Senate Majority Leader John Thune is confident Republicans can carve out a compromise on the cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes, or SALT, that has left fiscal conservatives on the fence about President Trump's "Big, Beautiful bill."
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he would be against censuring Sen. Alex Padilla after the California Democrat tried to approach and question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference, which led to federal agents forcibly removing and handcuffing him. "No, no, no. I'm not for censuring him. I think that's crazy. I'm not for that at all," Paul...
Sen. Adam Schiff on Sunday called the handcuffing of fellow California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla "atrocious" after Padilla was forcibly removed for interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles. "To see him mistreated that way and tackled to the ground and shackled that way and in the midst of what we're seeing more broadly...
The intelligence chief for Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has reportedly been killed by Israel amid growing conflict between the two countries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday afternoon that Israel targeted IRGC intelligence chief Mohammad Kazemi in a strike. "Moments ago, we also got the chief intelligence officer and his deputy...
Nationwide protests against President Trump’s crackdown on immigration are putting Democrats in tricky political territory ahead of the high-stakes midterms. After demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids roiled Los Angeles and prompted Trump to call in the National Guard despite California’s objections, protests cropped up this week in cities big and small, thrusting...
Medicare Advantage has become a system dominated by a handful of massive insurers who are gaming the rules for profit and exploiting a program meant to better serve seniors, and it's time to reform the system to restore its true promise as a competitive marketplace.
President Trump said "it's possible" the United States becomes involved in the current conflict between Iran and Israel, ABC News reported Sunday. "We're not involved in it. It's possible we could get involved. But we are not at this moment involved," Trump told ABC News. ABC News also reported that Trump expressed interest in the...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday remembered former Minnesota state Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) as "the most incredible person," a day after Hortman and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot in what officials are calling a politically motivated shooting. "Melissa Hortman is the most incredible person, that I wish everyone in the nation knew her, went...
Congressional agriculture committees are pushing for a budget reconciliation plan that would cut SNAP benefits to support large-scale industrial agriculture operations, while also introducing the Food Security and Farm Protection Act to override state and local regulations protecting small farmers and animals.