The House passed a spending bill that will avert the government from shutting down till March. The bill passed the Republican-controlled chamber 366-34 (with one present) with 196 Democratic members voting in favor of the bill. This means that the 34 No Votes were all Republicans, with three notable defectors being Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NC), […]
MAGDEBURG, Germany — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities called a deliberate attack. The driver was arrested at the scene shortly after the car barreled into the market at […]
President Joe Biden surpassed President-elect Donald Trump‘s first-term judicial record as Senate Democrats confirmed two final district judges on Friday, bringing his total number to 235 during the outgoing president’s term. The confirmations of Benjamin Cheeks to be district judge for the Southern District of California and Serena Murillo to be district judge for the […]
The House passed a stopgap spending bill to extend government funding into early next year, completing the first step to avoid a shutdown just hours before the deadline. Lawmakers voted 366-34 to advance the package, overcoming the two-thirds majority needed to clear the lower chamber. The legislation, which did not include President-elect Donald Trump’s demand […]
PETA isn’t waiting around for President-elect Donald Trump and his government waste czars to take their posts in Washington next month. Jumping the gun, the animal rights group drove its advocacy van to the Trump winter White House at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, to urge the incoming president and his Department of Government Efficiency […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) bid farewell Friday to his tenure as the longest-serving party leader of the chamber, a post he’s held for nearly the past 18 years. McConnell’s current term, his seventh consecutive, doesn’t expire until early 2027. However, when he returns in January for the new Congress, it will mark the […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, as his pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Vatican City. CatholicVote, a conservative activist group founded by Burch, endorsed Trump in both 2020 and 2024. “Brian is a devout Catholic, a father of nine, and President of CatholicVote. He has received numerous awards and demonstrated […]
The U.S. government is on the verge of a shutdown, with Republican leadership racing against the clock to put together a continuing resolution that would satisfy House Republicans. Plans for a calm holiday season were interrupted Wednesday when House Republicans revolted against a continuing resolution that expanded current levels of government funding until March 14 […]
House Republicans are planning to move forward with a last-ditch effort to avoid a government shutdown by voting on Friday afternoon to extend current government funding levels until mid-March, dropping a demand from President-elect Donald Trump to attach a debt limit increase to the spending package. The House will vote on a clean continuing resolution […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is responsible for the prospect of a partial government shutdown after President-elect Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk opposed Johnson‘s original bipartisan funding deal and called for a debt ceiling debate, according to the White House. “This is a mess that Speaker Johnson created,” White House press […]
