Speaking on the floor, McConnell scoffed at the Democratic leaders’ demands for Republicans to raise the price ceiling of their negotiations to $2 trillion from $1 trillion. “The Speaker’s latest spin is that it is some heroic sacrifice to lower her demand from a made-up $3.5 trillion marker that was […]
“The time has come for change,” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said. “We have an opportunity to do now what should have been done decades ago — to step in and provide true justice and opportunity for college athletes across the country.” It’s not yet a formal bill, but Democrats’ […]
Pelosi said in an earlier interview on “Fox News Sunday“ she’s long been a critic of China — in 1991, she held up a protest banner in China’s Tiananmen Square — but to “give some equivalence” of China and Russia on measures to interfere with the election “doesn’t really tell […]
“They think they have political leverage over the president of the United States and so they’re willing to personally increase the pain for vulnerable families unless they get their way on matters not related to Covid,” McConnell claimed on the Senate floor. “Republicans wanted to agree on the things we […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for spearheading investigations into Joe Biden’s alleged ties to Russia. | Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went on the offensive Sunday when asked about efforts to counter Russian election interference, slamming Republicans and […]
The statement, which also indicated that Iran and China prefer a Trump loss in November, was hailed by Democrats as vindication of their strategy to lean on the administration for additional disclosures to help educate the public. “Normally the customer of the intelligence community is the president, the national security […]
But the massive failure by the nation’s leaders to find a consensus only months after a major bipartisan success comes down to a number of factors, both personal and political. The elections are only 88 days away, and both sides are gambling that they’ve got more to gain from a […]
The July 13 letter included a classified addendum that raised concerns about a Senate investigation being led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) serving as a vehicle for laundering a foreign influence campaign to damage Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The full House and Senate were briefed in the last week […]
Pelosi has long been accustomed to wielding authority in Washington, and she’s completely comfortable as the only woman at a power table with a select number of seats. But this Pelosi, whom some privately call “speaker 2.0,” is different. Her second turn with the gavel shows a woman who seems […]
So far, high-level talks between the White House and Democratic leaders have yielded nothing. The White House is even floating the possibility of executive action on unemployment payments and evictions, effectively sidestepping Congress. Senate Republicans emerged from a closed-door lunch Tuesday saying the August recess scheduled to begin at the […]
