When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was reelected, some conservatives said they only voted for him because President-elect Donald Trump asked them to. Johnson has been a pragmatic House speaker who has often worked with Democrats, but Trump in a second term may show his pragmatic side too, if the Art of the Deal author […]
The 2024 presidential election was the first one in which both candidates utilized podcasts in a bid to reach voters who get their news from sources outside legacy media. President-elect Donald Trump conducted far more podcast interviews than his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who made the occasional appearance. Regardless, 2024 marked a noticeable shift […]
President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to a group of 19 politicians, athletes, artists, and humanitarians Saturday. Biden has less than three weeks left in office and has spent recent days honoring Americans for contributions to society. On Friday, he bestowed Medals of Honor and Valor […]
Washington, D.C., Councilman Trayon White, who is facing federal bribery charges, made a vague public apology just moments after being sworn into office earlier this week. “This morning, I want to say that I apologize to my city, and I love my city to the core of who I am,” White said. “I’m not a […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said he would be open to entire committees viewing background checks of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Traditionally, Senate committee leaders won’t share background checks with the rest of the committee leaders given how lengthy the reports can be. There is an expectation the Senate committees make their confirmations […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and a group of Republican senators are warning the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives against putting into place any new policies ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The senators sent a letter to Director Steven Dettelbach telling him to “firmly commit to and focus […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration committee. The donation comes following a strained relationship between Cook and the Biden administration after the Justice Department sued Apple in March, alleging the company had a monopoly on the smartphone market. Cook rarely interacted with President Joe Biden, but during the Trump […]
Authorities have ruled out a connection between the Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion and the New Orleans pick up truck attack on New Year’s Eve, which killed at least 15. The Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion outside of a Trump International Hotel occurred just hours after the attack in New Orleans. “Why don’t we consider what happened […]
The House passed its rules package for the 119th Congress on Friday, approving a change that makes it more difficult to oust the speaker and reserving that right for the majority party alone. The rules package, which passed in a 215-209 vote, requires nine members of the majority party to co-sponsor a motion to vacate […]
By the time the first roll call vote ended to elect the next speaker of the House, it appeared that Mike Johnson (R-LA) was in trouble. Three Republicans voted against him, placing him below the majority threshold needed to secure the gavel. But after a series of conversations with two key holdouts, Reps. Ralph Norman […]
