Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has joined the growing number of critics House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faces within the Republican Party, claiming that the House speaker has not stood up against Democrats in Congress. Paul’s criticism stems from Johnson voting with 126 Democrats and 86 Republicans against an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, […]
Twelve major media outlets signed a joint statement asking President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive nominees, to debate ahead of the general election in November ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News Media, NBCUniversal News Group, NewsNation, Noticias Univision (Univision Network News), NPR, PBS NewsHour, and USA […]
White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby made a case that President Joe Biden has been “tough” on Iran. Kirby appeared on Fox News Sunday the day after Iran launched an attack against Israel. Several of the missiles were shot down. However, Kirby addressed concerns that this attack came after sanctions against Iran that […]
Iran’s Saturday missile attack on Israel has reignited urgency for House GOP leaders to consider foreign aid to Ukraine and the Jewish State, with Republicans anticipating a vote on an aid package this week. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said in a Sunday interview with NBC News’s Meet the Press that he believes […]
President Joe Biden and other national security leaders have told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to counterattack Iran, after Iran launched rockets into Israel Saturday. Biden told Netanyahu the United States would not support a counterattack, saying Israel’s defending itself from the rockets was enough. Israel intercepted over 99% of the rockets Iran launched. “I […]
At least three children were among eight people shot in Chicago on Saturday night, with police reporting that one 7-year-old girl was killed. Police responded to Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side after being alerted to 18 gunshot rounds in the area, Chicago Police Department officials said during a press conference […]
House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) does not believe the United States needs to engage in an offensive military response to Iran‘s missile attack on Israel but disagrees with the Biden administration that this is not an “escalating” conflict. “I don’t think at this point that the United States should be engaged in a […]
(The Center Square) — Connecticut has never had a “faithless” elector who refused to certify the results of a presidential election, but some state lawmakers argue there needs to be a law preventing it. A legislative proposal, which recently cleared a key committee, would nullify the electoral vote of a so-called “faithless” presidential elector in […]
(The Center Square) – A coalition of Republican senators is calling out Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, for his purported plan to table the impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Before Schumer adjourned the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators made their case for what they say is the Senate’s […]
(The Center Square) – Lawmakers from Maryland, including the state’s sole Republican representative introduced legislation in Congress to ensure the federal government foots the bill for reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Legislation was introduced in both chambers of Congress on Thursday to allow the federal government to fully fund the replacement […]
