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“President Trump and his administration reject your baseless, unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic process,” the letter read. The eight-page letter was released by the White House to reporters on Tuesday evening. White House counsel Pat Cipollone authored the letter, which directly challenged the Democrats in Congress. The letter read: The White House refused to comply with Democrat demands for witnesses and documents, citing the  “legal and constitutional flaws” in the process. Speaking to reporters after the letter was released, the White House sternly lectured the House Democ

House Democrat leaders pursuing the investigation are intent on pushing Trump out of office by any means necessary, Republican lawmakers and the White House argued. House Democrats have carried out the entire process behind closed doors since the beginning of the impeachment inquiry last month. The Democrats have even refused to hold a full House vote on authorizing an impeachment inquiry, just as lawmakers did when Congress opened investigations with Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. Trump’s supporters in Congress argue that such a vote is necessary to legitimize the inquiry per the

For President Trump, the 2016 election never truly ended. As he raged against the whistle-blower complaint that sparked an impeachment inquiry on Twitter Tuesday, Trump also found time to take a jab at his 2016 opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the race to try to steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren,” Trump wrote in a tweet that referenced Clinton’s private e-mail server. Hours after the tweet was posted, Clinton shot back, “Don’t tempt me.

WASHINGTON — The White House declared Tuesday it will not cooperate with what it termed an ‘‘illegitimate’’ impeachment probe by House Democrats, setting up a constitutional clash between President Trump and Congress. Trump attorneys sent a letter to House leaders bluntly stating their refusal to participate in the quickly moving impeachment investigation.

Over his long career, Mitt Romney has been a political chameleon. He was the moderate Republican governor of Massachusetts, then the party’s conservative presidential nominee in 2012. He spoke out forcefully against Donald Trump before the 2016 election, then lobbied for a role in the new president’s Cabinet.

President Trump and his allies often compare the investigations against him to witch hunts. On Tuesday, Rudy Guiliani, the president’s personal attorney, went so far as to compare the impeachment inquiry to the Salem witch trials. “Even Salem witch trials didn’t use anonymous testimony.

In a post Monday, a conservative news website cited records it claimed contradicted a staple of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign stump speech: In 1971, the future senator lost her job as a public school teacher because she was pregnant. Early Wednesday, the Democratic presidential candidate shared a video on social media of the stories of other women who experienced pregnancy di

Republican senators are publicly urging MORE to back down from his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria. The move, announced by the White House on Sunday night, has emerged as a flashpoint between Trump and his GOP allies, adding another headache for Republicans amid an unrelated impeachment fight. Sen.

The federal budget deficit for 2019 is estimated at $984 billion, a hefty 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and the highest since 2012, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Monday. The difference between federal spending and revenue has only ever exceeded $1 trillion four times, in the period immediately following the global financial crisis. The deficit, which has grown every year since 2015, is $205 billion higher than it was in 2018, a jump of 26 percent. The CBO has warned that the nation's debt is