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Congressional Democrats believe that they can not only recapture the Senate, but a House Majority, in the wake of Donald Trump’s latest meltdown. House Democratic electioneers told The Washington Post on Monday evening that internal polls conducted the night before reveal Republican legislators confronting “a backlash regardless of whether they continued to support Trump or not.” Surveys conducted after the second presidential debate by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) show their candidates have “a 12-point edge if the Republican recently withdrew their support from…

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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a conspicuously timed report last week, informing lawmakers on what would happen if a major presidential nominee left the ticket ahead of the November election. CRS briefings are often requested by Members of Congress and their staff. That suggests that Trump’s electoral implosion in recent days has some lawmakers curious about what would happen if the real estate mogul is removed from the ticket or steps down before November 8. “Although it might be assumed that the vice presidential…

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The US government has spent, on average, one billion dollars a year over the last decade on public relations, with the Department of Defense accounting for more than half of that advertising expenditure, according to a federal watchdog. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that agencies dished out more than $900 million last year on PR and advertising—a slight increase from 2014, but below the $1.3 billion spent on outreach in 2009. A main driver of PR spending, the GAO found, is the Pentagon, which averaged…

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Debt collectors are pursuing payments from people who attended a for-profit college that went bankrupt after numerous fraud-related lawsuits, despite the Department of Education promising them avenues for debt relief. Only 5 percent of the 80,000 former students of Corinthian Colleges who are eligible for debt discharge under department programs formulated since 2015 have been granted that right, according to an investigation by the staff of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Of those 76,000 people being pursued for Corinthian-related obligations, over 30,000 have seen government benefits…

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that she believes the largest banks in the country can legally exist, days before a handful of them are due to submit reports to the Fed that could lead to their breaking-up. “We believe it is possible, even though it is extremely challenging for [these] organizations to comply with the law,” she said, in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. Yellen made the remarks in response to questions about Wells Fargo that had been asked by Rep. Brad…

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