Americans' confidence in the U.S. military dipped last year, losing its top spot among the other Group of Seven (G7) countries, according to a new Gallup poll. American's confidence in the U.S. military dipped to 81 percent in 2023, down 5 points from 2022, when confidence stood at 86 percent. That's according to a new...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined a resolution from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) that aims to overturn a new rule on climate disclosures approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month. Manchin, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined with 32 Republican senators to co-sponsor the resolution. The SEC finalized...
President Biden on Wednesday came out in support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal for three separate bills providing U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, urging passage of the bills this week. “The House must pass the package this week and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act that established a budget process unique to the legislative branch. The act created the House and Senate Budget committees and the Congressional Budget Office, along with procedures the president must follow when implementing congressional appropriations. Fifty years later, the Bipartisan Policy...
The Biden campaign on Wednesday jabbed at former President Trump's ability to attract donors after an analysis of federal data showed the Trump campaign is lagging behind its 2020 pace in terms of money and individual donors. "Donald Trump simply cannot keep up with Joe Biden: He’s too lazy to campaign, too toxic to generate...
The conservative effort to put an abortion ban on the ballot in Nebraska has been bankrolled entirely to date by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.). Ricketts donated $500,000 in cash on March 26 to the group Protect Women and Children, according to its campaign finance report filed with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. The group...
President Biden and former President Trump are now neck and neck, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ's (DDHQ) latest average of polls, released Wednesday. The two rivals are tied at 45.1 percent, based on DDHQ's average of 658 polls pitting the two against each other in a likely 2024 match-up. Prior to Wednesday, Trump’s lead...
A trade group representing the adult film industry is asking the Supreme Court to pause a Texas law that requires adult sites to verify the ages of their users, claiming that it violates the sites’ First Amendment rights. Friday’s filing requests the Supreme Court halt the law’s enforcement while justices consider whether to take on...