House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Tuesday threw his support behind a proposed New York constitutional amendment that would overhaul the state’s redistricting process, casting the effort as a response to Republican-led map redrawing in other states and declaring that “the Empire State will strike back.” First reported by Politico, the proposal would amend […]
Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) says he is going into a Wednesday meeting with Kari Lake with an “open mind” as he weighs whether to sink her nomination as ambassador to Jamaica. Curtis has previously expressed reservations about Lake, a GOP firebrand who embraced President Donald Trump’s stolen election claims as a candidate for governor and […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) expressed confidence Tuesday that the public is on board with President Donald Trump’s conflict with Iran, dismissing concerns that dissatisfaction with surging energy prices triggered by the war will negatively affect the Republican Party in the midterm elections. During an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Cruz argued that gas price increases […]
Fox Business is shining the spotlight on small businesses across the nation and the impact they have made on their customers and communities in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Fox Business kicked off its “Made in America” contest in March for small businesses to get a chance at a grand prize of $25,000. Fans were […]
Senate lawmakers from both parties were blindsided by President Donald Trump’s decision to tap Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence on Tuesday and are questioning his qualifications for the post. The selection seemed to come as a surprise to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as many senators said they knew nothing about the […]
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) said on Tuesday that homosexuality doesn’t belong in the United States. “Homosexuality has no place in America,” he posted on X. “Happy Nuclear Family Month.” Ogles has a history of making inflammatory statements regarding the LGBT community and introducing anti-LGBT legislation, including a bill that sought to ban federally funded gender […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York weighed in on the sexting scandal surrounding Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. “Public opinion hasn’t caught up — there’s a lot of things we don’t know about this,” York said Tuesday on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. York argued that the recent allegations […]
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz had some blunt advice for critics of President Donald Trump, whom the commander in chief often says suffer from “Trump derangement syndrome.” “I am concerned about folks who have focused their entire life energy on dislike of the president,” Oz told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s disheartening […]
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter to the D.C. Council criticizing progressive mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George and other council members who refused to back a plan to extend the city’s teen curfew this summer. Lewis George, one of the members resisting the curfew, is a leading candidate in the district’s June 16 […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio disputed Sen. Jacky Rosen’s (D-NV) characterization of where he was and what he was doing while the U.S. negotiating team, which he was not a part of, met with Iranian officials in Pakistan in April. The heated moment between them occurred during the secretary’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations […]
