The Senate early Friday morning adopted a budget resolution that outlines parameters for subsequent legislation to fund border security, immigration enforcement and defense needs.

One word has dominated congressional politics as of late: reconciliation. Last week, the House and Senate budget committees passed their competing budget resolution frameworks. These frameworks serve one crucial purpose: to unlock the reconciliation process, which is perhaps the only chance to sign President Donald Trump’s full legislative agenda into law.  For one of these […]

President Donald Trump’s exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One for using “Gulf of Mexico” rather than switching to “Gulf of America” is petty, dictatorial, and wrong. In other regards, however, the absurd spat over the gulf supports Oscar Wilde’s observation that the truth is never pure and rarely […]

The Philadelphia Eagles are the NFL champions. They defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in the Super Bowl on Feb. 9 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In doing so, they cemented themselves as the new America’s Team. It’s a moniker that has belonged to the Dallas Cowboys since 1978 after an NFL Films producer first referred […]