Elizabeth Warren Announces Plan to Reject Big Donors
Larry Burton Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has decided to up the ante with her latest campaign finance pledge: No more fancy fundraising dinners, donor calls, or wooing wealthy donors. The 2020 Democratic candidate announced on Monday that her campaign “will be run on the principle of equal…
Elections Commission Chief Uses the “Nuclear Option” to Rescue the Agency From Gridlock
Joe Raedle/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fed up with the Federal Election Commission’s gridlock that has given violators of election law a free pass, the agency’s new chair says she won’t allow FEC lawyers to defend the government when the FEC has been sued for not enforcing the law. This drastic…
Top Trump Advisers Are Still Plotting a Dubious Nuclear Deal With the Saudis, Lawmakers Warn
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top advisers to President Donald Trump plotted to orchestrate a major US national security move—the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia—and…
Former Trump Officials Signed a Pledge to Avoid Lobbying. At Least 33 of Them Have Found a Way Around It.
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It’s been more than two years since President Donald Trump, who rallied campaign supporters with calls to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists and their ilk, took office. But despite that campaign promise, Washington influence peddlers continue to move…
The One Thing All the 2020 Democratic Candidates Agree They Hate
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 is still taking shape, but so far the contenders have agreed on one policy: Cash from corporate political action committees (PACs) is bad. That’s not an entirely new idea—in 2008 and 2012…
House Climate Panel Democrats Got Nearly $200,000 in Fossil Fuel Industry Donations
“That’s $200,000 of potential conflict of interest on an issue of grave concern,” said David Turnbull, a spokesman for the coalition of groups that oversee the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. “If you’re going to be talking about the critical issue of climate change, you need to rid yourself of the influence of the fossil…