Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday continued to rail against Republican leadership’s approach to the government shutdown. Over the 28 days the government has been closed, Greene has accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of not having a healthcare plan ready to end the shutdown and urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to […]
Talk show host Tucker Carlson prompted backlash from several figures he called “neocons,” including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. Carlson hosted right-wing commentator Nick Fuentes on the latest episode of The Tucker Carlson Show. The pair discussed the origins of neoconservatism. Fuentes […]
(The Center Square) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System for state employees lost 71% of its $468 million investment in a clean energy and technology private equity fund, state records show, but CalPERS won’t explain how. These losses are a major problem for California taxpayers, who at least for now are the backstop for […]
(The Center Square) – An Illinois state lawmaker blames “reckless immigration policies” after a crash killed Coles County Board Member Mike Clayton and his wife, Gail. The driver is reportedly in the U.S. illegally. Edwin Pacheco-Meza is being charged with driving under the influence and reckless homicide. State Rep. Adam Niemerg, whose district includes Coles […]
A group of Democratic states is suing the Department of Agriculture and its secretary, Brooke Rollins, for failing to use emergency funds to help alleviate the lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits caused by the government shutdown. Filed in a Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday, the lawsuit alleges the Trump administration illegally suspended SNAP […]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin is joining the lawsuit to stop the end of SNAP benefits this weekend. Gov. Tony Evers said President Trump, however, doesn’t have to wait on the case, that the president could simply give Wisconsin the $115 million needed to cover the state’s food stamp tab in November. “They can do it. […]
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) railed against the Trump administration in a press briefing on Tuesday for not allowing emergency funds to be used for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during the government shutdown. SNAP funding is expected to lapse on Nov. 1, and the Department of Agriculture has announced that contingency funds will not be […]
House Democrats intensified their pushback against a new House Oversight Committee report scrutinizing former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen, framing the investigation as a political diversion while the federal government remains shut down, despite the fact that the committee’s investigation began months earlier. “While House Republicans obsess about President Biden’s health, they are […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee for Kuwait ambassador lacks the support to be confirmed over what Republicans say is a history of antisemitism and sympathy toward U.S.-designated terrorist groups. Amer Ghalib, the former first Muslim-American mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, faced bipartisan backlash last week during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Enough GOP senators oppose his […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he “doesn’t see a path” for President Donald Trump to serve a third term, despite Trump suggesting otherwise. “Well, there is the 22nd Amendment,” Johnson said at a press conference Tuesday, adding that he spoke with Trump that morning as the president continues on his tour of Asia. “I […]
