Topline House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will meet with fellow House Republicans Wednesday morning hours after leaked audio recordings of McCarthy released by the New York Times show th...
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Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill To Form Election Police Force
Topline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill Monday that will create a state police force to investigate voter fraud and other election crimes, as Republicans nationwide fixate on voter fraud f...
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...
Senate Republicans release policy paper on cryptocurrencies
A key research branch of Senate Republicans is considering approaches to cryptocurrency, signaling a more cohesive policy position down the road. On April 7, the Senate Republicans Policy Committee, ...
Most Republicans Okay With Trump Asking Putin For Dirt On Hunter Biden, Poll Suggests
Topline A new poll released Wednesday found more than two thirds of Republican respondents didn’t have a problem with former President Donald Trump asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for disparag...
Here’s How Florida Republicans Could Punish Disney For ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Opposition
Topline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican state officials are lashing out at Disney for its opposition to the Parental Rights in Education Act (referred to by critics as the “Don’t Say Ga...
Grassley Acknowledges Fellow Republicans Treated Ketanji Brown Jackson Harshly At Hearings
Topline Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, appeared to concede that other GOP senators repeatedly attacked Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson ...
Republicans Have Already Started Attacking Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Topline A number of Republican lawmakers and officials swiftly criticized President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday, painting the D.C. Circuit Cour...
Want to Arrest Inflation? There’s a Simple, Bipartisan Solution
It’s hard to fathom now given the debased nature of the monetary discussion today, but when Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980, a standard line in his speeches was that “No nation in history has ...
Fewer Americans Now Want To Prioritize Racial Issues And Poverty Than In 2021, Study Finds
Topline Fewer Republicans and Democrats think racial issues and poverty should be top policy priorities compared to a year ago, according to a study published Wednesday by Pew Research Center, as conc...
Most Republicans Think Pence Had No Right To Overturn Trump’s Election Loss, Poll Finds
Topline Former President Donald Trump is fixated on the idea that his vice president could have somehow overturned the results of the 2020 presidential election, but a new Quinnipiac University poll r...
Republicans And Democrats Will Both Support Bitcoin: Here’s Why
CLEVELAND, OHIO – SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe … [+] Biden participate in the first presidential debate moderated by Fox News anchor Ch...
America Cracks Down On Kremligarchs
More than nukes, carriers, boots on the ground or Nato, the most efficacious deterrent against Putinism worldwide is curbing the free flow of kleptocratic money. Finally, in both the US and UK –...
Republicans grill Fed nominee Raskin over past views on climate and big energy companies
Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominated to be vice chairman for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, gestures during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirma...
Will Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Get GOP Support? Here’s What Republicans Are Saying So Far
Topline As the Senate prepares for a confirmation battle over President Joe Biden’s still-unnamed Supreme Court pick, it still remains to be seen whether any Republicans will support the judicial nomi...
Pennsylvania Court Strikes Down Mail-In Ballot Law By 3-2 Republican Vote
Today a Pennsylvania appellate court struck down the state’s generous law approving mail-in ballots. The court struck down the law by a 3-2 party-line vote. The law encourages precisely what former Pr...
Senate Democrats Fail To Advance Voting Rights Bill — And Fall Short Of Changing Filibuster
Topline Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Democrats from advancing a voting rights bill, and two moderate Democrats later rejected a bid to change the Senate’s filibuster rules so the party can ...
We Looked At How The Stock Market Performs During Midterm Election Years–Here’s How 2022 May Be Worse
Will Democrats hang onto control, or can Republicans take Congress? If history is any guide, it won’t really matter for stocks because markets typically surge once election uncertainty is lifted. Stoc...
Trump Calls Off Press Conference On Capitol Attack Anniversary
Topline Former President Donald Trump cancelled a Thursday press conference marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, after some Republicans criticized his plan to use...