The government will shut down next Saturday morning unless Congress can rally around a funding measure by the end of the week, setting up the first big legislative spending fight of President Trump’s second term.  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is set to move forward with a stopgap measure, also known as a continuing resolution (CR),...

President Trump is signaling a softer approach to the mass firings of federal government workers led by Elon Musk as cracks emerge between the tech billionaire and Cabinet secretaries running the agencies he’s gutting. Musk’s swift and wide-ranging cost-cutting efforts have been met with pushback from some in Washington, who have complained behind-the-scenes about the...

Rep. Henry Cuellar, facing charges of bribery and acting as a foreign agent, is on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “frontline list."

While the centralization of the federal government helps to ensure that Americans’ democratic will is implemented by their leaders, it can also be a major hindrance to that goal. Centralization breeds politicization. We are seeing this on a massive scale right now at the beginning of the second Trump administration, including at the FBI with […]

Over-the-top anti-Trump rhetoric wasn’t exactly effective during President Donald Trump’s first term. But many Democratic lawmakers haven’t learned their lesson and are perpetuating their hysteria and alarmism — this time, with a race-baiting twist.  Multiple Democratic members of Congress have in recent weeks suggested that Trump is going to bring back segregation or even slavery. […]

On this International Women’s Day, social media will be flooded with speeches, press releases, and hashtags about “empowerment” and “equity.” The United Nations will host panel discussions and promote another initiative in the name of “gender equality.” But these gestures, performative at best, do nothing to stop or call attention to the violence that defines […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signaled that he wants to repeal the state's red flag law, which was approved after the Feb. 2018 mass shooting in Parkland.

President Donald Trump has utilized his new powers to end a slew of lawsuits initiated under former President Joe Biden, including challenges to state abortion bans, complaints of racism at police and fire departments and more.

Trump launched the week telling Americans that his administration would work to take "America’s destiny into our own hands" and vowed that "this will be our greatest era."

The Department of Agriculture canceled a $600,000 grant for the study of menstrual cycles in transgender men, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Friday.