Senate Republicans on Tuesday largely defended President Trump's authority to temporarily freeze disbursements of federal funding for a variety of grants and other assistance programs, but said they still had some questions.

The Trump administration's order freezing certain federal grants follows President Biden's massive expansion of spending at home and abroad to implement "woke" ideology and far-left "Green New Deal," policies, according to budget analysts.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York called an emergency meeting among House Democrats to iron out a strategy to fight back against President Trump's temporary freeze of federal grants and assistance.

The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing next week to address concerns that some financial institutions cut off customers because of their political views, a practice known as "debanking."

President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender children and teenagers younger than 19, inching closer to fulfilling a key campaign promise to ban treatments that he and his administration have cast as experimental and dangerous, in conflict with major medical associations and transgender...

Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer, won the Republican primary in the state’s 1st Congressional District, making him a favorite to win the general election for the district's U.S. House seat in April, according to Decision Desk HQ. Patronis is running to replace former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who resigned from Congress. The congressional district...

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is launching a public affairs firm with several of his political allies following his departure from Congress. Watchtower Strategy will be a “full-service public affairs firm” that specializes in strategy, advocacy and strategic communications, the group said in a release Tuesday. McCarthy will be joined at the firm by former...

Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) won the Republican primary in the state’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, making him a favorite to win the general election for the district's U.S. House seat in April, according to Decision Desk HQ. Fine is running to replace former Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), who vacated the seat to...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on Tuesday decried immigration raids in schools and hospitals. “We don't want people targeting schools or churches or hospitals,” Johnston told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “We think it fundamentally infringes on the public safety of a city if you can't go to the hospital and feel secure there or...

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