With the Trump Cabinet’s revolving door continually spinning, organizations looking for an inside glimpse into the administration have increasing options – but they come with increasingly higher price tags. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is currently quoting $200,000 and the use of a private jet for domestic speaking engagements, according to […] Read more
Former Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz, who is launching a book tour this week, said he’s “seriously thinking of running for president” as a centrist who is positioned outside the two-party system. With the field of contenders to challenge President Donald Trump growing daily, the 65-year-old coffee impresario who turned a local Seattle chain […] Read more
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has proposed a “wealth tax” on some of the richest Americans. The new tax from Warren, who recently announced her bid to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020, would only apply to Americans with more than $50 million in assets. Her Twitter announcement on Thursday came hours after an economist who […] Read more
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., reached out to top Democratic donor Bernard Schwartz to discuss the 2020 presidential campaign during the weeks before she announced that she would make a run at challenging President Donald Trump, CNBC has learned. Schwartz, the CEO of BLS Investments, spoke to Gillibrand over the phone in recent weeks about the […] Read more
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that she will run for president in 2020. Gillbrand, 52, said on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that she is launching an exploratory committee. “I’m going to run for president of the United States because as a young mom, I’m going to fight for other people’s kids as […] Read more
Most Americans agree with President Donald Trump that a “crisis” is taking place at the southern U.S. border. They just do not think the president’s proposed border wall will solve the problems. Trump has cast immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border as a “humanitarian crisis” as he argues for more than $5 billion to build the […] Read more
President Donald Trump doesn’t need a wall to stop undocumented immigration along the U.S. southern border, a three-time presidential candidate and well-known Libertarian Ron Paul told CNBC on Tuesday. Instead, the Trump administration should remove incentives for coming to America, said Paul, who also served 12 terms as a U.S. congressman from Texas, a state […] Read more
The election is coming! The election is coming! Two weeks from today, the country will head to the polls and offer us the first nationwide report card — not just on President Donald Trump, but also the Republican and Democratic parties. So at this point, what do we know? And what do we know we […] Read more
House forecast: Democrats will win 225 seats (and the House majority) while Republicans will win just 210 seats. A Democratic win of 202 seats and 262 seats is within the margin of error. Senate forecast: Republicans will hold 52 seats (and maintain control of the Senate) next Congress while Democrats will hold just 48. Anything […] Read more
