Pro-Trump legal advocacy nonprofit America First Legal (AFL) is calling on the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to begin requiring proof of citizenship for all federal voter registration applicants after the president’s effort to do so by executive order was blocked by the courts. AFL filed a petition on Wednesday with the EAC, calling on […]
In his first week as head of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Scott Kupor issued new guidance to executive agency directors cracking down on religious discrimination in the federal workforce. The memo, obtained by Fox News Digital, encourages the use of telework, flexible schedules and leave options to meet ‘reasonable’ religious […]
Zohran Mamdani, the polarizing Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, huddled privately Wednesday with Democratic lawmakers at a Washington restaurant. The conversation, attendees said, focused on campaign strategy and lessons learned from his surprise win. Those included “the effective communications strategy that they employed, very dynamic and natural,” said Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.). “And […]
Democrats and Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee are set to have a bipartisan meeting next Wednesday with Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, as congressional tax writers eye year-end health care legislation following their work in helping craft the “big, beautiful bill.” According to […]
Embattled Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy maintains a significant cash advantage over his primary challengers as the GOP’s MAGA wing attempts to unseat him over his vote in President Donald Trump’s 2021 impeachment trial. Cassidy raised $1.6 million in the second quarter, significantly more than donors gave his two self-funding challengers, according to campaign finance […]
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said he expects votes on all three cryptocurrency bills that Republicans are pushing to go to the House floor Wednesday, though leadership is still weighing how to sequence or combine them. “We’re bringing all of them,” Scalise said in a brief interview. “We’re back on track. And exactly what the […]
A former top White House advisor to ex-first lady Jill Biden was subpoenaed to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Anthony Bernal, former assistant to the president and senior advisor to the first lady, was compelled for a July 16 closed-door deposition after missing a previously agreed-upon interview date late last month. House […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is trying again to pass landmark cryptocurrency legislation this week after Tuesday’s failed rule vote. This time, President Donald Trump says he has the votes. After 12 hard-liners tanked the procedural vote setting up debate on three cryptocurrency bills, the president announced he flipped the holdouts after a meeting with them in […]
When senior State Department officials set out to trim the agency in the ‘biggest reorganization since the Cold War,’ they couldn’t get a total headcount on employees — for months, they say. ‘It took us three months to get a list of the people that actually work in the building,’ one senior State Department official told […]
A new labor-backed coalition is pledging $50 million to help Democrats take back the House in next year’s midterm elections. Battleground Alliance PAC, which shared its plans first with POLITICO, said it is building a registration and turnout operation in 37 Republican-held districts across the country. Though Democrats only need to flip three seats in […]