The House Freedom Caucus adopted an official position in favor of adopting a continuing resolution to extend government funding past the end-of-year Sept. 30 deadline and until early 2025 with the intention of avoiding an end-of-year omnibus that could be favorable to Democrats. The move from the hardline conservative group amounts to a shot over...
Two-thirds of U.S. adults say they’re pessimistic about the state of politics in America, according to a new AP-NORC poll. The survey shows 66 percent of U.S. adults say they’re either very (32 percent) or somewhat (34 percent) pessimistic about the state of politics in the country. Meanwhile, only 16 percent say they’re either very...
Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Vice President Harris’s running mate, will launch his first solo fundraising swing this week, a Harris-Walz campaign official first confirmed to The Hill. Walz will start the swing through five states on Tuesday with a trip to Newport Beach, Calif. He will then travel to Denver and Boston on Wednesday before...
Braver Angels, a cross-partisan volunteer-led movement, is working to bridge the partisan divide and address destructive political polarization, which has led to violence, in order to fix America.
If Vice President Harris is campaigning as an underdog, former President Trump is exasperated that his once top-dog perch destabilized after President Biden bowed out. Republicans are telling Trump to take their advice and stick to a script that exploits Harris’s vulnerabilities on policy, not her race or personal attributes. He has not. “We can take nothing for granted in this moment,” Harris told...
The decades-long battle over nearly 9,500 acres in Oklahoma is coming to a head in Washington, D.C. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) secured a farm bill provision that would block transfer of the land, which currently hosts a USDA research facility and sits atop sizable oil and gas reserves, “except as otherwise specifically authorized by law.” ...
In tapping Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate, Vice President Harris chose an affable figure with dad-joke zeal and "Minnesota nice" energy. But Walz's time in the House reveals another dimension — one of a shrewd tactician able to survive rough political waters when other Democrats were sinking, and play hardball to...
The Education Department's new deadline for the launch of the 2025-2026 Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms is leaving advocacy groups in a tough spot as they say the move is the best of bad options but brings up feelings of dread after the FAFSA situation last year. Experts said a decision had to...