Vice President Kamala Harris admitted that “very few” companies engage in price gouging, undercutting her own claim that “corporate price gouging” is to blame for skyrocketing grocery prices. “[Corporations] jack up prices to make it more difficult for desperate people to just get by. We need to take that on,” Harris said on Wednesday. Yet,
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin, who has been slamming her opponent for taking donations from the pharma industry, raked in over $90,000 from candidate political action committees backed by drug and medical companies since last year. Slotkin, a U.S. House member, received the donations from five leadership PACs that, in turn, took in $487,000
The State Department grossly mishandled its suspension of scandal-plagued Iran envoy Robert Malley, allowing him to continue accessing classified documents and sensitive data after he was disciplined, according to an inspector general report reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The department’s assistant inspector general gathered Senate staffers Wednesday afternoon for a closed-door briefing on the
Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Democratic presidential nominee not to receive the Teamsters endorsement in nearly 30 years, with the union declining to back a candidate after a strong majority of its rank-and-file members voted to endorse former president Donald Trump. The union made the announcement Wednesday, saying its “extensive member polling showed
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half of a percentage point on Wednesday, kicking off what is expected to be a steady easing of monetary policy with a larger-than-usual reduction in borrowing costs that followed growing unease about the health of the job market. “The committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is
Former president Donald Trump’s overall favorability has risen by 5 percentage points since last month, while Vice President Kamala Harris’s ratings dropped by 3 percentage points, signaling her honeymoon phase may be fading, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. The poll, conducted in September before Sunday’s assassination attempt on Trump, shows that 46 percent
Dozens of left-wing immigration groups are plotting to push Vice President Kamala Harris further to the left should she win the White House. The groups say they “trust Harris to make the right decisions” and ditch her “MAGA” border policies if elected, Axios reported. The groups, which are temporarily uniting with Harris as they work