Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Wednesday that he supports funding $5 billion for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall in the fall spending bill.
House conservatives continue to mull whether to block a combined spending package to push for wall funding for the bill.
President Donald Trump threatened a government shutdown if Congress failed to fund his border security and immigration reform priorities, but the White House stressed that the fight could be postponed until after the mid-term elections.
“I support what the president is trying to do on the wall,” Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday. “Most of my members do as well.”
President Donald Trump praised talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, saying “Rush Limbaugh is a great guy who truly gets it!” in a simple Twitter message.
West Virginia Attorney General (AG) Patrick Morrisey charged in a statement on Tuesday that “voters won’t be distracted by” coal businessman Don Blankenship’s efforts to run for U.S. Senate as a third-party candidate.
While speaking to reporters at a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that both he and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) “have made it clear” that Vladimir Putin “will not be welcome”
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is threatening to tee up a November vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh if Democrats do not drop their extensive request for records.
Vice President Mike Pence presented President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Tuesday on Capitol Hill alongside Senate Leader Mitch McConnell at the start of meetings for confirmation.
Trump defied advice from Mitch McConnell in picking Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Sen. McConnell (R-KY) warned Monday Republicans will not succumb to Democrat pressure to abandon the President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick.
The New York Times reported Saturday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is aggressively lobbying President Trump for a Supreme Court pick that will not face serious opposition in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing for Judge Ray Kethledge to be President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy opened by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy,
Americans want the President to appoint, and the Senate to confirm, a new Supreme Court justice before the 2018 midterm elections — by a staggering 2-to-1 margin, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
Comedienne Michelle Wolf has made more obscene remarks about women working in the White House, this time comparing First Daughter Ivanka Trump to “herpes” and a “vaginal mesh.”
Comedian Billy Eichner jumped to Twitter to call for a campaign of harassment against GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell as the Senate gears up for the coming debate over the next Supreme Court nomination.
Leading Democratic Senators are demanding a vote on the Trump administration’s forthcoming nominee to the Supreme Court be delayed until after the midterm elections in November 2018.
During a speech on the Senate floor after the announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed that the Senate “will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy’s successor this fall.” McConnell said, “The Senate stands
Jackie is stunned by the “great news” that House Speaker Paul Ryan is living Congress. “Everybody knows he’s quitting but nobody knows what he was doing in the first place,” Jackie said.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson took to Twitter on Friday and posted a tweet dedicated to President Donald Trump’s birthday, but several social media users accused the Avengers star of sending an anti-gay slur.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller should conclude his investigation into collusion between Russia and Trump campaign officials.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao downplayed concerns Thursday of conflicts of interest plaguing brother-in-law Gordon Hartogensis’s nomination to lead the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) downplayed the prospects of the Senate taking up immigration legislation this year. According to McConnell, the only possibility would be if there were legislation President Donald
The U.S. Senate is going to abandon the omnibus appropriations bill this year in favor of individual spending bills to fund the government, according to Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney, who is the director of the Office of Management and Budget, told host
President Donald Trump praised Senate Majority Mitch McConnell’s decision to cancel the August recess for the Senate.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News Tuesday on Capitol Hill, discussing the successful push to get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate’s August recess.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Tuesday that to complete unfinished business, lawmakers will not take an August recess. That business includes addressing President Donald Trump’s hundreds of unconfirmed nominees and passing a budget by September 30, the end of the fiscal year.
Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday he is canceling the Senate’s August recess.
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) told Breitbart News Sunday in an exclusive interview that the state of America’s financial affairs is “desperate.”
During an interview on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that two weeks from now, he will have a more definitive answer about the Senate cancelling its planned
Actor Jim Carrey shared his latest piece of politically motivated artwork on Tuesday, this time depicting Republicans eating sandwiches filled with President Donald Trump’s excrement.
President Donald J. Trump said that former CIA director John Brennan had “disgraced” himself, blaming him on Monday for launching the investigation of his presidential campaign.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer, author of Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss the nomination of Gordon Hartogensis, brother-in-law to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to lead the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Hartogensis is married to the sister of McConnell’s wife Elane Chao. Chao is also the Secretary of Transportation in Trump’s cabinet.
McConnell said he was “somewhat optimistic” about his conversations with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer regarding “a higher level of cooperation” with the budget appropriations process in 2018.
