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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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By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers were cautiously optimistic on Thursday as the Senate was trying to reach a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security and end the government shutdown. In a series of exclusive interviews with Raw Story, several senators explained how they were uncertain whether a deal co...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has overseen an unprecedented melding of the private sector with the federal government — so much so that critics say it smells of socialism.Since Trump re-entered the White House, America has taken a stake in at least 10 private companies, the federal government ...
By: Daniel Hampton, Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said Thursday she has been pushing Republican leaders to hold public hearings with Jeffrey Epstein survivors, throwing her support behind first lady Melania Trump's call for greater accountability in the case."I actually have been encouraging that," Luna to...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — Viktor Orbán’s stunning defeat after 16 years leading Hungary with an iron fist has elicited cheers in some corners of the nation’s capital this week, even as many Republicans would rather discuss anything but the strongman President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement counted as their o...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) had a serious response on Thursday to reporting involving allegations of FBI Director Kash Patel's conduct and excessive drinking.In an exclusive interview with Raw Story, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee described what could come after midter...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving, according to a new Gallup survey. That ties this 119th Congress with the 112th Congress (2011-2012) as the least popular in contemporary American history.Whi...
WASHINGTON — It’s an election year, and impeachment’s in the air in the nation’s capital.After 187 Democrats signed onto the effort to impeach now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, restive Democrats have now turned their attention to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Recently, a group of...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are leading the charge to eradicate state artificial intelligence laws that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs say are stifling, but there’s a problem: There’s still no federal AI law to replace local tough-on-AI measures.As Senate Commerce Comm...
By: Matt Laslo, Nicole Charky-Chami
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers responded on Friday to reports that Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), who has been missing from Congress for more than 78 days, had broken his silence.Kean spoke publicly for the first time on Thursday, telling David Wildstein, editor of The New Jersey Globe, that he was "nearing a re...
By: Matt Laslo
EDITOR'S NOTE: Raw Story writer Matt Laslo's congressional bureau, The LCB, has been credentialed by the Radio-Television Correspondents' Association (RTCA) since 2012.WASHINGTON — America's most powerful TV networks have been handing out coveted congressional press credentials to people Congress ha...
