Budget Deal Is a Big Win for Republicans
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Senate has agreed to a two-year deal that raises both defense and domestic discretionary spending well above the sequester levels in the Budget Control Act. Here’s how this has played out since 2013, when the budget sequesters first went into effect:¹ Democrats are happy…
Unions Heading for Crushing Supreme Court Defeat
Jeff Malet/NC via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner launched an attack on union dues a couple of years ago, and any day now the Supreme Court is likely to hand him a victory: The “money is speech” doctrine is back and at the heart of…
Jeff Sessions Says Marijuana Fuels the Opioid Epidemic. Study After Study Finds the Opposite.
US Attorney General Jeff SessionsGiorgio Viera/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a Heritage Foundation event celebrating Ronald Reagan’s birthday this week, Jeff Sessions made a familiar argument: Easy access to marijuana is helping fuel the opioid epidemic. The Drug Enforcement Agency says that the vast majority of heroin addiction starts with…
Nancy Pelosi Just Crushed It With the Longest Continuous Speech in House History
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has set a record for the longest continuous speech in House history, according to the House Historian’s Office. Pelosi took to the floor at 10:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday—after the Senate failed to include Dreamers, the undocumented immigrants…
After Charges of Abuse, White House Staff Secretary Resigns
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you probably know by now, White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter has resigned after two of his ex-wives publicly accused him of assault and abuse during their marriages. Porter was the primary assistant to chief-of-staff John Kelly, and despite…
Actually, the US Has a Rich Tradition of Military Parades. But Normally They’re After Military Victories and Stuff.
Harry Harris/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As has now been widely reported, in a meeting last month, President Trump told high-ranking military officials that he wanted a military parade. But over history the United States has generally left military parades as a chest-thumping show of force to less self-assured despots—and Russia. The…