"Frankly I don’t think Congress — particularly not this group of congressmen and women — are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume that President Trump’s taxes will be."
“Before Donald Trump took office, we had a situation that was manageable. We had spikes but it also went down," Homeland Security chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said. "But what we have now is a constant pushing of the system so that it doesn’t work.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that he wants White House adviser Stephen Miller to testify before Congress over controversial immigration proposals, suggesting Miller is pulling the strings behind the scenes.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday dismissed a report that President Trump asked Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan to close the border with Mexico and offered to pardon the official if necessary.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Sunday that President Trump is not wishing "ill will" nor "violence toward anyone" after he tweeted a video showing images from the Sept. 11 attacks and remarks Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) gave at a recent speech.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said Sunday that President Trump's tweet with a video showing images from the Sept. 11 attacks combined with remarks from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was a "simplistic attack."
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that President Trump has "no moral authority" to talk about 9/11 after a tweet linking images from the Sept. 11 attacks with remarks from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
“I think you’re going to get the full explanation of Mueller, I think you’re going to see no collusion of any kind, which raises the question 'why do we have this investigation in the first place?' ” he said.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that there are moderate Democrats in Congress who are willing to negotiate with President Trump and are frustrated with "radical freshmen" in Congress.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the number three House Republican, slammed the Democratic Party for what she says is an adoption of socialism as the party’s progressive freshmen attract an outsized amount of publicity.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential candidate, said Sunday that he supports giving "Medicare to all," but does not want to see private insurance abolished.
"Yes, the unemployment rate’s low, people are working, you know, one, two, three jobs to try to make ends meet. The average family, 40 to 50 percent of families in the United States can’t withstand a $400 or $500 emergency."
“I believe it is the best path because people are coming to realize the urgency of this. Tied with health care it is the number one priority of voters in Iowa and for good reason," Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, said.
“I think we’ve got to take seriously there is genocide going on in Venezuela right now. [Venezuelan President Nicolas] Maduro is intentionally starving his citizens,” Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) said on CNN's "State of the Union."
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