It has been a busy Thursday on Capitol Hill, with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy meeting with House and Senate Republicans about their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as the saga of the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) reaches its final act. This morning, the House task force investigating the...
Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) suggested that Democrats will need to start listening to voices "outside of Washington, D.C.," as the party reels from its losses in the 2024 election. "It’s going to have to start with a whole lot of authentic listening outside of Washington, D.C.," Butler, who took over the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.)...
The Senate is set to spend more time in Washington next year as Republicans look to expeditiously usher President-elect Trump's agenda through Congress. According to the 2025 Senate calendar, the chamber is slated to be in session for 10 straight weeks to open the 119th Congress and not have its first recess until March. The...
Speaker Mike Johnson is holding a press conference ahead of GOP lawmakers' high-stakes meeting with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who were tapped by President-elect Trump to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE is tasked with working outside government to "dismantle" bureaucracy, slash "excess" regulations, cut wasteful spending...
While Democrats tend to promote broad-based economic policies that “lift all boats,” the Black community needs targeted programs to make up for lost ground.
Republicans grilled Ur Jaddou, head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, slamming her leadership and the Biden administration for running a humanitarian parole program “rife with fraud."
Rep.-elect Ryan Mackenzie, R-Penn., says Republicans are poised to hit the ground running in the next Congress, unlike President-elect Trump's first term.