The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote, sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. The federal observer program, authorized under the Voting Rights Act and launched in 1966, is an Office of Personnel Management operation that partners
In the week after the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a criminal probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the central bank head called 13 lawmakers. The calls, listed on Powell’s public calendar for January, were all 10 to 15 minutes in length. The Fed chair spoke with lawmakers from both chambers of Congress and…
‘No. 1 priority,’ says teachers’ union leader Senator Chris Van Hollen, AFT president Randi Weingarten, and AFT member Katherine Hayes at a March 12, 2026, press conference. (Screenshot) March 12, 2026 image/svg+xml The Democratic Party is heading into the 2026 midterm elections and 2028 presidential elections pushing legislation that would increase federal income tax rates
Michael Allen, a GOP attorney general candidate, said he was “shocked" by a Democratic proposal to legalize prostitution, saying it would “open the floodgates" to human trafficking.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is warning the Trump administration against drawing down hundreds of U.S. troops serving as peacekeeping forces in Kosovo as tensions rise in the region, according to a letter exclusively obtained by The Hill. The letter, sent Thursday, represents a rare moment of unity among Democrats and Republicans serving on key…
Mikie Sherrill in East Brunswick, NJ. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill this week presented her first state budget, a $60.7 billion spending plan that proposes record property-tax relief, a reduction in the structural deficit, and no new taxes on individual residents. “Government hasn’t been working the way it can, the way
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the extraordinary American women of our past and the titans of our present who have strengthened our families, enriched our culture, defended our values, pioneered our industries, and shaped our Nation’s glorious future. For 250 years, strong women