Tag: President Donald Trump

Kansas taxpayers just paid $20,000 to clean up another mess in the wake of former Secretary of State Kris Kobach. The bill is a lesser amount thanks to negotiations by the Attorney General’s office when…

President Trump’s unprecedented shutdown ended as it began: as a pointless assault from within on the United States’ government, workers, economy and security. Five weeks after Trump forced the partial shutdown, he accepted the same…

For much of the Trump administration’s first two years, Republican investors could take refuge in the stock market. Sure, the administration was a mess and deeply compromised. But markets were rising. The economy was strong.…

It was the night before Christmas — 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, to be exact — and rich aromas of brisket and Brussels sprouts filled the kitchen of Collman Lloyd’s home in Lexington, S.C. At…

The shutdown of roughly 25 percent of the federal government continued into a sixth day Thursday, with little or no evidence that President Trump and his Democratic opponents on Capitol Hill are moving any closer…

Resignation letters can be rants. Meltdowns. But mostly they’re boilerplate. One job site advises quitters to be brief, not to burn bridges, and — this above all — “Don’t tell the whole truth in your…

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, who as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer once vowed he would “take a bullet” for his boss, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for an…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would be “proud” to shut down the government later this month if he can’t get taxpayer money to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico.…

President Donald Trump said Saturday that his chief of staff, John Kelly, would step down by the end of the year. Kelly’s departure will add to records the Trump administration has already set for turnover…

The Trump administration’s new rules to make it easier for coal-fired power plants to come on line is at once dangerous, and silly. Dangerous because coal is choking the planet; silly because the market is…