By Mike DeBonis January 27 at 11:08 PM PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party’s quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act at a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post. The recording reveals a GOP that appears to be filled with doubts […]
Dino Grandoni BuzzFeed News The US Department of Agriculture rescinded an order stopping scientists and other employees at its main research division from publishing documents meant to explain science to the public. In an email sent to scientists on Tuesday evening and obtained by BuzzFeed News, Chavonda Jacobs-Young, administrator of the department’s science arm, the […]
By ERIN McCANN JAN. 27, 2017 Donald J. Trump spent his first week in office repeating the lie that between three million and five million people had voted illegally in the November election, first to members of Congress, then on Twitter, then in an ABC News interview, then again on Twitter on Friday, citing an unsubstantiated […]
By Jonathan Martin Jan. 27, 2017 WASHINGTON — To support his call for a sweeping federal inquiry into his claims of vast voting fraud, President Trump turned on Friday to a little-known conservative activist whose work on the issue has been widely discredited and who has trafficked in conspiracy theories. “Gregg Phillips and crew say […]
By JULIE PACE and VIVIAN SALAMA, Associated Press Jan. 27, 2017 3:45 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that his defense secretary’s opposition to torture would override his own belief that enhanced interrogation “does work,” quietly giving ground after growing public concern about a return to Bush-era use of waterboarding and other especially harsh […]
Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington Friday 27 January 2017 16.54 EST The United States will impose draconian new “extreme vetting” measures for people entering the country, as part of an attempt by president Donald Trump to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out”. “We are establishing new vetting measures, to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the United States of America,” the president […]
investigatingtrump.com editorial note: At a time when the massive amount of news emerging from the Trump White House, can seem overwhelming, Rachel Maddow reminds viewers to focus on what could be the biggest story since Watergate: Russia’s influence on the 2016 election and what the signs inside the Kremlin might reveal about it. She begins […]
By Karen Tumulty and Juliet Eilperin January 26 at 7:42 PM On the morning after Donald Trump’s inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him. In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous […]
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM JAN. 26, 2017 WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration. “The […]
investigatingtrump.com editorial note: On Monday Tara Palmeri, White House Correspondent for Politico broke the story that President Donald Trump had sent two conservative political operatives to the CEO’s office at the legendary Voice of America which, until the signing of the latest Defense authorization bill, was run by a bi-partisan panel. Tonight in a powerful follow-up piece, […]