WASHINGTON—Both chambers of Congress on Dec. 21 passed a last-minute funding package that would extend government funding to March 14, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk. The legislation, dubbed the American Relief Act, passed the Senate in a late-night 85-11 vote that wrapped up not long after the midnight shutdown deadline on Saturday. The […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on Dec. 21 passed a bipartisan bill that will enable government employees, their survivors, and disabled persons to receive more money from the Social Security program, which will cost up to $195 billion over 10 years. The Social Security Fairness Act, a bill sponsored by retiring Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), will repeal […]

WASHINGTON—The House on Dec. 19 voted down a pared-down, Trump-backed plan to fund the government with just more than 24 hours until a government shutdown begins. In a 235–174 vote, lawmakers rejected the proposal. The group voting against the bill included all but two Democrats and a slate of conservative Republicans. The bill, which advanced […]

WASHINGTON—Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said on Wednesday night the massive stopgap funding bill put forward by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was scrapped after President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance came out in opposition to the bill. “There is no new agreement right now,” Scalise told reporters, and lawmakers are “looking at […]

WASHINGTON–Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, leaders of the incoming Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, will meet with Republicans in Congress on Dec. 5 to discuss reducing the size of the federal government. Though few details of their plans have been released, members are divided on whether to scrap earmarks, a provision of […]

WASHINGTON—Republicans will have 220 seats in the House of Representatives in the 119th Congress, completing their majority caucus, after the last election to the House with outstanding results was called on Dec. 5. The House Republican Conference declared victory in its quest to retain the majority in 2024’s general elections on Nov. 12, and the […]

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Nov. 20 that he will ban persons from using bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex. In this year’s general election, Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride—a male who identifies as a woman—was elected to represent the state’s at-large district in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the […]

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced during a Nov. 13 press conference that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) had resigned his seat in the House of Representatives after being nominated by President-elect Donald Trump as attorney general. Though he’ll likely face a tough fight to be confirmed by the Senate, Johnson said that Gaetz resigned his […]

WASHINGTON—The House Republican Conference on Nov. 13 elected Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) as its chair for the next Congress. The party is poised to retain its majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2024 general elections. According to the Associated Press, Republicans are currently one seat away from the 218 needed to secure […]

WASHINGTON—After a long recess that began in September, both houses of the 118th Congress will return on Nov. 12 for its final session. It’s the first time the legislature will convene after general elections on Nov. 5, in which Republicans gained control of the Senate in the 119th Congress that takes office on Jan. 3, […]

WASHINGTON—The Republican Party gained control of the United States Senate in the 119th Congress by winning key battleground races in the 2024 election. The Associated Press has projected the GOP winning 52 seats, with several seats yet to be determined. In 2024, elections were scheduled for 34 Senate seats, with nine considered battleground races that […]

President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that the U.S. economy is “the envy of the world.” That message, however, doesn’t seem to be resonating with many voters who are heading to the polls to elect the next president on Nov. 5. In battleground states, dozens of voters interviewed by The Epoch Times said that the […]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., PHILADELPHIA Pa.—Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump spent the final day before the presidential election rallying supporters in battleground states that help form a path to the White House. Harris visited Pennsylvania on Nov. 4, making her final appeal to the state’s 9 million voters at events in Scranton, Allentown, […]

PHILADELPHIA—Less than four days before the general election, President Joe Biden, on Nov. 1, delivered remarks at a union house in Philadelphia to tout his administration’s record on pensions. Biden spoke at the John J. Clavin, Jr. Union Hall in North Philadelphia to a supportive crowd of local union members. His remarks centered on the […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Exactly one week before Election Day, Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump heavily emphasized border security to supporters during a campaign rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 29. Trump has made “securing the border” the principal argument of his 2024 presidential campaign, highlighting the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States, […]

PHILADELPHIA—While the Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, held a highly-publicized rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, urged supporters to vote early at a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 27. According to the polls published by media organization RealClearPolitics, Harris is currently polling […]

Former President Barack Obama on Oct. 10 addressed concerns among black men who are hesitant to support the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, suggesting such hesitancy is because Harris is a woman. Obama made his first surrogate appearance during the 2024 election at a rally in Pittsburgh on Oct. 10, where he compared […]

MINT HILL, N.C.—Former President Donald Trump said on Sept. 25 that if he were in the Oval Office, he would threaten to blow Iran “to smithereens” over threats made to the Republican nominee. His remarks came after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed the Trump campaign on Sept. 24 on “real and […]

The Senate has unanimously passed a bill to increase the level of U.S. Secret Service protection for presidential and vice presidential candidates. After passing the House of Representatives on Sept. 20, the Enhanced Presidential Security Act passed the Senate on Tuesday and will proceed to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The Secret […]

Several top employees of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have resigned amid an ongoing scandal about comments he allegedly made on a pornographic website. The Republican nominee has denied the accusation. Robinson’s campaign released a statement on Sept. 23 announcing the resignations of campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, deputy campaign manager Jason […]