Democratic lawmakers in the House are blaming Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) for their party’s steep election losses, suggesting the defeat “would never have happened” under former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), Axios reported. “I have a feeling people would say this would never have happened under” Pelosi, a House progressive, who spoke
Washington — Senate Republicans elected Sen. John Thune as leader on Wednesday, after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — the longest serving leader in the Senate history — opted to step down from the post. Thune, the current Whip, won 29 votes on the second round of voting against the former Whip Sen. John Cornyn, who
Trump’s 2nd term and U.S.-China relations What the new Trump presidency could mean for U.S.-China relations 02:44 President Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, on Saturday, senior administration officials told reporters Wednesday. Senior administration officials expect it to be Mr. Biden’s
Prominent conservative attorney Theodore Olson, who argued the 2000 Florida vote-recount case on behalf of President George W. Bush, has died at 84.
President Biden welcomed President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House Wednesday as the two meet as part of the transition process, a formality that Trump didn’t extend to Mr. Biden in 2020. At the top of the meeting, with reporters present for only a moment, the two men shook hands. “Well Mr. President-elect and
A bipartisan measure addressing the FAFSA fiasco is cleared for passage before year’s end, while Democrats say ‘wait until next year’ for the other two. The House Rules Committee has advanced three proposed bills to the floor, with one measure installing a “hard” Oct. 1 annual deadline for federal college assistance applications. That bill has
‘The only right answer is a massive downsizing,’ Vivek Ramaswamy says. Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that he and Elon Musk will plan “massive downsizing” of the federal government as part of their work under the newly named “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE. Responding to a statement made by President-elect Donald Trump