Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) has won the special election for Florida’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district. Fine’s win will come as a relief for Republicans, who grew increasingly worried about the race as...
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) on Monday said a “tariff is a tax,” a day before the Trump administration’s imposition of “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs. In Sessions’s appearance on “CNN News Central,” a Monday opinion piece from The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board was brought up by anchor John Berman. “In the real economic world, a...
President Trump on Tuesday announced his administration struck a deal with a law firm with ties to former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as Trump targets major firms for retribution. The agreement with Willkie Farr & Gallagher states that the firm will provide...
Rahm Emanuel, who served in the Biden administration as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, is returning to Wall Street for a new position but said he is “not done with public service.” Emanuel is rejoining the investment bank Centerview Partners, where he worked from 2019 to 2021. He counseled CEOs on mergers, regulation and political...
Presented by National Council on Aging {beacon} IN HIS BROADEST TRADE MOVE YET, President Trump will outline sweeping tariffs during a White House Rose Garden event Wednesday. Trump met with his trade team Tuesday to hammer out the final details for the announcement, which threatens to ignite a risky global trade war that economists warn would...
Trump's tariffs could raise $600 billion a year, but this would only happen if consumers avoid substitution and continue to buy foreign goods at tariff-elevated prices, which is unlikely.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) appeared to confuse Oliver Stone, an American filmmaker and a witness before House lawmakers on Tuesday, with political strategist Roger Stone during a hearing on the release of new documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of...
A group of former Republican lawmakers and officials is opposing President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act for deportations. The group of conservatives, along with the State Democracy Defenders Fund, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court to oppose the Trump administration’s use of the 18th-century wartime law. The brief was filed with the high...
OpenAI raised $40 billion from investors in its latest funding round, the ChatGPT maker announced Monday. The deal, which values the artificial intelligence (AI) company at $300 billion, was led by Japanese company SoftBank. It plans to contribute $30 billion, while the remaining $10 billion will come from a syndicate of other investors. “We’re excited...
President Trump tapped former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) to be the Department of Labor’s (DOL) inspector general on Monday evening, months after he lost his House seat to Rep. Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.) in the last election cycle. If D’Esposito, who was a New York City Police Department detective before being elected as a House lawmaker,...
Nine House Republicans defied GOP leadership on Tuesday and opposed an effort to block a bill instituting proxy voting for new parents from coming to the floor, halting key legislative action in the chamber. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) collected the 218 signatures — including from 11 Republicans — needed to successfully execute a discharge...
National political correspondent and data guru Steve Kornacki is leaving MSNBC to join NBC News as an on-air analyst full time, according to multiple reports. Kornacki will pop up regularly on "NBC Nightly News," "The Today Show" and the network's other programs to break down polling, elections modeling and other data as part of the...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) introduced a Tuesday resolution condemning violent attacks on Tesla vehicles. “The definition of terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. That is exactly what has been going on across the country at Tesla dealerships, and it is what innocent Americans who chose Tesla...
A menu of tax cut proposals made by President Trump and Republicans could add north of $9 trillion to the nation’s deficits over the next decade without offsets, a recent analysis from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation has found. In the report updated this week, the nonpartisan budget watchdog said the batch of GOP-backed tax...
