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Breitbart News economics editor John Carney said in an interview on Sunday morning’s Fox and Friends that the Chinese yuan is an “inevitable” and “serious threat” to the U.S. dollar being the world’s currency.

An ethics watchdog is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for potentially violating federal law and House ethics rules by abusing official resources for political purposes.

Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) announced that he had been diagnosed with “a serious but curable form of cancer” after testing with his doctors.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who says she chose to leave the Democrat party, slammed the “politicized indictment” of former President Donald Trump on Friday.

Former President Donald Trump responded to the emerging reports of the New York grand jury voting to formally indict him under charges filed under seal by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) released a statement slamming the “Unprecedented and Scam Indictment” of Donald Trump following reports that the grand jury in New York voted to indict the former president.

Vulnerable Democrat Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is running for the U.S. Senate in California in a crowded primary, appeared to exchange their fundraising email lists again on Wednesday.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hauled in a record $35 million during the first quarter of 2023 fundraising, topping the previous record of $31.5 million he set in the first quarter of 2022.

The Biden administration was forced to offer up 2,600 square miles of federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico this week, following a deal made by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in exchange for his support of the left’s climate legislation last summer.

President Joe Biden abandoned his party in the House again after the White House confirmed he would sign a GOP-led bill to end the national COVID emergency one month after 197 Democrats voted “no” on the bill.

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are leading a bipartisan group of senators in introducing legislation that would allow federal regulators to take back “all or part of” the compensation bank executives received in the five years preceding the event of another bank failure.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) signed a landmark anti-ESG proxy voting reform bill into law that will protect state-managed pension funds and other investments against activist money managers.

Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) raised the temperature against former President Donald Trump on Monday at an event in New Hampshire, claiming he “just can’t” back him again as president.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) will reportedly make his return to the U.S. Senate the week of April 17 after checking himself into the hospital for “clinical depression” in February.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), when he served as Pennsylvania state Treasurer, oversaw investments worth over $31 million in 2006 from the state worker pensions into a Chinese government-backed firm, which has since been considered a national security threat.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced a “nationwide billboard campaign” on Wednesday, targeting three vulnerable House Democrats for voting in support of reduced penalties for violent crimes.

Manufacturing activity in the central Atlantic region of the United States showed modest improvements in March, according to a survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond released on Tuesday.

The White House wants stricter requirements for journalists to obtain “hard passes,” which would make many journalists have to apply for temporary day passes, according to the Daily Beast after speaking with two people familiar with the situation.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said banning the Chinese social media app TikTok would ultimately “harm [Democrats] politically in 2024.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) announced at a church event on Sunday that she will run for Houston’s mayoral race.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Monday that she would seek a third term in U.S. Senate in 2024.

The White House says President Joe Biden would veto the House Republicans’ major energy legislation package “in its current form” if it passes through Congress, claiming it would not help Americans.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said over the weekend that she does not support a total ban on the Chinese social media app TikTok, claiming it would be “unprecedented.”

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said on Friday the United States needs to work with China and Russia on climate change.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy picked apart woke America’s idea of “systematic racial inequity” in a video uploaded to Instagram, claiming the government’s policies and practices “badly” failed black Americans.

Fourteen state financial officers sent a letter to JPMorgan Chase’s CEO demanding that the company stop engaging in what appears to be “politically motivated” de-banking around certain industries, individuals, and groups. 

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) fiscal 2024 proposed budget to defund the city’s commission that helped create the soft-on-crime criminal code revision, which the mayor initially vetoed and Congress blocked in a bipartisan effort.

China’s government said on Thursday that it would oppose any forced sale the United States plans to impose on TikTok’s Chinese owner in order for the social media platform to continue to be used within the country, given the security risk.

Freshman House Democrat Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC), who has over a million followers on TikTok, recognizes the security concerns with the Chinese social media app but doesn’t think the platform will fully banned.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced accompanying legislation in both chambers on Thursday that would eliminate the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the agency Anthony Fauci formally directed from 1984 to 2022.

Sen. John Thune the second highest-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate, has endorsed Rep. Jim Banks in his bid for the upper chamber to fill Sen. Mike Braun’s seat.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that inflation remains “too high” and has a “likely bumpy” and “long way” to go until it reaches the intended two percent, where the Fed would like it to be.

Americans say that cyberterrorism is the most significant “critical threat” to the United States’ vital interests than ten other international matters, including the military power of China and Russia.

Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled bipartisan legislation to boost oversight of the Federal Reserve amid two bank failures.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said during Wednesday’s press conference that the Fed would use “all of our tools” to keep the banking system safe in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse earlier this month.

Sixteen Republican Attorneys General are blaming President Joe Biden’s leftist climate and energy agenda for helping to crash a major Silicon Valley bank.