House Republican leaders have pulled a three-month government funding package from consideration amid mounting opposition from President-elect Donald Trump and members of the GOP conference. It’s unclear what a new deal to fund the government ahead of the Friday night shutdown deadline will look like, but Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told reporters on Wednesday […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) offered a lighthearted response after President-elect Donald Trump commented on her failure to clinch a powerful House committee position. The progressive New Yorker recently opposed establishment Democrats when she challenged the older Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) for the top Democratic position on the influential House Oversight Committee. After Ocasio-Cortez lost the […]
House Democratic leaders put the onus on if the government enters a shutdown later this week on House Republicans, accusing GOP leaders of unilaterally scrapping a bipartisan agreement to appease far-right conservatives and their incoming commander in chief. In a brief statement on Wednesday evening, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) blamed House Republicans for walking […]
California became the first state in the country on Wednesday to declare a statewide emergency over the H5N1 bird flu. With federal data showing the Golden State is home to over half of the reported human cases of bird flu across the U.S., Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) issued a proclamation “to ensure government agencies have […]
Joe Biden‘s popularity has not improved post-election, with the lame-duck president receiving his lowest approval rating in one respected poll. In a survey conducted this month by Marquette Law School Poll, 34% of respondents approved of Biden and 66% disapproved, for a net approval rating of negative 32 percentage points. According to Marquette, the poll […]
The View co-hosts analyzed why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) lost the House Oversight Committee leadership fight to Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) this week, including Sunny Hostin suggesting the loss was due to the congresswoman being “demonized.” “She’s been demonized as this too progressive, far-left person, and I want to try to set the record straight […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) thousand-page spending bill is on life support, and his speakership could be in danger, as the GOP conference revolted against the legislation en masse. Criticism of the bill, which is stuffed full of additional spending and unrelated provisions, reached a crescendo when President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance […]
Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley pushed for the United States to save the hostages still detained by Hamas, arguing doing so is “priority number one.” Haley was asked about comments made by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who said Wednesday that a deal between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group to release the hostages […]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk hit back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with a series of snarky memes after she decried possible conflicts of interest between him and President-elect Donald Trump. Warren sent a letter to Trump questioning whether he had put ethics rules in place for dealing with Musk’s governmental work as the X executive […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked an attempt to give law enforcement greater authority to monitor drone activity in the wake of mystery sightings across the Northeast. Paul objected to a request from Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) on Wednesday to pass legislation expanding the federal government’s ability to detect and mitigate the threat of drones amid […]
