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President Trump and Vice President Pence walk through the cross hall as they arrive for the “American Leadership in Emerging Technology” event in the East Room of the White House on June 22. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump on Saturday lashed out at the more than two dozen states that have […]

By all accounts, this should have been a terrible year for gun-control advocates. A president who unabashedly supports gun rights took office, and the National Rifle Association spent tens of millions to help elect him. Republicans are also in control of both branches of Congress and a majority of state elected offices. But as state legislative sessions […]

People rally in favor of single-payer health care for all Californians on Tuesday in South Gate, Calif. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) We still don’t know who will ultimately prevail in the debate over the future of American health care: the Republicans who want to overhaul Obamacare, or the Democrats who want to keep it in place. But […]Read More

Sen. Susan Collins will celebrate the Fourth of July within view of the Canadian border, at a remote northeastern Maine town’s annual parade. Sen. Lisa Murkowski will appear on the other end of the continent in an old timber town on an isolated Alaskan island. These two Republican senators, critical swing votes in the debate […]

President Trump is more than his own worst enemy. The damage he has inflicted during his first five months in office has undermined Republican congressional leaders, frustrated members of his Cabinet, exasperated top advisers and strained relations with some of the nation’s most important allies. This week’s case study is health care. The most significant […]

Some of the best-known faces in the Trump administration are also some of the best paid, according to a new list of White House salaries. Advisers Kellyanne Conway and Stephen K. Bannon, along with Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Press Secretary Sean Spicer, are among the White House employees receiving the top salary of […]

Top Republican officials in 10 states are threatening to take legal action against the Trump administration if it does not end an Obama-era program that has granted deportation reprieves to nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived in this country as children. In a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions by Texas Attorney General […]

Protesters block a street in Salt Lake City during a demonstration Tuesday against the Republican health-care proposal. (Rick Bowmer/AP) Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) used the most direct means possible of making his pitch for repealing Obamacare directly to the president: He appeared Friday morning on “Fox and Friends.” Within 20 minutes of Sasse’s appearance, President Trump […]Read More

An old problem for congressional Republicans — passing a budget — has resurfaced with potential devastating consequences for President Trump’s legislative agenda. A standoff between conservative and moderate House Republicans is threatening passage of the yearly budget resolution, as it did a year ago. This time, however, plans for an ambitious tax reform bill Trump […]

CNN’s Jim Acosta has repeatedly spoken up at news conferences and press briefings to get in questions – a tactic reminiscent of the 1980s, when reporters saw President Reagan very infrequently. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) The White House was restricting media access, so a persistent (or pushy) TV journalist developed a habit of shouting questions […]

[embedded content] It hasn’t gotten a ton of attention yet, but Kellyanne Conway may have offered the White House’s most controversial and dangerous statement of the week on Friday — up to and including President Trump’s tweets about MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski. While defending those tweets on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Conway went so far […]Read More

[embedded content] President Trump floated a new idea on Friday morning: What if the Senate votes to repeal Obamacare today and then works to replace it later? If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date! — Donald J. Trump […]