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After hours of debate and fallout from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) controversial remarks on the House floor, lawmakers voted to pass the resolution condemning Trump’s remarks as “racist.” The resolution “strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color” and

Amid the chaos, which undercut the Democrats’ message, the Democrat charged with running it literally abandoned the control of the House floor for a moment, something aides say they have never seen before and are unsure if it has ever happened in history–all as the Democrat Party struggled for hours with how to handle clear violations of House rules by their Speaker, Pelosi. This account of what happened on the floor comes from interviews with members and staff present on the House floor during these proceedings, and from conversations with others in touch with officials present as the Democra

“I just learned that the PPFA Board ended my employment at a secret meeting,” Wen wrote on Twitter. “We were engaged in good faith negotiations about my departure based on philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.” Moments later, Wen shared a statement to Twitter regarding her abrupt ouster. “I believe that the best way to protect abortion care is to be clear that it is not a political issue but a health care one, and that we can expand support for reproductive rights by finding common ground with the large majority of Americans who understand reprod

(Bloomberg) -- The House is nearing a contentious vote Tuesday night to condemn comments from President Donald Trump that have been criticized as racist, with some Democrats complaining that party leaders aren’t punching back hard enough. As the top House Republican dismissed the planned vote as “all politics,” Trump continued his attacks on the four outspoken freshmen Democrats who’ve been the focus of the president’s ire. “Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!

NEW YORK — White House adviser Kellyanne Conway says she meant no disrespect in asking a reporter to reveal his ethnicity. Her question came during an informal press gathering Tuesday when reporter Andrew Feinberg asked her about President Donald Trump’s tweets regarding freshmen Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar.

WASHINGTON — An objection by House Republicans to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s remarks criticizing President Trump’s tweets against Democratic congresswomen of color has delayed for more than an hour the chamber’s debate over a resolution condemning Trump’s words. During a floor speech, the California Democrat said Trump’s tweets were ‘‘disgraceful and disgusting and the comments were racist.’’ She said

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump’s ‘‘racist comments’’ against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t ‘‘a racist bone in my body.’’ Two days after Trump tweeted that four Democratic freshmen should ‘‘go back’’ to their home countries — though all are citizens and three were born in the U.S.A.

WASHINGTON — President Trump appears to have settled on a 2020 reelection strategy — and it looks a lot like his old playbook. With a Sunday Twitter screed telling four first-term House lawmakers of color to “go back” to their countries, Trump signaled that stirring up racial animus will continue to be a key part of his strategy to reactivate his base heading into what’s likely to be a fierce reelection battle. This worked for him last time, as voters delivered Trump a victory after he called for a wall on the Mexican border, expressed a desire to ban all Muslim

Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairwoman MORE’s tweets suggesting that minority Democratic lawmakers “go back” to the countries they came from was racist. Ernst was pressed by reporters about Trump’s tweets from the weekend when she walked into a weekly leadership meeting in Senate Majority Leader MORE’s (R-Ky.) office. Asked if she thought Trump’s comments were specifically racist, Ernst acknowledged, “Yeah, I do.”   She reiterated that view when asked on another occasion by a CNN reporter if she found Trump’s comments racist. “Uh, yeah.

Rep. MORE (D-Mich.).  "To distract from that, he’s launching a blatantly racist attack on four duly elected members of the United States House of Representatives, all of whom are women of color," she added. "This is the agenda of white nationalists, whether it is happening in chat rooms or it’s happening on national TV.