Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) announced over the weekend that he will force a vote on ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post this week, following through on threats Gaetz has levied in recent weeks and answering a dare McCarthy himself made recently. Gaetz announced his plans to bring a motion to vacate against McCarthy...
Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. To Washington’s surprise, Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown this weekend when the House and Senate cleared a “clean” stopgap spending bill with just hours to spare. A shutdown seemed inevitable until Saturday morning,...
The government did not shut down Sunday, surprising just about everyone. Instead, lawmakers rallied around a 47-day “clean” stopgap measure that did nothing to support Ukraine or deal with the border crisis. The result is that the House and Senate will have to figure out a way to keep the government open again in a...
Samantha Power, famous for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about how American administrations repeatedly fail in the face of genocide, has betrayed her moral brand once in government, as I have written several times before. Many government employees spend their entire careers without much, if any, authority to make policy or even significant decisions. Power has been an exception.
The civil trial stemming from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against former President Trump and the Trump Organization is set to begin Monday in New York City.
The Biden administration issued internal guidance for senior officials, prohibiting them from attending global conferences that promote fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.