879 articles in the Politics & Elections category.
By Tommy Flynn
The Federal Open Market Committee voted 12–0 on Wednesday to raise the federal funds target by a quarter percentage point, to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent, the first increase since July 2023 and the first rate move in either direction since a cut in December 2025. The...
By Tommy Flynn
Three House Republican committees released a third interim staff report Wednesday accusing ActBlue, the principal online fundraising pipeline for Democratic campaigns, of failing to block illegal foreign political contributions and of describing a passport check that did not...
By RWTNews Staff
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Wednesday that Thursday’s scheduled House votes are canceled and that members will leave Washington after Wednesday night’s business, beginning a recess that lasts until the week of Nov. 9—after the Nov. 3 midterm elections. The chamber had...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump wrote Tuesday that the FBI under former President Joe Biden and former Director Christopher Wray failed on the July 13, 2024, attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, and that “by the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was...
By Tommy Flynn
The House on Tuesday night passed a war-powers resolution that would require President Donald Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran except those needed to defend the United States or its allies from imminent attack. The roll call was 220–204. All 213 voting...
By Tommy Flynn
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that seven foreign nationals have been arrested on federal charges tied to illegal voting or false claims of U.S. citizenship connected to the 2024 general election. The cases were developed jointly by Paxton’s office, the U.S....
By Tommy Flynn
The House on Tuesday tabled a privileged resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, voting 232–147 with 47 members voting present and seven not voting. The motion to table, recorded as Roll Call 298, ended Rep. Al Green’s latest attempt to force a floor vote on articles...
By Tommy Flynn
House Oversight Chairman James Comer said Monday night that the Trump administration should release whatever evidence it holds on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s immigration history so the House can decide whether she remains in Congress. Comer spoke on Just the News, No Noise after Homeland...
By Tommy Flynn
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil are moving to pass two core pieces of the SAVE America Act — documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections and a nationwide photo ID requirement to vote — through the budget...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, to be U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, sending the nomination to the Senate as part of a package that also formally named acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to the permanent Navy post and Heidi Overton to lead the...
By Tommy Flynn
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce new mail-ballot handling rules before the Nov. 3 midterms, leaving a nationwide injunction intact less than two months before Election Day. The unsigned order denied the Justice Department’s emergency...
By Tommy Flynn
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican and former majority leader, returned to the Senate floor Monday for the first time in more than three months, arriving in a wheelchair for an evening vote on a federal appeals court nominee. It was his first recorded...