House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) announced Wednesday morning that she will support an effort from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to cut off U.S. aid to Israel. Clark’s support for the amendment puts her at odds with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who told Democrats he would vote against the amendment in a Dear […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, said Wednesday that he could meet with disgraced and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims but could not directly approach survivors represented by lawyers, responding to Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) demands that he personally hear from 10 victims within 30 days, among other Epstein-related questions the […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) has secured $20 million in fundraising during this year’s second quarter for his reelection campaign, outpacing his Republican opponent in the general election by nearly 10 times. Confident in its latest fundraising haul, Ossoff’s campaign announced the incumbent has $42 million in the bank as of Wednesday. Nearly 90% of the […]
Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN) signed an executive order Wednesday ending the state’s use of race- and sex-based preferences in awarding state contracts following the Indiana attorney general’s finding that certain programs were unconstitutional. Braun said he had directed Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) to review whether the state’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises procurement […]
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at forcing Congress to confront Social Security’s looming funding shortfall before automatic benefit cuts take effect. The proposal comes as the latest report from Social Security trustees warns that the program’s retirement trust fund will be depleted by late 2032 unless Congress acts. At that point, […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s Washington Secrets. Today, we give in. The World Cup is nearly over, so we are bringing you a healthy dose of political/soccer news while we quietly board a flight for Atlanta and a new skirmish in the Falklands war. If you have no idea what we are talking about, then it is […]
Billionaire Warren Buffett announced Tuesday that he has decided to stop donating to the Gates Foundation after newly released government documents showed the charity’s figurehead, Bill Gates, once had close ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett has given over $47 billion to the Gates Foundation in the past two decades. The former Berkshire […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York warned that an unstable Senate could enable a Democratic takeover, possibly leading to efforts to eliminate the filibuster. “The combination of retirements, age, infirmity, death in the case of Senator Graham, has just really, really taken out a lot of important Republican senators,” York said on the Hugh […]
The House again approved legislation to make daylight saving time permanent, reviving a proposal that has a history of receiving bipartisan support and broad public appeal. But despite clearing the House with a 308-117 vote, the measure now faces a familiar hurdle in the Senate: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Cotton has positioned himself as one […]
EXCLUSIVE — The outgoing leaders of the Senate’s NATO Observer Group are recommending that Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Angus King (I-ME) take their place next year, a proposed hand-off that comes at a fraught time in the trans-Atlantic alliance. Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), who rebooted the Senate caucus in 2018 […]
