California State Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D) is on track to fill the seat being vacated by Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) in the House, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Irwin has locked down one of the top two spots to move on to November in the race for California’s 26th Congressional District with 40.09 percent…
Washington — Senate Republicans are moving forward with a package to fund the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agencies on Wednesday, following a back-and-forth over the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund that threatened to derail the long-sought funding. A revised version of one part of the package released Wednesday also dropped language that would have provided
A cargo ship sails into the port in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province on Oct. 13, 2025. -/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is seeking public comment on the creation of the Board of Trade, taking the first step toward establishing a new mechanism to manage trade relations between Washington and Beijing. In
Privacy-minded conservatives in the House are pushing back against a Senate proposal to pair a temporary ban on the creation of central bank digital currency (CBDC) with a long-term extension of the federal government’s warrantless spying powers. Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chair of the Senate…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) lambasted Democrats for suggesting that President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence could imperil reauthorization of the nation’s foreign spy powers that are due to expire next week. Johnson said in a press conference Wednesday that it is “absolutely outrageous” that Democrats are suggesting that…
The Senate majority leader said most GOP senators are “pretty satisfied” that a controversial DOJ payout fund is dead.
The Trump administration has proposed imposing tariffs of up to 12.5 percent on imports from dozens of trading partners over concerns that they failed to enforce import bans on goods made with forced labor. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said on June 2 that it had finalized its months-long investigations into 60