House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told reporters Wednesday that leadership has not ruled out stripping the two centrist Democrats who broke with leadership on Tuesday of their committee assignments. “We haven’t ruled anything in,” Jeffries said. “We haven’t ruled anything out because it’s a process, and we’re going to follow that process.” Reps. Jared […]
The White House confirmed two major airlines are joining the effort to match its federal $1,000 contribution to Trump Accounts for their employees. Both Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announced plans to match the government’s contributions for the children of their employees, according to the White House’s post on social media. The investment accounts […]
Democratic frustrations toward Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) and Jared Golden (D-ME) lingered on Wednesday after the pair sided with Republicans to force a vote on condemning socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, turned his back to Gluesenkamp Perez as she testified […]
EXCLUSIVE — House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) said a full committee hearing will be held this month in Texas to discuss a bipartisan fiscal commission, as legislators reckon with the national debt eclipsing $40 trillion. Arrington told the Washington Examiner Tuesday that the hearing, which has not yet been announced, will be held […]
Federal investigators interviewed a whistleblower from the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) for several hours on Tuesday after he alleged that staff were directed to target President Donald Trump and his associates, according to a source familiar with the interview. Daniel Wiesenfeld, an assistant attorney general now on paid administrative leave, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying reports that there will be a mass mobilization of troops to replenish manpower on the front lines of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed for weeks that the Kremlin “plans an additional rapid mobilization of several hundred thousand Russians by the end of the year, plus just as […]
President Donald Trump does not believe the Iranian public is currently capable of rising up against their government due to overwhelming violence, but he would not say if he would materially assist dissident groups. Speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday, the president told reporters that it “wouldn’t be appropriate to say” whether U.S. intelligence […]
A federal judge has allowed Google to keep its digital advertising exchange marketplace, marking another win for the Big Tech giant as it fends off antitrust lawsuits from the federal government. In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on Wednesday that Google does not have to sell […]
Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito will watch her book, Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland, make it to the big screen as filming begins later this month. “It makes sense that it should be a movie just because of how it happened, where it […]
Michigan officials urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject an emergency effort by an activist group to place a measure on the ballot for an amendment requiring proof of citizenship to vote, ahead of the November elections. The group Americans for Citizen Voting Michigan filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court earlier this […]
