Rashida Tlaib

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criticized Israel on Monday for denying them entry to the Jewish state and called on fellow members of Congress to visit while they cannot. Omar, of Minnesota, suggested President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were suppressing the lawmakers’ ability to […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s interior minister said Friday he has received and granted a request by Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds. Tlaib, who is of Palestinian origin, asked to visit her 90-year-old grandmother in the West Bank, Minister Aryeh Deri said in a statement. Deri’s office published […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Thursday that it will bar two Democratic congresswomen from entering the country ahead of a planned visit over their support for a Palestinian-led boycott movement, a decision announced shortly after President Donald Trump tweeted that it would “show great weakness” to allow them in. The move to bar Reps. Rashida […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The debate between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats over migrant children in detention at the border was wrenching enough. Then it became about race. First, the freshman’s chief of staff compared more centrist Democrats to 1940s segregationists. Then Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of “singling out” her and fellow newcomers, […]

I have a few issues I’d like to dig into this morning so I’ll just jump right in. After spending most of the past 6 months targeting and attacking Congresswoman Ilhan Omar – who is the only refugee in Congress, the first woman to ever wear a hijab in Congress, and the only Black woman […]

I don’t know about you, but the new Democratic Congress has actually encouraged me. And I say that has someone who has a serious side-eye for the Democratic Party – they habitually overpromise and underdeliver. But I am particularly excited about some of courageous new voices in the House right now. Right away I am […]

Yesterday was one of those days where we had so much news that it was hard to keep up. For a few minutes I wanna break down 3 things that all happened in Congress because it seems like February 27th, 2019 is a day that may go down in history as far as Congress is […]

NEW YORK CITY (AP) — From the start of Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s views on race took center stage. Trump’s former attorney did not mince words, flat out calling his former boss “a racist” who believed “black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.” “Mr. Trump is […]