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In today's issue: ▪ Trump points finger at China ▪ Tillis stands his ground ▪ Trump’s teleprompter operator suspended ▪ FEC deadline takeaways President Trump’s sweeping claims of election interference during his primetime address to the country Thursday night were largely unsupported by documents the White House posted to its website as he was speaking....

Opening a savings account for my 11 month-old son was easier than opening one for myself. And his was funded with a free $1,000 to start. As a statistician, I have spent much of my career telling people that government programs almost never work as advertised. The incentives are always wrong, the paperwork is overwhelming,...

The Trump administration’s latest firing of a U.S. attorney is intensifying the Justice Department’s assertion of presidential control over prosecutorial picks. Roger Rogoff was sacked Wednesday as the top federal prosecutor in Seattle after a panel of 17 judges appointed him. The firing made good on the warning from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that the...

House Republican leaders are already starting to float reconciliation 4.0 — even with a third party-line budget bill barely out of the gate and facing an uncertain future. The idea for a fourth bill that utilizes the special process that enables budget-related legislation to get through Congress with only Republican votes comes as many House...

The House Republican leadership’s proposal for a $95 billion budget reconciliation package —which would include $73 billion to help pay for the Iran war and $10 billion for election reforms — is running into staunch opposition from Senate Republicans. Senate Republicans say the proposal has little chance of passing the upper chamber, even though President...

President Trump delivered an address to the nation on Thursday evening in which he sought to paint the state of U.S. election security as indefensible. In the process, Trump hoped to push for the passage of contentious legislation he favors — and to persuade more Americans to accept his widely debunked allegations of fraud in...

Democrats raised alarm after President Trump’s revived his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election during a Thursday evening address. “You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bull----,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said in a statement shared on...

President Trump launched a series of new accusations regarding the 2020 election, declassifying a handful of documents as he argued U.S. elections remain insecure – claims that were swiftly disputed by Democrats. In his primetime address, Trump this time said the intelligence community failed to sound the alarm as China penetrated U.S. voter rolls that...

A slew of Maine Democrats vying to replace Graham Platner as the party’s Senate nominee struggled to stand out on the debate stage Thursday night, with just days before the deadline to pick a new candidate.   The crowded field is jockeying to replace Platner to take on long-time Republican Sen. Susan Collins (R) after the progressive’s exit from the race earlier this month amid sexual assault and misconduct allegations, which he has...

Several major news broadcasters will not carry President Trump’s speech on Thursday evening, spokespeople for these networks confirmed. ABC News, NBC News and CNN will carry the president’s remarks on separate streaming platforms or editorial live updates. Trump has teased “big news” ahead of this speech, in which he is expected to address his previous...

Taco Bell announced on Thursday that it would remove lettuce from some of its stores following reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened an investigation into iceberg lettuce supplied to the fast-food chain as a possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S. “Based on ongoing conversations with public health officials,...

President Trump is set to give a primetime address to the nation Thursday from the White House. Trump has teased that the “very big speech” will touch on voting machines and election integrity among other topics. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in her first briefing since returning from maternity leave, confirmed that the address would focus heavily...

Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro said Thursday that Vice President Vance sounded similar to a Democrat on a recent episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast. “I tuned into Joe Rogan yesterday and heard Bernie Sanders' economics, Barack Obama's foreign policy, and Ro Khanna's conspiracy theories. And then I realized JD Vance was talking. I want a candidate...

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