Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested that “little red states” are national freeloaders, contributing nothing while blue states prop them up. Speaking at a hearing, Crockett mocked Republican-run states, claiming they were on “life support” from Democrat-run states. “It seems like blue states are constantly putting red states on life support, yet we got these little […]

Trayon White won his special election, sending him back to his District of Columbia Council seat after being expelled over an indictment for corruption charges. White defeated Salim Adofo, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission chairman in Congress Heights; attorney Mike Austin, also a former ANC chairman; and Sheila Bunn, who worked for former Washington, D.C., Mayor […]

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) filed a discharge petition to bypass their leadership and force a vote to push the Department of Justice to release the “complete” so-called Epstein files. The Republican Party has been riled by rare divisions under President Donald Trump after the president’s DOJ published a memo concluding that […]

Republicans moved one step closer to clawing back billions in foreign aid on Tuesday after Vice President JD Vance cast his latest tiebreaking vote to bring the package of DOGE-inspired cuts to the Senate floor. In a 51-50 vote, the Senate discharged the funding clawback, known as a rescissions request, out of the Appropriations Committee […]