By: Jeff Cox – cnbc.com – July 18, 2019 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC on Thursday the administration and congressional leaders are continuing toward resolving an impasse over the debt ceiling and he is confident an agreement will be reached that will ensure the U.S. does not default on its obligations. “I don’t think the market should be concerned,” he said....

By: Jeff Cox – cnbc.com – July 18, 2019 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC on Thursday the administration and congressional leaders are continuing toward resolving an impasse over the debt ceiling and he is confident an agreement will be reached that will ensure the U.S. does not default on its obligations. “I don’t think the market should be concerned,” he said....

By: Elliot Spagat & Cedar Attanasio – apnews.com – July 16, 2019 Hundreds of immigrants showed up at border crossings Tuesday in hopes of getting into the U.S. but faced the likelihood of being turned away under a new Trump administration asylum rule that upends long-standing protections for people fleeing violence and oppression in their homelands. The policy went into effect Tuesday...

By: Elliot Spagat & Cedar Attanasio – apnews.com – July 16, 2019 Hundreds of immigrants showed up at border crossings Tuesday in hopes of getting into the U.S. but faced the likelihood of being turned away under a new Trump administration asylum rule that upends long-standing protections for people fleeing violence and oppression in their homelands. The policy went into effect Tuesday...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 17, 2018 President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, frequently referred to as the Court’s “swing vote”—i.e., a justice who occasionally crosses party and ideological lines to vote with the other side. Since no one seems...

By: Deb Riechmann – apnews.com – July 18, 2019 Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of color, deriding them for what he painted as extreme positions and suggesting they just get out. “Tonight I have a suggestion for the hate-filled...

By: Deb Riechmann – apnews.com – July 18, 2019 Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of color, deriding them for what he painted as extreme positions and suggesting they just get out. “Tonight I have a suggestion for the hate-filled...

By: David Montgomery – washingtonpost.com – July 10, 2019 In a Wednesday morning in late May, emissaries of two of the strongest political voices on climate change convened at a coffee shop a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), was there to meet Sam Ricketts, climate director for Washington Gov. Jay...

By: Tyler Olson – FoxNews.com – July 11, 2019 The Supreme Court will hear a case which could bring major changes in school choice laws. The Supreme Court is gearing up to decide next term whether states can ban students from using student-aid programs to attend religious institutions – an education dispute that could have major ramifications for the school choice...

By: Rachel Greszler – dailysignal.com – July 11, 2019 Just in time for next week’s likely House vote on a federal $15 minimum wage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has come out with a caustic report on the consequences of the policy. The report confirms what even liberal economists caution: A $15 minimum wage would “risk undesirable and unintended consequences” and lead to...