Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) hit House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in an X post responding to the committee’s hearing announcement on the Minnesota fraud scandal. The House Oversight Committee announced its first hearings into the Minnesota day care fraud controversy, which will include testimony from state Reps. Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson, and Marion Rarick, all of […]

President Donald Trump rang in the New Year at Mar-a-Lago, but when he returns to Washington, D.C., 2026 could be the biggest year of his second term. Trump will spend the whole year with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, assuming resignations don’t take their toll in the lower chamber. But those majorities will […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn in at a decommissioned subway station on New Year’s Day after rising to fame last year. Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, was sworn in ahead of his inauguration ceremony, just weeks after winning the crowded race to become New York City‘s mayor. Mamdani beat out former New York […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani convinced many progressive Democrats that they could find success employing his flashy, eye-catching campaign style. He rode his prominent promises of fast and free buses, a rent freeze for certain tenants, and no-cost child care all the way to Gracie Mansion and over the well-politically established former Gov. Andrew […]