Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to formulate a response to President Donald Trump's slashing of the federal government as one group takes a front and center role: military veterans. Former service members have been acutely affected by the Republican president's actions, including layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs and a Pentagon purge of archives that documented military diversity. Trump is determined to continue slashing the federal government, but the burden will only grow on veterans. Veterans make up roughly 30% of the federal workforce and often tap government benefits they earned with their military service. Democrats have zeroed in on protecting veterans, introducing legislation to shield them from mass layoffs.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris for president. That's according to Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, who made the announcement Friday in an onstage interview in Austin, Texas. Liz Cheney endorsed Harris on Thursday. Like his daughter, Dick Cheney has been an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump. During Liz Cheney's ill-fated congressional re-election campaign in 2022, he aired an ad in which he called Trump a "coward" for trying to "steal the last election." Notably absent from Friday's announcement was the former vice president who has made few if any public appearances over the last year or more.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could relaunch the political career of a former Republican star and effectively e…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career, Liz Cheney was nowhere to be seen as thousands…