Republican senators and House members raise objections about a draft budget blueprint, threatening the reconciliation timeline outlined by House GOP leaders.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Wednesday that she will return to the private sector once her term in Congress ends in January 2027, after she failed to advance to a runoff in the GOP gubernatorial primary in South Carolina. “Headed back to the private sector at the end of this term, as the Founders intended,”...
The U.S. military disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday after it said the vessel violated the ongoing U.S. naval blockade, the U.S. Central Command announced on Wednesday, but the kinetic action has drawn pushback from India, which said three Indian crew members are now missing. A U.S. aircraft fired precision...
The Trump administration proposed new rules Wednesday for regulating prediction markets, seeking to clarify what types of events can be listed for trading on the platforms. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) proposal aims to specify what events the agency considers to be “contrary to the public interest” and would not be eligible for listing...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slammed President Trump over the economy and inflation on Wednesday, saying the U.S. was “IN DECLINE.” “Unbelievable!! Here is exactly what Trump’s war on Iran, costing billions everyday, is doing to Americans. MAGA used to call this Biden inflation and scream from the rooftops over this garbage,” Greene wrote...
A key foreign intelligence authority is set to expire this Friday unless it is renewed by Congress. The nomination of Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director Bill Pulte to serve as the nation’s next top intelligence officer has placed the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in peril. Senate Democrats...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that a third budget reconciliation package to fund the military amid the ongoing conflict with Iran is on the table, even though senior Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this week expressed their doubts about reconciliation 3.0. “If there’s a good reason to do another reconciliation bill,...
President Trump asked Congress for a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), an effort to give time to nominate and confirm a permanent director of national intelligence amid threats from Democrats to not renew the act if Bill Pulte remains acting director of the agency. In a TruthSocial post...
