Politics

(WASHINGTON) — Kicking off its investigations into the Biden administration on Wednesday, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on COVID relief money spent during the pandemic, which Republicans argue was a “prescription for waste, fraud and abuse” and has been ignored by Democrats for the last two years of Biden’s administration. “We […]

(WASHINGTON) — Republicans on Wednesday will take their first opportunity of the new Congress to illustrate what they call a protracted migration crisis across the southwestern border caused by overly lax policies of the Biden administration. “How many illegal aliens will cross the southern border this month?” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who will […]

(WASHINGTON) — When President Joe Biden sits down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the Oval Office Wednesday, he says he’ll tell the GOP leader: “Show me your budget; I’ll show you mine.” The highly anticipated meeting, the first the two men will hold since McCarthy narrowly won the speakership last month, comes amid an […]

WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to announce her run for president in the coming weeks, sources familiar tell ABC News. The announcement is likely to come mid-February, and invitations are expected to be sent to her supporters in the coming days, according to sources familiar. […]

(WASHINGTON) — As Rep. George Santos continues to face mounting scrutiny over fabricating large swaths of his biography, multiple men have described to ABC News past relationships with the New York congressman — some allegedly occurring when they were still teenagers — that they said turned toxic due to a flood of lies that Santos […]

(WASHINGTON) — The State Department has informed Congress that Russia is no longer meeting obligations set by the only nuclear arms control pact shared by two powers, putting a rare area of cooperation between Washington and Moscow at risk. “Russia is not complying with its obligation under the New START Treaty to facilitate inspection activities […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI searched the Penn Biden Center in November soon after President Joe Biden’s lawyers reported finding classified documents at a former office he used there, according to three sources familiar with the situation. It is unclear if the FBI found any additional documents during the search, which was […]

(NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden hit the road again Tuesday as part of a multi-day pitch to Americans on the benefits of the bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year, stopping Tuesday in New York City to tout funding for the Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project. “This is just the beginning,” Biden said, as he described […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is expected to pose two questions to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during a Wednesday meeting and will challenge him to commit to avoiding a catastrophic default and unveil a specific, detailed and comprehensive budget, according to a White House memo obtained first by ABC News. The highly anticipated meeting comes […]

(WASHINGTON) — Embattled GOP Rep. George Santos told House Republicans during a closed door meeting on Tuesday that he would recuse himself from sitting on any committees, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Santos was recently assigned two committees — the House Small Business Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology […]