Month: January 2025
January 30, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Big day for Trump nominees, questions on plane crash
Several of President Donald Trump’s toughest confirmation fights are playing out in the Senate today. Here’s a rundown of what we’re watching. Tulsi Gabbard: Trump’s pick to serve as...
January 30, 2025
Health Care
‘Using the devil’s own tools against them’: Abortion opponents turn to environmental laws
Several states are trying to curtail abortion medication by claiming mifepristone could contaminate drinking water. Several states are trying to curtail abortion medication by claiming mifepristone could contaminate drinking...
January 30, 2025
Congress
Dems launch group to hit Trump on tax cuts
Organizers say the nonprofit will be backed by an eight-figure funding campaign
January 30, 2025
Politics
Ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez says ‘Trump was right’ about politically-charged prosecutions as he panders for pardon in bribery scheme
“President Trump was right,” Menendez declared Monday. “This process is political and is corrupted to its core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity...
January 30, 2025
Politics
Trump says collision between American Airlines jet and Army helicopter ‘looks like it should have been prevented’
President Trump argued Thursday that it appears to him that the collision between an American Airlines jet and Army helicopter over the Potomac River “should have been prevented.” President...
January 30, 2025
Politics
Vance claims Biden admin knew whereabouts of criminal migrants but did nothing about it: ‘It should shock the conscience of the American people’
“What is shocking to me is that many of these violent criminals – we knew their addresses, we knew their names. We just needed to send somebody to go...
January 30, 2025
Politics
Trump orders defunding of K-12 schools that promote ‘radical’ gender and race ‘indoctrination’
Trump, 78, argued that students in schools teaching CRT and promoting transgenderism “are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination.” Trump, 78, argued that students in...
January 30, 2025
Health Care
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group sees vindication in his Senate testimony
Mary Holland, head of Kennedy-founded Children's Health Defense, spoke to POLITICO after attending his confirmation hearing. Mary Holland, head of Kennedy-founded Children's Health Defense, spoke to POLITICO after attending...
January 30, 2025
Politics
New EPA chief Lee Zeldin has an ambitious agenda — and a plan to keep courts from overturning it
Lee Zeldin has an ambitious agenda for the Environmental Protection Agency, even beyond undoing years of damage from President Joe Biden and various states — but he’ll be consulting lawyers...
January 30, 2025
Politics
Trump reinstates executive order protecting monuments to deter ‘pro-Hamas-related vandalism’
Trump, 78, issued the directive in anticipation of America’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, over apparent concerns that "pro-Hamas-related vandalism” could tarnish the nation’s sesquicentennial. Trump, 78, issued...