FBI Director Kash Patel is cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League that the bureau forged under its former boss James Comey. ‘James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it ...
Walter Olson As Eugene Volokh points out in a recent post, some progressives and gun control advocates blasted the American Civil Liberties Union when it sided with the National Rifle Association against then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s use of financial regulation for purposes of retaliating against the group’s pro-gun advocacy. But the civil liberties group was right to take the ...
With a government shutdown in effect, both sides of the aisle are looking to place blame on the other. House Speaker Mike Johnson pointed out that while Democrats expressed outrage over the proposed legislation, it is similar to several continuing resolutions that passed under the Biden administration. ‘The nonpartisan clean CR only appears ‘partisan’ because 212 House Democrats and 46 ...
The White House doubled down in a new memo on its messaging against the Democrats’ shutdown position and claimed that if the Democrats’ demands are met, nearly $200 billion would flow to healthcare for illegal immigrants. The memo, first obtained by Fox News Digital, argued that congressional Democrats’ desire to repeal the healthcare title of President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful ...
Romina Boccia As we predicted about three weeks ago on our Debt Dispatch Substack, the federal government shut down today at 12:01 a.m. I had a chance to speak with the Washington Post’s Early Brief Author Matthew Choi, who captured many of my thoughts well: Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the pro-free market Cato Institute, said ...
German authorities arrested three alleged Hamas members on suspicion of plotting attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany, officials told The Associated Press. Two of the suspects arrested on Wednesday are German citizens. The federal prosecutor’s office described the third as being born in Lebanon. They were only named as Abed Al G., Wael F. M. and Ahmad I., ...
Neither Republicans nor Democrats blinked less than 24 hours into a government shutdown as an attempt to pass a government funding extension failed again Wednesday. Despite Republican leaders signaling confidence that more Democrats would cross the aisle, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus blocked the GOP’s continuing resolution (CR) for the third time with a 53-45 ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review President Donald Trump’s effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and will allow her to remain in her spot on the board until oral arguments can be heard in January, the court said — delivering a long-awaited update on a high-profile case, and one expected to have significant political and economic ...
The blame game over the first federal government shutdown in seven years is intensifying. With neither President Donald Trump and the Republican majority in Congress, nor congressional Democrats, willing to lower the temperature, the government shut down at midnight Tuesday. And both sides are blasting each other in a verbal fistfight with plenty of policy and political implications as next ...
Jeffrey A. Singer Cato adjunct scholar and California State University-Northridge economics Professor Shirley Svorny (1951–2022) passed away nearly three years ago after a long battle with multiple myeloma. Shirley devoted much of her career to showing how medical licensing laws raise costs and block access to care. Even near the end, she was still trading ideas with Cato’s health policy team. ...