In December of 2020, amid as Donald Trump pushed conspiracies that the 2020 election had been fraudulently stolen from him, Josh Hawley became the first Republican senator to declare that they would object to the certification of the Electoral College vote. On the morning of January 6, 2021, Hawley (R-Mo.) …
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Senators grilled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today over her management of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and how the agency — which President Donald Trump has sought to dismantle — is responding to a series of devastating storms across the southern United States. During a hearing of the …
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Republican lawmakers are leaving the finishing touches on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to slash taxes for the rich and gut America’s already meager safety net for the poor — and they are working to ensure the health care cuts are sufficiently destructive and potentially damaging politically. Under an …
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With Donald Trump’s tax and agenda bill on the verge of collapse in the House of Representatives, the president is demanding that the GOP get it together to ensure the legislation becomes law. “Republicans MUST UNITE behind, ‘THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!’” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social, claiming that …
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As Donald Trump demands that federal courts and judges get out of his way, Republicans in Congress seem prepared to use their powers to kneecap the judicial branch’s ability to check the president. On Monday morning, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox News that Speaker Mike Johnson …
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Conservative Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley claimed Friday he opposes a “nationwide ban” on abortion, before immediately saying he wants to see “reasonable federal restrictions.” One such federal restriction, he said during a Missouri Senate candidate debate on Friday, should be “when the baby is capable of feeling pain” — a …
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Mere minutes after President Joe Biden announced he is stepping down from the presidential race, former president Donald Trump called him “not fit to serve” as Republican politicians, sensing blood, clamored for Biden to resign as president. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not …
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This article is published in partnership with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. In 2008, I published a book with a straightforward premise: the upcoming era of American politics would be defined by a competition between the left and …
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Long before red-pilled streamers like Steven Crowder, Tim Pool, and Matt Walsh were agitating for an end to no-fault divorce laws, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was urging conservatives to “reconsider” the wisdom of legal reforms that made it easier to dissolve a marriage. Just two years after the last state …
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Nearly 90 Jewish leaders in Missouri have signed an open letter to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) urging him to drop his support for Harrison Butker, after the Kansas City Chiefs kicker spread “one of the world’s oldest and most recognizable antisemitic lies” in his controversial commencement speech at Benedictine College. …
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