Chris Stein

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Politics Reporter, Guardian US at The Guardian

US politics blogger and reporter for @GuardianUS

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Articles

Lawyer who prosecuted Trump hauled in front of House judiciary committee

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein |Hugo Lowell

The former special counsel prosecutor Jay Bratt is expected to appear before the Republican-led House judiciary committee next week as it attempts to find instances of politicization in the federal criminal cases brought against Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the matter.
US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

A proponent of using the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 despite scant evidence of its efficacy has been named to a top pandemic prevention role at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Washington Post reports. Steven J Hatfill is a virologist who served in Donald Trump’s first administration, during which he promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus in the early months of the pandemic, when vaccines and treatments were not yet available.
Republicans in Congress pull out all the stops to protect Trump tariffs

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

Warning signs flashed this week that Donald Trump’s tariffs were beginning to destabilize what had, at the start of his term, appeared to be a solid economy. But in Congress, Republican leaders pulled out all the stops to protect his signature trade policy.
Democrats target vulnerable Republicans over plan to cut social safety net

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

Democrats plan to put the squeeze on four of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress as the GOP gears up to pass a massive bill that may slash the social safety net to pay for tax cuts. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday announced the “Fight to Save Medicaid”, a pressure campaign that aims to derail the bill’s passage in the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold only a three-seat majority.
Democrats rally at US Capitol to decry ‘failure’ of Trump’s first 100 days

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday to accuse Donald Trump of spending his first 100 days damaging the US economy and democracy with the help of “complicit” congressional Republicans.
Trump border pick accused of ‘cover-up’ over death of man beaten by US agents

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

Rodney Scott, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has been accused by a former top official of orchestrating a “cover-up” of the death of a man detained while trying to enter the country from Mexico, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian. Scott is a former US Border Patrol chief who has supported the president’s vow to build a wall along the border with Mexico and criticized Joe Biden’s handling of immigration policy.
Senate Democrats to mark Trump’s ‘100 days from hell’ with marathon speeches

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

Democratic senators will on Tuesday mark Donald Trump’s 100th day in office with marathon floor speeches intended to highlight his administration’s failures, seizing on his divisive tariff policy and attacks on the judiciary to argue he was not joking when he mulled governing as “a dictator”.
Republican unity to be tested in talks over Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

2 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Chris Stein

Donald Trump has made a simple request of Congress’s Republican leaders: deliver “one big, beautiful bill” that will turn his campaign promises into reality. By all indications, there will be little beautiful about the negotiations to come when Congress returns to session on Monday.
Kilmar Ábrego García ‘traumatized’ by threats in prison, Maryland senator says

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

Wrongly deported Salvadoran man Kilmar Ábrego García has been held incommunicado and faced threats in prison that left him “traumatized”, a Democratic senator said Friday after returning from meeting him in El Salvador.
What would it mean for Trump to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status?

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Chris Stein

Harvard University is in a standoff with Donald Trump after rejecting a series of demands from the president’s administration, which critics view as an attack on the elite college for its reputation among conservatives as a bastion of liberal thought. After cutting off its funding, Trump has reportedly given the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a potentially illegal order to revoke the university’s tax-exempt status.