In 2025, the House passed legislation backed by Crenshaw that would prohibit Medicaid funds from covering gender-affirming care for minors. The proposal sought to amend the Social Security Act to block federal funding for treatments such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgeries intended to help transgender youth transition.
Thomas Massie is just an embarrassment. He's got a problem with the president. The president's got a problem with him. So now, this guy who was a libertarian is going all in on the most leftist in the other party. So he's not even serving the people that put him into office.
It is the same impulse that produced the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project-the so-called autopsy-after Mitt Romney's 2012 loss. Rather than conduct an honest assessment aligned with the populist direction the party would soon take, establishment Republicans used Romney's defeat to sell the base two catastrophic falsehoods: first, that the immigration status quo was somehow good for America; and second, that even if it wasn't, removing millions of illegal aliens was either impossible or politically suicidal.
President Trump has potentially never been less popular than he is right now, the day that 3rd quarter GDP blew by expectations at 4.3% growth, the strongest quarterly figure in two years. A recent Gallup poll taken from December 1st to the 15th pegged Trump at 36% approval, nearly his lowest Gallup figure ever, second only to a poll taken from January 4th to 15th in 2021 that had him at 34%.
The story of Elise Stefanik's political rise and fall is a parable of a young woman's all-consuming drive for political stardom and her crushing downfall at the hands of a despotic tyrant. Stefanik was the youngest woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A Harvard educated liberal with political ambitions, she was skilled at impressing people with her intelligence and work ethic.
This manifests itself in a variety of different ways, of course. Progressives believe Mitch McConnell is a big meanie who routinely ate Chuck Schumer's lunch when the Kentuckian was still his party's leader in the Senate. Conservatives believe he is a RINO whose commitment to "muh principles" meant Republicans had to play by rules Democrats would violate with reckless abandon. (Filibuster? More like old and busted!)
It's doubtful, however, it will be implemented. I don't see Republicans, especially in the House, going along with this. It just doesn't work for the financial controls that the House wants to have on big spending. She continued: It's just a way of him talking. Again, it's something for him to throw out there, because he knows that the issue of the expiring subsidies for the Affordable Care Act is coming and very soon and it's having a negative effect on Republicans.
Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation | YouTube screenshot Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts - the lead architect of Project 2025, the blueprint for Trump's second presidency - admitted to his organization on Wednesday that he made a mistake in calling neo-Nazi commentator Nick Fuentes a "friend" of Republicans and criticizing those who opposed Fuentes' recent interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a "venomous coalition."
Time didn't start yesterday. Conservative principles didn't just start being challenged in the last 8 years. The threat has been omnipresent. It may not have seemed as dire to some because that man was standing his post when the rest of us were not. You know why the First Amendment became a litmus test in Republican politics and in the judiciary? It was owned by the Left until McConnell started grilling every candidate, newly elected official, or prospective judge about it.
Lawler, who represents New York's 17th Congressional District, which covers Rockland and Putnam counties and parts of Westchester and Dutchess counties along the lower Hudson Valley, and chairs the Rockland County Republican Party, uploaded the statement to his reelection campaign's page on October 2. He opened it with a sweeping appeal to those who value freedom and civility, describing a nation that has "lost sight of a simple truth - we are all Americans, yes, but we are all human beings, created in God's image."
Vance - who has credited Kirk with helping him land the vice presidential nomination last year - accompanied Kirk's widow, Erika, on Air Force Two to take the conservative activist's remains to the Kirks' hometown of Phoenix. A few days later the vice president guest-hosted Kirk's podcast, during which he and several Trump administration officials praised Kirk. Vance and Trump Jr. also spoke at Kirk's memorial service.
WSJ obtained a summary of the poll that read, Our recent national survey of voters shows that there is broad unity across party lines supporting vaccines such as measles (MMR), shingles, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (TDAP), and hepatitis B. The report concluded that the results were in line with what numerous other surveys have shown: A majority of the public, including both Democrats and Republicans, remain broadly supportive of requiring that children be vaccinated against preventable diseases to attend school.
It's delusional in the extreme to think that investors, even in magical-thinking Silicon Valley, would be willing to put money into a project with absolutely no possibility of being profitable. Public projects are for public benefit, not profits. The central question respecting the high-speed rail now is whether, short of making all the money in the world available to build it, it can be built at all in the current century.
During an investigation, South Carolina state representative RJ May, using the screen name joebidennnn69, was arrested for distributing sexual abuse material involving children, raising serious concerns.
Brendan Buck highlighted the significance of the judgeâs behavior and suggested that the situation might ultimately benefit Republicans despite contrasting mainstream media perspectives.
In Arizona, two candidates are vying for the gubernatorial position, and Trump has publicly endorsed both, indicating his support for multiple contenders simultaneously.
