Vice President Harris on Monday shared a video message before she presides over a joint session of Congress to certify the 2024 presidential election, which she lost to president-elect Trump. In a pre-recorded video message, the vice president stressed the importance of a peaceful transition of power four years after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol...
President Biden has blocked new offshore drilling for oil and gas in several parts of the country about two weeks before President-elect Trump takes office. Biden has announced that he’ll block new drilling off the entire East Coast, as well as California, Oregon and Washington state. The president’s move also blocks some drilling off Alaska’s...
Congress is gearing up for a snowy certification of President-elect Trump’s election win on Monday, as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vows to plow ahead with the vote despite a snowstorm set to hit Washington, D.C. The House and Senate are scheduled to convene in a joint session at 1 p.m. on Monday to certify Trump’s...
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom the New York press previously called the 'father' of congestion pricing, still supports the plan but questions the timing and analysis done.
Kennedy, who wants to "Make America Healthy Again," has been a staunch advocate for reforms to the food industry, and President-elect Donald Trump has said he will have permission to "go wild on health" if he is confirmed.
As soon as President-elect Donald Trump takes office, he should reverse President Joe Biden’s wrongheaded and arguably illegal decision to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel of Japan. Biden made the long-anticipated decision on Jan. 3, citing spurious “national security” concerns. During the presidential campaign, Trump also said he opposed the sale to Nippon […]
If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller “The Tipping...
President Biden said in a Sunday opinion piece for The Washington Post that the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol reminds Americans that democracy “is never guaranteed.” “We should commit to remembering Jan. 6, 2021, every year. To remember it as a day when our democracy was put to the test and prevailed....
President-elect Trump on Sunday blasted the “corrupt” and “broken” legal system ahead of a Jan. 10 sentencing date in his New York hush money case. In a Truth Social post highlighted by Mediaite, the president-elect said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) “never wanted to bring this lawless case against me.” “He was furious at...
President-elect Trump on Sunday made public his support for Republican lawmakers to pass key components of his agenda into law with a single reconciliation bill, previewing what is expected to be a lengthy and complicated legislative task in the first few months of his second term. "Members of Congress are getting to work on one...