Feds spent record $6.8 trillion in fiscal 2021, deficit was $2.8 trillion
The federal government spend a staggering $6.8 trillion in fiscal year 2021 and borrowed about 40 cents on every dollar, the Treasury Department announced Friday.
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Pelosi: Democrats ‘almost there’ on new spending bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will finalize an agreement on a $2 trillion social spending bill and pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Twitter suspends GOP congressman for calling Biden health adviser Rachel Levine a man
Republican Reps. Jim Banks and Marjorie Taylor Greene were dinged by Twitter this week for saying that Rachel Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, was a man.
New Jersey governor race tests Murphy’s progressive politics
‘Fair share’: Democrats eye billionaire’s tax to help push Biden spending bill across finish line
EXCLUSIVE: Youngkin jumps into lead in Va. governor’s race, new poll shows: ‘This is anyone’s race’
McConnell warns Democrats on judiciary attacks
House ethics committee finds ‘substantial evidence’ of violations by four congressmen
Voting rights loom large for Virginia’s Black electorate in razor-tight governor’s race
AG Garland defends Jan. 6 prosecutions, denies he’ll shield school boards from vocal parents
Merrick Garland’s memo about angry parents at school board meetings was a flashpoint in his appearance Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee, with Republicans accusing the attorney general of chilling time-honored dissent in communities grappling with issues such as critical race theory and mask mandates.
Courting Hispanic vote, Youngkin ditches illegal immigration, MS-13 talk on campaign trail
Republican Glenn Youngkin has embraced much of the Trumpian policy playbook in his bid for Virginia’s governor’s mansion, with a glaring exception of the illegal immigration issue.
‘Got to happen’: Democrats redouble efforts to secure a deal on spending bill
Congressional Democrats redoubled their efforts Thursday to finalize President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar expansion of the social safety net, with both moderates and progressives arguing the time has come for a deal to be made.
House recommends criminal contempt charges for Bannon
The House on Thursday voted to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in criminal contempt after failing to appear for a deposition before the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Manchin admits discussing party switch to give Dems cover on spending bill
Sen. Joe Manchin III admitted on Thursday that he had broached the topic of a party switch with fellow Democrats as a way to give them cover for his intransigence on President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar expansion of the federal safety net.
Harris pushes get-out-the-vote effort to boost McAuliffe’s split chances in Virginia
Vice President Kamala Harris stumped for Democrat Terry McAuliffe on Thursday, urging supporters to make sure they turn out in the razor-tight race for the governorship.
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Supreme Court doesn't block Texas abortion law, sets hearing
The Biden administration, in its final pitch to block Texas' ban on most abortions, is warning the Supreme Court that none of its decisions would be safe if it allows the state law to remain in force.
Stock tied to Trump's new media venture soars again
The company planning to bring President Donald Trump's new media venture to the stock market soared even further on Friday, as day traders keep piling in.
Failure to report coronavirus-experiment findings renews Wuhan lab controversy
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he feels vindicated after the National Institutes of Health revealed that a "limited experiment" at the Wuhan lab in China involving mice equipped with human receptors found a virus engineered to carry spike proteins from coronaviruses was more virulent than ones without the special function.
Lawsuit challenges hundreds of Fairfax County absentee ballot requests
Fairfax County insists it is following state election laws properly, denying the thrust of a new lawsuit this week that argued election officials have accepted hundreds of absentee and mail ballot requests that lacked the required last four digits of an applicant's Social Security number.
Biden says, contrary to U.S. policy, that America committed to aid Taiwan if attacked by China
President Biden pledged during a CNN's town-hall meeting Thursday evening to come to Taiwan's defense if it was attacked by China, a major break from official U.S. policy of ambiguity.
Biden says call to prosecute those who defy Jan. 6 commission subpoenas was 'not appropriate'
President Biden admitted Thursday night that his call for the Justice Department to prosecute individuals who defy a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot was inappropriate.
Biden uses gesture liberals denounce as white supremacist
President Biden made a gesture that liberals frequently call a white supremacist dog whistle during Thursday's CNN town-hall meeting.
Biden says he's confident he'll get a deal on economic spending packages
President Biden expressed confidence Thursday that his two key spending proposals will clear Congress, signaling that lawmakers are nearing an agreement.
Biden says he doesn't think corporate tax rate increase will be in spending bill
President Biden acknowledged Thursday that it's unlikely that his plans to raise the corporate-tax rate to pay for his economic and climate package will survive Congress.
'Down the hall': Biden says Jill booted him from bedroom for dropping free college
No free college meant personal trouble for President Biden.
Texas GOP leader pays voter fraud 'bounty' to Democrat tipster
The conservative Texas Republican leader who pledged bounties to those who prove fraud at the polls has paid a liberal Democratic poll watcher who reported illegal voting by a Pennsylvania Republican.
Media takes pot shots at Trump's 'Truth'
The news media has long expected that former President Donald Trump would create his own media outreach, become a direct rival and then bypass the existing social media giants. That time has arrived.
AG Garland dodges question on special counsel for Hunter Biden's art sales
Attorney General Merrick Garland deflected a lawmaker's request Thursday to appoint a special counsel to investigate the high-priced art sales of presidential son Hunter Biden, saying only that he would take the question "under advisement."
Climate reports outline Biden administration fears on global warming
Small increases in global average temperatures since the 1800s pose risks of increased political instability in the developing world, possible food and water shortages, and potentially more military competition in the Arctic but do not represent existential threats to humankind, according to a series of government climate reports that the Biden administration made public Thursday.
