Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) denied President Joe Biden’s claim that Republicans are considering cuts to Social Security and Medicare, calling it "empty scaremongering" on Tuesday following the State of the Union address.
More than 100 members of Congress co-sponsored a resolution on Wednesday that condemned the Iranian regime and supported protests in the country spurred by Mahsa Amini's death in September.
The Social Security Administration's first round of retirement payments for the month of February, worth up to $4,555, are being issued to recipients on Wednesday, with two more payments following later this month.
Republicans repeated assertions that they would not touch Social Security or Medicare in negotiations to resolve the debt ceiling despite President Joe Biden's claims some GOP members were targeting the programs.
President Joe Biden's second State of the Union was skipped by four Supreme Court justices, though some former justices came out of retirement to attend the event.
A market regulator in the United Kingdom has concluded that Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of the video game developer behind Call of Duty would be bad for the U.K. marketplace, a step that could force Microsoft to break up the developer.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) denounced House Republicans who heckled President Joe Biden on Tuesday during his State of the Union address and insinuated they were unfit to serve, despite having condoned similar behavior in the past.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said half of the things President Joe Biden said during the State of the Union were unintelligible and the other half "didn't make any sense."
