Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that after months of negotiations with Democrats on beefing up border security, the time has come to show the bill text and take action.
Conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist lauded the tax relief legislation that House lawmakers will vote on later Wednesday, calling it a bill that blends the Reagan agenda with an extension of parts of the Trump tax cuts.
The first Federal Reserve meeting of the year left investors stunned. Upon Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference clarifying yet again that the central bank is not yet ready to pivot to cutting the federal funds rate, the S&P 500 slid 1.61% and the Nasdaq another 2.23%. Odds of a March cut plummeted from nearly 50% […]
It’s exceedingly rare to see a university or college act with such swiftness in the face of unabashed left-wing politics as the Catholic University of America did this week. Last week, the Daily Signal reported that Melissa Goldberg, a psychology professor at the Washington, D.C., university, had invited Rachel Carbonneau, a self-described “abortion doula,” to […]
The House passed a $78 billion tax bill on Wednesday that boosts the child tax credit and reinstates business deductions that were rescinded during the Trump administration, sending the bipartisan, bicameral legislation to the Senate for consideration. The chamber cleared the measure, dubbed the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan...
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed two free speech lawsuits brought by pro-Palestine university student groups in Florida against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his administration, which sent a memo ordering universities to deactivate the student groups in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker denied the students’...
Senate Republicans are wrestling over the question of whether to move forward with a Ukraine funding and border security package that divides their conference when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is warning it probably won’t even get a vote in the House. Former President Trump, the likely Republican nominee for president, has come out strongly against...
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) defended pressing TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party at a Senate hearing Wednesday. “Singapore, unfortunately, is one of the places in the world that has the highest degree of infiltration and influence by the Chinese Communist Party,” Cotton said on Fox News’s “The Story...