In an unexpected twist, the House on Saturday passed a stopgap spending bill with just hours until a government shutdown with Democrats providing the necessary votes to pass Speaker Kevin McCarthy's "clean" bill.
Rep. Matt Gaetz told reporters Saturday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's speakership is on shaky ground over a failure to bring his conference to pass twelve spending measures.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a member of Congress' far-left Squad, on Saturday allegedly pulled a fire alarm in a House office building to buy fellow Democrats more time to review the GOP's new stopgap spending bill.
House Democrats are scrambling to buy time to figure out their position on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's stopgap bill, using arcane rules to buy as many minutes as they can.
Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that members of his conference don't trust the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and need more time to review the speaker's last-minute stopgap bill.
In today’s political climate, there are a lot of conspiracy theorists on both sides dominating the news. It seems nearly every day, some Democrat or Republican says some bonkers and outlandish thing that throngs of supporters believe to be true. On the Left, this typically includes most statements involving racism, white supremacy, climate change, or gender ideology. On the Right, this includes such things as “rigged elections.”
Federal regulators confirmed that they are reviewing a semitruck crash that left several people dead and caused a toxic substance spill, prompting residents in the area to evacuate. Firefighters, police and other emergency responders responded to the Teutopolis, Ill. crash on Friday that left an overturned tanker emanating a cloud of anhydrous ammonia, the Associated...
A Texas man pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6 riots on Friday, the Department of Justice announced. Adam Jackson participated in the riots and threw what appeared to be a large cone at law enforcement battling rioters in the tunnels outside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, prosecutors claim. Prosecutors...