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In this April 22, 2013, file photo, Joe Scarborough attends the 2013 Matrix New York Women in Communications Awards in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Joe Scarborough: Debt could reach $30 trillion on Donald Trump watch

There are growing concerns that President-elect Donald Trump and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are ignoring the national debt and that it will continue to soar over the coming years as elected leaders vow to increase military spending, cut taxes and push back against changes to entitlement programs.

January 13, 2017
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Barbara Lee to skip Trump inauguration, vows resistance

A Democratic congresswoman announced Thursday she plans on skipping Donald Trump's inauguration next week as the 45th president of the United States, vowing instead to spend her time laying the groundwork for "resistance."

January 12, 2017
From left, Democratic Reps. William Lacy Clay of Missouri, John Conyers of Michigan, and Hank Johnson of Georgia speak in front of a painting by Missouri high school student David Pulphus after it was rehung on on Tuesday. The painting had been removed from the Congressional Art Competition display in Cannon tunnel by Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican. (Associated Press)

Painting depicting police officers as pigs sparks tug of war on Capitol Hill

The clash between members of Congress over a painting that depicts police officers as pigs boiled over Tuesday, with GOP lawmakers repeatedly taking matters into their own hands to remove the student artwork from a Capitol complex hallway and Democrats responding by rehanging the piece and defending its display.

January 10, 2017
In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, a painting by David Pulphus hangs in a hallway displaying paintings by high school students selected by their member of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has removed a painting that showed a pig in a police uniform, one of hundreds of artworks on display at the Capitol and sponsored by a member of Congress. Joe Kasper, a spokesman for Hunter, says the lawmaker unscrewed the artwork from the display and returned it to the office of Missouri Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

Lacy Clay rehangs controversial ‘pigs’ painting

Rep. Lacy Clay of Missouri and members of the Black Congressional Caucus rehung a painting in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday that has stirred controversy over its depiction of police officers as pigs.

January 10, 2017
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., arrives in Trump Tower, in New York, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Joe Manchin shapes centrist image ahead of Trump administration

Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday ditched an all-Democrats meeting with President Obama and then broke bread with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, moving to cement his post-partisan image in the new Congress, where the West Virginia Democrat hopes to play the role of "facilitator" — and boost his chances of re-election in 2018.

January 4, 2017