House Republicans will decide who will lead them in the 120th Congress on Tuesday, picking between Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) for minority leader. The race is a rematch for Scalise and Jordan, who ran for the top Republican spot when former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted in […]
President Donald Trump is urging the Senate to confirm 25 federal judges before Republicans surrender their majority in January, as resistance from Arkansas’s senators threatens a nominee whose confirmation would give Trump appointees a majority on a federal appeals court for the first time. “Very important for the U.S. Senate to confirm all of our […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said War Secretary Pete Hegseth is more likely to resign by the end of the year than continue leading the Pentagon and be subject to Democrat-led hearings when the new Congress is sworn in. Massie told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins he is not surprised President Donald Trump has continued to support Hegseth, […]
Republicans returned to Washington on Monday with little to celebrate following staggering midterm losses that saw the GOP cede control to Democrats amid a historic wipeout. Republicans experienced an extinction-level event last week, as House Democrats will have a caucus north of 250 seats en route to eliminating nearly every battleground Republican. Thus, there was […]
California voters rejected a measure that would have taxed the wealth of the state’s billionaires, a provision that some on the Left saw as a trial balloon for a nationwide wealth tax. Proposition 40 failed with 53.8% voting against it and just 47.2% in favor as of Monday evening, according to the Associated Press, which […]
The Trump administration is moving to preserve a potentially seismic financial case against the nation’s largest facilitator of abortions, Planned Parenthood, as Republicans’ midterm collapse threatens to dismantle a powerful engine of anti-abortion litigation in Texas. The Justice Department notified a federal court Friday that it plans to intervene in the Medicaid billing lawsuit seeking […]
The FBI launched an investigation into an alleged homicide aboard a cruise ship that returned to a Texas port Monday, prompting federal authorities to respond to the vessel before it resumed its Caribbean voyage. The investigation centers on the MSC Seascape, which docked in Galveston after authorities directed the ship to return to port following […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declined to commit to serving out his full term in the 120th Congress after Democrats swept up control of both chambers in the midterm elections. Johnson had already ruled out seeking minority leadership last week, but in his first remarks since Nov. 3, the speaker was asked about his plans […]
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation has abruptly canceled a hearing with Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Bryan Bedford less than 24 hours before the appearance was scheduled, according to the committee. The Tuesday morning hearing was supposed to cover how the FAA was fulfilling its $12.5 billion project to roll out the “Brand-New […]
Twenty-five senators voted Tuesday evening against advancing a bipartisan bill that would make it easier and faster to build pipelines, power lines, power plants, and highways. If passed, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act would be arguably the most substantial bill signed by President Donald Trump in his second term in office. It would […]
