Former President Trump on Wednesday called on Republicans in Congress to use the looming government-funding deadline as an opportunity to withhold funds from the Justice Department (DOJ), which has indicted Trump in two separate cases. Trump said the deadline marks “the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots.” “A very...
The Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group of 64 House lawmakers, endorsed a framework to avert a government shutdown that provides an alternative to the internally divisive short-tem stopgap being formulated by House Republicans. It also comes as Republicans reported major progress in reworking their continuing resolution framework on Wednesday evening, with some conservative lawmakers moving to...
Story at a glance There were 3,362 book ban attempts in K-12 schools across the country last school year — 33 percent more than the year before, according to a new report from free expression group PEN America. And those book ban attempts resulted in the removal of 1,557 individual titles. Since 2020,...
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday it would deploy an additional 800 troops to assist in stemming the migration influx at the southern border. The 800 active-duty personnel will focus on “logistics and other functions at the border to allow more Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents and officers to return to their core mission...
Congress is barreling toward a government shutdown, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has neither the clock nor math on his side. House Republicans reported progress charting a path forward on a partisan spending bill and a Department of Defense funding bill — two measures that suffered public setbacks just a day before — after McCarthy...
The launch of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccines, the first campaign since the federal pandemic emergency ended, is off to a bumpy start. Reports are piling up of insured Americans being stuck with the nearly $200 bill for shots, which were approved last week. The new vaccines are designed to protect against new strains of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Biden Wednesday and got an invitation to visit the White House before the end of the year.
The Heritage Foundation has published the first comprehensive report of the historic amount of recent government spending and concluding that much of it was 'unnecessary.'