A group of Senate and House Republicans will speak about the proposed continuing resolution to extend government funding through March 14, 2025, during a press conference Wednesday afternoon. The group, which includes Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ron Johnson (R-WI), along with Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), are expected to begin speaking at […]
Retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) gave her final speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, urging her fellow lawmakers to preserve the 60-vote threshold more commonly known as the filibuster. “When holding political power, and feeling the hunger and pressure for an immediate partisan win, it is easy to view the legislative filibuster as a weapon of obstruction,” Sinema said […]
President-elect Donald Trump has an affinity for winners, but he has handed out a handful of jobs in his administration to people who have one thing in common: losing Georgia Senate elections. A quartet of former Republican Senate candidates from the Peach State have been nominated to Cabinet-level positions and ambassadorships, as is typical for […]
Lawmakers could get their first pay raise in more than a decade under a provision that was quietly tucked into the three-month continuing resolution that was unveiled Tuesday evening. The House published its 1,500-page spending legislation alongside a multibillion-dollar supplemental just days before the government is set to enter a shutdown and federal funding will […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will host a press conference at 2:30 p.m. Federal Reserve officials are expected to announce their third and final interest rate cut of 2024, but investors will likely be more focused on an indication of where markets are headed in the […]
Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda are reportedly considering a merger to make themselves more competitive in the electric vehicle market, particularly in the face of Tesla and Chinese manufacturers’ success. Neither company has agreed to a deal yet, and their discussions are in the early stages. Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said Wednesday that the companies […]
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) is holding a hearing examining the economic effects of the Trump administration. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The hearing will specifically examine President-elect Donald Trump’s trade policies, which Heinrich alleges will lead to higher costs and a trade war. Trump has been a heavy proponent of tariffs, […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) stressed that his current spending bill is “clearing the decks” for President-elect Donald Trump and his America First agenda, acknowledging he is not a fan of the bill himself. Johnson detailed a text conversation he had with billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two co-heads of the Department of […]
Arizona officials are investigating a yearslong issue that has allowed thousands of residents to vote for years — even though they didn’t establish proof of citizenship when they originally registered. As early as seven years before this information became public, Arizona officials had identified this as a “problem,” attorneys looking into the issue on behalf […]
The Supreme Court will hear TikTok’s challenge to its looming ban if its parent company, China-based ByteDance, does not sell the popular video app. The case will be argued on Jan. 10, 2025, just nine days before the ban is set to take effect. If the ban does go through, TikTok will be banned from […]
