EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Press Lame Duck Biden Energy Sec For Answers On Massive Offshore Drilling Crackdown
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee want outgoing Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to detail the agency's level of involvement in the White House's newly announced crackdown on offshore oil and gas drilling. I'm looking for it. The new Energy and Commerce Committee chairs, Republican Rep. Bob Latta (Ohio) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (Kentucky), […]
Lame Duck Biden Admin Faces Mounting Pressure To Shower Anti-Israel, Anti-Cop Nonprofit With Taxpayer Cash
Biden administration presses President-elect Donald Trump to donate tens of millions of tax dollars to left-wing nonprofits advocating for defunding police, abolishing prisons and “liberating” Palestinian territories before he takes office is increasing. Left-wing advocates lobbying President Joe Biden include staff from his administration. A group of federal employees called “Federal Environmental and Energy Workers […]
Biden Admin Cuts Huge Lame Duck Check For California Utility Bankrupted For Role In Massive Wildfires
The Biden-Harris administration's Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Tuesday that it has offered up to $15 billion in conditional financing to California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), according to a press release. The loans proposed by the DOE Loan Programs Office (LPO) are for a variety of projects aimed at “expanding hydropower […]
Lame Duck Biden Bureaucrats Throw Cash At Green School Buses As Trump’s Return Looms
The lame-duck Biden administration announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $735 million on green heavy-duty vehicles, including hundreds of millions of dollars on green school buses in the final stages. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using funding from President Joe Biden's signature climate bill, the Inflation Control Act (IRA), to help purchase more […]
GOP Reps Demand Biden’s Green Loan Office Stop Lending Amid Lame Duck Bonanza
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling on the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Green Technology Lending to halt lending amid the huge success of lame-duck loans. Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rogers (Washington State), Jeff Duncan (South Carolina), and H. Morgan Griffiths (Virginia) sent a letter to DOE Loan Program Office […]
Lame Duck Biden Admin Cuts Massive Check For Failing EV Manufacturer
The Biden-Harris administration on Monday announced a multibillion-dollar loan to electric vehicle (EV) maker Rivian as the company continues to lose money. Rivian lost The company had sales of $1.1 billion, but sales fell by nearly $500 million in the third quarter of 2024 as slowing consumer demand for EVs hampered industry growth. Now, the […]
GOP Senators Rejected Gaetz Because Trump Becoming ‘Lame Duck’
Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360” that President-elect Donald Trump's first attorney general nominee, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), is running for the Republican Senate. He claimed it had been rejected by lawmakers. A “lame duck” before taking office. Guest host John Berman asked, “What do you think […]
‘Conveyor belt of radicals’: GOP slammed over Senate absences that helped Biden score more judges in lame duck
J.D. Vance helps nominee navigate Senate FOX News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram examines the vice president-elect's efforts to counter potential obstacles in Congress to some of President-elect Donald Trump's administration nominees in “Special Report” . Senate Republicans came under fire this week for several absent votes, with each absent Republican member agreeing to confirm […]
Senate Democrat sees ‘a chance’ of more Ukraine funding in lame duck session
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Wednesday that Congress could pass additional funding for Ukraine ahead of the transition to a Republican-led Congress and President-elect Trump's administration. He said there is. , likely to oppose further aid to Kyiv. Mr. Kaine said that any package approved by the […]
GOP senator opens door to tax negotiations in lame duck session
Sen. Mike Rounds, D-Lausanne, said Wednesday there may be an opportunity to negotiate a tax agreement during the current lame-duck session of Congress ahead of the tax law's scheduled expiration next year. “There's one chance after the election to see if there's enough energy in Congress to say, 'OK, we know what's going to happen […]