House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Senate Republicans on Wednesday to begin setting an ambitious agenda for Washington if former President Donald Trump is reelected and Republicans win control of the Senate and keep their House majority.  Johnson pitched GOP senators on tax and spending cuts and regulatory reforms during a meeting ahead of Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill on […]

Republican lawmakers are seeking ways to overturn a Biden administration rule aimed toward cracking down on so-called gun show loopholes after the new mandate was used to cancel a gun show in Montana last month.  The gun show in Hamilton, Montana, was canceled in response to the new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rule, which took […]

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday lowered expectations about his ability to be exonerated in his hush money trial, saying the charges were “rigged” against him to result in a conviction. “Mother Teresa could not beat those charges. But we’ll see,” he told reporters in the courthouse hallway. Jurors are deliberating the 34 counts of […]

The House is set to vote on a bill that would make it illegal for noncitizens in Washington, D.C., to vote in local elections, with Republicans hoping to push Democrats into a corner just months ahead of the November election. “A growing number of localities are blurring the lines for noncitizens by allowing them to vote in […]

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is requesting the Justice Department appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden for withholding military aid to Israel, as House Republicans criticize the president for weakening U.S. support for the Jewish state.  Tenney sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday asking him to review Biden’s decision to withhold an arms transfer that would aid Israel’s offensive in Rafah.  After […]