Donald J. Trump’s return to power as president has bolstered right-wing lawmakers in Israel and the United States who support Israeli annexation of the West Bank, an occupied territory long seen by Palestinians and the international community as part of an eventual Palestinian state. On Friday, Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced bills…
When Donald J. Trump huddled with Republican senators at a closed-door meeting in the Capitol days before his inauguration, Senator Rick Scott of Florida rose and gushed to him about the exhilarating opportunity the party had to “right-size” the federal government by slashing it mercilessly, a long-held conservative goal. Mr. Trump brusquely agreed but quickly…
Union members in public service professions across Utah raise their hands to speak in opposition to a bill banning public sector collective bargaining on January 23, 2025, at the Capitol Building in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo) Utah Republicans have introduced a controversial bill that seeks to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public sector workers,…
The United States is poised to add trillions of dollars to the national debt over the next decade as the mounting costs of social safety net programs and growing interest expenses dig the nation into a deeper fiscal hole, according to a report released on Friday by the Congressional Budget Office. The new budget forecasts…
To a large extent, the electric vehicle market in the United States runs on Democratic policies. There are federal tax credits for car buyers. Subsidies for battery manufacturing. Cheap loans to build electric car factories. Grants for chargers. Regulations that push automakers to sell more vehicles with no tailpipe emissions. All of that support —…
Republicans are preparing to cut taxes, slash spending and slow immigration in a broad agenda that will require unifying an unruly party behind dozens of complicated policy choices. For now, though, they are struggling with a more prosaic decision: whether to cram their policy goals into one bill or split them into two. It is…
US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected to the chamber’s top job on Friday by a razor-thin margin that highlighted potential fissures among President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans on Capitol Hill. Johnson appeared to initially fall short of the majority he needed to retain his job in a roll-call vote that lasted nearly two…
ROSEVILLE, Minn: Republicans will start the year with at least a temporary majority in the Minnesota House after a Democrat decided not to appeal a judge’s decision that he failed to establish residency in the suburban district he was elected to represent. That means Republicans will have a slim 67-66 majority in the House when…
The MAGA movement is facing its biggest crisis yet—not from Democrats, but from within. Laura Loomer has ignited a firestorm, accusing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy of betraying America-first principles. Immigration, Big Tech, and Trump’s new appointments have sparked a Republican civil war, with deep divisions over the movement’s future. Will MAGA survive this internal…
Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives scheduled a vote on Friday to keep the federal government operating beyond a midnight deadline and avert a partial shutdown that could disrupt the Christmas holiday. “We will not have a government shutdown,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters. Congress is struggling to perform one of its…