More than two-thirds of voters see President Biden and former President Trump as “embarrassing,” according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. Among those surveyed, 63 percent described both presidential candidates as embarrassing; a substantial share of respondents — 37 percent of Biden supporters and 33 percent of Trump supporters — also said...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced a bill Thursday that would bar U.S. companies “appreciably” owned by foreign entities from donating or spending money in American elections. While foreign nationals are not legally allowed to spend in federal, state or local elections, companies registered in the U.S. that are partially owned...
The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday the GOP-controlled state Legislature was wrong to essentially bypass an independent redistricting commission created through a voter-approved ballot initiative and establish its own House maps instead. Utahns passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that established an independent redistricting commission, which would offer a set of maps to the state...
Two more House Democrats on Thursday joined the growing chorus of congressional lawmakers publicly calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, increasing pressure on the president hours ahead of his highly anticipated press conference. Reps. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii), in two separate statements Thursday, noted their public calls to...
President Biden will hold a highly-anticipated press conference in Washington on Thursday in which he is poised to face a barrage of questions from reporters about the calamity now surrounding his 2024 reelection campaign. The event is slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. ET and will close out this week’s NATO summit, in which the...
A House California Democrat is proposing a bill to fund legal defense services for people in immigration court, where only about a third of processed immigrants have legal representation. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) is introducing the Shield Act to provide $100 million in grants aimed at expanding the legal workforce defending immigration cases. Garcia said...
More than a dozen Democratic senators called on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to relax guidelines around federal tax subsidies for the hydrogen industry in a letter this week. The current guidance, backed by green and progressive advocates, requires eligible companies use new energy rather than preexisting energy from the grid, while also ensuring that new...
President Biden is facing growing calls to withdraw from the top of his party’s ticket ahead of a press conference on Thursday the White House hopes might reassure Democrats that he is ready to campaign and win in November. At times on Thursday it appeared the walls were closing in on Biden and his campaign,...
President Biden on Thursday announced a new $225 million aid package for Ukraine that includes a Patriot air defense system to defend its skies further against continued Russian airstrikes, a decision revealed as he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky, who met with Biden at the NATO Summit in Washington, D.C., praised the announcement...