Government

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough rejected the last remaining item in Republicans’ budget reconciliation package, a $1 billion White House and Secret Service security funding provision tied in part to President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, forcing GOP leaders to rewrite a key piece of their roughly $72 billion spending bill, Fox News Digital reported. MacDonough ruled […]

The World Health Organization on Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa an international public health emergency after 80 suspected deaths and hundreds of suspected cases were reported across the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the virus now confirmed in neighboring Uganda and the DRC’s own capital city of Kinshasa. As of Saturday, health […]

House Democrats and their allied spending groups poured more than $64 million into a single bet: redraw Virginia’s congressional map, pick up four seats, and pave Hakeem Jeffries’ path to the Speaker’s gavel. The Virginia Supreme Court threw the whole thing out. The failed redistricting push now stands as one of the most expensive strategic […]

A Los Angeles City Council member running for mayor wants the city to tell residents to stop grilling in their backyards on days when wildfire risk is high, and the proposal lasted about as long as a match in a Santa Ana wind before a fellow council member moved to snuff it out. Nithya Raman, […]

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced Friday that he signed a document requesting his name be removed from the ballot in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, ending a congressional career that stretched back nearly two decades. The move came just days after the state General Assembly approved a new congressional map that, as Fox News […]

President Donald Trump has a letter tucked inside the Resolute Desk addressed to Vice President JD Vance, instructions to be opened if something happens to the president, a senior White House aide disclosed on a podcast this week. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, made the revelation Wednesday on the “Pod Force One” podcast, […]

A CIA operations officer named James Erdman III sat before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday and told lawmakers that Dr. Anthony Fauci inserted himself into intelligence deliberations on COVID-19’s origins, twice, to push analysts toward a natural-origin narrative and away from a lab-leak finding that most technical experts supported. The […]

Three Republican senators broke ranks Wednesday and voted with Democrats to advance a war powers resolution aimed at ending Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. military campaign against Iran. The measure failed 49-50, falling short of the votes needed, but the defections from Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Rand Paul of […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will vote for a Republican-sponsored resolution that would strip senators of their paychecks every time the federal government shuts down, a rare bipartisan moment after a bruising stretch of closures that have rattled Washington and left agencies in limbo. The measure, authored by Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, […]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht has abandoned the Democratic Party over what he called the growing tolerance of antisemitism among its leaders, activists, and elected officials, and Sen. John Fetterman says the party needs to listen. Fetterman, a Democrat himself, responded to Wecht’s departure in a post on X, where he shared a photo […]