May 20, 2025
Debt cloud suddenly hangs over megabill talks
Republicans knew they’d have to overcome fierce internal divisions, thorny policy trade-offs and rock-solid Democratic resistance to pass their massive domestic policy bill. They didn’t count on a Wall Street backlash, too. A softening Treasury bond market and surprise downgrade Friday of U.S. creditworthiness are the latest forces weighing on the GOP megabill — an […]
May 20, 2025
Feds charge New Jersey congressmember with assault
The Justice Department announced an assault charge Monday against Rep. LaMonica McIver, a New Jersey Democrat who was involved in a chaotic confrontation with officials outside a federal immigration facility earlier this month. The criminal charge follows a May 9 visit by McIver, along with her colleagues Reps. Rob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman, to […]
May 19, 2025
Trump calls Biden’s cancer diagnosis ‘very sad’ while questioning timeline: ‘Wasn’t informed’
President Donald Trump spoke candidly about former President Joe Biden’s recent prostate cancer diagnosis on Monday, expressing sympathy while also suggesting that the situation should be investigated. Biden’s team announced the diagnosis on Sunday afternoon, saying that the former statesman ‘was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms.’ […]
May 19, 2025
Schumer ripped for placing blame on Trump, DOGE for deadly Mexican Navy crash in NYC: ‘He is an idiot’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was ripped on social media over the weekend for suggesting President Donald Trump was partially to blame for a Mexican Navy ship losing control and crashing into the Brooklyn Bridge. ‘After being fully briefed on last night’s Brooklyn Bridge accident, one thing is predominantly clear: there are more questions than […]
May 19, 2025
Rules Committee Republicans weigh next steps on megabill
Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the four House Republicans whose initial opposition to the GOP megabill delayed its in the Budget Committee, said Monday he would not vote against it in the Rules panel later this week. “Unless something changes … the body has a right [to consider it],” said Norman of his decision to […]
May 19, 2025
Reagan admin official who helped America defeat communism dead at age 83
Michael A. Ledeen, a major American historian and intellectual, died after suffering a series of small strokes on Sunday at his residence in Maryland. He was 83 years old. Ledeen was a vigorous participant in contributing to the demise of the communist Soviet Union and its Iron Curtain allies in Eastern Europe. Ledeen served as […]
May 19, 2025
Trump considers former defense attorney Emil Bove for federal appeals court vacancy
President Donald Trump is considering Justice Department official Emil Bove, his former defense attorney, for a U.S. appeals court vacancy — a controversial nomination that would come as he continues to attack so-called ‘activist’ judges for blocking his agenda. Bove, 44, is among those Trump is considering for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
May 19, 2025
Conservative rips blue state Republican’s proposal to raise taxes on wealthy in SALT debate
A conservative Republican said he’s opposed to his moderate colleague’s proposal for a modest tax hike on high-income earners, as GOP lawmakers continue to navigate divisions over President Donald Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill.’ ‘Well, think about that — higher taxes to pay for something that is pretty much self-inflicted by all the states that […]
May 19, 2025
Trump descends on Capitol Hill to patch Republican divides on his ‘one big, beautiful bill’
President Donald Trump will descend on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning where he’s expected to meet with House Republicans on his ‘one, big, beautiful bill.’ Trump is attending the House GOP’s weekly conference meeting, three House GOP sources and two White House officials confirmed to Fox News Digital and Fox News Radio, respectively. It’s normally an […]
May 19, 2025
Trump hails cooperative effort at anti-revenge porn bill signing: ‘Bipartisanship is still possible’
President Donald Trump said the cooperation he witnessed to get the Take It Down Act into law was one of the greatest moments of bipartisanship he has seen. The president signed the bill, which punishes internet abuse involving nonconsensual, explicit imagery, during an outdoors ceremony in the White House Rose Garden Monday afternoon, joined by […]
May 19, 2025
Outgoing Capitol Police chief blasts reported settlement in Jan. 6 shooting
The outgoing chief of the U.S. Capitol Police issued an unusual public statement Monday criticizing a reported settlement between Justice Department and the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed on Jan. 6, 2021, by an officer guarding the House chamber. “I am extremely disappointed and disagree with this settlement,” Chief Thomas Manger […]
May 19, 2025
Underwood says she won’t run for Senate in Illinois
Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood said Monday she will forgo a Senate run to succeed Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and will stay in the House instead. “When I reflected on the way that I could best serve families in Illinois and around the country, I really decided to stay in the House of Representatives,” the Democrat […]