House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Sunday blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) delay in sending the articles of impeachment passed by the House to the Senate, saying Pelosi “can run for the Senate if she wants to be a senator.”
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said Sunday that he agreed with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) characterization of an attack Saturday at the home of a rabbi in a heavily Orthodox Jewish New York community as an act of domestic terrorism.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) defended Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for working with President Trump as he prepares for the impeachment trial in the Senate.
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) said Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying he would not be impartial in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial “makes a mockery of the whole system.”
President Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump said Sunday she believed the president could support a paid family leave bill even if it was led by congressional Democrats.
The Washington Post’s executive editor said that journalists are responsible for holding officials, including President Trump, accountable even if the public “may be numb” to false statements.
White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said Sunday that the U.S. is still monitoring for North Korea’s promised “Christmas gift,” saying, “We’ll have to wait and see.”
Peter Navarro, director of the White House’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, hailed the job market under President Trump in a radio interview that aired Sunday, claiming “everybody who wants a job can get a job.”
