In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio--Cortez, D-NY, promoted a harrowing tale of cowering in fear as the violent dissidents closed in.
This was one of the most heartbreaking moments of AOC’s IG live pic.twitter.com/BumKbriwmy
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She claimed...
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fl., said that the plan by congressional Democrats to pass a $1.9 trillion economic bailout bill, disguised as a coronavirus relief package, is a "payback to the radical left," Fox News reported.
"Look at the state bailout," Scott said. "There are states like California that have had...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden panned a Republican alternative to his $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan as insufficient as Senate Democrats pushed ahead, voting to launch a process that could approve his sweeping rescue package on their own, if Republicans refuse to support it.
Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen joined...
(Headline USA) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., faced unrest Tuesday from opposing ends of the Republican spectrum over Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., underscoring GOP fissures as the party seeks its pathway without Donald Trump in the White House.
Trump-allied lawmakers were itching to oust...
(Headline USA) Republican Kevin Faulconer, the former San Diego mayor, formally rolled out his campaign for California governor Tuesday with a blistering attack on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The event began with a symbolic flourish: Faulconer arrived in a yellow school bus to underscore the frustration of parents whose kids...
In their initial brief outlining the latest case against former president Donald Trump, Democrat House impeachment managers cited an unexpected source: Adolf Hitler.
"The facts are compelling and the evidence is overwhelming," said the filing, according to a press release from House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-NY.
"After months of spreading...
(Headline USA) Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval Tuesday as transportation secretary. Without any managerial experience of any level of a bureaucracy, he’ll be tasked with advancing President Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and fighting so-called climate change.
Buttigieg, a 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and...
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. said Republicans will call on the FBI to testify about the Jan. 6 Capitol siege if Democrats call witnesses for a Senate impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump.
Graham and several other leading Senate Republicans have argued against impeaching Trump, adding that calling witnesses would...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters “like a loaded cannon” at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their detailed case for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office.
The legal...
(Headline USA) Democrats are using the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump as a political “weapon” to bar the former president from seeking office again and are pursuing a case that is “undemocratic” and unconstitutional, one of his lawyers said Monday night.
Trump faces trial next week on accusations that...
(Headline USA) Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Greene on Monday, calling the Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party.”
“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden told Republican senators during a two-hour meeting he's unwilling to settle on an insufficient coronavirus aid package after they pitched their slimmed down $618 billion proposal that's a fraction of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking.
No compromise was reached in the lengthy session Monday night,...