Author: Stephanie Moffat

Anthony Scaramucci Executive Producing HBO Movie While in White House Because being White House Communications Director gives you a lot of extra time for side projects. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that newly appointed White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is co-executive producing a HBO movie based on disgraced football coach Joe Paterno. The movie had previously been titled Happy Valley, but HBO is seeking a different name because a BBC/Netflix crime drama has already claimed that title. Set to air in 2018, the movie is referred to as the “Untitled Barry Levinson Project,” since Levinson is directing. Al Pacino...

Sen. Schumer Takes on Trump’s Latest Obamacare Tweets It’s hard to keep track of how Trump feels about Obamacare. Sometimes he says it should implode, sometime he says we need to repeal and replace. Trump took to Twitter earlier this morning to threaten ending a key Obamacare provision that helps subsidize premiums for middle-income Americans. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called on President Trump to “finally begin acting presidential” after Trump threatened to end key Obamacare payments to insurers. “If the president refuses to make the cost sharing reduction payments, every expert agrees that premiums will go up and...

Trump Spending More on Travel in 2017 Than Obama in 8 Years Remember when Trump would chastise President Barack Obama for golfing? Well, Trump has already spent more than $21 million on travel so far in his presidency, which would outpace Obama’s entire 8-year travel budget by the end of 2017. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump’s trips to Mar-a-Lago costs taxpayers more than $6.6 million to protect since January. Just one of Trump’s trips to the Florida club was close to $1 million. In comparison, a similar trip Obama took to Florida in 2013 cost only $586,000....

Susan Collins Leading Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Work On Health Care Interesting development.  After the monumental failure of the Republican Obamacare repeal bill in the Senate on Friday morning, it looks like there are glimmers of bipartisanship emerging. Republican Susan Collins, who voted no on all forms of Obamacare repeal that were put forward, is apparently leading the bipartisan working group, The Hill reported Friday evening. Democrat Bill Nelson of Florida said he and Susan Collins “are now working together” with a bipartisan group of senators on health care. “This group of senators met for dinner the other...

These Are All The Casualties Of The Trump Administration, So Far It’s been a bloodbath. Donald Trump fired his chief of staff on Friday afternoon. Trump has been president for just over six months and we thought it might be helpful to take a look back at all the casualties of the Trump administration, so far. 1. Michael Flynn Michael Flynn was one of the first major exits of the Trump administration though his exit is probably best described as a self-inflicted casualty. Trump was forced to fire Flynn in February after the Washington Post revealed that Flynn had been...