Author: Stephanie Moffat

Senate Parliamentarian Just Delivered Republicans A Giant Setback In Their Obamacare Repeal Effort But make no mistake, this fight is far from over. Republicans just hit another road bump in their effort to repeal Obamacare, and by extension take health insurance away from somewhere between 22 million and 32 million people. According to the Senate parliamentarian, major portions of the GOP bill can not be passed using reconciliation will require 60 votes to pass. The news from the parliamentarian means that Republicans will need to remove language about defunding Planned Parenthood and federal funding for abortion. That could cost...

Kushner Forced to Revise Ethics Filing, Discloses 77 More Assets: Report Seems like a pretty big oversight.  Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner released a revised version of his personal financial disclosure on Friday which included 77 assets that were “inadvertently omitted,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The previously undisclosed assets include commercial real estate, bonds issued by the New York water and sewer authority and a personal art collection and a substantial art collection. Another one of the disclosures Kushner had omitted was a business interest with Goldman Sachs and billionaires George Soros and Peter Thiel....

This Is How Donald Trump’s New Communications Director Used To Talk About Him (Video) Trumpy won’t like this when he sees it.  Donald Trump just hired Anthony Scaramucci to be the new White House communications director. In reaction to the move, Sean Spicer resigned in part because Scaramucci has no communications experience. Scaramucci is a longtime friend of the Trump kids and apparently, Invanka and Jared had a lot to do with his hiring. Trump likes the way Scaramucci defends him on television. But as it turns out, Mr. Scaramucci wasn’t always so nice to Donald Trump on TV....

Special Counsel Instructs Trump White House To Preserve All Documents Related To Trump Jr. Meeting The walls are closing in.  Special counsel Robert Mueller has instructed the White House to save all documents relating to Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, according to CNN. According to the report, the notice asks for the broad preservation of “any subjects discussed in the course of the June 2016 meeting” and also “any decisions made regarding the recent disclosures about the June 2016 meeting.” That would include any text messages, emails, notes, voicemails, and any...

Spokesperson Trump’s Legal Team Resigns Because Of Trump’s Chaos Trump’s spokesman Mark Carallo quit out of concern he was being lied to. The spokesman for Donald Trump’s legal team has resigned, after less than two months on the job, according to several media reports. Mark Corallo had grown frustrated with the Trump operation and all the warring factions, Politico reported Thursday night. “Corallo also was concerned about whether he was being told the truth about various matters,” the report notes. The report also quoted one person who said “the dynamics in the White House were untenable and that there...