Author: Hailey Bullis

EXCLUSIVE – A GOP lawmaker is pushing for all guns used by the U.S. military to be made in America and by U.S. companies, an effort that could shake up how the Defense Department sources weapons.  Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) is introducing the Make American Guns Again, or MAGA, Act, a nod to Trump’s Make America…

Five months into his freshman year in Congress, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) has learned how to elbow his way into key negotiations with decision-makers. Bresnahan, who flipped a blue seat in November by beating incumbent Rep. Matt Cartwright, knows his career in Congress depends on delivering for his northeastern Pennsylvania district that includes Scranton, former…

A GOP congressman is raising concerns about Qatar‘s growing influence in the United States, and with the Trump administration, after visiting the Middle East. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said Qatar was a main topic on his trip last week to Israel when he spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the war against Hamas and…

President Donald Trump’s slimming down of the federal government is having ripple effects on how the United States’s weather agencies operate ahead of hurricane season.  In Trump’s second term, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has faced budget cuts and staffing reductions, while the National Weather Service has dealt with personnel shortages. A budget blueprint…

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is asking the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into a proposed Muslim-focused community development in Josephine, Texas. In a letter to the Justice Department sent Friday, Cornyn asked the agency to investigate whether the community, which would cater to Texas’s Muslim population, would violate the…

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) will run for governor of Colorado and attempt to keep the state under Democratic control after the term-limited Gov. Jared Polis steps down. The state’s senior senator announced his entrance into Colorado’s 2026 gubernatorial race in a video on Friday. Polis, who has led the state since 2019, is term-limited and…

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich railed against recent rulings against the Trump administration during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning, saying it was “clearly a judicial coup d’etat.” Two House Judiciary subcommittees are holding a joint hearing examining the role of the judicial branch as Republicans look for ways to rein in federal judges…

Congressional Democrats see an opening to woo back voters the party lost in the 2024 election as concerns about the economy persist in President Donald Trump’s first 100 days.  Trump heavily campaigned on lowering inflation rates and strengthening the U.S. economy as he vied to reclaim the Oval Office, promising voters he would “immediately” bring…

House Republicans want to prevent credit card companies and financial institutions from enforcing or assigning special retail codes to gun stores to track their sales, a move they argued would infringe on Second Amendment rights.  The new bill, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, follows a debate last year on the use of specialized merchant…

The Libertarian Party is urging President Donald Trump to follow through immediately on his campaign promise to commute the life sentence of “Silk Road” website creator Ross Ulbricht on the first day of his presidency. Trump signed a flurry of executive orders during his first day as the 47th president of the United States. His first actions as president included pardoning approximately 1,500…