Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent faced questions about inflation and affordability during a Thursday hearing before the Senate, as Democrats work to blame the Trump administration for the dissatisfaction felt by households. Bessent appeared before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where he presented the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s 2025 Annual Report. Democrats on the […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) could be on another collision course with Senate Democrats over how to handle the next fight over government funding as Republicans ask for more time to negotiate a deal on the Department of Homeland Security. Senate Democrats have not ruled out a temporary funding patch for DHS, even as […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is holding a press briefing at 2 p.m. on Thursday. TRUMP JOKES ABOUT NEEDING HELP FROM GOD DURING NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST Leavitt’s remarks will come hours after President Donald Trump spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning about faith, the protesters who stormed a Minnesota church service, […]
Virginia Democrats announced on Thursday that they agreed on a proposed congressional map that would include 10 Democrat-leaning seats and just one Republican-leaning seat. Virginia lawmakers previously debated a similar Democrat-favoring map that had a 9-2 split. Both options reflect a strong shift from the current map, which has six Democratic and five Republican seats. […]
President Donald Trump lambasted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a frequent antagonist of his administration, as a “moron” while speaking at the 74th National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. “He’s an automatic no,” Trump said of Massie’s tendency to vote against his administration. “No matter what. If we did welfare reform. If we did the greatest thing […]
Top Justice Department officials announced Thursday the arrest of a self-described “Anti-ICE Antifa TERRORIST” in Minneapolis who is charged with threatening to assault and kill federal immigration agents. Federal authorities took 37-year-old Kyle Wagner into custody after prosecutors alleged he repeatedly posted violent threats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on social media last month, […]
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office is holding a press conference to give updates on the search for journalist Savannah Guthrie‘s kidnapped mother. The press conference is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING SAVANNAH GUTHRIE’S MOTHER’S ABDUCTION: WHAT WE KNOW Nancy Guthrie, 84, was abducted from her Arizona home on Sunday and has […]
Democratic voters will have nearly a dozen candidates to choose from on Thursday’s ballot in the special election primary in New Jersey‘s 11th Congressional District. There are 11 Democratic candidates duking it out in Thursday’s primary as they vie to see who will take on GOP candidate Joe Hathaway in the general election to fill […]
Vice President JD Vance encouraged American athletes competing in the Winter Olympics in Milan on Thursday, saying, regardless of political parties, the entire nation is “rooting” for them. Vance was joined by his wife, second lady Usha Vance, and their three children when he spoke to the athletes. “The whole country, Democrat, Republican, independent, we’re […]
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