The Senate on Friday broke a multiday impasse by passing the first three fiscal 2026 spending bills, the first time the upper chamber has passed appropriations bills before the August recess since 2018. The vote on the package of bills combining the Military Construction-VA and Agriculture-FDA bills passed 87-9. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) […]
Authorities launched a manhunt on Friday after a shooter killed at least four people at a Montana bar hours earlier. The suspect was identified as 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, who remains at large. Police described him as “armed and dangerous,” urging the public to stay out of the surrounding area and not approach him. The […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) began circulating a draft letter among House Democrats asking the Trump administration to make the United States join other nations in recognizing a Palestinian state. The Democratic-led effort comes after France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Malta have all recently announced their intentions to recognize Palestinian statehood amid the Israel-Hamas war. […]
Democrats are targeting Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) over his stock trading after the freshman Republican dismissed the idea of telling his financial advisors to hold off on trades this week. The issue of congressional stock trading has gained new momentum this Congress, with a bipartisan group of House members banding together to ban lawmakers from […]
President Donald Trump has amassed a nearly $200 million war chest through the first six months of 2025, a gargantuan sum for a term-limited politician. According to a Federal Election Commission filing submitted Thursday by MAGA Inc., Trump’s super PAC, the president raised roughly $177 million in the first six months of his second term […]
The House Oversight Committee indefinitely postponed the congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, citing a pending Supreme Court petition in her criminal case. In a letter sent Friday, Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) agreed to delay Maxwell’s previously planned Aug. 11 deposition following a request from her attorneys, who argued that testimony […]
On Friday, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) asked House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) to invite George Soros and one of his employees to testify before Congress on the newly declassified Russiagate findings. Last month, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified evidence regarding the Obama administration’s efforts to undermine President Donald Trump in 2016 […]
Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears interrupted and confronted journalist Manu Raju during an interview on CNN as he asked about her past criticism of President Donald Trump. Earle-Sears, one of two Republican nominees in this year’s gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, has not been endorsed by the president, though she says she’s […]
Allies of President Donald Trump are rallying behind Jeff Clark, a former senior Justice Department official now working in the White House, after the D.C. Bar recommended he be permanently stripped of his law license for his role in efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. In a Thursday decision, a majority of the nine-member D.C. Bar’s […]
Several of President Donald Trump‘s executive branch and judicial nominees have been stalled in the Senate as Democrats have mounted efforts to slow the confirmation process. As a result, Senate Republicans are weighing whether to change the rules on confirming nominations to expedite the process, but doing so will likely require buy-in from Democrats, who […]
