PETA isn’t waiting around for President-elect Donald Trump and his government waste czars to take their posts in Washington next month. Jumping the gun, the animal rights group drove its advocacy van to the Trump winter White House at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, to urge the incoming president and his Department of Government Efficiency […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) bid farewell Friday to his tenure as the longest-serving party leader of the chamber, a post he’s held for nearly the past 18 years. McConnell’s current term, his seventh consecutive, doesn’t expire until early 2027. However, when he returns in January for the new Congress, it will mark the […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, as his pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Vatican City. CatholicVote, a conservative activist group founded by Burch, endorsed Trump in both 2020 and 2024. “Brian is a devout Catholic, a father of nine, and President of CatholicVote. He has received numerous awards and demonstrated […]
The U.S. government is on the verge of a shutdown, with Republican leadership racing against the clock to put together a continuing resolution that would satisfy House Republicans. Plans for a calm holiday season were interrupted Wednesday when House Republicans revolted against a continuing resolution that expanded current levels of government funding until March 14 […]
House Republicans are planning to move forward with a last-ditch effort to avoid a government shutdown by voting on Friday afternoon to extend current government funding levels until mid-March, dropping a demand from President-elect Donald Trump to attach a debt limit increase to the spending package. The House will vote on a clean continuing resolution […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is responsible for the prospect of a partial government shutdown after President-elect Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk opposed Johnson‘s original bipartisan funding deal and called for a debt ceiling debate, according to the White House. “This is a mess that Speaker Johnson created,” White House press […]
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, New York City Mayor Eric Adams‘s chief adviser, was indicted on corruption charges Thursday. Lewis-Martin already turned in her resignation on Sunday before her indictment, released by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg alleges she gave special treatment to a pair of real estate developers in exchange for more than $100,000. He also […]
Like a “candle in the wind,” Elton John extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an interview with Time Magazine published last week. He claimed efforts to legalize the drug were a huge societal error. Apparently, he finally realized what anti-weed proponents have known for quite some time: Marijuana is harmful. “I maintain […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold a press briefing around 12:15 p.m. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Jean-Pierre is certain to comment on the impending government shutdown and House Republicans’ struggles to pass a continuing resolution. It is one of Jean-Pierre’s last briefings as White House press secretary as […]
(The Center Square) – While the last General Session of the Ohio Legislature ended just a day ago, advocacy groups are already looking ahead to the next one. Policy Matters Ohio wants lawmakers to start next month with bipartisan legislation introduced at the close of the most recent session that dealt with limiting property taxes, free […]
