The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is holding a hearing at 10 a.m. to grill FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on the “failure of leadership” that resulted in supporters of President-elect Donald Trump being discriminated against during Hurricane Helene disaster relief. All 35 Republicans on the committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) as well as Rep. […]
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a new report on Tuesday with new evidence showing that minorities and people with lower economic status are more likely to suffer from tobacco-related chronic disease and death. Although cigarette smoking has declined by more than 70% since the first surgeon general report on the dangers of tobacco in 1965, the full […]
President-elect Donald Trump is personally making moves to shore up support for one of his more controversial Cabinet nominations: former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Trump is reportedly calling Republican senators to discuss Gaetz and ask for their support. At least three Senate Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Susan Collins […]
San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to his transition team on Monday. Lurie beat incumbent Mayor London Breed this past election with the help of donations from other tech leaders in artificial intelligence. While his transition team was largely made up of political figures, as a political novice, he included two […]
As some Senate Republicans privately and publicly express doubt that former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has enough support to be confirmed as attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump and his allies are beginning to float workarounds if the former Florida congressman doesn’t have the votes. Trump can only afford three defections within the Senate Republican conference […]
Democratic operatives in at least four Pennsylvania counties are acting in open defiance of a state Supreme Court ruling by agreeing to count mail-in ballots that are either missing the date on the outer envelope or have the wrong one. It’s a bold last-ditch effort to overturn the results in the U.S. Senate race between […]
The second round of November’s Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest-income earners who retire at age 70, will go out to the second group of retirees in one days. Here is everything you need to know about this month’s Social Security payments. BIDEN ADMINISTRATION RULEMAKING BLITZES AIM TO TRUMP-PROOF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT When does the check arrive? […]
The national average price for a gallon of regular gas dropped on Tuesday to $3.063, according to AAA. This is the lowest national average price for regular gas since June 2021, when the average cost was $3.064 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Since then, high gas prices, at over $3 per […]
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has big plans for his new role in the Trump administration, which could include “deleting” multiple federal agencies. But not everyone is convinced that’s advisable or even possible. “We expect mass reductions, we expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,” Ramaswamy said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “We […]
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out a large-scale pardon operation when he takes office, which could gift clean slates to hundreds of defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. While Trump has been largely mum on the specifics of the plan, his transition team, lawyers involved with the Jan. 6 […]
