Troop paychecks and national security are under threat as Congress stands on the edge of a government shuts down, with no clear solution for getting a defense budget passed. After House Republicans three times tried to advance their fiscal 2024 Pentagon spending bill – efforts that tanked thanks to opposition from the GOP’s far-right members...
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and his wife are scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan on federal charges alleging they agreed to and accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes to enrich three New Jersey businessmen and benefit the Egyptian government. A three-count indictment unsealed Friday in the Southern District of New York alleges...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is going all-in on border issues as he takes a second shot this week at passing a GOP-only short-term funding bill that would pair an extension of government funding with a swath of border policy changes. McCarthy is racing against a competing continuing resolution (CR) unveiled in the Senate on Tuesday...
Senate leaders are grabbing the steering wheel from embattled Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in hopes of avoiding a wreck in the form of a government shutdown at the end of the week. Senators in both parties have lost confidence in McCarthy's ability to move a stopgap funding measure through the House and hope to avoid...
Republican presidential candidates are ripping members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and blaming President Biden for the escalating strike against major car companies. Biden has touted himself as a stalwart supporter of unions and joined UAW members Tuesday on the picket line in Michigan — the first instance of a sitting U.S. president...
President Biden and his closest allies are largely ignoring Cornel West, the third-party progressive challenger, even as some Democrats warn about his possible effect on the 2024 race. West is running against Biden as a Green Party candidate, criticizing him for failing to deliver on a sweeping leftist agenda. His candidacy comes amid signs in...
Elevated migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border aren't likely to come down for months, a new normal fueled by the ongoing internal collapse of Venezuela and the solidification of the migrant-smuggling trade. With tens of thousands of people on the move from Panama to Mexico, the Biden administration is bracing both for the political fallout...
Former President Trump’s violent rhetoric toward Gen. Mark Milley is raising fears he will use a second term in the Oval Office to seek retribution against his enemies. Trump suggested Friday that Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who is stepping down from his post at the end of the week, deserves...
The House GOP caucus this year passed a sweeping border security and asylum bill, and are now seeking to pass it as part of funding to avoid a government shutdown.