President Trump, Vice President Vance and first lady Melania Trump are set to commemorate Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery. The Trumps are set to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at 11 a.m. EST, and the president will deliver remarks 30 minutes later. The sprawling military burial ground has recently been at the center of…
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President Trump, Vice President Vance and first lady Melania Trump are set to commemorate Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery. The Trumps are set to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at 11 a.m. EST, and the president will deliver remarks 30 minutes later.
The sprawling military burial ground has recently been at the center of the debate surrounding the president’s proposed triumphal arch. Some critics of the 250-foot structure argue it would cast a shadow over a portion of the historic cemetery — where over 400,000 people are buried, including former presidents and other prominent political figures.
Nine members of the Kennedy family Tuesday joined a lawsuit seeking to prevent the arch’s construction.
The House and Senate are both in session today. House Republicans on Tuesday elected Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to lead the minority in the 120th Congress, a shift from Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) leadership team after a crushing midterm loss.
The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development will hold a hearing on “the rise of sports gambling on college campuses,” slated to begin at 10:15 a.m.
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House Republicans on Tuesday tapped Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to lead their diminished conference in the next Congress, betting that a conservative spitfire — and onetime leadership nemesis — can restore the fight to a party battered by the midterms and scrambling for a path back to power.
In brief comments right out of the gate, Jordan set the tenor of the coming clash, vowing to fight the ascendant Democrats on the size and scope of federal power — an issue that’s taken on fresh significance with the arrival of a new crop of democratic socialist members. Read more here.
Democrats are poised to take control of a majority of state legislatures for the first time in 16 years after the party secured sweeping wins in the midterm elections.
Twenty-four state legislatures will be under full Democratic control starting in January, with the party flipping 12 total individual chambers. Republicans will control both chambers in 22 states, down from 28 states prior to the election.
Two states — North Carolina and Texas — will both have divided legislatures, after Democrats flipped control of the lower chambers only. Read more here.
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