How rude! The disappearance of civility – CBS News Watch CBS News Does it sometimes feel as if our politics has us all backed into ideological corners? Does it seem as if insults and name-calling have taken the place of civil dialogue – that incivility has gone viral? It may not just be manners that
Sen. Tim Scott on politics, race and Trump – CBS News Watch CBS News Fifty-two-year-old South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is the only African-American elected to the U.S. Senate from the Deep South in more than a century, and the only African-American Senator who is a Republican. Martha Teichner visits the North Charleston neighborhood where
The Senate Banking Committee plan would end the CFPB’s automatic funding and limit salaries for non-monetary Fed staff. The Senate Banking Committee is proposing to cut all mandatory funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and cap pay for many Federal Reserve employees in its section of the One Big Beautiful Bill—the Republicans’ sweeping
A very special lobbyist – CBS News Watch CBS News Thirty-one-year-old Kayla McKeon may be Washington’s most unlikely powerbroker. As a lobbyist – the only registered lobbyist with Down Syndrome – Kayla roams the Capitol, advocating for the National Down Syndrome Society. Steve Hartman reports. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent personnel cuts in the Pentagon office responsible for weapons testing has halted all work and cleared the way for potential layoffs at the Pentagon-funded think tank that supports it, the Institute for Defense Analyses, or IDA. In a letter obtained by CBS News, the institute’s president, retired Air
Remembering 1968: Battle at the Chicago Democratic convention – CBS News Watch CBS News NPR’s Scott Simon looks back at the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where violence on the streets reflected the division within the party during their nominating convention for president. Simon talks with Bill Daley, son of Chicago Mayor Richard
White House clashes with forecasters over how the legislation will change the deficit over the next 10 years. The fiscal effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are under scrutiny as lawmakers attempt to get the tax-and-spending package on President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature before July 4. Critics have said the House