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July 15, 2019

Collins and Murkowski become most prominent Republicans to slam Trump for 'unacceptable' tweets

Two senators from President Trump’s own party spoke out Monday against the president’s tweets suggesting that four minority congresswomen "go back" to where they came from, calling the tweets “spiteful” and arguing that Trump should remove them from his Twitter feed.

July 14, 2019

Trump targets freshman congresswomen, Pelosi on Twitter, tells progressives to 'go back,' 'help fix' home countries

President Trump squared off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and progressive freshman congresswomen Sunday on Twitter, telling the new lawmakers to "go back" to their countries of origin to fix the corruption plaguing those nations before they lecture the United States. 

July 11, 2019

Rep. Tlaib calls for 'lawless president' to be impeached, says plan is still to 'defund ICE'

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, repeated her calls to impeach President Trump and to defund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), promising to "defund hate."

July 11, 2019

Jessica Tarlov: Ocasio-Cortez and 3 other far-left Dems hurt party and help Trump when they attack other Dems

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is justifiably upset by the public attention focused on the feud between her and “the Squad” – the nickname for far-left Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

July 9, 2019

Jonathan Swan: Pelosi underestimating progressive force inside her own party

The House Democratic caucus has more progressive members than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes, but the group is not as organized as its right-wing counterpart, according to Jonathan Swan.

July 8, 2019

Arizona Border Patrol chief on Democrats' 'misinformation': The system is broken, we've been asking for help

An Arizona Border Patrol official said Monday he is trying his best to dispel the "absurd" claims from Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who have called U.S. detention facilities "concentration camps."

July 7, 2019

Tlaib doubles down on AOC's concentration camp comments, claims border agents believe it's a 'broken system'

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said she agreed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., about the conditions of detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border and claimed AOC was right to compare them to Nazi concentration camps. 

July 6, 2019

Pelosi on AOC, Omar, others: 'These people have their public whatever and their Twitter world'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., again dismissed freshman like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., downplaying the amount of power they had amid a flurry of attention the media gave them.

June 22, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez, other Dems accuse ICE and CBP of 'killing' children, call for hold on funding

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., along with a slew of other House Democrats, responded on Saturday to President Trump's announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids by calling for the agency's abolition and opposing supplemental funding for both it and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

June 18, 2019

Cruz blasts John Cusack over tweet critics slammed as anti-Semitic

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex mocked John Cusack over the anti-Semitic tweet he made Monday, asking if he was "one of the freshman trio" of Democratic congresswomen who have previously been condemned for similar controversies.