A group of blue-state Republicans is likely to obtain a significant increase in the SALT cap as they were able to negotiate with leadership during reconciliation, despite continued grumbling by the House Freedom Caucus. One of the dominant points of contention as the House worked to pass its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in […]

A 21-year-old intern for Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS) was killed in a shooting in Washington, D.C., on Monday night. The intern, Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, joined Estes’s office in June. He is a resident of Granby, Massachusetts, and is attending college at UMass Amherst. He will be a senior this fall. Police found Tarpinian-Jachym along with a woman and […]

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has lost his bid to thwart a Kansas law banning foreign actors from funneling money into state-level ballot initiatives. In May, the Elias Law Group, the eponymous law firm of the election attorney, jointly filed a federal lawsuit challenging the ban, enacted as H.B. 2106, on behalf of the foreign-funded […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lambasted Paramount Global’s decision on Wednesday to settle with President Donald Trump for $16 million over editing choices in CBS News’s 60 Minutes election special that made former Vice President Kamala Harris look more favorable. Sanders claimed independent media were under attack following the settlement of Trump’s lawsuit. “It is a […]