The October 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in 29 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. The program supports people with limited income who are blind, aged 65 or older, or have a qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries receive varies […]
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is facing a delicate test of his leadership over the House Democratic Caucus after two centrists crossed party lines and helped Republicans force a politically fraught vote on condemning socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America. Reps. Jared Golden (D-ME) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) were the only Democrats to vote in […]
Republicans are getting antsy that President Donald Trump‘s super PAC, MAGA Inc., has not coughed up the $400 million stored in its coffers with House and Senate majorities expected to be decided at the margins this November. Trump’s political orbit has said time and time again that it will unload its deep pockets to help […]
The infighting inside the Democratic Party is more about ideology than a generational change in leadership. That’s one key takeaway from Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), 80, winning his primary in a landslide over 47-year-old Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA). The race was called barely a half hour after the polls closed in Massachusetts. Markey was first […]
President Donald Trump has received ample bipartisan support after renewing his efforts to get a federal film and television tax credit passed in Congress. Trump, a product of Hollywood for decades before entering national politics, is pushing for tax credits that would greatly benefit the nation’s entertainment industry, which is struggling to compete with other […]
The first round of September Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in seven days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The second round will go out on Sept. 16 to those born between […]
Vice President JD Vance is facing growing calls to publicly denounce former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his anti-Israel comments despite Vance’s efforts to make inroads with Jewish Republicans. The vice president has come under pressure for his skepticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and criticisms of the Israeli government amid the Iran […]
Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent blasted the media for its recent coverage of the military conflict with Iran on Tuesday. During a press conference at the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, Bessent said the best ally Iran has is the media because of its skewed reporting. Bessent’s remarks came after taking questions […]
Prospects look dim for legislation to cut the capital gains tax on home sales before the midterm elections, despite the advice from some conservatives that it would provide relief to families and give a political boost to Republicans. President Donald Trump has reportedly weighed calling on Congress to cut capital gains taxes ahead of the […]
U.S. officials predicted that Operation Southern Spear, President Donald Trump‘s kinetic campaign against so-called narco-terrorist cartels in the Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, and across Latin America, would continue through the end of his second term in office. The Trump administration held a background briefing with reporters on Tuesday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the […]
