Trump Slams McCain, Coons DACA Proposal as ‘Waste of Time’

… as ‘Waste of Time’. The president responded to the bipartisan legislation by calling for “strong border security and the desperately needed wall.” By Gabrielle Levy, Political Reporter |Feb. 5, 2018, at 11:05 a.m.. Trump Slams McCain, Coons DACA Proposal as ‘Waste of Time’. Share. ×. Share on Facebook · Post on Twitter.

Rejecting an interview with Mr. Mueller also carries political consequences. … matters he is investigating, like the president’s role in providing a misleading response last summer to a New York Times article about a meeting Mr. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. had with Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Colleen Mahr is running for a position that few women hold but is among the most powerful in New Jersey politics—county leader of a political-party organization. The chairs of the Democratic and Republican parties in each of New Jersey’s 21 counties wield significant power, leading organizations that …

Trump continues to paint immigrants as criminals, part of a pressure campaign by the president to try to get Democrats to sign onto his immigration overhaul plan. Feb. 7, 2018, at 5:57 a.m.. Trump Continues to Paint Immigrants as Criminals. Share. ×. Share on Facebook · Post on Twitter · Post to Reddit. Email.

He assailed Mr. Schulz’s leadership as “Spiegelstrich-Politik” — bullet-point politics. The term, Mr. Kühnert’s invention, cleverly captures the pragmatic, unideological, unconvincing style of the Merkel and Schulz generation. While the rest of the world is in tumult, in Germany it still feels like the end of history: …

John Kirby, a retired Navy rear admiral and former spokesman for the State Department and the Pentagon, reposted on Twitter Tuesday night an article he wrote for CNN’s website last summer after Trump mentioned he had been dazzled by the Paris parade. Kirby said a big military parade in Washington is …

The arrest of two Supreme Court judges and a former president brought a simmering Maldives political crisis to a boil, sparking calls for the international community to step in to stem the turmoil in the island nation best known as a tourist hot spot. The three men, including the chief justice of the country’s …

… is because Democrats continue to hold a budget agreement hostage over an unrelated issue,” said AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan. “Our men and women in uniform aren’t bargaining chips, and there’s no reason for Senate Democrats to keep holding our military hostage for their political ploy.”.

However, the level of political participation by women on the island of Ireland remains lower than in Britain. Pioneering Irish suffragists, including Anna Haslam and Isabella Tod, were politicised in the 1860s by the campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts. This legislation allowed for compulsory …

Adam Schiff, branded the GOP memo “a political hit job. … Republicans say a judge should have known that “political actors” were involved in allegations that led the Justice Department to believe Page might be an agent of a foreign power — an accusation he has consistently denied. The memo confirms …