The House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman is accusing the Treasury Department of obstructing the panel’s probe into the Biden family by stonewalling repeated requests related to presidential son Hunter Biden. Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican, said officials have refused to hand over a tranche of reports flagging Hunter Biden’s potentially nefarious transactions and accused […]
Sixteen House Republicans have never voted to raise the debt ceiling — even under former President Donald Trump — complicating Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s hand as he seeks to browbeat the Biden administration into spending cuts. Why it matters: The entrenched opposition means McCarthy could need Democratic votes for any package that ties hiking the debt ceiling to budget cuts. As it stands, […]
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is going after healthcare institutions for refusing to treat patients who were not vaccinated against COVID-19. Earlier this week, Paul introduced legislation preventing healthcare facilities that denied unvaccinated people treatment, including organ transplants, from receiving taxpayer dollars. Under the “COVID-19 Vaccination Non-Discrimination Act,” patients will also be protected to make decisions […]
Frustration on Capitol Hill is mounting after a string of aerial objects were shot down over U.S. and Canadian airspace in the last few days, raising a long list of questions that lawmakers say President Joe Biden should publicly address. Three unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been shot down over North America since Friday, and the Pentagon […]
The House approved a pair of resolutions on Thursday that disapprove of the District of Columbia’s bill on noncitizen voting and its criminal code, as part of an effort to block the nation’s capital from enforcing the measures. According to the D.C. Home Rule Act, Congress has the ability to block laws in the city […]