In 2013, then-businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump shared his vision on Fox News about the role a president should play in a shutdown: "You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole ...
Republicans are seeking a bill to temporarily extend federal spending at current levels without any add-ons. Democrats are pushing to extend expiring subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans.
On at least a dozen occasions when Joe Biden was president — including in speeches to military academy graduates and Medal of Honor winners, at Veterans Day observances and to rank-and-file ...
Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of Burton, Michigan, was a former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran. His Sept. 28 ambush on the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Grand Blanc Township left four ...
As the U.S. headed for a government shutdown, Republicans repeatedly accused Democrats of forcing the closure because they want to give health care access to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Trump says FBI agents may have been Jan. 6 agitators. Investigations don’t support that. A report that says 274 FBI agents responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol isn’t proof the ...
Trump has proposed severe cuts to medical research at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies, including caps on indirect costs for grantees’ labs, terminated grant funding and staff ...
A Century Foundation analysis found that the increase in out-of-pocket costs for Affordable Care Act insurance wouldn’t be twice as big for rural enrollees, which is one way to interpret Klobuchar’s ...
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Ashley Moody, a Republican, was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused when Marco Rubio resigned to become secretary of state. Moody took the oath of office Jan. 21, 2025. She served ...
Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor, is the 2022 Republican nominee for Virginia's 7th Congressional District Seat. She is running against incumbent Democrat Abigail Spanburger. Vega was ...
Tracking Trump’s first-term campaign promises: The Trump-O-Meter is PolitiFact's meter for tracking 102 promises President Trump made during his 2016 campaign. We are tracking Trump's second-term ...