As Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) mulls a bid for New York’s governorship, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is offering some unsolicited advice: Please do. “Here’s my political advice for Elise Stefanik: Run, Elise, run,”…
A new federal proposal included in the administration’s “one, big, beautiful” bill would provide a one-time deposit of $1,000 to every child born between 2025 and 2028 through Trump Accounts — previously known as the…
Iran announced Thursday it will launch a new uranium enrichment facility after the United Nations nuclear watchdog determined the country was not in compliance with its nuclear obligations. The Iranian government issued a statement calling…
California officials on Thursday filed their 26th lawsuit against the Trump administration, after the president signed resolutions overturning the Golden State’s landmark electric vehicle (EV) mandate. “We made a promise that if the president attempted…
The Senate Finance Committee might play fill-in-the-blanks for a key tax deduction when it releases its portion of the GOP’s megabill in the coming days, according to Sen. Markwayne Mullin. The Oklahoma Republican told reporters…
Senate Republicans on Thursday voted to confirm former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) as the next leader of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The GOP-led chamber voted 53-44 along party lines to install Long in the…
SPOTTED: A bipartisan group of senators sporting smiles in their seersuckers — and potentially proving that stripes could actually be what brings together lawmakers of different stripes. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.),…
Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent insisted Thursday that tariff are not taxes, defying the widely accepted economic and financial definition of President Trump’s top trade tool. In an exchange about federal revenues coming from Trump’s…
Speaker Mike Johnson expressed confidence ahead of a planned Thursday vote that the House will pass a $9.4 billion spending cuts package as planned. But privately, his whip team is scrambling to shore up enough…
Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) on Thursday lambasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling him an “embarrassment” and demanding he resign over a range of issues including sharing sensitive military attack plans via an unsecure Signal group…
Americans stand to benefit in the long term from diversifying where U.S. companies build their products, moving manufacturing away from China and into India. But this move would not be without short-term costs. China stands…
A billionaire Walmart heiress has again taken aim at President Trump — this time encouraging people to participate in protests against his second presidency while Trump holds a military parade in Washington on Saturday. Christy…
Six Hispanic Republicans are urging the Trump administration to prioritize deporting migrants facing charges for violent crimes as immigration enforcement officers have ramped up arrests of nonviolent migrants. In a letter to Immigration and Customs…
President Trump’s former surgeon general blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr.’s decision to fire the entirety of a federal advisory committee vaccine guidance, saying the move jeopardizes public health and threatens…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sees a potential path to a Democratic majority in an unlikely place: Deep-red Texas. The White House is reportedly pressing Texas Republicans to redraw the lines for U.S. House districts…
The nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization is warning against “reckless behavior” at protests as demonstrations against President Trump’s immigration policies spread across the country and National Guard troops are mobilized in multiple states. The…
Meta filed a lawsuit against a developer for allegedly running advertisements to promote its “nudify” apps, which use artificial intelligence to create nonconsensual nude or sexually explicit images. The suit accuses Joy Timeline HK Limited,…
President Trump moved to overturn California’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate Thursday, setting off another legal fight with the Golden State. Trump signed a congressional resolution that overturns a California state rule that would have phased…
More than a dozen private browsing apps on Apple and Google’s app stores have undisclosed ties to Chinese companies, leaving user data at risk of exposure to the Chinese government, according to a new report…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to commit to following federal court or Supreme Court rulings regarding the Pentagon’s extraordinary deployment of National Guard members and Marines into Los Angeles. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) pressed Hegseth…