President Trump is the true heir to Ronald Reagan when it comes to championing the former president's policy of "peace through strength," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday.
Several prominent congressional Democrats on Saturday slammed the Trump administration's national security strategy (NSS), claiming it favors President Trump's business interests and weakens U.S. influence abroad. "Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy puts his family’s and friends’ business interests with our adversaries, like Russia and China, over promises to our allies," Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who...
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts overhauled a program designed to provide more exposure to historically underutilized businesses in the state procurement process by removing female and minority-owned businesses from the eligibility standards.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday took the podium at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum to attack post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy, declaring a new military focus on the Western Hemisphere while lambasting the decisions of former administrations. Over roughly 40 minutes, Hegseth touched on a myriad of topics, including repeated demands that allies...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Wednesday that Republicans face political “headwinds” after they avoided a Democratic upset in a Tennessee special election Tuesday. He told reporters that it’s “not uncommon” in midterm elections for the party in power to face challenges heading into a midterm election. “The opposition party tends to be...
A federal judge on Tuesday limited the extent to which immigration officers in Washington, D.C., can make warrantless arrests, allowing the move only if they believe a migrant is likely to swiftly flee. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said in her 88-page ruling that the law only allows arrests without a warrant when immigration officers...
The eight Democratic senators who voted to end the federal shutdown two weeks ago played the midterm election long game, and for now, at least, it's working, as Democrats have elevated health care as a potent issue in the 2026 midterm elections and now have Republicans on defense.
U.S. employers shed 32,000 workers last month, according to a report from the payroll management company ADP that will add to questions about the strength of the economy. “Job creation has been flat during the second half of 2025 and pay growth has been on a downward trend. November hiring was particularly weak in manufacturing,...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) called on the Transportation Department to give $10,000 bonus checks to all air traffic controllers and technicians who worked during the shutdown without on-time pay, not just those with perfect attendance. In a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Duckworth pushed back on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposal to award...
The Trump administration is planning to launch targeted immigration enforcement operations aimed at those living in the U.S. illegally among Minnesota’s Somali community. In recent weeks, President Trump has lashed out at the large influx of Somali migrants who have entered the country, since the 1990s, many as refugees, in an attempt to escape civil...
The bipartisan sanctions bill against Russia has hit another roadblock, as some Democrats are working to remove a presidential waiver and block the president from being granted sweeping powers on tariffs. The opposition marks another delay for a widely supported bill that has sat on ice for months over resistance from President Trump. The bill,...
The House Homeland Security Committee is convening a hearing Wednesday morning on the rise in violence against law enforcement across the nation. The hearing comes less than a week after two National Guard members — both deployed to Washington amid President Trump's crackdown on crime — were shot near the White House. One of the...
Jared Isaacman, President Trump's pick to lead NASA, will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Wednesday morning. Isaacman, a top ally of tech billionaire Elon Musk, was originally tapped for the role in May. Trump withdrew his nomination later that month, citing the need to review "past associations" and whether...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Tuesday that his office has received a slew of “graphic” and “violent” threats since President Trump called him out for releasing a video telling service members that they can disobey "illegal orders." “We get more threats now in a single day than we would get in months,” Kelly, who was...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear an evangelist’s challenge to a Mississippi city’s protest ordinance he was previously convicted of violating. Gabriel Olivier, a Christian street preacher, has asked the justices to let his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of an ordinance restricting demonstrations outside a Brandon, Miss., amphitheater move forward, claiming the measure runs afoul of his religious rights. But before he filed suit over the...
