Author: Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner

When Harvard University made headlines for refusing to comply with the Trump administration’s proposed terms for federal grant funding, it explained its decision was based on its “independence” and stressed its commitment to “broaden[ing] the intellectual and viewpoint diversity” at the institution. While Harvard pays lip service to ideological diversity, the university is overwhelmingly led…

EXCLUSIVE — The majority of the IRS’s leaders have contributed to Democratic politicians or promoted left-wing ideas on their personal social media pages, according to a recent memo sent to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner. The memo, drafted by the American Accountability Foundation, found that 60% of people occupying…

In early March, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) broke with his party on transgenderism after he said biological men playing in women’s sports leagues are “deeply unfair.” A Washington Examiner review of California grant records, however, shows that Newsom’s administration spent roughly $5 million on programs supporting youth transgenderism between 2022 and 2024. Projects supported by…

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) left some people scratching their heads on Thursday after he provided an impassioned defense for the Islamic nation of Qatar during a congressional hearing. A Washington Examiner review of Foreign Agents Registration Act records found that the arguments Marshall made to defend Qatar matched talking points provided to his office by…

When Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) first ran for state office in 2019, her campaign was funded almost entirely by small-dollar donors. As Crockett increased in prominence, however, cryptocurrency moguls, corporations, union bosses, and even foreign governments have lined up to shower her with resources. Crockett, who got her start practicing law, ran to represent a…

An organization that previously boasted about pressuring advertisers to cease business with conservative news outlets removed references to that work from the front page of its website shortly after Republicans won back control of the federal government in November, a Washington Examiner review found. Check My Ads Institute is an activist organization founded in 2022…

As Democrats struggle to chart their party’s future amid competing visions for countering President Donald Trump, recently released campaign finance filings show that Democratic fundraising is more or less keeping pace with Republicans. Multiple people familiar with Democratic fundraising have complained to the press both on and off the record that donors are frustrated with the…

“Mr. President, how do you respond to criticism that your impoundment of funds abrogates power or authority that the Constitution gave to Congress?” a reporter asked then-President Richard Nixon at a January 1973 press conference. “The same way that Jefferson did, and Jackson did, and Truman did,” the president responded. “The constitutional right for the…