EXCLUSIVE – Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) won’t support a push by Republican colleagues to codify President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs into law, signaling a bailout is not coming from Congress after the Supreme Court overturned them on Friday. “Oh, I don’t think they have the votes,” Bacon told the Washington Examiner, minutes after the court […]
Democrats were quick to take a victory lap Friday after the Supreme Court delivered a stringing rebuke to President Donald Trump’s economic agenda by ruling his administration’s sweeping global tariffs were unconstitutional without approval from Congress. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called it a “big victory for the American people” and “another crushing defeat […]
Two leading Democratic mayors are joining forces to deliver rebuttals to President Donald Trump’s annual State of the Union address to Congress next week. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will be keynote speakers at the “State of the Swamp” rebuttal next Tuesday at Washington, D.C.’s National Press Club. The event is […]
Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon said “wrongdoers” and people who were associated with Jeffrey Epstein are “scrambling” to distance themselves from the late convicted sex offender. “There were names of people [in the files] who had associations, whether that was [The View co-host] Whoopi Goldberg, or whoever, who claim they just had some contact with […]
First lady Melania Trump on Friday is delivering remarks at 11 a.m. in Washington, D.C., as she donates her 2025 inaugural gown to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s historic collection of first ladies’ attire. Trump is set to address the moment with remarks on Friday morning. She is handing over the Hervé Pierre-designed black-and-white […]
The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major loss on Friday, striking down his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs as unlawfully implemented. The high court said in its majority ruling that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the president to impose tariffs. The ruling marks a significant setback for the president’s signature […]
President Donald Trump is hosting governors from across the country for a working breakfast at the White House on Friday morning. The event is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. in Washington, D.C. Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) will be among gubernatorial leaders attending the National Governors Association meeting, despite previously vowing not to do so […]
EXCLUSIVE — LIBRE Initiative Action, a Latino advocacy group tied to the Koch network, unveiled on Friday its first wave of endorsements for the 2026 election cycle. LIBRE, which operates under the Americans for Prosperity super PAC network, is endorsing five Republican candidates running for Congress. On the list is former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers running […]
The economy grew at a 1.4% seasonally adjusted annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported in an estimate of gross domestic product, far below the forecast growth that President Donald Trump and Republicans were hoping would boost their political prospects as they prepare for the midterm elections. The […]
The economy grew 2.2% in 2025, a year of growth that came despite a number of developments that were expected to be major headwinds, including interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve and President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs. The growth figures, which are adjusted for inflation, were published Friday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in its preliminary report for […]
