Senate Leaders Agree on Two-Year Budget Deal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I guess we have a deal to avoid a government shutdown: Senate leaders, disregarding President Trump’s threats to shut down the government, struck a far-reaching agreement on Wednesday that would set spending levels on military and domestic spending for the next two years, breaking the…
Did the FBI Mislead a FISA Judge? Why Not Just Ask Him?
Judge Rudolph Contreras.Diego M. Radzinschi/National Law Journal Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The gist of the Nunes memo is that the FBI misled a FISA judge when it asked for a warrant to wiretap Carter Page. I was chatting about this at lunch yesterday with a friend, and suggested that…
Jeff Sessions Won’t Crack Down on Bad Policing, So California and Illinois Are Stepping Up
An officer with the San Francisco Police Department.Jeff Chiu Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Justice has rolled back federal oversight of local police departments under the leadership of Jeff Sessions, so state officials in California are stepping in to do the work the feds have abandoned. On…
The Justice Department Has Apparently Debunked the GOP’s Phony Uranium One Scandal
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just days after the infamous “Nunes Memo” was greeted with widespread ridicule, another GOP talking point took a major hit Tuesday. Democratic lawmakers revealed that a “whistleblower” who congressional Republicans once suggested would reveal damning evidence against Hillary Clinton had actually never even mentioned Clinton to the FBI.…
Trump’s Chief of Staff Says Dreamers May Be “Too Lazy to Get Off Their Asses”
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly at a meeting between President Donald Trump and Republican senators on immigration at the White House in January.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Most Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children—have applied for the protections from deportation created by the…
No, the Trade Deficit Is Not At a Record High
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a story at Wonkblog today: Trump said he’d shrink the trade deficit with China. It just hit a record high. The trade deficit with China hit a record high in 2017, defying President Trump’s repeated promises to shrink a number that he regards as…