Politics

(WASHINGTON) — Over the past six months, Vice President JD Vance has shown how much of a key player he has become in the Trump administration, serving as the president’s most prominent advocate and advancing his agenda. The latest example came this week, when Vance helped push President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending bill […]

Kevin Carter/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is slated to use the White House’s Fourth of July celebrations as the backdrop for his final victory lap over his massive spending bill. The president will sign the legislation, which will bring massive cuts to government benefits such as Medicaid and increase funding for immigration enforcement, […]

(DES MOINES, Iowa) — President Donald Trump celebrated the passage of his massive tax and policy bill during a “Salute to America” event in Des Moines, Iowa, a day ahead of the Fourth of July. Jewish advocacy groups slammed President Donald Trump for using an anti-Semitic descriptor on Thursday during his Iowa speech celebrating the […]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — There is the potential for more news out of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday when the justices release a list of orders and dispositions from the “cleanup conference,” the last in-person gathering before summer recess. The timing of the release is somewhat unusual — the conference was held last […]

(WASHINGTON) — More than 175 Democratic members of Congress are filing an amicus brief on Thursday opposing the Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. Department of Education. “The law couldn’t be clearer: the president does not have the authority to unilaterally abolish the Department of Education,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a statement first obtained […]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up a dispute over a Montana law that would have required notarized parental consent for a minor to receive an abortion. State lawmakers have argued that parents have a constitutional right to make decisions concerning the care, custody and control of their children. […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s major tax cut and spending bill passed the House on Thursday, but not without some Republican opposition. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania voted against the legislation alongside the entire House Democratic Caucus. While Massie and Fitzpatrick were the only GOP members to vote no, […]

House of Representatives (WASHINGTON) — The House has passed President Trump’s major tax cut and spending bill in a 218 to 214 vote. The legislation will now go to President Trump’s desk for his signature. The final vote came after an overnight scramble by Speaker Mike Johnson to secure the necessary GOP votes to proceed, […]

(WASHINGTON) — Four major law enforcement groups are sounding the alarm in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about potential cuts to the intelligence-gathering arm of her agency. The Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies (ASCIA), Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA), Major County Sheriffs of America (MCSA) and National Fusion Center […]

(WASHINGTON) — House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is making a marathon last stand against President Donald Trump’s major tax cut and spending bill. Jeffries took to the House floor around 5 a.m. on Thursday and shortly after noon had been speaking for more than seven hours, delaying a final vote in the chamber on the […]