The federal government spent billions furnishing agency offices during the pandemic despite most buildings sitting nearly empty as employees worked from home, according to a report released Tuesday.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) knows how utterly unfit Donald Trump is for the presidency, yet he continuously genuflected to the man. Now McCarthy has been removed from the speakership by the Trump ally Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (together with the Democratic Party), and Trump took not the slightest action to save McCarthy from the motion to vacate the chair that passed on Tuesday afternoon.
The tide is continuing rapidly to turn against Democrats and President Joe Biden on immigration, and the shift is now being driven by Democratic governors and mayors.
With the exception of select weapons systems that must be prioritized for Taiwan, U.S. support for Ukraine should be generous and sustained. It is in the U.S. national interest that Ukraine succeeds in defeating Russia's invasion and forcing Moscow to the negotiating table on Kyiv-preferable terms. Still, we should be wary of the contention by some that the United States is letting Ukraine down amid questions over future aid.
Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot initiative, on which voters will decide on Nov. 7, is already contentious enough. The proposed constitutional amendment would enshrine a right to abortion in Ohio’s state constitution and remove virtually every safeguard, including required parental involvement in a minor’s abortion. But now, a television ad featuring a couple who traveled to another state for a late-second-trimester abortion after receiving an adverse prenatal diagnosis has further fanned the flames — and caused immense confusion.
A school board in suburban Philadelphia voted to protect students in school bathrooms and locker rooms. Perkiomen Valley’s school board approved Code 720 on Monday night, a policy that mandates the usage of locker rooms and bathrooms in buildings throughout the district based on their normal and natural sex. It marked a return to human normalcy for the school district and an outright rejection of the fictitious notions of so-called gender ideology.
Eight House Republicans joined House Democrats in removing Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, the first time a speaker has ever been removed by vote. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) led the motion. The Florida lawmaker has feuded with McCarthy for weeks over debates on passing...
The inability of Congress to renew the primary U.S. program for combating AIDS across the world sends a message that America is "backing down from our leadership in ending HIV/AIDS as a public health threat," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was not included in legislation...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) weighed in Tuesday on the speakership battle raging on Capitol Hill, noting he was against Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) "when it wasn't cool" during his time as a congressman. "I opposed McCarthy when it wasn't cool years ago," DeSantis told Scripps News. "He's really somebody that Donald Trump has backed...