President Donald Trump has so far suffered little political blowback for his tariffs and trade threats. But he and his party could soon begin to face consequences as companies begin reporting lower earnings, reassessing their supply chains and holding back on investments. | Luca Bruno/AP Photo President Donald Trump’s trade wars could become a major political drag for Republicans, with job losses

Complicating the Trump administration's opioid response are the vacancies at the top of four key health and law enforcement agencies that would execute its plan. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump overrode his own advisers when he promised to deliver an emergency declaration next week to combat the nation’s worsening opioid crisis. “That is a very, very big statement,

“Nobody knows where this really goes from here,” said one White House official. | Getty It was, in the words of one senior White House official, the worst day of Trump’s presidency. White House officials spent early Tuesday wondering who was leaking details of President Donald Trump’s classified conversations with Russian officials about intelligence shared by the Israelis, and moving to contain t

When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBI director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump’s team colluded with the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The chummy White House visit—photos of the president yukking it

“The dishonest media is not reporting that any money spent, for the sake if [sic] speed, on building the Great Wall, will be paid back by Mexico,” Trump tweeted. | Getty From the very beginning of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised that he would build a wall along America’s southern border with Mexico and that the Mexican government, not U.S. taxpayers would pay for it. Friday mornin

Members of Donald Trump’s camp have discussed ways to punish Republicans who were hostile to the New York billionaire’s anti-establishment campaign. | Getty Donald Trump has 70 days to build a government and figure out how to run it, but some of his allies are spending the early days of his transition plotting revenge against those they believe slighted Trump — and them. Since Trump’s shocking ups

Charles Koch speaks in his office at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas. Koch, one of the most influential conservative donors, said he is fed up with the vitriol of the presidential race and will air national TV ads that call on Americans to work together to fix a "rigged" economy that leaves behind the poor. | AP Photo On a drizzly Monday morning in mid-September, about 200 staffers fr

More than 70 Republicans have signed an open letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urging him to stop spending any money to help Donald Trump win in November and shift those contributions to Senate and House races. The letter comes as a number of Republican senators and high-profile GOP national security officials have come forward saying they cannot vote for Trump. “We b

Richard Armitage is one of the most prominent Republican foreign policy experts to not back Donald Trump. | Getty Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush, says he will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, in one of the most dramatic signs yet that Republican national security elites are rejecting their party’s presumptive nominee. Armitage, a retired Navy office

Bernie Sanders and aides laugh at the idea that he’s damaging the party and hurting Hillary Clinton. | AP Photo By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti 06/07/2016 11:26 PM EDT Updated: 06/08/2016 01:33 AM EDT There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the cam