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Back in 2013, a longtime friend of MORE’s, Michael Caputo, sought to persuade the real estate mogul and reality TV star to run for governor of New York the following year. Trump, Caputo told The Hill, said he preferred to aim for “the big thing” — the presidency. When the discussion turned to how Trump would stand out from other candidates who would likely seek the GOP’s 2016 nomination for the White House, Trump had a simple answer. “He saw how to manipulate the media better than any potential opponent,” Caputo recalled.

MORE (D-Calif.) reached a two-year budget deal Monday that also suspends the debt ceiling through July 2021, capping days of furious negotiations. The agreement, spearheaded by Pelosi and Treasury Secretary MORE, sets the top-line numbers for overall defense and nondefense spending for fiscal 2020 and 2021. “I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Trump tweeted. It’s a significant win for Mnuchin and Pelosi, who have spoken several times over the past two weeks, as well as for Kentucky Republican

Tlaib introduced her anti-poverty legislation – the Building Our Opportunities to Survive and Thrive (BOOST) Act – last month and spoke about it at the NAACP convention over the weekend.

Earlier this year, while giving a speech at Marygrove College in Detroit, Tlaib claimed she is “more Palestinian in the halls of Congress than I am anywhere in the country, in the world.” “Honestly I’ve never felt more Palestinian than I ever felt in Congress,” Tlaib said as she addressed the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights. Tlaib added: Last August, after her primary win in Michigan, Tlaib spoke with HuffP

Speaking at a town hall event in Queens, New York, Ocasio-Cortez, who has referred to migrant detention centers as “concentration camps,” reportedly argued that the U.S.

“I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – on a two-year Budget and Debt Ceiling,” Trump wrote on Twitter. The deal would raise spending by $320 billion, according to reports, and suspend the debt ceiling

WASHINGTON — When Representative Ayanna Pressley took the oath of office in the House chamber in January, she arrived with 13 years experience as a staffer on Capitol Hill and nine years on the Boston City Council. It was the resume of a political insider. But how she got there — upsetting 10-term Representative Michael Capuano after launching a

Lawmakers from both parties on Wednesday will finally have the opportunity to question MORE about his Russia investigation.  The former special counsel is slated to testify consecutively before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees in what promises to be a congressional appearance of historic proportions. Mueller, who is compelled to testify under a subpoena, has made clear he does not plan to go beyond the four corners of his report, nor will he answer hypotheticals.