Elon Musk is causing chaos on Capitol Hill and headaches for top leaders such as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as he now calls for Republicans to completely “kill” the GOP reconciliation package. Musk surprised much of the GOP conference on Tuesday when he called the bill “outrageous” and a “disgusting abomination.” On Wednesday, he took […]
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) pitched that the new “Avengers” for the Democratic Party be made up of progressive representatives. Swalwell sat down for an interview with Charlamagne tha God on Tuesday’s episode of The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne, who has long criticized Democratic lawmakers for participating in “political theater” rather than pursuing winning strategies, asked Swalwell […]
In New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor, it’s former Gov. Andrew Cuomo against everyone else. During the mayoral debate on Wednesday night, leading Democrats, such as socialist Zohran Mamdani and Comptroller Brad Lander, will likely reject Cuomo’s defenses of past sexual harassment allegations against him, the COVID-19 nursing home scandal, and even his status […]
At a tense Senate hearing on Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick came under fire from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers frustrated with the Trump administration’s escalating trade tactics. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) confronted Lutnick over the administration’s reluctance to accept zero-tariff agreements, using Vietnam as an example. Vietnam is one of more than 60 countries […]
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) criticized the American Bar Association during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, framing the legal group as a partisan advocacy organization that dwarfs the ideological influence of the conservative-leaning Federalist Society. Responding to Democrats’ comments earlier in the hearing, Lee defended his decades-long affiliation with the Federalist Society, saying it […]
EXCLUSIVE — The House Homeland Security Committee launched an investigation into the immigration history of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspect in an attack that targeted Jews in Boulder, Colorado, earlier this week. House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) and Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) notified the Department of Homeland Security on […]
Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha dismissed left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore’s suggestion for an updated Pledge of Allegiance. “[T]he Pledge of Allegiance is already perfect. I mean, why mess with a good thing? Of course, and under God is taken out of the Michael Moore version,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First Wednesday. “This is […]
Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh said he is joining the Democratic Party, five years after he left the Republican Party. Walsh, who came up in politics during the Tea Party movement but has since emerged as a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said he was joining the party after five years of being an […]
A Democratic senator lobbied the Biden administration to remove her husband from a Transportation Security Administration surveillance program after flying with a suspected terrorist, according to the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security revealed Wednesday morning that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) contacted TSA about her husband, William “Billy” Shaheen, being subjected to enhanced screening […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) pushed back against criticisms of President Donald Trump‘s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which Trump ally Elon Musk deemed a “disgusting abomination.” Thune suggested that analyses by people he dubbed “Washington, D.C. scorekeepers” on the president’s tax bill were previously incorrect about other pieces of legislation, using the 2017 Tax Cuts […]
