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November 20, 2025 4:46 PM ET President Donald Trump wants to send $2,000 checks to working-class Americans, but the proposal is facing tough prospects on Capitol Hill. Fresh off Republicans’ disappointing electoral performance in early November, Trump has turned his attention to addressing voter concerns about affordability and has cast the rebate checks from tariff revenue

Somalis are allegedly looting America’s coffers, according to a City Journal report published Wednesday.  “ Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab,” Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo claim.  Thorpe and Rufo cite

November 20, 2025 3:56 PM ET U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday morning quickly launched an investigation into Republican New York Rep. Claudia Tenney’s private residence in Washington D.C. after a window in the home was broken. The motive remains unclear and no one was injured, and Tenney noted law enforcement’s rapid response to the incident

Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer November 20, 2025 11:09 AM ET As the political world turns its sights to the 2026 midterm elections, one issue will outweigh all the rest: affordability. Democrats held the federal government hostage over extending subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) for the individual market. Without these

November 20, 2025 8:24 AM ET Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick could be expelled from the House after being charged by federal prosecutors Wednesday night with funneling federal disaster funds into her campaign account. Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube, said he would file a motion to censure Cherfilus-McCormick on Thursday morning following the Department of

November 19, 2025 10:26 PM ET The House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday evening to repeal a new law allowing senators to sue the federal government for massive sums over secretly subpoenaed phone records. House lawmakers voted 426 to 0 to overturn the provision tucked inside a recent government funding bill, which permitted senators —

November 19, 2025 9:42 PM ET Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills narrowly avoided a formal rebuke by his colleagues on Wednesday evening after the vast majority of House Republicans voted to scuttle the measure. Mills successfully evaded the censure resolution offered by Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace that would have stripped him of his

November 19, 2025 8:35 PM ET President Donald Trump signed the “Epstein Files Transparency Act” into law on Wednesday, ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to make all related unclassified Department of Justice (DOJ) records public. The process picked up steam after 218 members of Congress signed onto a discharge petition Nov. 12, allowing the bill

November 19, 2025 7:45 PM ET A federal grand jury charged Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick on Wednesday with siphoning off millions in taxpayer-funded disaster aid and allegedly channeling the money into her 2021 congressional bid. The Federal Election Commission opened a probe into Cherfilus-McCormick in September after complaints accused her 2021 campaign of concealing

November 19, 2025 6:25 PM ET The House Ethics Committee announced a formal investigation into Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills on Wednesday evening just hours before the embattled lawmaker is set to face a censure resolution that could weaken his standing in Congress. The bipartisan panel voted to investigate Mills for a host of allegations