According to a new poll by Gallup, Americans are looking forward to the 2022 midterm election. This enthusiasm might not be shared by those whose performance is coming up to a vote in November—usuall...
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Government Drug Price Negotiations Offer A False Promise
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 04: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks to reporters outside of his office on … [+] Capitol Hill on January 04, 2022 in Washington, DC. Manchin took questions on the st...
Trump Leads Biden By 5 Points In Hypothetical 2024 Presidential Poll
Topline An Emerson College poll released Friday found President Joe Biden is down 44% to 39% to former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch, as Biden’s approval rating continues to pl...
Senate Passes Bipartisan Gun Control Bill In 65-33 Vote
Topline The Senate passed a bipartisan gun control bill in a 65-33 vote late Thursday, setting up one of the most significant pieces of federal gun legislation in decades—the product of weeks of negot...
How Has The Oil Industry Fared Under President Biden?
US President Joe Biden speaks before signing Bill S.3580, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, in … [+] the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, June 16, 2022. (Photo by Nic...
“Exxon Made More Money Than God” — But Far Less Than Apple
US President Joe Biden speak about the economy and inflation from the deck of the USS Iowa at the … [+] Port of Los Angeles on June 10, 2022. – US inflation surged to a new four-decade hig...
House Democrats push for repeal of rule blocking SALT cap workaround
Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference announcing the State and Local Taxes (SALT) Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol on April 15, 2021. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Three ...
Key Democrats Say Texas School Shooting Could Mark Turning Point On Gun Control
Topline Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is optimistic Congress could take “small and life saving steps” on gun control, the second highest-ranking Senate Democrat told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, as la...
FTX Boss Promises $1B for Democrats’ 2024 Presidential Campaign
FTX billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried is set to become the biggest-ever political donor in a single U.S. election after pledging to spend up to $1 billion. Bankman-Fried revealed via the Pushkin Industrie...
Former NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Announces Run For Congress
Topline Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday he is running for Congress, as New York’s congressional maps are being redrawn after an appeals court threw out state Democrats’ redi...
Elon Musk Bites The Hand That Fed Him By Bashing California And Democrats
Elon Musk moved to Texas and now appears to embrace the politics of the Republic Party and Texas Governor Greg Abbott Getty In the weeks since Tesla CEO Elon Musk began his gambit to acquire Twitter, ...
Elon Musk Tweets He’ll Vote Republican—And Slams Democrats As ‘Party Of Division & Hate’
Topline Prospective Twitter buyer Elon Musk proclaimed Wednesday he will no longer back Democrats, making a vow to “vote Republican,” in a tweet that became his latest to dominate the soci...
House Democrats to hold hearings, introduce legislation
House Democrats will hold hearings on the baby formula shortage in the U.S., and move to pass legislation to increase Food and Drug Administration inspection staff to ensure that imported products are...
Abortion-Themed Political Ads Surged After Leaked Roe V. Wade Decision, Study Finds
Topline References to abortion in TV political advertising surged after Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion last week that would overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a report publish...
Democrats More Likely To Mention Politics On Twitter Profiles, Study Finds
Topline Despite Twitter’s reputation as a political hotbed, most U.S. adults don’t use political language in their bios, though Democrats, people who tweet often and people with many followers were am...
US: Dorsey, Saylor and Lee against the Democrats on mining
Some of the biggest names in the crypto industry, including Jack Dorsey, Michael Saylor and Tom Lee, have spoken out against claims made by House Democrats on Bitcoin mining. US Democrats against min...
Bitcoin Mining Council rebuts House Democrats in letter to EPA
Over 50 of bitcoin mining’s biggest advocates have put their names to a letter addressed to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pushing back on recent claims made by a group of US House De...
Democrats’ Proposed Tax Hike Is Reckless And Not The Solution To Inflation
A few days ago, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–NY) unveiled his solution for rising prices: higher taxes. This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why Schumer’s nostrum is the economic equivalen...
NY Court Of Appeals Throws Out ‘Partisan’ Congressional Maps Drawn By Democrats
Topline New York State Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down congressional and state senate district maps drawn by Democrats, calling them unconstitutional because they were drawn with “impermissi...
House Democrats ask Environmental Protection Agency for more crypto oversight
In a letter sent Thursday to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a group of US House Democrats called for increased oversight of proof-of-work mining. Legislators asked the agency to investigat...
23 Congressional Democrats Call for Investigating Proof-of-Work Facilities
Proof-of-work (PoW) protocols have been under fire for years due to their massive energy consumption – particularly hurting the battle against climate change. The latest censure against the mining ind...
US House Democrats Call for Scrutiny on Crypto Mining as Environmental Threat
“We have serious concerns regarding reports that cryptocurrency facilities across the country are polluting communities and are having an outsized contribution to greenhouse gas emissions,” according ...
More Democrats Criticize Biden For Plan To End Trump-Era Border Restrictions
Topline Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) on Monday became the latest Democrat to question President Joe Biden’s plan to phase out Title 42, a Trump-era public health policy that lets border agents rapidly e...
Stablecoins Experience 500% Growth Since 2021; Democrats Need to Act
Currently, Democrats are divided on whether the Biden Administration or Congress should be directly addressing stablecoin regulation, as questions surrounding whether the dollar-pegged asset should fa...
Jack Dorsey Acquaints Congressional Democrats With Bitcoin –
Block (previously Square) and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey got invited by Congressional Democrats to conduct some debates regarding Bitcoin. Jack Dorsey gave information regarding Bitcoin to House of F...
Amid Spiking Gas Prices, Biden & California Democrats Propose Tax Hikes On Energy Suppliers
U.S. US President Joe Biden speaks at Long Beach City College. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times via … [+] Getty Images) Los Angeles Times via Getty Images High gas prices have prompted governor...
Block CEO Jack Dorsey briefs Congressional Democrats on bitcoin
Congressional Democrats invited Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block (formerly Square) and Twitter, to talk about bitcoin, The Block has learned. According to two sources familiar with the matter, Dorsey...