The Biden administration is urging Senate Democrats to vote against a series of privileged resolutions of disapproval, expected to be brought to the floor on Wednesday afternoon by progressive members to protest $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel. The White House and administration officials are lobbying senators to vote against the resolutions. Senate […]
President-elect Donald Trump and House Republicans commemorated the sentencing of Jose Ibarra, the illegal Venezuelan immigrant who killed Georgia college student Laken Riley. Ibarra, 26, was convicted on charges of malice murder and felony murder in the death of Riley, who was killed in February in the woods at the University of Georgia. On Wednesday […]
Secretary of the Treasury Department is one of the most powerful Cabinet positions. Here are the people who are rumored to be President-elect Donald Trump’s top options for the role. Since the election, Trump has been picking nominees for his Cabinet. Some of his choices have been conventional — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to lead […]
Democrats are bickering over the lack of response to transgender messaging from Republicans during the campaign as the GOP repeatedly went after Vice President Kamala Harris with ads attacking her on the issue that went unanswered by Democrats, leaving her defenseless. As he campaigned throughout the fall, President-elect Donald Trump rolled out a series of […]
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance lobbied key GOP senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to back former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general as the controversial nominee’s fate is on life support. Vance facilitated a meeting with Gaetz and several conservative allies on the Senate Judiciary Committee vital to the political firebrand’s confirmation process, including Sens. […]
Following crushing election defeats, the Democratic Party is purging state leaders. The Republican Party won the trifecta in the 2024 elections, shocking observers with gains in nearly every demographic. Democrats, looking to regroup, are aiming to replace their leadership in several key states — in some cases voluntarily and in others involuntarily. One of the […]
A nearly three-year investigation into sex trafficking allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick for attorney general, is dividing Republican senators. Upon Gaetz’s resignation from the House, the House Ethics Committee dropped its investigation — just days away from releasing its report. The committee is meeting Wednesday afternoon and will […]
Longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway urged the president-elect’s nonstop critics to “calm the hell down already” and help him deliver his agenda to the country. However, she conceded that is unlikely to happen. Facing some younger critics during a 90-minute session at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics Tuesday night in Cambridge, Massachusets, the former White […]
The Ukrainian government is attributing reports of a pending attack on Kyiv to Russian psychological warfare after a slew of foreign embassies shuttered and warned civilians to take shelter. Ukrainian officials are now dismissing these concerns, urging the public to remain vigilant but not give too much thought to what they believe is information warfare. […]
House Democrats are honoring transgender people “lost to horrific violence” and the “strength and resilience” of the community in a new resolution introduced Wednesday, one of the first policy responses to GOP proposals to ban an incoming transgender lawmaker from using female bathrooms in the Capitol. Though Transgender Day of Remembrance is already a national […]
