Republican Senate leaders on Monday downplayed the notion that a bipartisan bill to claw back Congress’s authority over tariffs from President Donald Trump would receive serious consideration. GOP leaders’ dismissal of a proposal from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to require congressional tariff approval came after a third straight day of plunging […]

The Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a significant legal victory, allowing President Donald Trump to resume deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime law invoked for the first time in peacetime. In a 5-4 decision, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that had blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, […]

Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ) was hospitalized over the weekend, jeopardizing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) attempts to rally his troops in the House. Republicans currently hold a 220-213 advantage in the House. The ratio was previously 220-215, but Democratic Reps. Sylvester Turner and Raul Grijalva died in March. Norcross’s hospitalization could place Democrats in […]

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) raised the alarm against right-wing activist Laura Loomer’s apparent influence in the White House while making a joke at her expense. President Donald Trump fired three National Security Council senior officials last week just a day after he met with Loomer. National security adviser Mike Waltz was also at the meeting […]