Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
President Donald Trump pushed hard for the moment when he could deliver this State of the Union address with all the pomp the Capitol venue can offer – robed Supreme Court justices, solons of the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wearing suffragette white, and prime time on America’s TV sets.
President Donald Trump made another pitch for a wall on the southwest border during Tuesday’s State of the Union address even as public opinion polls show that his many recent appeals have not bumped up support for a wall among American voters.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam resisted calls to resign on Monday after the release of a photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page of someone in blackface and another person in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.
Pasqual Urrabazo and his wife, Norma, both of whom minister to the Spanish-speaking portion of the congregation at the nondenominational “multi-cultural” International Church of Las Vegas, are “called to stand” with the president.
Trump would do well to stand before the joint session of Congress and admit he lost the House and lost the shutdown battle but sees a path forward where he can get some of what he wants by recognizing the new lay of the land. Win-win.
President Donald Trump accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to deliver his State of the Union address in the Capitol on Feb. 5, now that the federal government is open for the first time in five weeks.
First, BuzzFeed News ran a story Jan. 16 that asserted President Donald Trump told his long-time private attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about talks with Russia about a Trump Tower in Moscow. The sources? Two anonymous federal law enforcement officials.
Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday morning on several criminal charges stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
On the 32nd day of the longest government shutdown, Senate leaders agreed to put two bills that could end the stalemate to a vote on Thursday.
The partial government shutdown will end when both sides think they are losing the political war that started it — and not before then.
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold a second summit in late February, the White House announced Friday after Trump met with Kim’s top aide.
President Donald Trump showed that two can play at the disinvitation game Thursday when he postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned overseas trip that was to have included a stop in Afghanistan.
The White House invited moderate House Democrats to lunch Tuesday to join talks to end the partial government shutdown, but Republicans were left eating by themselves when Democrats refused to break ranks.
President Donald Trump flatly denied that he ever worked for Russia against U.S. interests on Monday, saying it was “a whole big fat hoax.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s early announcement that she will run for president sets the stage for a crowded Democratic primary in 2020 that could include several fellow Democratic senators, a former vice president and a billionaire or two. Which begs the question: Will there by a name challenger in the 2020 GOP primary against President Donald Trump?
