Author name: Lance Hudgins

November 10, 2025 9:17 PM ET The Senate approved a government funding package to reopen the federal government Monday night over the objections of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and a majority of Democrats. Lawmakers voted 60 to 40 to pass the legislation with eight Democrats joining with Republicans to support the measure. Kentucky Sen.

November 09, 2025 10:53 PM ET Forty days into the longest government shutdown in history, eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus bucked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to support a deal that will end the government shutdown. Lawmakers voted 60 to 40 to advance a House-passed clean continuing resolution (CR) Sunday night that had

November 09, 2025 8:26 PM ET While a number of Democratic lawmakers are voicing their support for a new bipartisan deal to bring the 40-day federal government shutdown to an end, members of the party’s left-flank are furious about the proposed agreement. Progressive Democratic lawmakers and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries excoriated a deal Sunday

November 09, 2025 7:28 PM ET President Donald Trump took over the broadcast booth while attending a Sunday night football game between the Washington Commanders (formally Redskins) and the Detroit Lions. Ahead of Veterans Day, Trump attended the Salute to Service game on Sunday. The president appeared in the Fox Sports broadcast booth where he

November 09, 2025 2:39 PM ET The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ordered states to “immediately undo” their efforts to send out full food stamp benefits this November. “To the extent states sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized,” the Saturday memo reads. “Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps

November 09, 2025 1:44 PM ET President Trump announced Sunday that his administration will send $2,000 checks to Americans using money collected from tariffs. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He called opponents of tariffs “FOOLS!” and said

November 08, 2025 2:04 PM ET A federal judge permanently blocked President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., ruling the move violates the Constitution. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a 106-page decision Friday that bars Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from sending federalized Guard members from Oregon, Texas and California into Portland.

November 08, 2025 12:28 PM ET The Supreme Court handed President Trump a victory Friday when it blocked a lower court’s demand for full food stamp payments to 42 million Americans during the government shutdown. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson granted an administrative stay that freezes a Rhode Island federal judge’s order requiring complete November SNAP

November 07, 2025 5:08 PM ET Former Democratic California Rep. Katie Porter slipped six points in the state’s 2026 governor’s race, according to a Berkeley Institute of Government Studies (IGS) poll released Friday, showing Republican Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco now leading. Porter, who had been the frontrunner in polls since August, fell from 17%

November 07, 2025 4:31 PM ET WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be taking a new approach when its attorneys face activist bar complaints. Under the new policy, which Blanche noted is not yet fully in effect, the DOJ will handle complaints against its attorneys