House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in late January picked 13 members of his Republican caucus to serve on the newly created Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Rep. Mike Gallagher, the committee’s chair, has pledged to investigate TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app. Gallagher has described TikTok as “digital...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed on Thursday that Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is proposing to require that safety net programs, including Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare, expire and be subject to new approval by Congress every five years. This comes after Republicans accused President Joe Biden of lying when he accurately noted in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that...
Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said on Tuesday that his party had abandoned efforts to repeal Obamacare and that it should have kept negotiating on what he called “health care reform.” During an appearance on WGIR 610 AM’s NH Today with Chris Ryan, first flagged by the progressive opposition research group American Bridge 21st Century, Sununu was asked about how he...
Republicans in Congress, led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, are once again threatening to vote against raising the United States’ national debt limit unless President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers agree to significant spending cuts. If Congress doesn’t act to raise the debt limit and the United States defaults on its debt, experts say, the impact on the economy would be...
President Joe Biden used part of his State of the Union address on Tuesday to call out Republicans in Congress who have pushed for cuts or changes to federal safety net programs. During Biden’s speech and afterward, GOP lawmakers falsely claimed that Biden was lying, even some of the same legislators who have themselves called for major changes to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blamed the $31 trillion national debt for recent inflation in an address on Monday and demanded “sensible, responsible solutions to our growing national debt,” which he called “the greatest threat to our future.” “When debt is too high, inflation is the result. That’s where we are today,” McCarthy said, according to prepared...
In the first five weeks of 2023, there have already been more than 4,200 deaths from gun violence in the United States and at least 60 mass shootings — a rate of more than one per day — according to the Gun Violence Archive. Rather than take action to curb the proliferation of firearms, House Republicans are proposing a tax cut for gun transfers. On Thursday, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and 17 GOP...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee on Tuesday expressed support for Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks’ campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2024. On Thursday, Banks declared in a column for the right-wing site Townhall, “I’m Running for Senate to Protect Girls’ Sports from Woke Radicalism.” While other Republicans in the state have not yet announced whether...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released a new ad this week attacking President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats for what he called “dumb” economic policies and touting his own “Rescue America” package as the way to “grow the economy, bottom up, naturally and organically.” Though his 12-point plan includes an “America First” section, Scott’s ad...
CNN host Kaitlan Collins on Thursday pressed Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on his recent claims that Democrats had “cut Medicare” by $280 billion — when in reality the law merely reduced the price the program is charged for prescription drug benefits. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act achieved an estimated $280 billion in savings by allowing the government to negotiate directly with...