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During his confirmation hearing Thursday, Ben Carson repeatedly refused to guarantee that money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development would not go to benefit President-elect Donald Trump or his family. “Among the billions of dollars that you will be handing out in grants and loans, can you just assure us that not one dollar will go to benefit either the president-elect or his family?” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked. “I can assure you that the things that I do are driven by a sense of morals and values,” Carson responded. “And therefore I will absolutely not play favorites...

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts says Besty DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Education, has a "radical political philosophy" and a thin resume for the job. "There is no precedent for an Education Department Secretary nominee with your lack of experience in public education," Warren wrote in a lengthy letter sent to DeVos on Monday morning. DeVos hasn't held top policy-making positions in the past, unlike other picks for the position by past presidents. Warren said that DeVos has "virtually no experience" in handling student debt, developing standards for school accountability, or improving schools - the...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday called for the Senate to not hold confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks until after the completion of an ethics screening. "Cabinet officials must put our country's interests before their own. No [confirmation] hearings should be held until we’re certain that’s the case," the Massachusetts Democrat tweeted. [Snip] "This is ridiculous," Warren tweeted, "[Trump's nominees] can’t drag their feet on ethics paperwork while their Senate friends try to run out the clock."

Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Friday she will run for a second term in 2018, signaling again that she plans to be one of her party’s fiercest critics of Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress. Warren made the announcement — which had been expected — in a message to supporters. […] Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, won the Senate seat in 2012 by beating incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown in her first political contest. Potential GOP opponents in 2018 include former Boston Red Sox pitching star Curt Schilling, a strong Trump backer. …

BOSTON (AP) -- As marijuana shops sprout in states that have legalized the drug, they face a critical stumbling block - lack of access to the kind of routine banking services other businesses take for granted. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, is leading an effort to make sure vendors working with legal marijuana businesses, from chemists who test marijuana for harmful substances to firms that provide security, don't have their banking services taken away. It's part of a wider effort by Warren and others to bring the burgeoning $7 billion marijuana industry in from a fiscal limbo she...

"It appears we're going to have an old folks' home." That's the ever-outspoken Harry Reid, Nevada's retiring senior senator, talking about Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders being the unofficial early front-runners for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Warren, at 67, is the youngest of the Big Three, and she's the only one who excites both establishment Democrats and progressive activists. But is the senior senator from Massachusetts game for a presidential run? Some pundits believe she's already positioning herself for it. Warren, the former guiding light of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, recently announced she's joining the Senate's...

Ever since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in last month’s presidential election, liberals have been whining about how “unfair” this result is. Now, the Democrat lawmakers in Congress have launched a sick plan against Trump before he’s even inaugurated that may result in his impeachment. Right Wing News reported that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is working on a bill that would force President-elect Donald Trump, future FLOTUS Melania Trump, their youngest son Barron, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence to put their assets into a blind trust. This would prevent any conflict of interest during Trump’s presidency while...

Donald Trump should invite Jill Stein to Trump Tower for a talk. Why not? He's invited just about everybody else who knocked him around in his campaign for president. So why not Stein? That way the president-elect could work out a deal with the Massachusetts political gadfly. The deal would center around the new president's support for a Stein candidacy against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, or Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, both of whom are expected to seek re-election in 2018. Both also opposed Trump's presidential candidacy, Warren especially. Warren can hardly mention his name without going po

Two top Senate Democrats are pressing the government to explain how Donald Trump's federal lease to operate a luxury hotel near the White House can go forward despite what they call the "unmanageable conflicts of interest" presented by the president becoming his own landlord — as well as a provision that bans government officials from the deal. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts joined with Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, ranking Democrat on the committee that oversees government operations, in sending a letter Thursday to the General Services Administration, which in 2013 awarded a lease to the Trump organization to redevelop...

Progressive senator ignores facts and common sense in asserting America wants Democratic agenda Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), whose party is at one of the weakest positions it has been in more than a century, grasped at straws this week in trying to argue the Republicans lack a mandate to govern. The liberal firebrand’s speech on the Senate floor on Monday night got a fair amount of attention for its attacks on a Republican-backed medical research bill that she lambasted as a giveaway to big pharmaceutical companies. Less noticed was Warren’s argument that a party that won the White House and...

During an extended interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night, things got a little heated between Cooper and Senator Elizabeth Warren. The almost 25 minute long interview grew tense when Cooper grilled Warren on how out of touch the Democratic Party is with Middle America. “When you look at that electoral map, I mean, there is blue on both coasts basically, and there is a lot of red in the entire rest of the country,” he noted before asking, “Do you feel like you are out of touch?” Warren quickly went on the defensive and tried to hide behind...

The way things are going, Donald Trump is going to have to get a restraining order against Elizabeth Warren. The senior senator from Massachusetts, with her extreme and escalating rhetoric against Trump, is acting as though she's unhinged. It is either a restraining order or a call in to Attorney General Maura Healey's new hate crime hotline that was set up following Trump's election to report acts of intimidation or harassmen

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah Cummings issued a request Wednesday for a federal agency to review President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House amid reports of chaos and disarray. In the letter to the Government Accountability Office, Warren and Cummings laid out a number of concerns regarding the transfer of power, including potential conflicts of interest related to President-elect Trump’s businesses and his family. Up to $9.5 million has been allocated by Congress for the transition, the two Democrats wrote. “Mr. Trump’s apparent conflicts of interest — and his behavior during the campaign and after his election —...

They're 'terrified' of Trump's 100-day plan On Friday, I posted my countdown of the 5 biggest Election Day losers. Number one on that list was “the progressive movement.” Number two was George Soros. As I said, there is simply no way to overstate the destruction that election 2016 hath wrought upon the left-wing’s agenda. They’re well aware that, due to the untimely death of Antonin Scalia and the ages of the other justices, winning this election was the key to their anti-constitutional dream. ...And they failed spectacularly.

Keith Ellison emerges as a top contender to lead the DNC in the fight against Trump, while Howard Dean and Martin O’Malley say they are considering bidsThe morning after election day was supposed to be one of reckoning for Republicans battered by internal strife over their unpopular nominee, Donald Trump. Instead, it was the Democrats who awoke to a harrowing new world. Hillary Clinton’s stunning defeat on Tuesday left the party leaderless and opened a struggle for control.“The Democratic establishment had their chance with this election,” Stephanie Taylor, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said in a statement....

She outlined common ground on regulating banks, protecting Social Security, opposing trade deals, college affordability, and rebuilding infrastructure. “He spoke to the very real sense of millions of Americans that their government and their economy has abandoned them,” Warren said. “And he promised to rebuild our economy for working people.” It’s an extraordinary idea — that Trump might reach over his own party and work with the progressive wing of the Democratic party to get some of his agenda done.

Dear MoveOn member, This election season has been full of disturbing surprises—from Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault to recent revelations of foreign donations to his campaign.1,2 And chances are we'll see more before the election is over. With just seven days to go until the election, it's critical that we move fast whenever any new surprise comes up. That's why we're asking you to sign up and receive text message alerts from MoveOn sharing the most strategic actions and breaking news you'll want to know in the days leading up to the election, and beyond. Will you take a...

Monday, October 31, 2016 at 12:00 PM ET: Donald J. Trump will hold a rally at the Deltaplex Arena in Grand Rapids, MI. The Yuuuuuuuuuge Deltaplex Arena in Grand Rapids, MI. Monday, October 31, 2016 at 3:00 PM ET: Donald J. Trump will hold a rally at Macomb Community College South Campus WARREN, MI.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Weaponizing a debate-stage insult that has become a rallying cry for female supporters of Hillary Clinton, Senator Elizabeth Warren let fly a stern, swaggering warning on Monday to Donald J. Trump: “Nasty women vote.” In a blistering rebuke of Mr. Trump, with Mrs. Clinton seated and smiling onstage beside her, Ms. Warren took furious aim at the Republican nominee’s personal and political record, ticking off his history of disparaging remarks during the election and reminding the crowd of the many accusations of sexual assault against him. “He thinks that because he has a mouthful of Tic Tacs...

Hysterical Elizabeth Warren shrieking in New Hampshire about how "nasty women" women are going to vote and get rid of Donald Trump once and for all. Question: why is she on a big lib college campus in New Hampshire, she should have had the nasty ugly liberal women vote locked up a long time ago.