President Donald Trump pressured Sens. McConnell, Paul, Collins, and Murkowski in a Truth Social post ahead of an upcoming vote to scuttle his Canadian tariffs.
Small Business Committee chairs Joni Ernst and Roger Williams plan to launch an effort to help bring COVID fraudsters to justice by extending the statute of limitation a decade.
Whether the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who sadly withdrew her nomination for the post last week, or another qualified individual, the message from the Trump administration has already been made clear to bureaucrats at the global body that the United States will not be going along with radical […]
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is having a meeting with House Democrats Wednesday over their concerns surrounding the layoffs at the Department of Education, which she and President Trump have been vocal about trying to eliminate entirely. Rep. Mark Takano (Calif.) and at least ten other Democratic members will meet with McMahon at 9:30 a.m....
Five out of seven Colorado River basin states are failing to maximize a critical resource that could help alleviate the region’s longstanding water crisis, a new report found. Across all the states, just 26 percent of treated municipal wastewater is being reused, according to the research, released by the University of California Los Angeles, along...
Trump is undermining vital federal programs, such as the U.S. Department of Education and Social Security, by making it harder for people to access benefits, which could lead to a catastrophic impact on millions.
Two GOP lawmakers filed articles of impeachment on Monday against two judges who issued rulings that effectively blocked President Trump from advancing parts of his agenda. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) said he introduced articles of impeachment against Rhode Island-based U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell, who earlier this month issued an injunction blocking the Trump...
The alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione has asked for a laptop in jail to view the documents against him in the UnitedHealthcare CEO case. In a court filing Monday, Mangione’s lawyers asked if he could be provided a laptop solely to view the documents, video and other material related to the case, and not for...
Russia said Monday that it expects the U.S. to ease certain sanctions as part of an agreement for a limited ceasefire with Ukraine, lifting restrictions on certain banking sectors which are a major piece of international penalties on Moscow over its full-scale invasion launched in Feb. 2022. The sanctions lifting is part of an agreement...
Multiple academic groups filed suit against the Trump administration Tuesday over its actions to deport foreign students and faculty who participated in pro-Palestinian protests on campuses. The American Association of University Professors, the Middle East Studies Association and Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University argue the administration has created an environment “terrorizing students...
Top Democrats are demanding President Trump immediately reinstate two commissioners who were fired from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) just days after he took office. In a letter to Trump, Democratic Reps. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (Va.), ranking member on the House Committee on Education and Workforce, Jamie Raskin (Md.), ranking member on...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) clashed with Trump administration intelligence officials as they asserted that information on U.S. war plans for Yemen did not include intelligence information. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard initially declined to say whether she was a party in a Signal group chat exposed by Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg after he was...
By embracing automated record clearing, we recognize that everyone has the potential for change and the government shouldn’t put a period where God put a comma.
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday that there's going to be an investigation into top Trump administration officials who carried out sensitive intelligence conversations over a commercial messaging app Signal. Risch said he spoke to Secretary of State Marco Rubio "at length," following the bombshell report from...
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, grilled Wall Street veteran Frank Bisignano, whom President Trump has picked to lead the Social Security Administration, about what role he’s played in giving members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the department. Wyden, citing a tip from a “whistleblower,” asked...
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) should apologize to Tesla shareholders over comments she made calling “for Elon to be taken down.” “On March 29th it's my birthday, and all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down,” Crockett said in an event...
A group of Democrats are calling for the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee to hold a hearing “as soon as possible” with tech billionaire Elon Musk about his operations with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its role in the administration’s funding. The letter, signed by Democratic Reps. Steny Hoyer (Md.), Mark Pocan...
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff a portrait of President Trump to deliver to the U.S. president as a gift, the Kremlin confirmed on Monday. Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Putin gave the painting to Witkoff when he was in Moscow earlier this month, when asked by a journalist about...
