Senate Dems protest committee vote to advance Trump’s judicial pick

Emil Bove’s nomination to serve as a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals is headed to the Senate floor after Democrats walked out of the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in protest. The panel voted Thursday morning with only Republican support to advance Bove’s nomination, as every Democrat abstained from recording a vote either […]

Civil rights group declares ‘state of emergency,’ pointing at Trump admin

The National Urban League is sounding the alarm, asserting that there is a ‘state of emergency’ in the country. The organization’s ‘State of Black America’ report for 2025 titled ‘State of Emergency: Democracy, Civil Rights, and Progress Under Attack,’ takes aim at the Trump administration. ‘Almost daily, since January 20, 2025, the federal government, at […]

SCOOP: House fiscal hawks warily accept Senate’s $9B Trump spending cuts package

Some House fiscal hawks are cautiously readying to accept the $9 billion spending cuts package passed by the Senate overnight. The House of Representatives must pass the bill, called a rescissions package, by Friday. Rescissions packages are spending cuts requested by the White House of funds that Congress already appropriated for that fiscal year.  It’s […]

Two Republicans vote against Trump’s $9 billion clawback of foreign aid, NPR funding

Though Senate Republicans were successful in their mission to pass President Donald Trump’s clawback package, not every member of the conference was on board. Only two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined with every Senate Democrat to vote against the $9 billion package geared toward clawing back foreign aid and public […]

Big government, big problems: Public corruption highest in places with large bureaucracies, report says

A new think tank analysis finds that public corruption is a significant problem in the U.S., and is most prevalent in state and local governments that have larger bureaucracies and higher regulations. The libertarian Cato Institute said it analyzed Department of Justice data on public corruption convictions in the nation’s 94 federal judicial districts and […]

These are the Republicans who voted against Trump’s $9 billion clawback of foreign aid, NPR funding

Though Senate Republicans were successful in their mission to pass President Donald Trump’s clawback package, not every member of the conference was on board. Only two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined with every Senate Democrat to vote against the $9 billion package geared toward clawing back foreign aid and public […]

Trump urged to aid Yemen’s anti-Houthi forces as terror group escalates attacks on shipping

The State Department on Sunday blasted Yemen’s Iran-sponsored Houthi terrorist movement for lethal attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea and on Israel as new calls emerged for President Donald Trump to support Yemen’s legitimate government to topple the Houthi regime. Walid Phares, a leading American expert on the Middle East, told Fox News […]

Capitol agenda: Brutal day ahead for Mike Johnson

Turns out President Donald Trump didn’t have the magic touch House Republicans were expecting. Another day of crypto drama has now put the House in a severe time crunch, setting members up for a mammoth day of voting Thursday. To recap: Speaker Mike Johnson headed into Wednesday confident that Trump had struck a deal with […]