President Joe Biden did it. On the last day of 2024, Biden completed his administration’s epic march into regulatory history, publishing the biggest bible of red tape ever. With Tuesday’s release of the Federal Register, a daily listing of new and changing rules and regulations for Main Street and Wall Street to follow, Biden’s total […]
A handful of House Republicans remain undecided on whether to support Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) House speakership bid even after President-elect Donald Trump endorsed him for a second term. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he and “a number of my colleagues” are uncommitted on who to support during the speaker election Friday, even as many lawmakers […]
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is denying allegations that state-affiliated actors hacked the U.S. Treasury Department. Reporters asked Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning on Tuesday to comment on the U.S. government’s assertion that hackers backed by the Chinese Communist Party illicitly accessed government documents. “On this kind of unwarranted and groundless allegations, we’ve made […]
Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will be sentenced next month as planned after a failed bid to postpone his sentencing. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein denied Menendez’s request Monday to push back his scheduled Jan. 29, 2025, sentencing until his wife, Nadine Menendez, is through with her trial on similar charges. In their bid to […]
Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) resigned from the House on Tuesday as he prepares to take the oath of office as North Carolina‘s next attorney general on New Year’s Day. Jackson said in a statement it was the “honor of a lifetime” to serve as the first representative in North Carolina’s 14th District after redistricting. He […]
Incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President-elect Donald Trump’s meetings with multiple billionaires stem from the “unifying message” he has spread before and after the election. Leavitt argued that Trump’s victory against Vice President Kamala Harris is what has given Silicon Valley and Wall Street billionaires “the courage” to declare their support for […]
Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed confidence that he will remain House speaker. The Republican Party has a scant one-vote majority in the House. The new Congress will have its first day of session on Jan. 3, 2025, when a speaker election is also anticipated. A speaker will be needed to certify the 2024 election results on […]
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said she had a “great” meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, as he is slated to return to the White House in less than three weeks. Bowser, who was also the mayor during Trump’s first term in office, announced late Monday that she met with the president-elect in a […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s allies suggested that Washington, D.C., officials might be lying after they denied funding unflattering posters with Trump’s image on them. The anti-Trump posters, which depict the president-elect with the words “Keep DC trash free,” initially appeared to be created as transit ads funded by the district’s government and were first reported in […]
The price to ship with the United States Postal Service will increase among all its services beginning Jan. 19. This comes after the USPS reported a net loss of $9.5 billion this year, over $3 billion more lost than the year before. “Over 80% of our current year net loss is attributed to factors that […]
