Politics

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is proposing the development of “freedom cities” in the hopes of spurring manufacturing and economic prosperity. The idea is similar to free economic zones, in which regulations are significantly curtailed. Trump announced his plan in a campaign video posted to Rumble over the weekend. The …

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) slammed Jim Jordan’s sham Manhattan crime hearing as a scam to protect Trump. Video of the press conference: Rep. Nadler said:In a few minutes, the House Judiciary Committee will convene what the Chairman calls a field hearing. It may have some …

Closed-door planning meetings involving White House officials, the Democratic National Committee and outside advisers are intensifying as President Biden nears a final decision about how and when to kick off his 2024 campaign. Mr. Biden’s seemingly off-the-cuff remark at an airport in Ireland on Friday that he would announce his …

Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) hearings and investigations into President Biden and his family have been a failure, so now he said that the rules of the game are for local Republican DAs to prosecute the President and his family. The New York Post reported on their interview with Jordan: “I …

WASHINGTON — When Representative Jim Jordan made his appeal to donors at a recent fund-raiser for the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, he pointed to his clash with Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan prosecutor who has criminally charged former President Donald J. Trump, as the kind of pursuit their money was …

When the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage nearly eight years ago, social conservatives were set adrift. The ruling stripped them of an issue they had used to galvanize rank-and-file supporters and big donors. And it left them searching for a cause that — like opposing gay …

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, two days after announcing an exploratory committee for president, brought his message to friendly territory. After greeting supporters on Friday at Alex’s Restaurant, a Charleston-area eatery, the senator made the case for his candidacy to a group of donors at a private retreat that …

President Biden returned from his trip to Ireland at nearly 2:45 AM, took questions from the press, and turned up the heat on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Here is a transcript as provided to PoliticusUSA by The White House: Q    Any update on the debt ceiling?  Will you speak with …

After House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) tried to pressure C-SPAN into televising his hearing on Alvin Bragg, the network didn’t yield and said that would stream online. C-SPAN tweeted in response to Jordan and other Republicans demanding that the hearing be televised: FYI: For those of you commenting …

New fundraising reports show Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Reuben Gallego raising more money than Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I) in the Arizona Senate race. Politico reported:Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) reported raising $2.1 million in the first three months of the year, trailing her likely Democratic challenger Ruben Gallego’s total but still …