Month: February 2025
February 19, 2025
Congress
Senate tees up ‘vote-a-rama’ on budget for party-line package
Senate Republicans took their first procedural vote Monday night on the budget plan they hope to use to swiftly enact a border security, energy and defense spending bill —...
February 19, 2025
Politics
Howard Lutnick confirmed by Senate to lead Commerce Department — putting Trump picks well ahead of Biden and Obama pace
Lutnick’s nomination was approved by senators in a 51-45 party-line vote. Four Senators, Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), missed the vote. ...
February 19, 2025
Politics
Black Lives Matter leader rejects ‘performative, cult-like’ protests against Trump, Elon Musk’s DOGE team
Protesters with the 5051 Movement protested the Trump administration's DOGE efforts on President's Day. Protesters with the 5051 Movement protested the Trump administration's DOGE efforts on President's Day.
February 18, 2025
Congress
Trump’s FBI pick one step closer to confirmation
Kash Patel, the controversial nominee to lead the FBI, cleared another key procedural hurdle Tuesday. The Senate voted 48-45 to move forward with Patel’s nomination, setting up his confirmation...
February 18, 2025
Politics
Trump’s FBI pick Kash Patel advances in full Senate procedural vote before expected confirmation
GOP senators have praised Patel, 44, for his commitment to rooting out political "weaponization" at the FBI -- while Democrats have accused him of perjuring himself in his confirmation...
February 18, 2025
Politics
Trump calls for Ukraine to hold elections to potentially replace Zelensky
President Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine should hold elections to potentially replace Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine, where we...
February 18, 2025
Politics
Elon Musk still hasn’t reached out to Ashley St. Clair after baby claim— as pic remerges of her with billionaire in 2023
"Be careful. Elon gets women pregnant with that gaze," one user wrote at the time. "Be careful. Elon gets women pregnant with that gaze," one user wrote at the...
February 18, 2025
Congress
The House GOP budget resolution is in trouble
Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down at least a dozen Republican holdouts on the budget blueprint he wants to put on the House floor in the coming days —...
February 18, 2025
Congress
Ways and Means eyeing limits to corporate tax deductions
The House Ways and Means Committee is looking at limiting corporate state and local tax deductions as one way to offset the costs of a large party-line tax bill,...
February 18, 2025
Politics
Trump signs executive order to ‘aggressively reduce’ IVF costs — after campaign pledge to make it free
“PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT: President Trump just signed an Executive Order to Expand Access to IVF!” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tweeted. “PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT: President Trump...