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 Senate on spending cuts. A growing number of House Republicans are refusing to vote for a sweeping blueprint that unlocks Trump’s tax, border, and […]
House Democrats‘ campaign arm announced the 35 Republican-held “Districts in Play” for the 2026 election cycle as the party looks to flip the House in the midterms. The Democratic National Campaign Committee announced Tuesday that the party will be targeting districts across 18 states in the next election cycle, hoping to flip enough districts to […]
South Korea will have a new president of its country in June. The government leaders of the Republic of Korea announced that the country would hold a presidential election on June 3, 2025, to replace former president Yoon Suk Yeol. The news comes after a tumultuous political period in the country, which began when Yoon […]
Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, asked the judge to suppress eyewitnesses in the case. A key witness, referred to as T.C.M., identified Routh coming out of the golf course bushes, entering his vehicle, and fleeing. Routh’s attorneys filed a 13-page court filing in the United States District […]
President Donald Trump and his Cabinet celebrated their victory in a Supreme Court decision allowing the administration to deport under the Alien Enemies Act. The court ruled in Trump’s favor 5-4 on Monday, clearing Trump to use the 1798 statute typically reserved for wartime threats. He had used the act to fast-track the deportation of […]
North Carolina’s highest court stopped a voter eligibility inquiry in the last uncertified 2024 statewide election. The ruling concerns November’s Supreme Court race between Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs and GOP Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin. While Allison was declared the victor by 734 votes, Griffin challenged the result. He argued roughly 65,000 people were ineligible […]
Republican Senate leaders on Monday downplayed the notion that a bipartisan bill to claw back Congress’s authority over tariffs from President Donald Trump would receive serious consideration. GOP leaders’ dismissal of a proposal from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to require congressional tariff approval came after a third straight day of plunging […]
The Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a significant legal victory, allowing President Donald Trump to resume deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime law invoked for the first time in peacetime. In a 5-4 decision, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that had blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, […]
Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ) was hospitalized over the weekend, jeopardizing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) attempts to rally his troops in the House. Republicans currently hold a 220-213 advantage in the House. The ratio was previously 220-215, but Democratic Reps. Sylvester Turner and Raul Grijalva died in March. Norcross’s hospitalization could place Democrats in […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) raised the alarm against right-wing activist Laura Loomer’s apparent influence in the White House while making a joke at her expense. President Donald Trump fired three National Security Council senior officials last week just a day after he met with Loomer. National security adviser Mike Waltz was also at the meeting […]
