GOP Congressional Groups End March With $128 Million in Cash: Filings

The Senate Leadership Fund and Congressional Leadership Fund enter the heat of the political season with nine figures in cash reserves. A pair of conservative funds supporting Republican Party candidates for Congress have about $128 million in cash on hand, according to new federal disclosures. Between April 15 and April 18, all political committees reporting

Harvard Taps Longtime DEI Advocate To Help Pick University’s Next President

Vivian Hunt, an ex-McKinsey consultant who has argued meritocracy ‘isn’t good enough,’ will serve as president of the Harvard Board of Overseers Vivian Hunt (John Phillips/Getty Images) Harvard University on Monday tapped an ex-McKinsey consultant who has criticized meritocracy and published controversial research on the benefits of diversity in business to help select the university’s

Republicans Blast Mayorkas Budget ‘Slush Fund’ to Process Illegal Immigrants

Homeland Security Committee members split along party lines on whether the secretary should be impeached. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his $108 billion 2025 budget request today in an appearance before the same House committee that recommended his impeachment. Republican members of the House Homeland Security Committee grilled the secretary on April 16 concerning

Multiple Community Water Systems in Texas Exceed EPA’s New Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’

Multiple community water systems in Texas are reported to exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new regulatory limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water. A local ABC affiliate reported that over 420 water systems have submitted a report to the EPA, 113 of which detected levels of PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals. Forty-nine systems