CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania — “We got too progressive, I believe,” said JoJo Burgess, the black Democratic mayor of Washington, Pennsylvania, a small city in steel country. He’s also a steelworker trying to claw back some of the steel country for Democrats. Burgess argued that the Democrats’ problems are Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and identity politics, including […]
Congressional Republicans have urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate nonprofit organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party. After months of inaction, they have resorted to taking them up on their own. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) “is demanding records from The People’s Forum, a New York-based 501(c)(3) organization following mounting […]
Conservative Republican Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood by an assassin’s bullet on Sep. 10 while answering at an event on the campus of Utah Valley University. Like he did so many times before, Kirk sat in a tent on a college campus, ready and raring to answer questions, listen to insults, and engage […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Tuesday that Republican leaders are open to addressing the expiration of health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, but that those talks will happen later this year. He argued that the Sept. 30 short-term government funding measure needs to be kept “clean” of controversial policy...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is blasting California's redistricting effort, saying Democratic leaders shouldn't "become Trump" in order to push back against the president. "Today they want to dismantle this independent commission. They want to get rid of it under the auspices of 'we have to fight Trump,'" Schwarzenegger, California's former Republican governor, said Monday during a wide-ranging discussion at...
President Trump’s top White House economist officially joined the Federal Reserve board of governors Tuesday as the central bank kicked off a critical meeting on interest rates. Stephen Miran was sworn in as a member of the Fed board, the central bank announced Tuesday, barely 12 hours after the Senate voted to approve his nomination...
Senate Democratic leaders on Tuesday morning will hold a news conference as the clock ticks for lawmakers to extend premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Democrats in both chambers of Congress have pushed their Republican counterparts to extend the enhanced tax credits before they get on board with any bill to avert a government...
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the nation is in a hazardous political environment after the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. “I think it is a sign of a culture that has — where political discourse has soured beyond control and something that we need to really pull back,” Barrett,...
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a wave of political violence, Republicans and Democrats failed to come together to denounce the cycle of violence and instead, many high-profile conservative voices seized on his assassination as an excuse to spill more political poison.