Wes Moore: Trump on July 4 has ‘tried to make this moment about him’

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Friday criticized President Trump’s decision to hold a July Fourth rally on the National Mall during a heat wave in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.  “I think that we should never ask our people to sacrifice in order to hear a speech,” he told The Hill’s Judy Kurtz and Hillary…

This Republican Has a Wild Idea for Fixing Housing Prices: Let the Market Actually Work

Republican unveils Declaration of Independence bill ahead of America's 250th birthday

Rep. Matt Van Epps said his bill reaffirming the Declaration of Independence directly responds to socialist candidates gaining ground in primaries.

Tillis pronounces SAVE America ACT ‘dead’ as vital voter legislation remains stalled in Senate

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act is “dead,” according to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who put the chances of the vital voter identification bill passing […]

‘It’s crazy’: GOP rebel declares war on Republican leadership

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) committed to block House floor proceedings unless House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) inserts the SAVE Act into a must-pass piece of legislation, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.Luna has pressed for the SAVE America Act – a bill that mandates voter ID and citizenship checks while adding new restrictions on mail-in ballots – to be folded into the annual defense policy bill."We should be doing all of the above," Luna told Punchbowl News for its report published Friday. "Why not try? It's crazy."Luna has already disrupted leadership's plans once – she helped defeat a rule that would have inserted SAVE Act language directly into the defense bill, despite House GOP leaders having spent three years working to keep unrelated amendments out of it.Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have grown frustrated with inter-party disputes. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Punchbowl that Republicans "need to be very careful" about how they message the standoff, arguing that Democrats – not Republicans – are the ones blocking the SAVE Act's passage.“The message we need to convey to our supporters – it’s not Republicans that are preventing the SAVE America Act from being passed. It’s Democrats,” Johnson told Punchbowl News.

What do people in the US hope for the country's future?

As the US celebrates its 250th birthday, the BBC asked people across the country for their top aspiration.

New York Republican says Swift, Kelce should pay for police securing wedding

“Our officers are already working overtime for 4th of July festivities & NYC taxpayers should NOT be on the hook."

New York Republican says Swift, Kelce should pay for police securing wedding

New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R) said Thursday that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce should reimburse the New York Police Department (NYPD) for costs imposed by their reported Friday wedding at Madison Square Garden. “Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce should reimburse NYPD for the 130 officers needed per day to keep their multi-million dollar, thousand…