A group of Senate Democrats are threatening to use every procedural tool at their disposal to hold up business on the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior officials testify before key committees under oath on the military conflict with Iran. “We have collectively agreed that...
President Trump on Monday described the war against Iran as an “excursion” that would be over soon, as the president contends with spiking oil prices, troop casualties, allies under attack and low support among the American public. “This was just an excursion into something that had to be done. We're getting very close to finishing...
President Trump and the Pentagon are offering conflicting signals on how long the U.S. war with Iran will last, as officials in Tehran prepare to dig in for a longer fight and with the economic fallout from the clash hurting the U.S. and global economy. Trump on Monday suggested victory is in sight but with...
President Trump’s remarks blaming Iran for the recent bombing of an all-girls school in southern Iran, where more than 160 people were killed, run counter to the mounting evidence that the U.S. military is likely responsible for the attack. The Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, located in Minab, Iran, in the nation’s southern Hormozgan Province, was...
Nearly three-quarters of respondents to a new Quinnipiac University poll do not support the U.S. sending ground troops into Iran, as the conflict in the Middle East hits 10 days on Monday. The survey, released Monday, found that 20 percent of respondents support such a move, while 74 percent oppose it. Just 3 percent of...
Democrats are pouncing on a spike in gas prices and expected soaring airline fares, blaming President Trump’s handling of the war in Iran for deepening economic pain on Americans. In interviews, statements and in a flurry of social media posts, Democrats have sharpened their arguments — repeatedly linking Trump’s decision to enter the Iran conflict...
Trump outlined a five-point legislative bucket list he says will secure GOP midterm victories, including voter ID and transgender policy restrictions at Republican conference.
Republicans push to alter Senate filibuster rules to pass Trump's SAVE Act requiring citizenship proof for voting, despite significant procedural hurdles.
President Donald Trump is delaying his endorsement in the Texas Senate GOP primary to ramp up pressure on Republican senators to pass his high-priority...
In a letter to President Trump, members of the Republican Main Street Caucus back Sen. Markwayne Mullin to lead Homeland Security after Kristi Noem's ouster.
The Biden-tapped federal judge ruled that detainees were 'stuffed into unclean cells’ at an ICE holding center in Baltimore, and ordered substantive changes, prompting backlash from DHS.
