Senate Republicans nervous about former President Trump’s lead in presidential primary polls are impatiently awaiting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to jump into the race. GOP lawmakers don’t expect DeSantis to make his move until after the Florida legislative session ends in early May, but the waiting game is playing on nerves, with some thinking…
Author: Alexander Bolton
Schumer, McConnell visit Munich conference in show of support for Ukraine
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took a rare trip together Friday to visit the Munich Security Conference and meet with the Germany prime minister in a show of bipartisan support for NATO and Ukraine. Speaking at the McCain Dissertation Award Dinner Friday evening, Schumer thanked McConnell for…
Under fire, Rick Scott changes plan to exempt Social Security, Medicare from sunsetting
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has amended his 12-point Rescue America plan to say that his proposal to sunset all federal legislation in five years does not apply to Social Security, Medicare or the U.S. Navy. After taking relentless fire from President Biden, Democrats and even fellow Republicans, Scott has amended Point Six of his plan,…
Lindsey Graham in GOP hot seat for speedy judicial nominees
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is coming under pressure from conservatives on his panel and outside Congress to slow down consideration of President Biden’s judicial nominees. Graham has voted for more of Biden’s nominees than any other Republican on the Judiciary Committee, something that is coming under…
Scott hits Biden over soaring price of eggs
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has emerged as a leading Republican inflation hawk on Capitol Hill, hit President Biden on Thursday over the latest Producer Price Index report showing the price of eggs increased 209.3 percent compared to January a year ago. “Joe Biden’s failure to get the inflation crisis he created under control is absolutely crushing…
Trump warns Scott on Social Security, Medicare: ‘THERE WILL BE NO CUTS’
Former President Trump warned Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Wednesday to “fight for Social Security and Medicare” and panned the Club for Growth’s endorsement of the Florida senator’s reelection bid as “the kiss of death.” Trump endorsed Scott’s challenge against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in November but lashed out against his ally…
Republicans worry as self-inflicted wounds pile up
Republican lawmakers are wary of their party’s propensity for self-inflicted wounds and are hoping for more discipline heading into the next election cycle. Leading Republicans think that the House GOP’s raucous reception of President Biden at last week’s State of the Union played into the president’s hands and that the proposal by Sen. Rick…
Sanders hits Starbucks CEO for refusing to testify before Senate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Wednesday for declining to testify before the Senate about labor problems at the coffee giant. “It is disappointing, but not surprising, that Howard Schultz, the CEO and director of Starbucks has declined an invitation…
Club for Growth defends Rick Scott from McConnell’s ‘false attacks’
The Club for Growth, a prominent conservative advocacy group, is backing Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-Fla.) reelection bid and pushing back against what it says are the “false attacks” of “establishment Republicans” like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). “Rick Scott is a proven conservative who has promoted economic growth and fought reckless spending in…
Tester to lead Senate probe on failures to spot Chinese spy balloons earlier
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) will lead a Senate investigation into why it took so long for the Defense Department to detect Chinese spy balloons that floated over the United States this month and in previous years, revealing an embarrassing gap in the nation’s air defenses. Tester says President Biden should have shot down a…