Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came across as “a little arrogant” as a member of the executive branch addressing the legislative branch when he was responding to questions about federal government spending. When responding to a question from Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark, during a congressional hearing last week, Buttigieg responded in […]
Kevin O’Leary Says The Biden Administration’s Investment In Affordable Housing Will Cause More Inflation In an interview with Fox News, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary was asked about the state of the housing market and the recent announcement by the Biden Administration to provide an additional $100 million to support the financing of affordable housing. “It’s […]
Energy. I’m not referring to your morning coffee or my occasional caffeine-laden drink. I’m talking about the electricity each of us needs to power our homes, run our farms and businesses, and care for our families. Electricity underpins agriculture and every sector of the U.S. economy, and its importance cannot be overstated. But here’s the […]
This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. A Texas federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s efforts to extend federal anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ+ students. In his ruling Tuesday, Judge Reed O’Connor said the Biden administration lacked the authority to make the changes and accused it of pushing “an agenda wholly divorced from the […]
The Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis, home of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent) A United States District Court judge in St. Louis heard arguments Monday morning on whether the federal government can continue with a student-debt-forgiveness plan due to begin next […]
War. Natural disasters. Congressional infighting. Any of these can wreck the public perception of a presidential administration. Presidents are also often judged — fairly or not — by how the stock market performs during their time in office. By examining each presidency by the numbers, we’ll see what lessons investors can learn, and how it […]
JetBlue Airways Corp. (NASDAQ:JBLU) agreed to buy Spirit Airlines Inc. (NYSE:SAVE) in July 2022 for $3.8 billion in what was poised to create the fifth-largest airline in the US. Fast forward to today, and Spirit Airlines is valued at under $1 billion and trying to stave off bankruptcy. According to a recent note from investment […]
National security adviser Jake Sullivan gave President Joe Biden’s China strategy a pat on the back Tuesday by proclaiming that it has successfully reduced tensions and prodded Beijing to engage on issues critical to U.S. interests. Sullivan praised the administration’s “intensive outreach” to Beijing over the past year to lift bilateral ties from the “historic […]
WASHINGTON — The White House Medical Unit had “severe and systemic problems” with its pharmacy operations and provided health care to ineligible staffers before the Biden administration, according to a scathing report by the Defense Department‘s Office of Inspector General. The multiyear investigation was prompted in 2018 by complaints alleging that a senior military medical […]
Texas is refusing to comply with a cease-and-desist letter from the Biden administration over actions by the state that have impeded U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing part of the border with Mexico. In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rejected the Biden administration’s request for the state […]
But four other officials with knowledge of the discussions said in interviews that U.S. naval forces are clearly under threat in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. “If our ships see something is coming near them or toward them, they are going to assess it as a threat and shoot it down,” said one […]