Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and James Comer, R-Ky., shouted at each other Wednesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing on China. Rep. Raskin took issue with Republicans accusing Joe Biden of accepting bribes. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
Democrats, and the opinion-makers who support them, just can’t seem to figure out why voters are still sour on the Biden economy. Writing for New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait made the case that “Paul Krugman Is Right About the Economy, and the Polls Are Wrong.” “One of the most uncomfortable arguments to make in America […]
President Joe Biden has narrowed the gap with former President Donald Trump, nearly tying but not overtaking the Republican in the polls. The latest RealClearPolitics polling average has Trump leading by 0.2 points, down from more than 4 at the beginning of the year. Trump led by 1 in the most recent New York Times-Siena President Joe Biden has narrowed the gap with former President Donald Trump, nearly tying but not overtaking the Republican in the polls.
Conventional political wisdom dictates that Republicans have no shot at securing the support of the vast majority of labor unions. But a few cracks are starting to appear in the union love affair with the Democratic Party and offer the GOP a unique opportunity. This week, Axios reported that the political action committee associated with […]
Iran’s attack may give the president a reason to return to his default position of ‘ironclad’ Israeli support – could that hurt him in November?“Ironclad,” said Joe Biden. “Ironclad,” said Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary. “Ironclad,” said the Senate leader Chuck Schumer, the House leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer.In the wake of Saturday’s attack by Iran, Democrats united around a single word in expressing their commitment to Israel’s security. It was a...
The Senate approved tens of billions in foreign aid on Tuesday, bringing to a close a congressional standoff that sharply divided Republicans over the conflict in Ukraine. Seventy-nine senators, including a decided majority of Republicans, voted to send the $95 billion defense bill to President Joe Biden’s desk. The House passed the aid on Saturday. […]
Two of Senate Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbents this fall were among those who voted Thursday to roll back the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate for passenger cars and trucks.
President Joe Biden has given his blessing to a new national security supplemental aid package. “I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific,” the president said Wednesday in a prepared statement. “Israel is […]
The Federal Trade Commission earlier this week voted to ban noncompete contracts for most workers in the United States. These contracts, research shows, depress wages, stifle entrepreneurial innovation and trap people in jobs they’d prefer to exit. Taken all together, says FTC head Lina Khan, they are “robbing people of their economic liberty.” Who would want to be against economic freedom, not to mention raises for America’s workers? The answer is both Republican FTC commissioners and business...
The Federalist asked GOP election officials if they will follow suit and reject voter registration forms collected by federal agents.
Former Rep. Justin Amash served in Congress for exactly one decade, with his final years in Washington, D.C., featuring him dramatically quitting the GOP, voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, and deciding not to run for reelection. At the time, in 2019, he said Congress’s corruption was worse than in the famous Netflix series […]
WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []