Author: Molly Parks, Washington Examiner

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) promised a vote would happen in 2025 to renew expiring Obamacare subsidies set to lapse at the end of the year. As part of the deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Senate Republicans promised Democrats a vote on the extension of premium Affordable Care Act subsidies that…

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) sharply criticized War Secretary Pete Hegseth following reports of an alleged verbal follow-up strike order he gave in September to “kill everybody” after the first strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat left survivors in the water. Kelly, a Navy veteran and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on…

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed a bill on Thursday to repeal hemp-banning language that was passed as part of the deal to end the government shutdown, the congresswoman’s office told the Washington Examiner. Mace’s bill, titled the American Hemp Protection Act of 2025, would strike a provision that is set to drastically cut down the…

White House border czar Tom Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to increase its immigration operations in New York City. Homan railed against sanctuary city policies in an interview with Fox News’s Bill Hemmer on Tuesday, saying if sanctuary city leaders don’t assist federal immigration officers, they’re “going to flood the zone.” “So we’re…

The Ukrainian government ousted its ministers of justice and energy from their positions after an investigation revealed a $100 million corruption scandal among current and former top government officials. Ukraine‘s National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced that a “high-level criminal organization,” comprising government officials and businessmen, infiltrated the public nuclear energy company Energoatom to launder money and…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is demanding a vote on his amendment to strike hemp-ban language from a part of the GOP-proposed deal that could end the government shutdown. Eight Democrats joined with GOP senators to support a Republican-led stopgap funding deal Sunday, which includes a continuing resolution to reopen the government through Jan. 30, 2026,…

The Congressional Budget Office confirmed Thursday that it was compromised by a hack. “The Congressional Budget Office has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency’s systems going forward,” Caitlin Emma, chief of media relations for the CBO,…

With off-year election states hitting the voting booths on Tuesday, Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey have been hammering home a platform based on affordability messaging in the final stretch. Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin emphasized Thursday how the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates running in 2025, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger and Rep. Mikie Sherrill…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, becoming the first state attorney general to take legal action following the Trump administration’s warning against the pain reliever. The Texas filing comes one month after President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert…