Category: Federal

September 29, 2023

House lawmakers voted to pass three of four appropriations bills brought to the floor on Thursday night, with defense spending passing along bipartisan lines while their bill on agriculture and FDA spending was sunk by both Republicans and Democrats. The […]

September 28, 2023

The National Flood Insurance Program isn’t doing too well. The program, which offers public flood insurance to almost 5 million households nationwide, is about $20 billion in debt, and it lost almost half a million customers last year after debuting […]

September 28, 2023

House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to “provide accountability” as they probe the family finances and lucrative business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a […]

September 19, 2023

Republican governors from 25 states called on President Joe Biden to provide them with detailed data related to people who are entering the country through the U.S.-Mexico border. The governors are requesting “honest, accurate, detailed information” regarding where migrants are […]

September 8, 2023

President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are certainly putting in the time to cultivate their relationship. Less than three months after honoring Modi with a state visit to the White House, Biden arrived Friday in New Delhi — […]

September 7, 2023

A freshman House Republican is calling on Congress to give serious thought to imposing age limits for federal elected officials, with new legislation aimed at injecting new blood into Capitol Hill. Rep. John James, R-Mich., introduced a resolution this week […]

September 5, 2023

After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment […]

August 28, 2023

President Joe Biden is heading to Vietnam next month to meet with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other Vietnamese leaders, the White House announced on Monday. The president will travel to Hanoi on Sept. 10, tacking on the one-day […]

August 24, 2023

The Biden administration’s massive expansion of food stamp benefits is linked to at least a 15% rise in grocery prices, a new study said on Thursday. President Biden’s Department of Agriculture rolled out revised nutritional standards for federal food benefits […]

August 24, 2023

Red states are taking President Biden’s administration to court over an immigration policy that lets up to 30,000 migrants into the U.S. every month from South America and the Caribbean. Texas, along with 21 other GOP-led states, will begin court […]

August 18, 2023

Several Republican White House hopefuls are set to greet a conservative conference with hopes of making up ground against Donald Trump. But his shadow may be especially difficult to escape in the city where he was most recently indicted. Trump […]

August 18, 2023

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is calling on Congress to investigate Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accusing her of conducting her court with open bias and partisanship in handling the cases of people […]

August 17, 2023

A Texas woman was arrested last week on allegations that she sent a threatening and racist voicemail to the federal judge in Washington, D.C., who was randomly assigned to oversee the Justice Department’s election interference case against former President Donald […]

August 16, 2023

President Biden’s Special Envoy for Iran who was placed on leave in June amid an investigation into his security clearance has landed a teaching gig at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. The department said Robert Malley will […]

August 10, 2023

Allusions to book burning and mobster movies arose during a federal court hearing Thursday as appellate judges heard arguments on whether the Biden administration crosses the line from legal persuasion to unconstitutional censorship in communications with social media platforms about […]

August 10, 2023

Donald Trump’s valet pleaded not guilty on Thursday to new charges in the case accusing the ex-president of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate while the property manager had his arraignment postponed because he still hasn’t secured a […]

August 9, 2023

Bringing back factory jobs is one of the most popular of White House promises — regardless of who happens to be the president. Donald Trump said he’d do it with tariffs. Barack Obama said companies would start “insourcing.” George W. […]

August 9, 2023

House Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at making sure former President Trump’s federal trial on the 2020 election is broadcast to the nation. A resolution calling on the Judicial Conference, the U.S. courts’ policymaking body, to allow criminal proceedings for […]

July 20, 2023

Nearly half of U.S. voters would consider a third-party presidential candidate in 2024, according to a new poll continuing to show former President Trump and President Biden as front-runners among Republican and Democratic voters, respectively. “With neither President Biden nor […]

July 19, 2023

Antitrust enforcers released a draft update outlining new rules today that officials say will make it easier to crack down on mergers and acquisitions that could substantially lessen competition in the US. Now the public has 60 days to review […]