Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) rejected a last-minute push by House conservatives to attach Republicans’ border security bill to a short-term funding measure that will pass the House. Members of the Freedom Caucus met with Johnson on Thursday, just hours before the lower chamber is set to vote on a continuing resolution that would avoid a […]
Georgia will finish sending out benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to qualified low-income residents for January in five days. SNAP is distributed from Jan. 5 to Jan. 23 in Georgia. SNAP payments will be issued to recipients’ accounts on days depending on the last two digits of a beneficiary’s client ID. For example, IDs ending in 90-99 will receive their […]
President Joe Biden is delivering remarks on how his administration is improving access to high-speed internet. The effort to improve infrastructure is pitched as a part of “Bidenomics,” an economic policy that the Biden administration has increasingly pushed as the 2024 election approaches. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Biden’s remarks will address […]
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said he believes the federal government can pay for $14 trillion in reparations by spending it “into existence,” borrowing strategies from recent expensive government expenditures. The pricey federal reparations proposal for black people who are descendants of slaves was introduced in May 2023 by Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) and nine other […]
Former President Donald Trump has hinted he knows who he’s picked to join his ticket as vice president, and Rep. Elise Stefanik‘s (R-NY) name has surfaced in multiple conversations. Stefanik, who went viral last year for searing Harvard President Claudine Gay during a hearing after she was unable to say whether calling for the genocide […]
No Labels announced Thursday that it filed a complaint with the Department of Justice for alleged “unlawful conspiracy” to prevent the centrist organization from gaining ballot access across the country. According to an eight-page letter submitted to the DOJ on Jan. 11 by No Labels, which is considering a third-party ticket in the 2024 presidential […]
Florida Democrats quietly flipped a state House seat blue in a special election on Tuesday as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was campaigning after a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. Orlando Democrat Tom Keen narrowly defeated his Republican opponent Erika Booth to fill a vacant House seat. Keen, a manager at Collins Aerospace and a […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) regrets not adopting a more assertive media strategy when he first announced his 2024 Republican presidential campaign last year. When DeSantis launched his highly anticipated bid for the presidency, he was selective with what media outlets he spoke with, only making himself more available last summer when his polling and fundraising […]
In anticipation of the 2024 presidential election, Illinois Democrats are proposing legislation to allow the state to partake in all mail-in voting, even though concerns over election security have grown in recent years. The state House Ethics and Elections Committee, which Democratic state Rep. Carol Ammons, who proposed the legislation, is a member of, considered […]
The Department of Justice declared the mass shooting that left 21 dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022 a law enforcement “failure,” according to a lengthy after-action report the DOJ released Thursday. The report laid out the timeline of the Robb Elementary School shooting, carried out by 18-year-old former student Salvador […]
