Chris Sununu, the popular former Republican governor of New Hampshire, will not run for Senate next year to replace retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). A possible contender national Republicans have perennially tried to recruit, Sununu revealed his decision Tuesday after speaking with the White House and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the chairman of Senate Republicans’ […]
EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Homeland Security gave U.S. Customs and Border Protection permission to ignore environmental and land regulations and immediately begin constructing a border wall between the United States and Mexico in Southern California, the Washington Examiner confirmed. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issued the department’s first waiver since taking office in January. The […]
LUNA AND JOHNSON STRIKE DEAL TO END PROXY VOTING FEUD Republican House leadership will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. from Capitol Hill. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will spend the next two days trying to tamp down a rebellion over President Donald Trump’s agenda as fiscal hawks demand a stronger commitment from the […]
As the fallout from President Donald Trump‘s tariff policy continues, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is testifying before the Senate Finance Committee. The hearing, titled “The President’s 2025 Trade Policy Agenda,” is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on Capitol Hill. TRUMP TASKS BESSENT WITH NEGOTIATING ‘GOLDEN AGE’ OF TRADE WITH JAPAN The president’s blanket […]
Public battling between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) over proxy voting in Congress has come to an end, but its implications are only beginning to emerge. The question that animates them: What does it mean to “represent” another? For Luna and others, especially bill co-sponsors Reps. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), […]
Harvard University is offering $750 million in taxable bonds this year to fill the gap in case the Trump administration pulls its federal funding. This is the second time this year that the Ivy League school has issued bonds, bringing its total offering to $1.2 billion. Harvard stands to lose $9 billion in federal funding. […]
The White House says President Donald Trump’s tariffs have sparked trade talks with between 50 and 70 countries, but the success of his program may be determined closer to home. Congressional Republicans, the business community, investors, and retirees watching their 401(k)s take a pounding through drops in the stock market are all nervous about the […]
A fiery fight between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) over remote voting for new parents fizzled out over the weekend with a compromise to bring back vote pairing, a system dating back to the 1800s that would essentially require a Democrat to willingly cast off their vote to offset a […]
After weeks of increases, and in the middle of the economic certainty due to market volatility, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas fell to $3.246 on Tuesday, according to AAA. This was a greater than two-cent drop from Friday when the cost of regular gas was $3.268 per gallon. It marked […]
Companion legislation will be introduced Tuesday to build on a bill aimed at stopping ticket scalpers from using software to purchase a high volume of tickets while codifying an executive order made by President Donald Trump. The bipartisan bill, titled the Mitigating Automated Internet Networks Event Ticketing Act, is co-sponsored by Reps. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) […]
