GOP leaders made balanced budgets a governing credo for a generation. As recently as 2024, the Senate adopted a Republican resolution calling the debt “unsustainable, irresponsible, and dangerous.”
The owner of Glenn Valley Foods, an Omaha food packaging plant raided by ICE, has stated that his company relied on the federal government's E-Verify system to verify workers' legal status, and is now struggling to hire more employees after the raid.
SEIU-affiliated care providers in the Golden State need to ask themselves how Huerta’s embarrassing spectacle helps enhance their pay, benefits and working conditions.
An Air India passenger flight with more than 240 people on board crashed Thursday shortly after taking off in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, according to the airline. The flight, AI171, was headed for England’s London Gatwick Airport on a Boeing 787-7 aircraft. Of the 242 passengers and crew members on board, 169 were Indian...
Republicans once again defeated the Democrats at the Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday 13-2, marking the GOP's fifth straight win in the annual bipartisan contest to raise money for charity. The margin of the game was not nearly as wide as last year’s walloping, when Republicans brought in a 31-11 victory. But the Democrats could...
Massie and Davidson have earned their place as the most principled Republicans in the House by sticking with their beliefs when faced with political consequences.
Congressional Republicans are laying the groundwork for a tax cliff at the end of President Trump’s term in office. While the conference is pushing to make the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, additional measures geared toward working-class Americans are being slated for expiration at the end of 2028. “It means that’s going to be an...
In today’s issue: President Trump’s Justice Department today will argue in a federal district court that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has no legal standing to second-guess the president’s decision to use the military to protect federal immigration agents in Los Angeles from demonstrators. The governor, who sued this week to try to block Trump’s...
The Trump administration’s travel ban presents a complex case for immigration advocates who have challenged previous efforts by President Trump to close the U.S. to certain foreigners. Trump needed multiple bites at the apple during his first term before the Supreme Court upheld the third version of his so-called Muslim ban in 2018. His latest version is more...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is grappling with the second high-profile crisis of her tenure as immigration protests roil her city, months after devastating wildfires tore through the region. Bass, who’s running for reelection in 2026, faced backlash over her wildfire response, including an ill-timed trip abroad as the crisis started, and her favorability ratings have taken a hit. Now,...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in a political bind, squeezed by his loyalty to President Trump and commitment to medicine. Cassidy, the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, publicly wavered over Kennedy’s confirmation, sharply criticizing his views before eventually voting...
