Top airline executives have been called to testify at a December Senate panel hearing after the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report on “junk fees.” According to the report, top airlines including American, Delta, United, Spirit, and Frontier took in $12.4 billion in seating fees between 2018 and 2023. This revenue comes from charging […]
Senate Republicans are not the only ones shaking up who will lead them when they retake the majority in January. Democrats are in for their own 2025 leadership reshuffle. Senate Democrats will huddle privately on Dec. 3 to select their new leadership lineup. While Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) are […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has repeatedly claimed that she won’t accept funds from lobbyists. Campaign finance records, however, show she has received nearly 100 separate donations from registered lobbyists since taking office. Ocasio-Cortez’s account description on X states that the congresswoman is “people-funded” and “takes no lobbyist [cash],” using a money bag emoji in place […]
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke harshly against the “insane” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for trying to “attack his own state” with his policies, including his recent announcement on electric vehicle rebates. Newsom announced Monday that the state of California would provide rebates for residents who purchased electric vehicles in the event that President-elect Donald […]
Police bodycam footage showed an Illinois Democrat acting belligerently during a DUI traffic stop and telling police she was “an elected official” when asked to step out of her car. The official, Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele, was arrested after allegedly drunk driving on Nov. 10, hitting several cars in the process. She […]
Frustrated voters in Oakland, California, chose to oust Mayor Sheng Thao earlier this month, making her the nation’s first mayor of major city in more than a decade to get the boot. In a desperate bid to keep her job, Thao argued that removing her would not only cost the cash-strapped Democratic city millions but […]
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) is pitching his commonwealth as the best place to live in the Washington, D.C., area. The Virginia governor touted the state as the place where officials working in President-elect Donald Trump‘s administration should live instead of Washington, D.C., or Maryland, in a video released Tuesday. To all the new members of […]
President Joe Biden is delivering remarks at 2:30 p.m. ET. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER In previously unplanned remarks, it is suspected he will address the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese-based terrorist organization Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the agreement Tuesday and said he will bring the ceasefire […]
President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, called for a total social media ban for all young children and teenagers during a TV appearance in July. The approach is growing increasingly popular worldwide. Nesheiwat is a family and emergency medicine physician and has been a Fox News medical contributor since 2020. Trump […]
A new cease and desist against President-elect Donald Trump’s guitar endorsement likely isn’t music to his ears. Last week, he touted Trump Guitars, which featured a website promoting how it is “the only guitar officially endorsed” by the president-elect. Now, however, Gibson Guitars has issued a cease and desist against 16 Creative, the owner of […]
