(The Center Square) – Less than eight months from now, Washington state voters will – in addition to casting a ballot for president in November’s general election – decide the fate of three initiatives for repealing the state’s Climate Commitment Act and its carbon market, getting rid of the capital gains tax, and letting people […]
(The Center Square) – An average of 1,000 North Carolina residents are signing up each day for Medicaid since the state expanded the program Dec. 1. That’s twice as fast as other states that recently expanded their programs, said Kody Kinsley, the state’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Meeting with a […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both surpassed the threshold to become the presumptive nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, Tuesday night. However, results from the primaries, especially in Georgia and Washington state, offered warning signs for both candidates that they must reckon with before the Nov. 5 general election matchup. Biden, who never faced […]
Crime in Washington, D.C., is a crisis. Six months ago, the Washington Examiner looked at some of the problems plaguing the nation’s capital. In the months since, things feel worse than ever, but that might be starting to change. In this series, we are looking at how the nation’s capital wound up with its record […]
A large number of House Republicans are poised to skip the party’s annual issues conference later this week, posing a challenge to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as he seeks to wrangle his often unruly conference ahead of the 2024 election. Several GOP lawmakers told the Washington Examiner they do not plan on attending the […]
If Republicans win a Senate majority in November, it will be with a dose of irony for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Across several cycles, the Senate Leadership Fund, the big-spending outside group aligned with the GOP leader, will have built that majority with tens of millions invested in electing some of his loudest critics. There’s […]
Fast-moving bipartisan House legislation that would force TikTok to seek an owner outside of China faces free-speech obstacles. TikTok faces the risk of being forced to divest completely from its parent company, ByteDance, over its connections to the Chinese Communist Party. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, set for a vote Wednesday, […]
Voters in four states will cast their ballots in the March 12 presidential contests on Tuesday. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both clinched their party’s nominations Tuesday night, with voters in Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington casting ballots. Hawaii will also be voting in the GOP caucus. Polls for Democrats in the Northern […]
Former President Donald Trump is projected to cross the threshold of the 1,215 delegates needed to become the GOP‘s presumptive nominee during Tuesday’s night primaries. Trump won’t be awarded the nomination till the Republican convention in Milwaukee in July, but he surpassed the party’s delegate threshold Tuesday night after winning Washington’s Republican primary. The Associated Press […]
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison mocked the Republican National Committee after it laid off dozens of staffers. Harrison spoke on the MediasTouch podcast, which he appeared on last week to mock Lara Trump’s election as co-chairwoman. This time, he mocked the RNC and Trump over Monday’s mass firings and other alleged troubles. “Hey, listen, as […]
