Author: Jenny Goldsberry

Rep. Mike Walz (R-FL) expressed his confidence in the Department of Government Efficiency to keep the U.S. from falling “off the financial cliff.” In the weeks since President-elect Donald Trump won the Oval Office, he’s named Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to be the volunteer heads of DOGE. While they aren’t government…

Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump pointed out a few ways the electoral process could be streamlined nationally to restore faith in elections. Results were finalized a month after the Nov. 5 election. Now that the Republican Party has a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, Lara Trump teased federal legislation to…

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) expressed his confidence that President-elect Donald Trump has already properly vetted his appointees and that the GOP should not challenge those nominations. Trump’s decision to name Former Fox News Anchor Pete Hegseth as his Defense Secretary prompted negative press about him. Some outlets reported allegations from anonymous sources that Hegseth had…

Activists protesting the proposed ban against transgender women danced in a womens restroom at the Capitol on Wednesday. Roughly 10 protesters, including biological women and others who identify as transgender and nonbinary, recorded themselves having a dance party while wearing shirts that said, “Flush the hate not our rights.” A subsequent video was set to Klymaxx’s song…

The Washington, D.C., sports bar that was designed to encourage bipartisan political discussions has been silenced by the community for good. Political Pattie’s, which opened in September on 9th and U streets in Northwest Washington, had its final last call Wednesday. Previously, the location was a gay bar known as the Dirty Goose in an…

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell is standing by California’s leaders in defying President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportations. This comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Attorney General Rob Bonta have taken a defensive posture over the state’s immigrant population. Trump’s plan to deport would begin with criminally convicted illegal immigrants and then…

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) slammed the senior executives of U.S. airlines during a hearing Wednesday to remind them that flying with their companies is a “disaster.” The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing to hear from Spirit Airlines CEO Matthew Klein, Frontier Airlines Senior Vice President Robert Schroeter, Delta External Affairs Officer Peter…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined the protests taking place both for and against medical transgender procedures on minors outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, at one point being confronted by a heckler. The Supreme Court is considering the case of U.S. v. Skrmetti, which is a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones,…

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) pleaded with his fellow Senators to see past the “media noise” behind President-elect Donald Trump’s appointees and nominate them. Trump’s decision to name Fox anchor Pete Hegseth as his Defense Secretary and former Department of Defense chief of staff Kash Patel as the FBI director prompted negative press about the two.…

Talk show host Bill Maher suggested he’d rather quit his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher than cover more news surrounding President-elect Donald Trump. Maher admitted to actress Jane Fonda on his Club Random podcast Sunday that he felt like “s***ing my pants” ahead of Trump taking office in January. “I mean, I may…