Browsing: State of the Union

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized President Biden’s State of the Union address Friday, calling it a “hyper-partisan” stump speech that did little to spark unity in the nation.  “I mean, I thought the speech in general, I agree with some of the commentators that you’ve had, that it was hyper-partisan,” Kennedy told…

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said President Biden’s most inspiring moment of his State of the Union address was “when he left” Friday. “I think at the end when he left,” Gingrich responded when asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham on her show, “The Ingraham Angle,” if the president had an “overriding, inspiring…

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) expressed his distaste for President Biden’s recent State of the Union Address Friday. “He wasn’t speaking to the nation, what he was really doing is speaking to his party,” McCarthy said in an interview on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” Friday, highlighted by Mediaite. “This was more about a…

A floating pier intended to be used to deliver critical humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza is expected to take up to two months to construct and require as many as 1,000 U.S. servicemembers to complete, the Pentagon’s top spokesperson said Friday.  The Defense Department will undertake the emergency mission to establish a temporary pier off the shore…

Former Rep. George Santos’s announcement that he would jump into a different House race in New York raised eyebrows Thursday evening, including his former communications director. Asked if she thought something was wrong with Santos, who was ousted from his own seat in December, Naysa Woomer seemingly agreed with the assessment. “I want to say…

CNN anchor Jake Tapper criticized Fox News’s Sean Hannity for his response to President Biden’s State of the Union address. Tapper criticized Hannity for his negative comments about Biden, accusing him of changing his criticism to fit the Republican narrative. “Before the speech, Republicans were saying Biden was old, weak,…

Former Biden White House press secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki praised President Biden’s impassioned State of the Union speech the night before and mentioned that his anger towards the Supreme Court justices for overturning the constitutional right to an abortion could be strongly felt by viewers. “I found the moment with…

Former Democratic presidential primary candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn.) defended the father of a Marine killed in Afghanistan who shouted at President Biden and was arrested during the State of the Union address Thursday. “As a Gold Star Son myself, I can only imagine the pain he has felt since losing his son in Afghanistan,”…

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) took down a social media post, which he later referred to as “inappropriate,” shortly after it was posted Friday afternoon. The post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, featured side-by-side pictures of actor Sydney Sweeney wearing a revealing outfit during her recent appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” and…

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) announced Friday that he plans to introduce a rule that would revoke House floor privileges for members who have been expelled from the lower chamber. The “GEORGE” rule, formally titled the “Getting Expelled Officially Revokes Guaranteed Entry” Rule, would ensure former members who have been voted out of the House cannot…