(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) Hours before lawmakers voted on a multi-trillion dollar government funding package that included a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill, congressional aides were spotted wheeling in the legislation.
It ran 5,593 pages.
“You’d have to read 560 pages an hour to finish it before midnight,” observed NBC...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump will allow special council John Durham's office to share classified information with a grand jury---a move that may herald the arrival of new, high-level indictments in the final month of Trump's first presidential term.
The White House announced today that Trump signed an order on...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has threatened to torpedo Congress’s massive COVID-19 relief and year-end package, upending a hard-fought compromise in the midst of deep economic uncertainty by demanding changes fellow Republicans have opposed.
Trump assailed the bipartisan $900-billion bill and associated $1.3-trillion broader government funding package in a video he...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., told President Donald Trump that he should send both the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Nuclear Deal to the Senate for ratification as treaties, echoing an idea that the Wall Street Journal floated.
If Trump sent the so-called executive agreements --- which now avoid the...
UPDATE: Far-left New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York --- House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader, respectively --- in agreeing to President Donald Trump's call for $2,000-per-American payments in the economic stimulus.
"Let’s do it," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday...
Entering into the final 30 days of his first term, President Donald Trump followed a long tradition of so-called lame-duck presidents in issuing pardons.
Trump's pardons included two people convicted in connection with the FBI's Russia-collusion hoax, four Blackwater guards convicted of partaking in the killing of Iraqi civilians, and...
A newly uncovered cache of State Department records revealed that Joe and Hunter Biden may not have been the only high-level officials seeking quid-pro-quo arrangements from Ukrainian officials.
Operatives close to the campaign of failed 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton also sought to build inroads with the country's top prosecutor that...
Thousands of supporters are planning a virtual “second inauguration” for President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 to compete with Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s presumptive ceremony.
More than 60,000 people have signed dup to attend an event billed as “Donald J. Trump 2nd Presidential Inauguration Ceremony” on Facebook.
“Disclaimer: We are a grassroots...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio doubled down on his “mission” to combat racism in the city by redistributing wealth.
DE BLASIO: "I'd like to say very bluntly: our mission is to redistribute wealth." pic.twitter.com/bX6KaEKuWg
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 18, 2020
Addressing the economic impact the coronavirus pandemic has had...
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. and the Majority Whip, warned his party members that efforts to challenge the Electoral College’s results in Congress will “go down like a shot dog” in the Senate.
Thune has publicly and private pushed back on House Republicans’ efforts to nullify Electoral College votes certified by...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would not rule out a 2024 presidential run — even against President Donald Trump, if he runs.
“I would not rule it out,” he told the Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday.
"If I go and look up Christie2024, will that URL already be...
(Headline USA) Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that would deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Lawmakers tacked on a $1.4 trillion catchall spending bill and thousands of pages of other end-of-session business in a massive bundle...