Taxpayers footed a $6.7 billion bill for President Trump's buyouts to get federal employees to quit in 2025, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Since coming into office, President Donald Trump has made rebalancing our trade agreements a top priority, placing historic tariffs on traditional trading ‘partners’ who have taken advantage of American businesses for decades and adversaries hell-bent on our economic collapse such as China. His “Liberation Day” tariffs were indicative of his bold commitment to that mission. […]
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm. The legal tide is turning against reverse discrimination. In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, the Supreme Court is reviewing whether Marlean Ames, a straight white woman, was unfairly denied a promotion in favor of a […]
After passing the British House of Commons last year, it looks as though a U.K. bill to legalize doctor-assisted suicide may itself be on life support. After many assurances from the outset that there would be high levels of protections to ensure the system is not “misused” (more on that later), these safeguards have already begun to break […]
Senate Republicans passed budget reconciliation instructions last week that are far weaker on spending cuts than those House Republicans passed in February, which could set up a debt explosion should the Senate get its way when the final reconciliation bill is written later this year. The top-line budget numbers in the House reconciliation bill call […]
In rare fleeting moments of childlike naivety, I sometimes wonder how these people live with themselves. And by people, I mean Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), whose 25-hour rambling speech on the Senate floor this week was the longest in the history of the institution, beating the record of segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, who filibustered against the Civil […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) will go down in history for delivering the longest talking filibuster ever on the Senate floor. Unfortunately for him, he will be remembered for little else. Over the course of his 12 years in the Senate, he has sponsored only one bill that was ultimately signed into law: the Emmett Till […]
