The House overwhelmingly rejected a stopgap spending bill to extend government funding into next year, sending lawmakers back to the drawing board just one day before federal funding is scheduled to lapse for a slew of government agencies. Lawmakers voted 174-235 against the funding package, failing to reach the two-thirds majority vote needed to pass […]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk‘s online pressure campaign over the federal government’s operations faced some blowback from lawmakers this week after a continuing resolution to fund the government was scrapped. Musk, an influential ally of President-elect Donald Trump, took to social media to repeatedly denounce the funding bill, helping to convince House GOP leadership to pull […]
CNN is wrapping up 2024 with its smallest audience in its history, despite the historic political year it ended up being. From Dec. 26, 2023, through Dec. 15, 2024, CNN only garnered 93,000 viewers in the key age demographic of 25 to 54-year-olds. Across all viewers, the network netted 488,000 viewers, trailing rival network Fox […]
Michigan’s Democratic House speaker ordered the chamber’s sergeants to seek out dozens of protesting state House Republicans who are waiting to take control next year. State Rep. Joe Tate issued a “call of the House” on Thursday, ordering House sergeants to bar the doors to the chamber and search for missing members in response to […]
In a reversal, the new version of the short-term spending bill to extend government funding into next year does not include a one-year extension of a government agency accused of “censorship” against conservatives. Following pressure from conservative Republicans in Congress, businessmen Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, as well as President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect […]
President-elect Donald Trump blasted Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) for “getting in the way” of Trump’s wish to raise the debt ceiling as House Republicans scramble to keep the government open. “The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory — All for […]
The Washington, D.C., population has largely rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic, with new data showing the capital has partially reversed peoples’ flight out of the city in recent years. Census Bureau data show the population of D.C. grew from 687,324 people in July 2023 to 702,250 people in July 2024, marking the first time since […]
House Republicans released a new short-term spending bill to extend government funding into next year, revising the bipartisan spending package that was scrapped earlier this week due to GOP opposition. The latest continuing resolution would maintain current funding levels for government agencies until March 14, adhering to the same timeline as the previous proposal. However, […]
President-elect Donald Trump is forcing Mike Johnson (R-LA) into a speakership-defining moment on the debt limit, inserting a loyalty test into an already tenuous fight over government funding. Trump expects Congress to raise, or eliminate, the federal debt ceiling before he assumes office on Jan. 20 and is demanding that Johnson start from scratch on a short-term […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was jokingly named the next U.S. president by the hosts of The View on Thursday. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released his continuing resolution to fund the government two days ago to a mixed reaction from his own party, leaving a government shutdown looming. Musk led the opposition to the spending […]
