Congressional Republicans are halfway through a critical four-week stretch for passing President Trump’s legislative priorities — and they are behind the eight-ball. On the House side, leaders are struggling to find consensus on a host of hot-button issues, headlined by Medicaid cuts and the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap. Top lawmakers are looking...
Commentators were quick to assess the political fallout of Robert Francis Prevost’s election to become the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Does Pope Leo XIV’s public criticism of Vice President JD Vance’s views on immigration indicate a hostile stance toward MAGA? Were his ornate vestments a nod to traditional American Catholics alienated by […]
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), alongside Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), welcomed Tufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk back to Boston after she was detained for nearly two months over a campus op-ed that condemned the war in Gaza. The lawmakers spoke about Öztürk's return at the city’s Logan Airport on Saturday, after a federal judge ordered...
A recent survey found transgender issues to be a relatively strong point for President Trump, who has issued several executive orders on the controversial topics since retaking the Oval Office. Respondents to a recent AP-NORC poll expressed higher support for Trump's transgender policies than for his presidency generally, with 52 percent of all Americans expressing support...
Journalist Maggie Haberman said the Trump administration’s proposal to nix habeas corpus is an attempt to sway the courts and strike fear into undocumented immigrants. “Some of this might just be fear. A, it’s a way to intimidate the courts, which we have seen Trump and Stephen Miller do, a lot of, they’ve been criticizing...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said House Democrats could be arrested after a Friday visit to Delaney Hall, a New Jersey detention center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Three Democratic New Jersey members of Congress- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D), Rob Menendez (D) and LaMonica McIver (D) — tried to get access to the Delaney Hall...
Dan Bongino, the FBI's deputy director, said operations targeting illegal alien criminals and child predators will expand as the bureau prioritizes safety and transparency.