Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned on Sunday that Senate Democrats from red states are going to face a tough decision on whether to confirm President Trump's next Supreme Court pick, and urged Republicans to "rally behind" the eventual nominee.
“The president’s outsourced his decision to the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. It is extraordinary,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said on ABC’s “This Week.”
"Senator McConnell invented this new rule and wouldn’t even consider a meeting with Merrick Garland. And now he’s saying that we’ve got to hurry through here and get this done before the election," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Leonard Leo, who is on leave from the Federalist Society to aide Trump in selecting a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, said on ABC’s “This Week” that he’s confident the president and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) “can get anybody confirmed.”
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday attacked special counsel Robert Mueller's team, but said President Trump's legal team hasn't spent much time crafting an argument that the appointment of special counsel was unconstitutional.
“As far as I know… the president did not originally know. At some point, probably a little foggy as to exactly when, the president found out and reimbursed him,” Rudy Giuliani said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggested on Sunday that China may have pressured North Korea to take a harder line against U.S. negotiators during a recent visit to the isolated country by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
"I hope in the end we come to success, but I think nobody should be surprised by foot dragging," Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said. "This has troubled now four U.S. presidents."
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Sunday that the U.S. should restart its military exercises with South Korea if talks between Washington and Pyongyang break down.
"NATO really is making progress and they are doing it really at President Trump’s insistence, and I think that it is very clear and he’s been very direct about the Europeans needing to do more for their own security," Kay Bailey Hutchison told "Fox News Sunday."
Former NATO Commander Adm. James Stavridis defended President Trump on Sunday, saying the president is right to call on NATO members to contribute more to defense spending.
The spotlight on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is about to become brighter as Congress weighs the Trump administration’s request for a huge spending boost even as a growing number of Democrats want the agency abolished.
The administration is pressing Congress for $8.3 billion in discretionary funding for ICE in fiscal year 2019 — a $967 million increase over this year’s budget. Democrats are already balking at the figure out of early concern that Republicans will designate the money for bolstering enforcement efforts, including an acceleration of deportations.
The Democratic resistance is significant because the Republicans will need support from the other side of the aisle to approve any new spending bills, as the GOP remains divided over fiscal issues.
Democrats in New Jersey are hoping that President Trump's tax-cut law provides them with a boost in the midterm elections.
The law caps the state and local tax (SALT) deduction at $10,000, a change that hurts people in high-tax states such as New Jersey, which has the highest property taxes of any state.
All but one New Jersey Republican voted against the tax law, in large part because of the limit on state and local tax deductions. Democrats on the campaign trail say restoring the full deduction means putting their party back in charge of the House.
