The world doesn't have much regard for the president of the United States. That's the somewhat unsurprising takeaway from a massive new Pew study polling attitudes toward the United States in 37 countries, from Canada to Russia to South…
After seven years, Republicans’ promise to overhaul the health-care law is a sprawling objective still in search of a solution. It also has now cost the Trump administration precious months of its first year, with tax reform and other…
The moment that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) told Republicans that there could be no vote on the party's health-care bill this week, Senate Democrats were in a familiar position — headed to a protest. In the “Senate swamp,”…
Here’s what happened after Senate Republican leaders on June 27 decided to postpone a vote on a health-care bill aiming to overhaul the Affordable Care Act.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) on June 27 said he believes that the GOP health-care bill, “as it becomes more public and people understand the impact on their personal lives, will be even less popular.”
Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders unloaded on the media Tuesday, after three CNN journalists resigned and the network retracted a report about ties between an associate of President Trump and Russia. “I think that…
At least four of President Trump’s golf courses have displayed a knockoff Time magazine cover, purportedly from 2009, that hails his “Apprentice” reality TV show as a “smash,” according to The Washington Post’s David A. Fahrenthold. Of all…
Bowing to pressure from within their ranks, GOP leaders delayed a vote on the Senate bill until after the Fourth of July recess. But huge hurdles remain as lawmakers try to craft a bill that can secure enough support.
The story about how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell received his polio treatment began with a meme. “As a kid, Mitch McConnell had polio, and the government paid for ALL of his care and rehabilitation,” says a text below an apparent…
After postponement of a health-care vote this week, the two men remain hungry for a win. Their understanding, built to score legislative victories, does neither of them any good if victories remain out of reach.
President Trump proclaimed himself and India's prime minister “believers” in public accountability. But in a break from Rose Garden tradition, journalists were told they could not ask questions.
By late Monday, several senators and aides appeared nervous about the next steps, hedging on the timing of that procedural vote. Still, there was some hope for salvaging the effort, and GOP leaders were still looking for ways to make last…
Jared Kushner’s real estate company received the loan as the bank was negotiating to settle federal and state charges that it aided a possible Russian money-laundering scheme. Kushner’s association with Deutsche Bank is among a number of…
Senate Republican leaders hope to hold a vote before the July 4 congressional recess. But in addition to the five senators who have come out against the party’s bill, more lawmakers have begun expressing serious reservations, saying they…
Appearing on ABC's “This Week," Kellyanne Conway struck a combative tone when referencing a Post story that detailed the Obama administration's struggle to punish the Kremlin for alleged interference into the 2016 presidential campaign.
The president’s tweets criticizing his predecessor for not doing more to stop Russian interference suggest without proof that Obama administration officials tried to help Hillary Clinton.
Fears that proposed cuts would fray the social safety net are creating anxiety for Republican moderates whose states have benefited from the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid. Those centrists may pose just as much an obstacle to the bill’s…
Legal experts doubt the president would actually be accused of witness tampering. But some of them said it could feed into the obstruction of justice case.
As the president and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell worked to win over holdouts, Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said he won’t vote for the bill in its current form. The announcement caught many Republicans by surprise and may have made…
President Trump gave his first interview in more than a month on Thursday, and the result — airing Friday morning on Fox News — included Trump congratulating himself for his suggestion that there might be tapes of his conversations with…