White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is holding a press conference after the House passed President Donald Trump‘s favored “big, beautiful bill.” The press conference is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. The spending bill quickly became linked to the president, down to its Trumpian name. It became the subject of a tense tug-of-war between conservative fiscal […]
The Supreme Court was deadlocked on Thursday on whether to allow Oklahoma to establish the country’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school. The court split 4-4, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett recusing herself from the proceedings, therefore affirming the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s ruling, which had blocked the approval of a charter for St. Isidore of Seville […]
The campaign arms of the House and Senate Republicans alleged to the Federal Trade Commission that Google was suppressing their emails to supporters, routing them to spam folders. A joint letter from National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) and National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Richard Hudson (R-NC) asked FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson to […]
(The Center Square) – The day after Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law a two-year, $78 billion operating budget that amounts to the largest tax increase in state history, critics expressed disappointment and concern about how higher taxes will impact families and large and small businesses. Sen. Nikki Torres, R-Pasco, one of the GOP […]
(The Center Square) – It pays to be both bipartisan and persistent, according to a Democratic governor who once sneaked into the White House in the back of U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer’s car. “I was rolled back there like a burrito,” said New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who was then a member of the House. […]
(The Center Square) – Forty-five amendment tries later, North Carolina’s House of Representatives passed the two-year state budget bill on Wednesday evening. The 2025 Appropriations Act, Senate Bill 257, had 51 amendment votes in the Senate on April 16. In both chambers, an overwhelming majority were from Democrats. The fiscal year begins July 1. A […]
As the legislation dubbed by Republicans the “one big, beautiful bill” moves to the Senate, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) warned the upper chamber of Congress not to raise deficits. The massive spending and tax cut bill passed in the House on Thursday morning, 215-214. Roy was one of the GOP members who voted in favor […]
Security guards at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, shot an individual early Thursday morning. The agency called it a “security incident.” Police said the shooting was nonfatal. Information about the shooting was not immediately released. Fairfax police responded to the incident around 4 a.m. GUNMAN ACCUSED OF KILLING TWO ISRAELI DIPLOMATS LINKED TO FAR-LEFT […]
President Donald Trump urged the Senate to quickly pass his legislative agenda after the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” cleared a vote in the House on Thursday morning. The tax cut-and-border measure will likely be changed when it is considered by the Senate, but Trump heralded it as “arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that […]
Second Amendment advocacy groups on Thursday cheered their win on deregulating gun suppressors, calling it a first step in a broader campaign to dismantle archaic firearm laws. The House-passed budget bill included provisions to eliminate the registration and $200 tax on suppressors. If the provision survives in the Senate version of the “big, beautiful bill” […]
