South Carolina Democratic Rep. James E. Clyburn said he is running for reelection even if the Republican-controlled state Legislature approves a new congressional map that attempts to push him out.
While congressional Republicans have coalesced around a plan to fund immigration enforcement, there are plenty more intraparty battles that will make for rocky legislating for the summer. At the crux of many of the disputes is anxiety about the looming midterm elections that threaten to erase the GOP’s majority. That’s driving some Republicans to argue...
President Trump on Sunday slammed the Iranian government’s response to his administration’s peace proposal. The president wrote on his Truth Social platform, “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” The Islamic Republic News Agency reported earlier Sunday that negotiators in Tehran submitted their response to...
President Trump on Sunday said federal agencies “must buy American,” doubling down on his push to prioritize the use of products manufactured, developed and produced in the United States. “ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BUY AMERICAN — NO EXCUSES! For decades, Washington politicians sent your Taxpayer Dollars overseas, and let Foreign Countries rip us off while...
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Sunday called a recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling rolling back redistricting in the state “disgraceful,” saying the court “suckered the people of Virginia.” “So, what the Virginia Supreme Court did was not only wrong, it was disgraceful. They basically said, ‘Hey, Virginia, spend all this taxpayers’ money holding an election,...
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) said Sunday that the Supreme Court sent the country “backwards in time” by declaring Louisiana's addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The high court ruled last month, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 only...
Virginia Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D) on Sunday said “all options” are on the table for Democrats in the Old Dominion State as they respond to a ruling from the state Supreme Court striking their redistricting measure. The decision immediately eliminates four House seats that were expected to flip to the Democrats in midterm elections, while...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Sunday questioned the basis for the U.S. war against Iran, which recently stretched past its second month, saying “we're going to be in a worse posture than we otherwise would be in if this war in Iran didn't happen.” “Do you think that the U.S. would be able to defend,...
President Trump on Sunday said Iran will be “laughing no longer” as he continues to hammer out the framework for a peace proposal with Tehran. “For 47 years the Iranians have been ‘tapping’ us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors,...
The Issue: Mayor Mamdani’s support for the protesters at the riot outside Park East Synagogue. Your article on the anti-Israeli mob attacking police officers...
The United States is less prepared for a major military conflict after depleting its munitions stockpile during the ongoing conflict with Iran, Sen. Mark Kelly said Sunday.
