(The Center Square) – A $1.5 trillion Farm Bill supported by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representative has sparked criticism among Democrats for cutting $30 billion from the former food stamps program. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit costs, formerly known as food stamps, have increased from $55.6 billion in fiscal year 2019 to $107.04 […]
While President Joe Biden is known for his blunders and colorful turns of phrase, his staffers increasingly are correcting his words after the fact via strikethroughs in the White House transcript. The written record of a May 19 campaign speech in Detroit includes no less than nine corrections, a few of which created mini-news cycles […]
Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York joins Investigations Editor Sarah Bedford to discuss one of the last outstanding items in the trial of former President Donald Trump, to receive the final copy of the instructions to Judge Juan Merchan, who would read to the jury at the end of the trial. Are those turning out […]
Monday marks Memorial Day, when many members of Congress will honor not only their loved ones and their constituents but their own years in service. In the 118th Congress, there were 99 veterans at the start of the term: 82 members in the House and 17 members in the Senate. The number of veterans elected […]
Political branding on the cars racing in the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500 has been banned by the IndyCar Series. The move comes after at least one request made to an entry in Sunday’s race that would have promoted former President Donald Trump and independent hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a report. […]
Former President Donald Trump’s attempt at extending a “hand of friendship” to members of the Libertarian National Convention was rebuked Saturday night. Trump asked for the endorsement of the Libertarian Party, urging delegates to back him if they want to win. He also offered to appoint a Libertarian to his Cabinet if he is reelected. […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is becoming a leading candidate to join former President Donald Trump on the Republican presidential ticket, according to a report from the New York Times. Three people “with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s thinking” told the outlet that Cotton is on a list of five people considered favorites for the coveted […]
Martha-Ann Alito, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito‘s wife, asserted from the beginning that her display of an upside-down American flag was meant as a “signal of distress.” A since-retired Washington Post reporter included coverage of an exchange shared with Alito on the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration in a report published Saturday. She brushed […]
Tensions rose at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday as delegates filed into a ballroom at a hotel in Washington to hear former President Donald Trump speak. The delegates, who were told they would have priority seating at the speech, entered the ballroom to find it nearly full. Eric Bowling, a delegate from Virginia, told […]
Rapper Nicki Minaj was arrested Saturday in Amsterdam after drugs were discovered in her luggage. She has since been released. Minaj, 41, was streaming live on Instagram in a post that has since been deleted when a uniformed officer accused her of having drugs in her bags. In the video, she denied having any, but […]
