House GOP appropriators are growing frustrated with the duration of the government shutdown, arguing they cannot do their jobs and will not bring the remaining full-year funding bills to the floor until the government reopens. All 12 appropriations cardinals told the Washington Examiner they are concerned about the time being lost as the shutdown carries […]

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) has had a busy 10 months-plus advancing legislation, approving nominations, conducting oversight, and also chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections. But Scott, 60, said he is taking the work in stride and successfully balancing his legislative responsibilities and his job […]

President Donald Trump’s executive order to criminalize burning the American flag isn’t the first Republican effort to ban the provocative protest. In fact, the party came within a single vote of getting a constitutional amendment prohibiting desecration of the flag through Congress two decades ago. The obstacle, then as now, is a 1989 Supreme Court decision that […]

JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump‘s historic ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas passed its first hurdle on Oct. 13, when the last 20 living Israeli hostages in captivity returned home to a grateful nation exhausted by two years of unrelenting war.   Despite Trump’s reported anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attack Hamas […]