Senator Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats plan daily floor speeches on climate change, a special select committee and climate legislation to run on next year — and enact in 2021.
While the professionals do not criticize Mr. Trump’s focus, they question whether those interests are crowding out intelligence on threats like terrorism.
Democrats won big in the 2018 midterm elections in Pennsylvania, but some wonder if they can win back the state from President Trump if the party veers too far left in 2020.
The president said he planned to issue an executive order that would help guarantee free speech on college campuses by putting their federal aid at risk.
If 2020 produces an anti-Trump wave, Democrats will need plenty of candidates to recapture the Senate. But some of the party’s best only want the White House.
As the Democratic Party has moved to the left, Mr. Penn, with his centrist politics, has become alienated from the party in which he once reigned as a winning pollster.
The former Trump campaign chairman will be sentenced next week in one of the two cases against him. Sentencing guidelines put the punishment at 19 to 24 years.
The president’s former lawyer gave a public airing of ethical transgressions by Mr. Trump, signaling the further strains to come as Democrats hold more hearings.
After the revelation that President Trump had ordered that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be granted a top-secret clearance, two committees are now seeking documents and interviews with officials.