Topline Democrats placed blame for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank over the weekend on looser regulations signed by former President Donald Trump, and called for Congress to rei...
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Rupert Murdoch Must Tell Fox News Hosts To Stop Spreading Election Lies, Congressional Democrats Demand
Topline Democratic leaders in Congress sent a letter to Fox News executives including Rupert Murdoch Wednesday demanding they force Fox News hosts to stop spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election ...
Elissa Slotkin Announces Run For Michigan Senate—As Democrats Risk Losing Their Majority In 2024
Topline Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) is running to replace retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow, making her the first Democrat to enter the race for a swing-state seat in an election year when Democrats wil...
Warren Buffett slams critics of stock buybacks after Democrats’ scrutiny: ‘Economic illiterate’
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett blasted opponents of stock buybacks in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders, writing that the opponents are “illiterate” about econ...
Democrats to Return 2.2% of $45.2 Million Donation Made by FTX’s Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried – Bitcoin News
After the disgraced co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), donated $5.2 million to Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 and more than $40 million to Democrats leading up to the U.S. midterm election cycl...
Kamala Harris Plans On Running With Biden In 2024, Despite Low Popularity
Topline Vice President Kamala Harris said she plans to run as President Joe Biden’s running mate in 2024, in an interview with NBC News on Friday, despite maintaining a low popularity and amid critici...
Washington’s Public Option Is Nothing To Cheer About
“Washington’s failures should rid them of the notion that a government-run health insurance option … [+] could work on a national scale,” writes Sally Pipes. getty When Washing...
Americans’ Satisfaction With U.S. Immigration At Lowest Point In Decade
Topline Americans are less satisfied with the level of immigration into the U.S. than they have been at any point since 2012, according to a new Gallup poll, as the crisis at the border that’s caused ...
House Democrats Push To Expel Santos From Congress
Topline Five House Democrats introduced a resolution on Thursday to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from Congress, calling him a “serial fraudster” amid growing revelations that Santos has lied abou...
Are Republicans Serious About Cutting Pentagon Spending?
The negotiations over the election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House prompted howls of protest from the Washington establishment for one major reason – the fear that the budget freeze McC...
U.S. Democrats Seek More Info On Federal Crypto Mining Data Collection
United States Democrats have actively followed most of cryptocurrency’s major events and activities. The lawmakers’ interests cut across several crypto aspects, such as regulations and controls, opera...
Democrats’ Price Controls Undermine Biden’s Cancer Moonshot
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 01: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a … [+] joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol’s House Chamber March 01, 202...
Most Democrats Don’t Want Biden To Run In 2024, AP-NORC Poll Finds
Topline Most Democrats are keen to see the back of President Joe Biden, according to an AP-NORC poll released Monday, with few supporting the incumbent making another bid for the White House in 2024 a...
Ilhan Omar Likely To Be Removed From House Foreign Affairs Committee In What Democrats Call A Revenge Move
Topline The House is likely to vote this week to oust Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee, in what Republicans say is a response to comments she made about Israel—but Democrat...
US Democrats Warren, Wyden Want to Clamp Down on Crypto Audit
Senators have asked regulators to keep a check on the registered audit firms for their work with crypto clients. The letter also asked the board to inspect defects in the auditing firms that recorded ...
Democrats Ridicule GOP’s Proposal To Eliminate Most Taxes And The IRS — And Create One National Sales Tax Instead
Topline Democratic leaders railed against GOP-backed legislation that would scrap some taxes and replace them with a steep national sales tax on Wednesday–a bill that has virtually no chance of passin...
Democrats Ask Watchdog Group To Probe IRS For Failing To Audit Trump’s Taxes
Topline Democrats who were on a House panel that released former President Donald Trump’s tax returns last year asked a government watchdog group Monday to investigate the Internal Revenue Service for...
Key Senate Democrats push Southwest CEO for answers on holiday meltdown
Southwest Airlines Executive Vice President Bob Jordan speaks as he is interviewed by CNBC outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 9, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reute...
Tesla’s Brand Is Tanking, Survey Finds
Tesla’s share price has recovered a bit this year. The same doesn’t appear to be true for its brand image, according to a Morning Consult survey. Visual China Group via Getty Images After ...
How Diverse Is Congress?
Now in its 118th session, U.S. Congress continues to grow more diverse. According to a Statista analysis, there are now 143 senators, representatives and delegates who are not or not exclusively white...
FTX Allegedly Gave Just as Much Money to Republicans as It Did to Democrats
The drama surrounding FTX is getting a lot worse. Initially, it was believed that Sam Bankman-Fried – the man behind the now failed digital currency exchange – gave a lot of money to democrat politici...
Healthcare Priorities For The Next Congress
“At long last, Congress will likely turn its attention to things other than COVID-19,” writes Sally … [+] Pipes. “But Democrats have lost their legislative trifecta and will ha...
Three Bipartisan Higher Education Reform Ideas For The New Congress
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 03: Members of the 115th U.S. Congress take their oath of office January … [+] 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. Seven new members of the U.S. Senate and 52 new members o...
Democrats release six years of Trump’s tax returns, and CPAs have questions: ‘The personal tax return is just the tip of the iceberg.’
The nonpartisan committee’s findings also raised several red flags related to the filings, namely Trump’s carryover losses, loans to his children that may or may not also be considered taxable gifts, ...
Democrats split on Gensler’s crypto approach post-FTX
As Congress weighs the FTX collapse, Democrats appear split on how much more the Securities and Exchange Commission and its chair, Gary Gensler, could have done to stave off what the agency now calls ...
Democrats intend to return at least $9.85 million in FTX donations
American political organizations will refund millions of dollars of Sam Bankman-Fried’s donations as they deal with FTX fraud’ allegations. Sam Bankman-Fried’s donations to political parties are to be...
Not Just Democrats: FTX Exec Gave Tens of Millions to GOP Causes
It’s no secret Sam Bankman-Fried shelled out millions to Democratic causes. But it turns out a fellow top executive — Ryan Salame, the former co-head of FTX’s derivatives business and FTX whistl...
Democrats Plan on Returning at Least $9.85M in FTX Donations
Key Takeaways Various political organizations belonging to the Democratic Party have announced they would return Sam Bankman-Fried’s donations. At least $9.85 million will be sent back by the Senate M...
Sam Bankman-Fried Possibly Gave Dirty Money to Democrats. What Will They Do with It?
Sam Bankman-Fried – the disgraced runner of now failed crypto exchange FTX – gave a lot of his money to democrat candidates during the midterm elections… So much, in fact, that he’s been listed as the...
Federal Prosecutors Probe Democrats Over Donations From Sam Bankman-Fried – Regulation Bitcoin News
Several members of the U.S. Democratic Party and campaign committees are reportedly being probed by federal prosecutors over donations from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and another executive...
Opinion: Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s bold tax hike to shore up Social Security
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want to shore up Social Security by raising the top rate of income tax by a third, and the top rate of capital-gains tax by more than a half. The Democratic senator...