The Republican Study Committee is demanding answers from President Biden on whether his administration plans to submit a presidential budget to Congress before its anticipated deadline, as the national debt hits the current debt limit of $31.3 trillion.
Rep. Thomas Massie is taking charge of the House's influential panel for antitrust policy, putting the Kentucky Republican known as a fierce free-market defender in a key position to determine how the GOP pursues a crackdown against Big Tech companies.
A top House Republican is warning the risk of conflict with China is "very high," blaming in part a President Biden-led withdrawal from Afghanistan that projected weakness and fearing the U.S. would run out of advanced weaponry in a war with the Asian superpower.
A coalition of "Freedom Caucus" lawmakers say there is a swamp in each of the 50 states that they will try to drain, pointing to the concessions that archconservatives won in the recent fight over the House speaker on Capitol Hill.
The U.S. can't legally default on its debt, but a failure by Congress to raise the cap on how much the federal government can borrow could spark a funding crisis for major programs.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was honored last week at the historic Union League of Philadelphia, receiving the organization's gold medal of honor, an award first given to President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The distinction is "conferred on men who were regarded as deserving well of their country." Other previous recipients include former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), and Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) appears to see the writing on the wall in a potential GOP presidential primary. So why can’t he and other lower-tier candidates just get out of the way now?
The World Health Organization’s inconsistent messaging about the COVID pandemic continued on Monday as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the virus is still considered a global health emergency as the pandemic enters its fourth year. However, Tedros also expressed optimism that this will be the year in which the world finally transitions out of the “emergency phase.” This comes after Friday’s statement in which Tedros warned that COVID misinformation was still a problem causing people to die.
Democrats have predictably turned the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, into a referendum on Republicans and on the country in the form of systemic racism. After all, better to talk about that than about the fact that this is yet another failure of local and national Democratic politicians.