White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham is stepping down from her position after less than a year. She will instead begin working with Melania Trump.
"[T]he President’s dead of night decision puts our country and national security at even greater risk," said Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, after news broke that Trump would be firing Michael Atkinson.
In recent days Trump has touted that the U.S. has conducted more tests than any other country, but he leaves out a key piece of context: While the U.S. has surpassed South Korea in terms of raw tests, it has administered far fewer tests per capita given that the U.S. is more than six times the size of South Korea.
President Donald Trump slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on ‘Fox and Friends,’ suggesting the federal government could take over her “slum” district San Francisco, as the two locked horns on the coronavirus pandemic response.
Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race to endorse her ideological opposite, establishment darling Joe Biden. It's political suicide – for her, and for the idea of a progressive Democrat.
That tweet was a confusing signal from Trump after he had invoked the DPA earlier in the day, announcing the move at a White House briefing on the health crisis.