Trump sides with Democrats on fiscal issues, throwing Republican ...
President Trump, a man of few allegiances who seized control of the Republican Party in a hostile takeover, suddenly aligned himself with Democrats on Wednesday on a series of key fiscal issues — and even gave a lift to North Dakota’s embattled Democratic U.S. senator. Trump confounded his party’s leaders when he cut a deal with Democratic congressional leaders — “Chuck and Nancy,” as the president informally referred to them — on a short-term plan to fund the government and raise its borrowing..>> view originalExtreme Category 5 Irma crashes into Caribbean, sets sights on ...
The Capital Weather Gang's Jason Samenow tells you what to expect from Hurricane Irma as it continues to barrel toward the U.S. mainland on Wednesday, Sept. 6. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) (This story will be continually updated throughout Wednesday.) For more than a day, monstrous Hurricane Irma has sustained Category 5 winds of 185 miles per hour while ripping through the northern Lesser Antilles and Virgin Islands. The storm, tied for the second-strongest ever recorded in the At..>> view originalRussian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on ...
Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that the social network has discovered that it sold ads during the U.S. presidential campaign to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings. Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said. A small portion of the ads, which began..>> view originalFreedom Caucus leaders vent to Paul Ryan after talks with Steve ...
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan listens during a news conference about Harvey relief efforts after a meeting with House Republicans. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Leaders of the Freedom Caucus met with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday to candidly express their frustrations with his leadership and his handling of the Republican legislative agenda, according to two people familiar with the discussion. The exchange comes as former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is having con..>> view originalCongressman: John Kelly is a 'disgrace to the uniform' and should ...
President Trump talks with White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly (left) after he was privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office on July 31. (Evan Vucci/AP) Republicans and conservative media figures have pounced on comments from Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), in which the congressman called White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly a “disgrace to the uniform he used to wear.” But the congressman, who is arguing for the DREAM Act to be attached to must-pass bills, is refusin..>> view originalWashington National Cathedral to remove stained glass windows ...
Craftsmen at Washington National Cathedral work Wednesday to replace symbols of the Confederacy from a stained-glass window. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post) Leaders at Washington National Cathedral, the closest thing in the country’s capital to an official church, have decided after two years of study and debate to remove two stained-glass windows honoring Confederate figures Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Saying the stories told in the two 4-by-6-foot windows were painful, ..>> view originalWashington Nationals sweep three-game set in Miami, win eighth ...
Washington was up 3-0 after four, 7-0 after six, and they added a run in the eighth on a solo home run to left by Michael A. Taylor, as the Nationals cruised to an ...>> view originalThis Delta flight raced Irma and won
Screenshot of flight radar image showing Delta flight 302 heading back to New York. A Delta flight from New York’s JFK airport managed to fly into San Juan, Puerto Rico, pull into the gate, and less than an hour later take off full of passengers — all while Hurricane Irma was bearing down on the island Wednesday. Delta flight status data show Flight 431 left JFK at 8:12 a.m. and arrived in San Juan at 12:01 p.m.; Delta 302 left San Juan at 12:41 p.m. and arrived in New York at 4:22 p.m. [..>> view originalAttorneys general from 15 states, DC sue to save DACA
A group of attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop the administration from winding down the DACA program, which granted a reprieve from deportation to undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. The suit, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of New York, alleges that rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was a “culmination” of President Trump’s “oft-stated commitments — whethe..>> view originalPaul Ryan: A short-term debt ceiling hike is 'disgraceful.' Trump ...
President Trump sided with Democrats on Sept. 6, to reach a deal to extend the debt limit for three months and fund hurricane relief measures for Hurricane Harvey. (Reuters) This post and its headline have been corrected to clarify that Republicans and Trump were at odds over raising the debt ceiling by December, not about whether to include Harvey aid in with a vote on the debt ceiling. President Trump doesn't care about his relationship with Hill Republicans. Exhibit, like Z, of this ..>> view original
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