The House Committee on Energy and Commerce marked up its contribution to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Tuesday, a significant accomplishment for Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). While the legislation does contain some welcome reforms to Medicaid and delivered on its $880 billion deficit reduction target, the reforms agreed […]
The German government banned the far-right “Kingdom of Germany” group on Tuesday and arrested four of its leaders in raids throughout the country. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt announced the ban, calling the group a threat to democratic order whose members refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the German government, follow its laws or pay...
Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday defended Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent swim in Washington, D.C.’s, Rock Creek, saying it “looks clean.” “That [creek] looks clean,” Watters said on Fox News’s “The Five.” “It doesn’t look like it’s filled with sewage.” Kennedy recently revealed that he took a...
Douglas County, Neb., Treasurer John Ewing Jr. (D) has ousted incumbent Republican Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert in the latest victory for Democrats during President Trump’s second term, Decision Desk HQ projects. Ewing, who is also a former deputy chief of police for Omaha, will become the city's first Black mayor. He denied Stothert a chance...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) said in a new interview that the House DOGE Caucus — originally intended to complement Elon Musk’s work at the White House — is now completely defunct. “The DOGE caucus is dead. It’s defunct,” Moskowitz said in a Politico interview, published in Q&A form on Tuesday. “We haven’t met in months,”...
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), who announced late last month that he had filed articles of impeachment against President Trump, moved on Tuesday to force an impeachment vote against the president. Thanedar’s move will result in a House vote on his resolution featuring seven articles of impeachment by Thursday by way of House rules. The Michigan...
Pete Buttigieg defends his record as transportation secretary after coming under attack from Trump, and says he's not running for anything right now, during a trip to Iowa
President Donald Trump accepted Qatar's $400 million Boeing 747 for U.S. use, sparking an emoluments clause ethics probe. The plane will serve as a temporary Air Force One.