Government shutdown averted after Biden signs funding bill
Congress came to agreement on a stopgap funding bill on Saturday, hours before the government was set to run out of money.
By Associated Press - October 02, 2023Congress came to agreement on a stopgap funding bill on Saturday, hours before the government was set to run out of money.
By Associated Press - October 02, 2023House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says far-right extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘is one of the best members we have.’
By Josh Israel - July 12, 2023With a narrow majority in the House and a 50-50 Senate, Democrats made significant progress on Biden’s agenda.
By Josh Israel - December 30, 2022Republicans criticized the President’s decision to release fuel from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve throughout 2022. It ended up bringing the U.S. billions of dollars and aligned with lower gas prices.
By Oliver Willis - December 20, 2022Griner was released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, but another American prisoner in Russia, Paul Whelan, was not. Still, ‘The Biden Administration made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home,’ Whelan’s brother said.
By Associated Press - December 08, 2022President Joe Biden was to honor French President Emmanuel Macron with the first state dinner of his presidency Thursday evening.
By Associated Press - December 01, 2022A dark money group with ties to anti-immigration officials who served in the Trump administration made commercials with stock footage provided by Russian-based accounts to criticize Biden’s support for Ukraine.
By Oliver Willis - November 03, 2022The Pennsylvania Senate Republican nominee claims loans from the Paycheck Protection Program were a wasteful ‘blank check,’ despite owning stock in businesses that received them.
By Josh Israel - October 10, 2022The United States has taken unprecedented steps to bring the basketball star and a fellow American captured in Russia, Paul Whelan, home — but it hasn’t proved fruitful yet.
By Associated Press - August 07, 2022Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent his wife, Olena Zelenska, to Washington to appeal directly to Congress for air defense systems.
By Associated Press - July 23, 2022Large oil companies took in over $22 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2022 as gas prices have soared.
By Oliver Willis - June 15, 2022The North Carolina Republican, who defended voting against a $40 billion U.S. aid package to Ukraine, also voted against a $207 billion veterans’ aid package in March.
By Emily Singer - May 12, 2022President Joe Biden has described combating inflation as his ‘top’ domestic priority.
By Oliver Willis - May 11, 2022Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said the aid package amounted to ‘funding regime change and money laundering scams.’
By Emily Singer - May 11, 2022Nearly one-third of the House GOP caucus voted against a resolution that called on the United States to show support for the North Atlantic military alliance amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - April 06, 2022The Georgia Republican representative congratulated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, on winning another term.
By Emily Singer - April 04, 2022Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said the Russian strongman should release ‘dirt’ on the Biden family ‘if in fact he has it.’
By Emily Singer - March 31, 2022New Hampshire Republican Chuck Morse has made questionable comments about international matters since jumping into the Senate race.
By Josh Israel - March 15, 2022Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 29 House Republicans sided with the NRA last year against punishing Vladimir Putin’s regime over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
By Emily Singer - March 11, 2022In 2014, the governor of South Dakota said politicians should refrain from publicly criticizing Barack Obama during Russia’s invasion of the Crimean peninsula. But she isn’t extending the same courtesy to Joe Biden.
By Nick Vachon - March 11, 2022The bill passed the $1.5 trillion package on a 68-31 vote.
By Josh Israel - March 11, 2022Their false attempts to blame President Joe Biden have been widely debunked.
By Josh Israel - March 10, 2022The National Republican Senatorial Committee chair’s 11-point plan says ‘America will be dependent on NO other country.’
By Josh Israel - March 10, 2022Dozens of Republicans wanted to end the House’s business for the day instead of taking votes on critical legislation.
By Emily Singer - March 09, 2022Recent polls show President Joe Biden’s approval rating is up, despite Republican criticism of his response to the Russian invasion.
By Emily Singer - March 08, 2022Hundreds of people have died as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - March 07, 2022Republican Chuck Morse suggested Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives in Congress made Vladimir Putin do it.
By Josh Israel - March 07, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - March 01, 2022During his presidency, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to pull the United States out of the NATO alliance.
By Oliver Willis - February 28, 2022Republican lawmakers are outraged that the special presidential envoy for climate said war is harmful to people and to the planet.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2022