The Republican-led push for a “fiscal commission” to examine Social Security and other key programs is “specifically designed to avoid accountability from voters,” argued one critic. Survey results out Thursday show that more than 80% of U.S. voters oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare, a finding released a day after House Republicans and some […]
“Unfortunately, the new speaker and House Republicans decided to put political expediency over common decency,” said one critic. Speaker Mike Johnson was among the 182 Republicans and 31 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who on Wednesday night declined to expel Congressman George Santos over his litany of lies and alleged criminal behavior he […]
[content id=”79272″] Nine U.S. Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives – none of them well-known to the American public – announced by the Sunday deadline that they are running to become House speaker, the leader of the lower chamber of Congress. The House has been without a speaker for nearly three weeks after a […]
“We’re 62 hours away from shutting down the government of the United States of America, and Republicans are launching an impeachment drive based on a long-debunked and discredited lie,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin. With a government shutdown just two days away, the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee on Thursday launched its first hearing as part of […]