President Donald Trump is set to hold a Cabinet meeting around 11 a.m. on Thursday. REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING THESE FIVE DEMOCRATS TO FLIP ON FUNDING BILL Trump recently announced a Gaza peace deal that will allow for the release of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners. The president wrote on Wednesday night that all prisoners would be […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton revealed on Wednesday that eight people were indicted in connection with the state’s investigation into a midwife charged earlier this year for illegally performing abortions and practicing medicine without a license. His announcement comes after authorities arrested Maria Margarita Rojas in March on charges of illegally operating a network of […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will hold a press conference Thursday morning, as the government shutdown persists with no funding resolution in sight. The House is currently in a district work period after the shutdown took effect last week, meaning most lawmakers are absent. Johnson and other House leaders continue to provide updates about the situation […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is eying a proposal to end the government shutdown as the gridlock in Washington, D.C., enters its ninth day. Thune is “ready” to use Congress’s appropriations process to open the government. It’s an arduous process lawmakers seek to use every year to pass 12 sweeping appropriations bills that provide […]
President Donald Trump basked in the glory of what has the potential to be his greatest foreign policy accomplishment yet, arguing that it represented more than just a peace deal to end the war in Gaza. Giving his first interview since the historic peace deal was announced, Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that it […]
Political strategists are raising questions about California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter’s campaign to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) after an unflattering interview resurfaced this week. In the CBS appearance, a palpably irritated Porter, viewed as the front-runner among six Democrats vying for the primary win, was scrutinized for threatening to end what she called an […]
President Donald Trump, who has long declared himself more than deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize, isn’t getting his hopes up that he’ll be announced as the 2025 laureate on Friday. Multiple senior White House officials and out-of-government advisers maintained to the Washington Examiner that the president is deserving of the award but privately doubted […]
He’s the country’s most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for reelection. Even so, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is showing no signs of shifting to the center in a fight over government funding. Ossoff’s “toss-up” race for a second term in Georgia would typically put him into a camp of potential wildcards, as Republicans paint his opposition […]
If Congress does not come to a deal to fund the government in the coming days, several paydays for military members, congressional staffers, and federal employees could pass. By Wednesday, Oct. 15, more than 2 million active-duty military members will miss their first paychecks due to Congress failing to pass a 2026 defense appropriations bill […]
Democratic leadership in the Senate is avoiding the backlash facing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) over his decision to rule out a one-year extension to expiring Obamacare subsidies. On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) refused to stake out any red lines as both parties continue to spar over a government shutdown centered […]
