here – but January 20, 2025 is when…

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  • NHS can’t stand reform without investment – Lib Dem leader

    The Liberal Democrats are gathering for the next few days in Brighton for their annual conference, which comes on the heels of winning a stunning 72 seats at the general election. Party leader Sir Ed Davey is calling for a £9.4bn increase in spending on the NHS at the budget in October – and we…

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  • Why former Reps VP Dick Cheney is supporting Harris

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the most prominent Republicans in the last half-century, announced Friday will be crossing party lines this election and voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, contending former President Donald Trump “can never be trusted with power again.” “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a…

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