(Reuters) -Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday that scheduled flights to bring home Venezuelan migrants from the U.S. had been affected by “this unexplained, tremendous commotion”, after the Trump administration canceled a license allowing Chevron to operate in the South American country. Earlier in his remarks Maduro said that if it was up to […]
President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk. According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs is part of a plan to “level the playing field” that he views as unfair, but the end result remains uncertain, Goldman Sachs chair and CEO David Solomon told a conference in Australia. “The president firmly believes that there are imbalances with respect to how […]
A statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying a deal to end the war with Russia was “very far away” has drawn a furious response by Donald Trump. “America will not put up with it for much longer,” the US president said in a social media post, before accusing Zelensky of not wanting peace. A […]
The Trump administration has declared war on “woke” science, installing a prominent vaccine skeptic as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services, banning a long list of research terminology from government websites, and sacking huge number of researchers at the National Science Foundation. After expunging all that liberal bias, a pair […]
This is an adapted excerpt from the Feb. 20 episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show.” For 26 years, the state of Missouri was represented in Congress by Republican Roy Blunt. He began as Rep. Blunt, serving in House Republican leadership for years, before becoming a senator. Blunt, among everything else he did during his time […]
Two of Sen. John Fetterman’s longest-serving staff members are leaving his team as the senator takes a more open approach to President Donald Trump than many of his Democratic colleagues are. Charlie Hills, Fetterman’s communications director, and Tré Easton, his legislative director, are set to soon depart the Pennsylvania Democrat’s office. Both men worked on […]
Career DOJ prosecutors are clashing with the Trump administration, leading to a wave of resignations. Brendan Ballou, a former federal prosecutor involved in the January 6 cases, joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss.(The Beat’s YouTube playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari Ari: / arimelber Beat merch: www.msnbc.com/Beat5)
Longtime political strategist James Carville warned Democratic politicians not to get in the way of the protests springing up around the nation against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk. “What I think they should do is what we call in rural America play possum,” he told MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Monday. “Just […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, […]
