When the United Auto Workers lost an election at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant in 2019, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) applauded the union’s defeat. The lawmaker said he was pleased workers voted down the UAW, 833 to 776, and hoped the issue “will not rise again.” Well, the issue has risen again, with Volkswagen employees set to … Read more
WASHINGTON ― The House of Representatives could be on the brink of another meltdown brought on by Republican infighting. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has threatened to trigger a no-confidence vote against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a repeat of the leadership squabble that turned the House into a circus for several weeks last … Read more
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are threatening to hold U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he doesn’t hand over material from the Justice Department’s recent investigation of President Joe Biden. In a letter to Garland on Monday, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) demanded … Read more
WASHINGTON – A symbolic Republican budget proposal introduced this week includes cuts to future Social Security retirement benefits, despite former President Donald Trump’s pledge to leave the program untouched. The Republican Study Committee, a group encompassing a majority of GOP House members, put out a budget outline on Wednesday calling for spending reductions in Social … Read more
WASHINGTON — The White House declared Friday that the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden is finished. White House counsel Edward Siskel delivered the news in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). “I write to you today because it is clear the House Republican impeachment is over,” Siskel wrote. The impeachment inquiry never … Read more
WASHINGTON ― Hunter Biden won’t sit as a witness in a hearing related to the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into his father, his lawyer said Wednesday. Republicans had asked President Joe Biden’s son to join a public hearing later this month alongside his former business associates, including one who claimed that the younger Biden ripped him … Read more
WASHINGTON — Is a frozen embryo a child? And is destroying it murder? On Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wouldn’t say. “Look, I believe in the sanctity of every human life ― I always have ― and because of that I support IVF,” he said in his weekly press conference when asked about the … Read more
“Saturday Night Live” writers imagined what some Republicans are saying behind Donald Trump’s back in a crisp cold open this weekend. Set at a Washington, D.C., party celebrating Trump’s South Carolina primary win, the sketch starts with GOP Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Jim Risch (Idaho) anxiously griping about the former president. Raising his drink … Read more
CHARLESTON, S.C. ― Donald Trump easily won the South Carolina Republican presidential primary on Saturday, handing Nikki Haley an embarrassing defeat in her home state and bringing him one step closer to officially becoming the GOP’s 2024 nominee for the White House. Trump’s victory in South Carolina was never really in doubt. The former president … Read more
