President Donald Trump’s power as the GOP’s kingmaker faces a major test with this month's primaries. So far, he's on rocky footing.
His revenge tour kicks off Tuesday in...
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that Congress has grown too accustomed to shutting down the government as leverage to pass legislation, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains unfunded. “We have gotten too used to using shutdowns as a mechanism of getting what we want legislatively,” the Connecticut Democrat told host Margaret Brennan...
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Sunday said immigration policy could have been “more secure” during the Biden administration while weighing in on lawmakers’ current impasse on reforms for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “The Biden administration did not do immigration enforcement the way it should have. We should have [had] the border more secure than...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Sunday that Senate Majority leader John Thune has become a “thorn in the side” of her party, after House GOP leadership rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “We're not the problem. It's the left that's a problem,” Mace said on CNN’s...
As President Trump’s war in Iran rages on, it’s posing a growing threat to the pharmaceutical supply chain and risks spiking the prices of many drugs, particularly those that depend on petrochemicals. The war in Iran and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have caused energy prices to jump and disrupted supply chains...
Ukraine is emerging as a key defense innovation hub and strategic partner for the West, with its technologies being used to defend against Iran and its unique modern warfare dataset making it an important source of strategic capability.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Sunday that some senators “expressed buyer’s remorse” over a Senate bill to fund only part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amid a shutdown of the department. “Well, we actually read their bill and, frankly, a number of senators have expressed buyer’s remorse with what they did...
President Trump has broken campaign promises, damaged America's economy and national security, and has been met with little resistance from Republican majorities in Congress.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday criticized President Trump over paying Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. “I just want to continue to emphasize that we are seeing a colossal failure in presidential leadership. Because this president has said, again, ‘I have the power to pay TSA...
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Sunday did not directly endorse Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) leadership, but he noted that the congressional caucus is “united” amid negotiations on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. When host Jake Tapper asked Kim on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he wanted Schumer to remain in...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday did not rule out running for president in 2028, the next chance Democrats will have to take the White House. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the outlet’s Kristen Welker asked Booker about his new wife and her comfort with him potentially making a...
Back-to-back verdicts against Meta and Google’s YouTube sent a warning shot to Big Tech this week, marking the first time juries found the social media platforms liable for their impact on kids and teens online. As Congress remains at a stalemate over how to regulate platforms and protect children online, legal and technology experts say...
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said Sunday that the American people are paying the price of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on multiple fronts. “There's a reason why Donald Trump is not coming before the American people for approval for this war,” Kim told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It's because he...
