President Donald Trump's $5,000 dividend pledge faces bipartisan pushback, with Democrats calling it a "bribe" and Republicans questioning its feasibility.
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) on Wednesday became the first Senate Democrat to publicly call on President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. Welch wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that while he has “great respect” for the president, whom he calls one of the best of his lifetime, it is time for Biden to step...
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy, has joined Vogue as a political correspondent ahead of the 2024 election, the magazine announced Wednesday. Schlossberg, the 31-year-old son of U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, told the magazine he believes the stakes of the 2024 election are "very high" and that he is worried about the...
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) on Wednesday became the ninth House Democrat to publicly call for President Biden to withdraw from the race, adding to a growing chorus of lawmakers who have expressed concerns about the president’s — and the party’s — chances in November. "No president has had more accomplishments under more difficult circumstances than...
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Wednesday he does not think President Biden would finish out a second term, just days after he publicly called on the president to withdraw from the 2024 race. “I think right now, as I said, he's more than capable of doing the job,” Smith said on NewsNation’s “The Hill.”...
Legislation expressing support for the right to an abortion was blocked by Senate Republicans on Wednesday, amid a push by Democrats to put the GOP on defense over reproductive rights ahead of the November elections. The bill needed 60 votes in order to move forward to debate, meaning nine Republicans would have needed to break...
Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership, the 32 members of the alliance affirmed in a joint communique released Wednesday on the second day of their summit being held in Washington. Allies had negotiated for months over what language would be published in the joint communique, but discussions on specific words — including...
House Republicans and a handful of Democrats on Wednesday approved a bill that seeks to expand proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states, legislation that has been touted by former President Trump. The legislation — formally titled the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — cleared the chamber in a...
Story at a glance More than one in three U.S. adults earns money through a side hustle, according to a new Bankrate survey. The share of people with side hustles has dropped slightly over the past year, with 36 percent of adults reporting a side hustle compared to 39 percent in 2023. But it...
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday announced he has finished his cancer treatment and is awaiting clearance from his doctors to resume travel to Washington, D.C. “Today, I’m happy to share that I’ve finished my cancer treatment for now and continue working to get physically stronger,” Grijalva wrote in a post on the social platform...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan clashed with conservative firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) during a tense House hearing — asking her if she understood the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned a legal precedent known as the Chevron deference. Boebert, during an Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Wednesday, asked Regan whether the EPA would repeal...
The Senate's version of the annual defense policy bill would ban the U.S. military from covering surgeries for transgender troops, a development made possible by Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) joining Republicans during committee votes. Added as an amendment during last month’s Senate Armed Services Committee closed-door markup of the bill — known as the National...
