House GOP leaders are using a procedural tactic to try to quash an effort from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to force a House rule change to allow new parents to vote by proxy while taking time away from Washington to care for infants in their first 12 weeks of life.
Elon Musk held a rally in Wisconsin on Sunday, during which he discussed the importance of the state’s Supreme Court race. “What’s happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the House of Representatives,” Musk said. Republican Brad Schimel is facing off against Democrat Susan Crawford in a race that will decide ideological […]
I was 17 years old when I came to the United States from Russia. When I arrived decades ago, I earnestly wanted to go home — it was difficult to assimilate and learn the language. But I quickly adjusted to all the beauty of living in America and even found myself worried that I’d have […]
National political correspondent and data guru Steve Kornacki is leaving MSNBC to join NBC News as an on-air analyst full time, according to multiple reports. Kornacki will pop up regularly on "NBC Nightly News," "The Today Show" and the network's other programs to break down polling, elections modeling and other data as part of the...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) introduced a Tuesday resolution condemning violent attacks on Tesla vehicles. “The definition of terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. That is exactly what has been going on across the country at Tesla dealerships, and it is what innocent Americans who chose Tesla...
A menu of tax cut proposals made by President Trump and Republicans could add north of $9 trillion to the nation’s deficits over the next decade without offsets, a recent analysis from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation has found. In the report updated this week, the nonpartisan budget watchdog said the batch of GOP-backed tax...
I know from years of firsthand experience that it will take both sides, political appointees and career civil servants, working collaboratively together to make this work.
A group of House Republicans rebelled against GOP leadership’s effort to block a vote on allowing proxy voting for new parents and delivering a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) The gambit drew the ire of House Democrats, who bashed the "outrageous" move as several Republicans bucked their party’s leadership. Nine Republicans — led by...
A group of House Republicans rebelled against GOP leaders on Tuesday over their effort to block a vote on allowing proxy voting for new parents — thwarting other party priorities in the process and dealing an embarrassing blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). The revolt escalates the battle over proxy voting into a full-blown legislative...