House Republican leadership is weighing changes to bipartisan housing legislation that has already passed the Senate, despite President Donald Trump reiterating on Monday that the House should pass the legislation as is. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday that Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill (R-AR) and Rep Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking member, […]
Republicans are hedging throwing support behind suspending federal gas taxes, despite President Donald Trump backing the idea. Trump said on Monday he supported suspending the tax “until it’s appropriate,” in an effort to provide voters with relief from spiking gas prices due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war. However, […]
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is awarding its $300,000 Bradley Prize to three conservative leaders, chosen from 60 nominees. Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, University of Florida professor James Hankins, and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik were named the three 2026 winners of the prestigious prize. Their “accomplishments reflect The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation’s mission […]
South Carolina‘s state Senate blocked a Republican redistricting push in the state on Tuesday, with five Republicans joining Democrats to vote down the measure. Just one day after South Carolina’s state House advanced the measure that would have likely enabled Republicans to flip the only Democratic seat, held by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), in the state red, […]
President Donald Trump accused some media outlets of committing “virtual treason” on Tuesday with their coverage of the war in Iran. Trump’s comments came in the form of a Truth Social post while he was traveling to Beijing on Tuesday afternoon for a bilateral summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “When the Fake News says […]
South Florida Democrats are bracing for a possible political shake-up as Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) weighs her options following Florida’s newly approved congressional map, including the possibility of a run for District 20, a heavily Democratic seat that could become the center of a fierce intra-party race. The uncertainty surrounding Wasserman Schultz’s political future […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced legislation to rename U.S. Route 287 after President Donald Trump, as he vies for his endorsement before Texas voters go to the polls on May 26. Cornyn’s legislation would rename the 1,791-mile highway to “Interstate 47” in honor of Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. “My […]
A federal appeals court grilled Justice Department lawyers on Tuesday over Congress’s pandemic-era policy of proxy voting for legislation, after Texas filed a lawsuit arguing that a law passed by a majority of congressmen who voted by proxy was passed unconstitutionally. The full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard […]
President Donald Trump called a White House reporter a “dumb person” over her request for comment about Trump’s ballroom budget doubling. Trump was leaving the White House for China when he took questions from reporters on Tuesday, which was streamed on Fox News’s America Reports. “We have a ballroom that’s under budget, it’s going up […]
Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declined to endorse fellow Biden administration Cabinet official Xavier Becerra in the latter’s bid for California governor. Mayorkas was asked in a rare public appearance at a Politico event in Washington on Tuesday if he would support the former health and human services secretary and California attorney general in […]
