A group of 20 states filed a Monday lawsuit against the Trump administration to prevent the government from collecting personal data from food stamp recipients. The coalition of lawyers argues the effort violates privacy laws by requesting individuals’ immigration status, birthdates and home addresses, according to the Associated Press. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said...
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday that far-left mayoral candidates will make it harder for Democrats to gain ground. “The more that we get people like this representing the face of the Democratic Party, the harder it is to win back voters in the middle of American politics,” Rove said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom”...
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is giving a gaga review to Lady Gaga after being spotted among the cheering crowd at one of the "Abracadabra" singer's concerts. "It was a fabulous show in San Francisco!" Pelosi, the 85-year-old Speaker Emerita, said in a Tuesday post on X. "The most fun I’ve had in a long time," Pelosi said...
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said the streets of Los Angeles are empty as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions in recent months. In a video posted to social media, Padilla said customers are afraid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, and businesses have suffered in what, he said, is typically a...
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) will speak Tuesday afternoon on recently introduced legislation targeting President Trump's "sick tax," a provision in the GOP-led spending and tax package that will require Medicaid enrollees to pay more out of pocket when visiting a health care provider. Welch, along with other Democrats, has in recent weeks pushed back against...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday launched a public inquiry into whether providers of gender-affirming health care are violating federal consumer protection laws. In a news release, the FTC said it opened the inquiry “to better understand how consumers may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about ‘gender-affirming care’, especially as it relates...
The Trump administration is proposing to repeal the landmark finding that climate change poses a threat to the public as it seeks to undermine the nation’s climate rules. Speaking in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is proposing to abandon the Obama-era finding. The endangerment finding also...
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) Senate campaign announced it raised more than $3.4 million in the 24 hours since launching Monday. Cooper’s campaign said it raised $2.6 million for his Senate campaign plus an additional $900,000 for the Democratic Party. Ninety-five percent of the individual donations that came into the campaign in the...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who has teased a run for governor in South Carolina, is leading a hypothetical 2026 GOP gubernatorial field in new polling. The survey from the nonpartisan research organization South Carolina Policy Council found Mace with 16 percent support from Republican-identifying voters — 1 point ahead of state Attorney General Alan Wilson...
The Trump administration is recommending that a compound called 7-OH be scheduled as an illicit drug, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary announced Tuesday. The compound is a by-product of the Kratom plant whose ground leaves are sold as a dietary supplement to boost energy or provide pain relief. FDA officials said 7-OH...
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) leads Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 8 points in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race in one of the first independent polls of the general election. The Fairleigh Dickinson University poll released on Tuesday showed Sherrill leading with 45 percent support to Ciattarelli’s 37 percent, with 16 percent of survey respondents undecided. The race...
Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) are set to reintroduce the Senate version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025, which would replace the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The duo introduced a similar bill last year seeking to "strengthen our democracy by reestablishing preclearance for jurisdictions with a pattern...