There are good arguments to be made against Donald Trump’s supposed pledge to send illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities. Claiming that it makes America less safe isn’t one of those, at least not if you’re a Democrat. Yesterday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) blasted Trump for “mak[ing] us less safe” with the threat on Face the Nation,

Give the man this much credit — he certainly knows branding. How much expertise does one need to have to grasp this strategy, though? What do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did become President!), but if I were Boeing, I would FIX the Boeing 737 MAX, add some additional great features, &

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s tax day once again. (Very likely the least popular holiday in the United States and nobody gets a Hallmark card for it.) So how did the tax situation work out for you? To listen to the Democrats out on the campaign trail, you might be led to believe that

Elizabeth Warren tweeted this same sentiment yesterday in response to Trump tweeting out a video featuring Rep. Ilhan Omar interspersed with video of the 9/11 attack in New York. Today she’s basically saying the same thing in this video clip: “Donald Trump is trying to incite violence and to divide us and every political leader

Apologies for the rather caustic title, but the latest release from Pyongyang regarding a possible third summit between Kim Jong-un and President Trump is completely unserious and shows that any American hopes for actual denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are wholly unrealistic. The “offer” of another summit came during a speech Kim gave to Parliament.

Well, I guess this story isn’t going to be over today after all. Friday afternoon, President Trump joined in the criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s dismissive comments about 9/11 by posting a video clip showing her comments at a CAIR gathering in Los Angeles last month interspersed with video of the attack on the Twin

How do you deal with someone attacking you as a religious bigot? “I think Pete’s quarrel is with the First Amendment,” Vice President Mike Pence tells CNN’s Dana Bash after she asked about Pete Buttigieg’s recent attacks on him. “I’m a Bible-believing Christian,” Pence says, expressing bewilderment at why the mayor of South Bend seems

The idea makes no sense at all, but that’s never stopped government before. According to both ABC and the Washington Post, the Trump administration had discussions about dumping detained illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities, presumably as retaliation. In the end no one bought it, and it’s a headscratcher as to what anyone thought it would

Monday may be income-tax deadline day for Americans, but today’s another kind of deadline for Donald Trump. Will he allow the IRS to hand over his tax returns pursuant to a demand from House Ways and Means chair Rep. Richard Neal? Magic 8-Ball says … “YGBFKM”: House Democrats aren’t optimistic they’ll see Trump’s tax returns

It’s certainly not Kirstjen Nielsen, who got the boot yesterday. It’s not Claire Grady, the former #3 at the Department of Homeland Security who would have ascended to acting Secretary otherwise, and who resigned under pressure to avoid that outcome. When asked if the exodus at the department was intended to leave adviser Stephen Miller

Alternate headline: Don’t blame me for my immigration positions — blame my constituents! At a CNN town hall last night, a questioner ripped Kirsten Gillibrand for her past “hardline” positions on immigration, which included support for a constitutional amendment for making English the official language of the US. Not to be outdone, CNN moderator Erin Burnett

Hoo boy. William Barr did his best to cushion this bombshell in friendly terms, but telling Congress that law enforcement spied on the Donald Trump campaign sets off all sorts of issues at the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill. Barr made this observation while answering questions about his handling of the Mueller report

It’s not the Democrats, whom Mitt Romney accuses of making a “huge error” by turning it into a partisan fight. They should be listening to Donald Trump, Romney told Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, because he’s tapped into a non-partisan feeling across a wide swath of Americans that illegal immigration has gotten out

What’s going on at the Department of Homeland Security? As of this writing, the media was in an uproar over Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen showing up for a meeting at the White House. Various sources were suggesting that Nielsen was either being fired or resigning over disputes involving border security and immigration issues. Given

The fishing expeditions planned by House Democrats won’t be confined to Lake IRS. The Washington Post reported last night that Democrats have attempted to bypass the White House’s legal defense against subpoenas on Donald Trump’s financial records by going after the records at the financial institutions instead. Capital One told House Democrats last month that

Joe Manchin has spent enough time in Washington to know that, on second thought (with apologies to W.C. Fields), he’d rather be in Charleston. The former governor might choose to become the former senator from West Virginia and try to get his old job back next year, Manchin tells Politico. If Manchin bails out of

So much for the winter doldrums. After an unexpected pothole in job creation in February, the US economy rebounded in March to add 196,000 jobs. Unemployment remained steady, although that came in part from a slight drop in the labor force. The news was especially good in the health-care industry: Total nonfarm payroll employment increased

Monday Vox published an interview with Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi about the media’s big failure to cover the collusion story accurately. Taibbi has argued this was a worse journalistic failure than the coverage of WMD prior to the Iraq war. Vox’s Sean Illing doesn’t agree with that, but he does seem to agree with Taibbi on a

Could’ve fooled his own allies. After getting pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill over his sudden and unexpected pivot to health care, Donald Trump took to Twitter for the second straight day to deny he had any plans to fight ObamaCare this year. Trump pledges to replace ObamaCare, “but only after the Election when we

We knew this was coming because some Democrats ran on this as a promise during the midterms. The chair of the House Ways and Means Committee has issued a formal request for six years worth of tax returns from President Trump, covering both his personal taxes and those of several of his businesses. While legal

Because presidents have given such assignments to donors for the better part of 250 years? There may be a lot of room for criticism of the Trump administration and the US in general on ambassadorial picks, but NBC’s critique misses the mark. Their research turns up fourteen nominations to the diplomatic corps who shoveled out

An interesting, if somewhat obvious question from John Ziegler at Mediaite this week. Joe Biden is currently coming under fire from a number of his own allies as multiple women are coming forward with totally shocking, “nobody could have seen this coming” allegations that the former veep had, at a minimum, made them uncomfortable by

And Donald Trump isn’t a bit sorry about it, either. In a speech to the NRCC last night, Trump joked that he wanted to give a general a kiss after hearing his estimate for defeating ISIS. “I felt like Joe Biden,” Trump quipped as the audience laughed: [embedded content] President Donald Trump said Tuesday that

“He’s an affectionate person,” Nancy Pelosi says of Joe Biden, but then invites him to “join the straight-arm club.” In a Politico interview this morning, Pelosi says that the allegations against Biden aren’t “disqualifying,” because she doesn’t think that’s the intent of those accusing Biden of sexual harassment. But, Pelosi warns, Biden better figure out

Nothing is more consistent about partisan warfare in the Beltway than inconsistency. Today’s case in point comes from 1998 (and from Jeff Dunetz), when House Judiciary Committee member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) objected to the idea that everything found by an independent prosecutor should get published for all to see. Nadler told Charlie Rose that Ken

If anyone has reason to call the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign a “witch hunt,” it’s Carter Page. The Department of Justice got a FISA court to issue a surveillance warrant and to renew it three more times, apparently arguing that Page met the threshold as a suspected spy about to do significant

A second woman has come forward to complain about Joe Biden’s habit of being touchy-feely with women he doesn’t know. The Hartford Courant spoke to Amy Lappos about an incident that she says occurred at a political fundraiser in 2009. Lappos was working as a congressional aid to Rep. Jim Himes and was 33-years-old at