“Did President Trump have legal authority to launch the attacks against Venezuela early Saturday?” I’ve laughed hourly since the formal announcement of the bombing in Carracus and the seizure of Maduro and his wife. Even some Republicans are complaining that Trump did not at least notify Congress of the planned attack before initiating it. Does […]
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Spending on U.S. House of Representatives office accounts increased by more than 85% over the past three decades, but nearly half of that occurred since 2020, an investigation by The Center Square found. The Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA) provides each of the 435 U.S. representatives in Congress with about $2 million a year to pay
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Senators in both parties — below the leadership level — are starting to see an unmistakable shift that they hope leads to a bipartisan agreement to end the shutdown, perhaps as early as next week, according to more than a dozen sources. That agreement almost certainly won’t happen this week. Still, Republican and Democratic senators
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Crockett, a potential 2028 Senate candidate, did not report her stakes in major pharmaceutical, fossil fuel, marijuana, technology, and automobile firms. Rep. Jasmine Crockett ( D-TX) owned stocks in at least 25 companies that she did not disclose to the public during her first congressional run in 2022, even though she’d quietly admitted to the
There is a deep and growing chasm in America today, but it’s not the one the mainstream media endlessly screeches about. It’s the divide between the commonsense concerns of hardworking families and the bizarre, theatrical priorities of the political class in Washington, D.C. While regular Americans worry about the price of gas, a permanent political
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Halloween could come early this year. The Democrats have named their price to avoid a government shutdown come October – an additional $350 billion for healthcare over the next decade. Critics say a big chunk of that money may go to ghosts. At issue are the generous subsidies the Biden administration created for Affordable Care Act policies,
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During a shutdown, tasks considered ‘essential’ will still be carried out. But which operations come to a halt, and how does it affect public services? Congress has until September 30 to pass a stopgap bill to fund the government. Failure to do so means the government will go into shutdown on Wednesday. The White
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Republicans are ripping progressive New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for renewing her call to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a recent fundraising email. “I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is a rogue agency that should not exist,” Ocasio-Cortez said in
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Democrats can use the Congressional Review Act to force votes on Trump’s regulatory actions. A decision by Senate Republicans could widen the opportunity. How many times have you anxiously followed the work of Congress in constructing important pieces of legislation? Remember how Democrats handled “pending legislation” during Trump’s first term? It seemed to take millennia
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For far too long, illegal immigration has been a great scourge upon the nation. With each passing year, the situation only gets more dire. During President Trump’s first term in office, he took substantial action to stop this, passing reforms like Remain in Mexico. However, shortly after Joe Biden’s 2020 inauguration into the Oval Office,
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