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Trump budget bill faces murky odds in key vote after rocky reception in House GOP
The House GOP’s proposal for a massive conservative policy overhaul has already gotten a rocky reception from Republican lawmakers, and with their current majority, Republicans will need to vote in near lock-step to pass anything without Democratic support. ‘I think it’s probably going to have to be modified in some…
Read More »DOGE subcommittee holds first hearing slamming $36T national debt, as House Republicans declare ‘war on waste’
The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held its first ever hearing Wednesday, as Republicans criticized the soaring $36 trillion national debt, as well as Democrats’ condemnation of Elon Musk’s effort to slash waste. In her opening statement, Chairwoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-S.C., said the committee must be…
Read More »DOGE boasts dozens of contract cancellations on Wednesday, totaling over $150M in savings
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced the cancellation of at least 58 contracts on Wednesday, resulting in more than $150 million in savings for the American taxpayer. In a Wednesday evening post on X, the agency headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk said the contracts canceled fell under the…
Read More »SENS. BERNIE SANDERS AND JOSH HAWLEY: Cap credit card interest rates at 10%
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In his ‘Divine Comedy,’ Italian poet Dante Alighieri reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for people who charged usurious interest rates. Seven hundred years later, ‘usury’ doesn’t come up much in common parlance, but the problem hasn’t gone away.…
Read More »Judicial pushback against Trump’s agenda will likely lead to one final face-off, experts say
President Donald Trump’s agenda has been met with a wave of lawsuits since he took office in January, and legal experts say many of them will likely end up in the Supreme Court’s hands. ‘President Trump is certainly being aggressive in terms of flexing executive power and not at all…
Read More »Senate to hold final vote on RFK Jr nomination to serve as Trump’s Health secretary
The Senate is expected on Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary in President Donald Trump’s cabinet. The final showdown over Kennedy’s controversial nomination was set in motion after the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday – in a 53-47 party-line vote – invoked cloture,…
Read More »EPA administrator Zeldin demands return of $20B in taxpayer money wasted by Biden administration
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday that his team has located $20 billion in tax dollars that the Biden administration purposely wasted. ‘An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago, featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the…
Read More »Kash Patel’s nomination to lead FBI faces first major Senate hurdle
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Thursday on whether to advance Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director to the Senate floor after a fiery confirmation hearing last month. The vote is scheduled for 9 a.m. ET. If Patel passes through committee, his nomination will be up for a…
Read More »House GOP’s budget impasse thaws just as winter storm sacks Capitol
It is said that talk is cheap. And that’s why House Republicans have done so much of it as they attempted to forge an internal agreement on a budget plan to slash taxes and cut spending. It is now the middle of February. House Republicans struggled to finalize plans for…
Read More »Egypt reportedly releases details on plan to rebuild Gaza; there’s no mention of ‘cooperation’ with the US
Egypt has apparently released the initial details of a proposal Cairo has put together to rebuild the Gaza Strip within three to five years, though there’s no mention of a plan to work with the Trump administration or Israel. According to a reporter for i24 News, Egyptian sources told Qatari…
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