Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his primetime slot at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas to deliver a blistering indictment of the modern Democratic Party: the same party with which his family has been synonymous for generations.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that Republicans need more time calling the shots to deal with what he described as the mess they inherited from President Biden and Democrats in Washington.
Former Rep. Mike Rogers on Thursday accused Abdul El-Sayed of being a terrorism sympathizer, warning that Michigan cannot afford to send a Democrat who surrounds himself with "people who despise" the United States to Congress.
The Senate on Monday teed up a final vote on Pam Bondi's nomination to lead the Justice Department. The chamber voted 52-46 to limit debate. Absent an agreement with Democrats, that puts a final confirmation vote in the early hours of Wednesday. Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who also worked on Trump’s team to...
Peter Navarro, a senior trade aide to President Trump, said those who are critical of the president’s tariffs are “dishonoring” the people who have died from fentanyl overdose. Navarro joined Fox News on Monday, where he was asked to weigh in on the tariffs placed on Canada, Mexico and China as Americans grow increasingly concerned...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a memo told the Department of Transportation (DOT) to prioritize communities that have higher birth and marriage rates. "To the maximum extent permitted by law, DOT-supported or -assisted programs and activities, including without limitation, all DOT grants, loans, contracts, and DOT-supported or -assisted State contracts, shall prioritize projects and goals...
The Senate on Monday confirmed Chris Wright, the CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Energy Department. The vote was 59-38. Democrat Sens. Michael Bennet (Colo.), Ruben Gallego (Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Martin Heinrich (N.M.), John Hickenlooper (Colo.), Ben Ray Luján (N.M.) and Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) as well as independent Sen. Angus King...
Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are calling on Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) to convene an urgent hearing with senior Trump administration officials, raising concerns over potentially illegal efforts to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), joined by Democratic members of the committee, urged Mast to convene a hearing with...
Democratic leaders in both chambers on Monday vowed to introduce legislation to “stop unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems.” Democrats have been sounding the alarm over reports that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire tech investor Elon Musk, was given access to the Treasury Department's sensitive payment systems. “We must...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Monday to protect the identities of healthcare providers prescribing abortion medication days. The move comes days after a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a patient living in Louisiana. Under the new law, providers prescribing abortion medication can request...
President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk have moved to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which spend some $30 billion last year on humanitarian, development and security aid to more than 100 countries. Musk said Trump agreed with him that USAID should be shut down after the president said his...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified Congress on Monday that there is a potential reorganization of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as the separate agency appears to have already been subsumed by the State Department. President Trump appointed Rubio as the acting administrator for USAID on Monday, and the secretary said in a...
