20:21 GMT - Thursday, 13 March, 2025
Pete Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, announced on Thursday that he would not run for Michigan’s open Senate seat, a decision that opens the door to a 2028 presidential bid. “My
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Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire will not run for re-election in 2026, bringing an end to a long and singular political career and further complicating Democrats’ efforts to regain a majority in the Senate. Her
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Elon Musk arrived on Wednesday at Senate Republicans’ weekly luncheon on Capitol Hill ready to field questions about the work he is doing for President Trump at the Department of Government Efficiency, the office he formed
Posted March 6, 2025 by inuno.ai
To counter President Trump’s first major address of his second term, Democrats in Congress selected a middle-aged woman senator with a background in national security to deliver a simple, centrist message, devoid of partisan animus, aimed
Posted March 5, 2025 by inuno.ai
President Trump took a defiant victory lap in the House chamber on Tuesday night, using his address to a joint session of Congress to promote the flurry of drastic changes to domestic and foreign policy that
Posted March 5, 2025 by inuno.ai
In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid.
Posted March 5, 2025 by inuno.ai
Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican-written bill aimed at barring transgender women and girls from school sports teams designated for female students, thwarting consideration in the Senate of the G.O.P.’s latest move to use transgender people
Posted March 4, 2025 by inuno.ai
The Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department by a party-line vote of 51 to 45. Vote Total Democrats Dem. Republicans Rep. Independents Ind. Bar chart of total votes 51 0 51 0 45
Posted March 3, 2025 by inuno.ai
Congressional Republicans, egged on by Elon Musk and other top allies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of administration efforts to overhaul the government. The outcry is
Posted March 1, 2025 by inuno.ai
In 2018, Democrats won back the House, flipping 41 seats including in conservative-leaning places like the suburbs of Utah and Oklahoma by focusing narrowly on a single issue: Republican efforts to overturn a popular health care
Posted March 1, 2025 by inuno.ai
Five former defense secretaries condemned President Trump’s firing last week of senior military leaders as “reckless” and urged Congress not to confirm their successors. In an extraordinary letter to lawmakers on Thursday, the five men —
Posted February 28, 2025 by inuno.ai
The F.B.I. director Kash Patel told bureau officials on Friday that he wanted to send 1,000 agents from the Washington area to field offices across the country, with another 500 support staff reassigned to the bureau’s
Posted February 22, 2025 by inuno.ai
The budget plan that Republicans pushed through the Senate early Friday was a necessary first step toward enacting President Trump’s ambitious domestic goals, but it punted the most difficult and divisive questions about how Congress will
Posted February 21, 2025 by inuno.ai
The Senate was on track to pass Republicans’ budget plan on a straight party-line vote sometime early Friday morning. But first, it was time for a well-worn parliamentary ritual: the hourslong marathon of votes on proposals
Posted February 21, 2025 by inuno.ai
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and longest-serving Senate leader who played a pivotal role in obstructing major Democratic agenda items and stacking the federal courts with conservatives, said on Thursday that he would not seek
Posted February 20, 2025 by inuno.ai
The Senate voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of Kash Patel as director of the F.B.I., despite concerns about his relative lack of experience and an unwavering loyalty to President Trump that many Democrats fear
Posted February 20, 2025 by inuno.ai
President Trump on Wednesday endorsed House Republicans’ proposal to move forward with one all-encompassing policy and tax cut plan, dismissing Senate Republicans’ efforts to break up his agenda into smaller pieces more easily moved through the
Posted February 20, 2025 by inuno.ai
President Trump’s pick as labor secretary faced pointed questions from both parties at her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday over her past support for pro-union legislation, an issue that could complicate her nomination. The nominee, Lori
Posted February 19, 2025 by inuno.ai
As President Trump makes an abrupt pivot toward Russia, upending generations of American foreign policy, he is also defying members of his own party in Congress, many of whom have spent their careers arguing for a
Posted February 19, 2025 by inuno.ai
The Senate on Tuesday evening voted on party lines to adopt a budget outline designed to clear the way for a major piece of President Trump’s domestic agenda, putting forth a measure that calls for increasing
Posted February 19, 2025 by inuno.ai
The Senate on Tuesday voted 51 to 45 to confirm Howard Lutnick to be President Trump’s commerce secretary, putting in place one of the administration’s top economic officials who will help oversee an agenda around tariffs
Posted February 19, 2025 by inuno.ai
WASHINGTON — The chairs of the congressional committees that oversee civil and commercial spaceflight say their priorities for the new Congress include a NASA authorization bill and commercial space legislation. In back-to-back speeches at the 27th
Posted February 15, 2025 by inuno.ai
Four years ago, Senator Jon Ossoff was sworn in using a book of Hebrew scripture as he proudly became Georgia’s first Jewish senator. Now, some of his fellow Jewish Democrats have not only turned on him
Posted February 15, 2025 by inuno.ai
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter After weeks of closure rumors and President Donald Trump pushing to shutter the U.S. Department of Education “immediately,” his education secretary
Posted February 15, 2025 by inuno.ai
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a bill to formally authorize a space traffic coordination system being developed by the Office of Space Commerce. The Situational Awareness of Flying Elements in Orbit Act,
Posted February 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
Of President Trump’s cabinet picks, Tulsi Gabbard, a former representative from Hawaii, could have the hardest time making it through the confirmation process. On Thursday, with several key senators still undecided, she appeared before the Senate
Posted January 31, 2025 by inuno.ai
Two Republican Senate allies of President Trump urged him on Sunday to rethink his decision to strip security details from former advisers who have been targeted by Iran, saying the move could chill his current aides
Posted January 27, 2025 by inuno.ai
Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters serving jail sentences for taking part in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 …
Posted January 26, 2025 by inuno.ai
The Senate voted 59 to 34 to confirm Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, as the next Homeland Security secretary. Representative Total Democrats Dem. Republicans Rep. Independents Ind. Bar chart of total votes 59 7
Posted January 25, 2025 by inuno.ai
Nearly eight years ago, another Trump administration cabinet secretary barely survived her confirmation vote, advancing only after a vice president’s tiebreaker vote. That nominee was Betsy DeVos, the wealthy Republican donor who had almost no experience
Posted January 25, 2025 by inuno.ai
Top Republicans are passing around an extensive menu of ideas to cover the cost of a massive tax cut and immigration crackdown bill. They could create a 10 percent tariff on all imports, bringing in an
Posted January 23, 2025 by inuno.ai
Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-written bill on Wednesday that could subject some doctors who perform abortions to criminal penalties, thwarting the G.O.P.’s first attempt to restrict reproductive rights since the party has secured its governing trifecta.
Posted January 23, 2025 by inuno.ai
