Leading members of President Donald Trump’s political team met Wednesday behind closed doors with House Republicans to offer what’s being described as a ‘clear and simple’ message to sell the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy package to Americans. The sales pitch, from top Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio, senior Trump political aide James Blair, and White House […]
The House Budget Committee has begun having early discussions on a second Republican megabill, eyeing more potential reforms to Medicaid, sources told Fox News Digital. Republicans on the panel are expected to hold closed-door talks in the coming days, as lawmakers return from the August recess, three people familiar with the matter said. Two sources […]
Republicans are preparing to change the Senate rules to confirm most of President Donald Trump’s nominees a lot faster. GOP senators huddled behind closed doors Wednesday to talk through proposals for a party-line overhaul of how presidential nominations are handled — the first time they’ve been able to meet in person since frustration about the […]
Amazon is eliminating a program that allows members of its Prime subscription program to share free shipping benefits with people outside their household. The company began notifying users in recent days that it plans to end the Prime Invitee Program on Oct. 1, according to a notice viewed by CNBC. “We are writing to inform […]
President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who claimed he has taken ‘no action’ against Russia since taking office on Wednesday. The exchange came as Trump was holding a bilateral meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the White House. Trump took questions from the press, and one reporter with a Polish outlet claimed […]
Some House Republicans joined every Democrat in voting to sink an effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver over her involvement in a chaotic May scuffle outside an immigration detention center. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) forced the vote to formally reprimand McIver and remove her from her position on the House Homeland Security Committee, a handful […]
House members voted largely along party lines Wednesday to formally establish a new panel to investigate the events around the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. It’s the latest chapter in the Republican effort to rewrite the history of the events at the Capitol on that day, when a violent mob stormed the building […]
The House approved a symbolic measure that would affirm the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into the handling of case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The measure, included in a House rule that cleared in 212-208 vote, has no practical implications, as the Oversight panel is free to continue its probe without […]
A lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the American public is ‘going to be appalled’ about documents relating to the disgraced late financier that have not been released by the federal government. ‘The government has mistreated them after Jeffrey Epstein mistreated them,’ Bradley Edwards said of the victims in Washington, D.C. Edwards […]
Rep. Thomas Massie is publicly pleading with his Republican colleagues to break rank with House GOP leaders and join his crusade to force a vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. At a Wednesday press conference outside the Capitol alongside some of the late convicted sex offender’s accusers, Massie said he needed just […]