The internet slammed a Minnesota Republican after his remarks about assimilation at a conservative town hall on Thursday.Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) was among several GOP leaders speaking at the event hosted by conservative advocacy group Faith & Freedom Coalition when he described his thoughts about immi…
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) made clear Thursday that the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a subject President Donald Trump has fixated on for days, is nowhere on his list of priorities.Asked whether his committee would hold hearings into the “reflecti…
President Donald Trump torpedoed his own Republican Party’s moment this week by abruptly canceling the signing of a major housing bill that could have boosted the GOP ahead of midterms, The New York Times reported Thursday.Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent, revealed that the …
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was rushing to the White House to “unsnarl the knot” on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump canceled signing a bipartisan housing bill and signaled it was “leverage” to pressure Republicans to pass his elections legislation, according to The Washington…
Elon Musk told voters they had a random shot at $1 million. Now a judge has ordered him to answer for it under oath.U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Musk to sit for a deposition — sworn, on-the-record questioning by opposing lawyers — in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona …
President Trump claimed a “fantastic” turnout at the kickoff rally for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall Wednesday night, a figure that sharply diverges from independent estimates of the crowd size.A widely shared video clip shows a steady stream of people walking away from the stag…
President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Italy has angered residents of his host country with plans to bring his $450 million superyacht to Venice during one of the city’s most significant annual festivals, in a trip he has branded “coastal diplomacy.”Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, a hospitality mogul w…
In her dissent from one of the Thursday Supreme Court decisions on immigrant rights, Justice Elena Kagan made sure Donald Trump’s litany of racist remarks would be a forever part of the court’s historical record.The liberal justice used her dissent in a case where the conservative majority gave the …
MAGA followers rebuffed Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Thursday after he spoke out against the Trump administration following a Supreme Court ruling that ended temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians.Lawler wrote in a post on X that he thinks the situation in Haiti is a “humanitarian and pol…
House Republican leaders scrapped Friday’s scheduled votes as an internal party standoff threatened to derail the chamber’s legislative agenda, according to a notice sent to members Thursday.The impasse stemmed from GOP hard-liners blocking action over the stalled SAVE America Act, an elections bill…