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Matt Laslo primarily covers US government and politics, with a focus on expert commentary, legal policy regulation, and government announcement. His articles revolve around specific political events and figures such as GOP leaders, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Liz Cheney among others.
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WASHINGTON — Cracks in President Donald Trump’s stranglehold on the GOP — and the 119th Congress — went on full display at the U.S. Capitol this month as the House of Representatives sent the White House a defiant message.Last week, 18 Republicans voted to approve a Ukraine aid package opposed by th...
WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump plans to make history this weekend when he hosts the UFC at the White House, Mixed Martial Arts history has already been made in Washington in recent years.At the start of this 119th Congress, there were two former MMA fighters in Congress before one, Sen. M...
WASHINGTON — White House aides tend to shield President Donald Trump from opinions that diverge from his own worldview, but this afternoon, he got chewed out by one of his fellow Republicans at the U.S. Capitol.After four Senate Republicans bucked the president last night and voted to limit his abil...
By: Matt Laslo
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) made clear Thursday that the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a subject President Donald Trump has fixated on for days, is nowhere on his list of priorities.Asked whether his committee would hold hearings into the "reflecti...
WASHINGTON — Capitalist or (democratic) socialist? That’s the question starting to drive a wedge between the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party.Democratic Party leaders say there’s nothing to see here, even after the three progressives New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed ...
By: Matt Laslo
After being dealt another defeat by the conservative Supreme Court, President Donald Trump called on Congress to end birthright citizenship, but one of his biggest supporters on Capitol Hill is going a step further and is now calling for a ten-year moratorium on all immigration. "We need to put a be...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — Ever throw a party only to have no one show up? Awkward. Lonely. Embarrassing.Welcome to President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, where even the baptism pool was empty in Friday’s 100-degree heat as two men waved large flags to a crowd of two and a half — a little boy danced ...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — Progressives in Maine may be feeling duped as the state’s Democratic Party scrambles to replace former U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, but nine-term Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree says that doesn’t mean the state party needs help from the political class."Now they all want to wei...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — The 2020 election just won’t go away, and not just because of President Donald Trump and his primetime address Thursday evening.Some of the president’s prominent allies on Capitol Hill are eagerly fanning the flames ahead of this year’s midterm elections. “Who won the 2020 election?” Ra...
By: Matt Laslo
Washington, D.C. — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) came out swinging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Republican leaders were embarrassingly forced to pull a bipartisan veterans bill from the floor Thursday after another revolt from Johnson’s rightward flank.“Yet again, another reckles...
