Politics

Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Sheffer Corporation in Blue Ash, Ohio on February 5, 2018. President Donald Trump was joking when he suggested that Democrats were being “treasonous” by not clapping for him during his State of the Union address, a White …

Getty Images U.S. Rep Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump on Monday ripped into Democrats who held their applause …

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Two senators are introducing compromise legislation that would help achieve legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children. The bill calls for bolstering border security by 2020. But it does …

Astrid Riecken | The Washington Post | Getty Images Dreamers protest outside the US Capitol while lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2018, struggle to avoid an impending government shutdown. Democrats threatened with a shutdown as long as no clean DREAM act solutions is made. The U.S. …

Joshua Roberts | Reuters Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testifies to the House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 13, 2017. A White House official on Friday told CNBC there were no talks about possibly firing Deputy Attorney General …

Getty Images Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks during a hearing before the House (Select) Intelligence Committee November 1, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says Republicans substantially altered the classified memo about the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia …

Reuters President Donald Trump speaking at the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to protect American intellectual property, but made no mention of China, which his administration has accused of trade abuses, in …

Mary Turner | Reuters Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, speaks at the Conferation of British Industry’s annual conference in London, Britain, November 6, 2017. The efforts to renegotiate NAFTA is “far from being completed at this point,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Wednesday. Ross did tell “Squawk Box” that …

Cheriss May | NurPhoto | Getty Images Rep. Paul Ryan, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who hired special counsel Robert Mueller and has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump and House conservatives, is “doing a …

Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accompanied by members of the Republican Conference, speaks at a news conference about the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2017. Republicans are wasting no time getting ready for …