A top House Democrat is calling on the White House to send National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett to swing districts around the country to talk about the administration’s approach to consumer prices. Hassett on Tuesday made waves when he told CNBC that the economic squeeze on consumers caused by the U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday dismissed a plan backed by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) to fund agencies within the Department of Homeland Security other than Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), dubbing it an effort to “defund the police.” Jeffries on Monday launched a discharge petition effort to try…
GOP Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Tuesday blasted Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, for resigning over the war in Iran. “Good riddance. Iran has murdered more than a thousand Americans. Their EFP land mines were the deadliest in Iraq,” Bacon wrote in a Tuesday post on X. “Anti-Semitism is an evil…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Tuesday ripped into her Senate Republican colleagues for failing to advance President Trump’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act after weeks of pressure. The legislation, which has faced an uphill battle in the Senate due to talks around the filibuster, would require Americans to show proof of citizenship…
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Tuesday said a member of her security team was killed by law enforcement in Dallas. Authorities say the security official, known as Mike King, was actually Diamon Robinson, a 39-year-old wanted on “multiple felony warrants” on charges that ranged from impersonating a police officer to stolen license plates, according to…
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Monday slammed a Republican voting requirement bill championed by President Trump as a top priority piece of legislation as “nothing but a throwback” to Jim Crow laws. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act “is nothing but a throwback to those laws that were passed after Reconstruction that made…
House lawmakers returned to Washington this week after a long break to face a war of theologies in the Middle East — and another brewing in the Capitol. President Trump’s war against Iran’s Islamic regime has heightened national religious tensions, which are spilling out onto Capitol Hill in a partisan holy war over national identity…