Year: 2025
January 17, 2025
Congress
GOP budget menu outlines sweeping spending cuts
A detailed menu of options for blockbuster legislation including tax cuts and other GOP priorities, obtained by POLITICO, shows the extent to which lawmakers are putting dozens of federal...
January 17, 2025
Congress
DeWine passes over Ramaswamy, will select Jon Husted for Senate
The senator-to-be is an institutionalist Republican similar to the Ohio governor.
January 17, 2025
Politics
Chuck Schumer reveals private conversations with Biden urging president to end 2024 campaign
Sen. Chuck Schumer revealed his significant, behind-the-scenes role in persuading President Biden to drop out of the presidential race. Sen. Chuck Schumer revealed his significant, behind-the-scenes role in persuading...
January 17, 2025
Congress
What we’re watching: Trump’s busy weekend in Washington
Here’s what we’re watching in transition world today: 🗓️ What we're watching President-elect Donald Trump’s transition, which kicked off at an expeditious pace with his naming of top Cabinet...
January 17, 2025
Politics
Trump talks trade, TikTok and fentanyl in ‘good’ phone call with China’s Xi days before inauguration
President-elect Donald Trump revealed Friday he had a "good" phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, discussing ways in which their nations could cooperate on "Trade, Fentanyl, TikTok" and...
January 17, 2025
Politics
The Left is now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War: report
The Left suffered a record low average of just 45% of votes in dozens of ballots held globally last year, according to the analysis of 73 democratic elections, conducted...
January 17, 2025
Politics
Biden commutes nearly 2,500 more sentences in final days of presidency
President Biden announced Friday morning he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates as the end of his presidency draws near. President Biden announced Friday morning he is commuting the...
January 17, 2025
Politics
Biden – in rambling final sitdown interview – dismisses claim that Netanyahu slow-walked cease-fire to help Trump
Biden, who rambled and meandered throughout his final sitdown TV interview as commander in chief, appeared notably confident in his answer when MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell presented him with...
January 17, 2025
Congress
China will dispatch an envoy to Trump’s inauguration
China will send an envoy, Vice President Han Zheng, to Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, the country’s foreign ministry said in a news release. Karoline Leavitt, who will serve...
January 17, 2025
Politics
CNN’s Jim Acosta insists journalists are ‘not the enemy of the people’ ahead of Trump’s return to office
“We are not the enemy of the people. We are the defenders of the people," Acosta told viewers Thursday night. “We are not the enemy of the people. We...