MILWAUKEE — Conservatives appeared to accept the Republican National Committee‘s new platform change that strips language supporting a federal abortion ban. The change was quietly approved this week after social conservatives had pleaded with former President Donald Trump‘s campaign to firmly stand behind limiting abortion when the platform was updated on Monday. But the pressure […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said there are enough votes in the Senate to “suspend the filibuster” and codify Roe v. Wade protections. If Democrats keep control of the Senate and White House and take back control of the House come November, Warren said there are enough votes to codify Roe v. Wade into law. The […]
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser sent next year’s budget back to the Council of the District of Columbia without signing it, claiming it’s “unsustainable.” In a letter sent to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, Bowser wrote, “I cannot support a budget that needlessly increases our residents’ property and income taxes, raises the paid family leave tax […]
Dozens of unauthorized guests gained access to Mar-a-Lago while Donald Trump was there as president, raising further questions about the Secret Service’s competence. The documents were obtained by Bloomberg days after the Saturday assassination attempt, via a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents detailed dozens of instances where trespassers gained access to the resort […]
MILWAUKEE — Two of Kevin McCarthy’s foes will be given speaking slots at Wednesday’s Republican National Convention as tensions linger over his removal as House speaker. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Nancy Mace (R-SC), among the eight House Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy in October, will be in the first group of speakers opening […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) subpoenaed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify in a hearing on July 22 regarding the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. The committee had requested Cheatle’s “voluntary” attendance on July 13, but lawmakers on the Oversight Committee have claimed the Homeland Security Department is preventing the […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to step down Wednesday as criticism of the agency’s response to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump grows. Johnson joins other high-profile Republicans such as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA), among others, in asking for her […]
President Joe Biden says that he would consider dropping out of the 2024 election if his medical staff diagnosed him with a new condition or disease that would make continuing to run impossible. “If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and […]
Both Ivanka Trump and former first lady Melania Trump will be at the Republican National Convention despite neither having a speaking role or having been seen at the event so far, according to former President Donald Trump’s son Eric. “They’re coming in,” Eric Trump said on CBS Mornings when asked about their whereabouts. “They’re coming […]
House Democrats are pulling a letter to the Democratic National Committee that argued against a virtual roll call to select President Joe Biden as the official party presidential nominee. The decision to halt the letter comes after the committee announced it would not hold a roll call to nominate Biden until August. An exact date […]
