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Flashback: Jeffries called failing to fully fund DHS an ‘abdication of responsibility’

Hakeem Jeffries once called failing to fully fund DHS "legislative malpractice" but now has opposed a clean funding bill amid a 40-day shutdown standoff.

House Democrat bans staff from betting on prediction markets, citing ethics concerns

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts has prohibited staffers from betting on prediction markets on areas such as politics and any information obtained in an official capacity.

O Canada, still beholden to DEI

My fellow Canadians love to hate President Donald Trump, but it would be nice if we had an anti-DEI crusader like him. The U.S. president has gone to great lengths to drive that discriminatory ideology out of higher education. In particular, he has successfully pressured the accreditor who oversees the country’s 150-plus medical schools to ditch its […]

What are blue states getting for all that spending?

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is currently placed seventh among candidates in the latest poll of California’s governor race. That’s an ignominious 12 points behind the option, “someone else.” But that hasn’t stopped him from landing prominent national media appearances, including an interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. The comedian noted that Democrats […]

Reject Virginia’s election-rigging constitutional redistricting amendment

In the 2025 Virginia elections, the Democrats won large victories, obtaining a nearly 2-to-1 majority in the House of Delegates and electing Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA). During the election, Spanberger presented herself as a political centrist, although few of the newly elected Democrats in the House of Delegates made any such pretensions. One of the first things the […]

Gordon Ramsay shuts down suggestion of Ozempic-friendly dishes

A study examining 92,000 people found semaglutide use was linked to a 33% lower risk of dementia, among other health benefits.  

JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg running for Congress

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy, is running to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in the Empire State’s 12th congressional district. In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Schlossberg said the country “is at a turning point” and in the midst of a cost of living, corruption and constitutional crisis under...

Live updates: Shutdown end in sight as House returns to vote

The House on Wednesday is returning to Washington after nearly two months out of session for a vote that could reopen the federal government and end the record-long shutdown. Most Democrats are firmly against the funding package, while Republicans are largely supportive. The bill appears poised to cross the finish line. Here are the key...

Trump’s 2020 election pardon blank checks 

The broad language in President Trump’s pardons for dozens of allies who helped challenge his 2020 presidential election loss could hand unexpected beneficiaries a blank check. The president granted unconditional pardons to more than 70 lawyers, aides and so-called “fake electors” for efforts to provide an alternate slate of Electoral College votes in his...

Does a smaller government make America better?  

What the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attempted to do with a sledgehammer, Congress succeeded in doing with gridlock and an unwillingness to compromise. 

Legalize marijuana to ease the opioid crisis

We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger decreases in opioid deaths.

House returns to Washington to end shutdown saga

The House is set to vote on a bill to end the government shutdown, while Democrats are in a stronger position to respond to Republican redistricting efforts.

Fetterman: ‘No one really knows’ who’s running the Democratic Party in Senate, House

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that “no one really knows” who’s heading up his party in both chambers of Congress as tensions flare among Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown. “Who is running the show now in the Democratic Party, in the Senate, in the House?” Fox News’s Lawrence Jones asked Fetterman on “Fox...

Raskin blasts ‘blatantly corrupt’ Senate deal allowing suits over secret phone record subpoenas

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee slammed a Senate-approved plan to reopen the government that would also pave the way for eight GOP senators to earn significant sums from litigation challenging the search of their phone records related to Jan. 6. Tucked into the GOP proposal, which eight Democratic senators also approved, the...

Federal action may end fight over intoxicating hemp products in Texas

A proposal to reopen the U.S. government that passed the Senate on Monday contains language that would outlaw the sale of intoxicating hemp products across the nation.

Duffy warns of ‘massively more disruption’ in air travel if shutdown extends to weekend

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday warned of “massively more disruption” in air travel if the ongoing government shutdown, which has lasted for more than a month, continues into the weekend. “You're going to see this Friday, Saturday and Sunday — big disruption thus far — massively more disruption as we come into the weekend,...

Jeffries, Democrats will offer 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies

House Democratic leaders on Tuesday will propose a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies at the center of the shutdown fight. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the Democratic whip, will offer the legislation as an amendment to the Senate-passed spending agreement during a meeting of the Rules Committee...

Federal THC ban send hemp companies scrambling

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Federal THC ban send hemp companies scrambling The hemp industry is scrambling to stave off what representatives are saying could be an extinction-level event engineered by Republicans in Congress. © Associated Press The Senate late Monday passed a...

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