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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 — 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...
By: Matt Laslo
WASHINGTON — They don’t like it being called an “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” but some Republicans investigated by the select Jan. 6, 2021, committee are behind President Donald Trump’s effort to give taxpayer dollars to people claiming to be victims of the federal government’s investigations and prose...
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...
