Author: Gabe Kaminsky

Over the course of this year, a Swiss billionaire named Hansjörg Wyss has landed himself in the crosshairs of Republicans aiming to close what they say are foreign influence “loopholes” in U.S. elections. Wyss, 89, lives in Wyoming and is the founder of the medical device manufacturer Synthes, which was bought by the pharmaceutical giant…

In a reversal, the new version of the short-term spending bill to extend government funding into next year does not include a one-year extension of a government agency accused of “censorship” against conservatives. Following pressure from conservative Republicans in Congress, businessmen Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, as well as President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect…

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is requesting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) join Republicans in cutting off funding to a “censorship” agency at the center of a spending bill fight, according to a letter. Schmitt, the former Missouri attorney general who helped engineer a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of censoring conservatives with…

Businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will lead a new group called the Department of Government Efficiency to cut federal spending, are raising concerns over a proposal that would extend the lifeline of a controversial State Department-housed office. The provision has caused an uproar among Republican offices on Capitol Hill, where conservative lawmakers say…

A State Department-housed office that conservatives say funded an unconstitutional “censorship scheme” would receive a one-year extension under a provision in a 1,547-page spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. The bill text, which was released on Tuesday before the House and Senate adjourn for Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s holidays, includes a provision that…

EXCLUSIVE — A national security-focused watchdog group is suing the Biden administration’s top foreign aid agency for allegedly “withholding” documents on its funding of anti-Israel groups overseas, according to a complaint. The complaint, filed on Tuesday in federal court by the Washington, D.C.-based Center to Advance Security in America, accuses the U.S. Agency for International…

A watchdog group lobbying for Supreme Court reforms in the name of “ethics” and “transparency” ran a deficit while paying the charity’s leader the equivalent of 96% of its annual revenue, financial disclosures show. Fix the Court, a nonprofit organization registered under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS, reported on tax forms covering fiscal 2023 paying…

In the final days of election season, Democrats spent millions of dollars propping up independent candidate Dan Osborn in his since-unsuccessful bid to oust Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE), according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings. The money, much of which was routed to a super PAC called Retire Career Politicians that purchased ads boosting…

The sole funder of a website “inspired by the courageous black Communists in Alabama” in the 1930s and 1940s and platforming pro-Hamas talking points is a key cog in the largest Democratic dark money network in the United States, documents show. Last year, on the heels of Hamas terrorists attacking Israel on Oct. 7 and…

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) introduced a package of “DOGE Act” bills this week aiming to slash federal spending and save taxpayer dollars. In a press release on Wednesday, the Republican lawmakers touted the measures as a means to target federal bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., coinciding with President-elect Donald Trump’s formation…