A CNN poll found that 61% of Americans oppose the GOP's massive tax and spending overhaul, with 58% citing its impact on the federal deficit as a reason to oppose it.
Democratic members of the House praised New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani following a closed-door breakfast he held along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday. The meeting took place as Mamdani, coming off of his upset victory in June's Democratic primary, seeks to consolidate support as the party’s nominee. He is also set...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) admitted that Trump administration officials should be more specific in laying out the planned cuts in the rescissions package after three key Republicans voted against moving the bill Tuesday night due in large part to the lack of details provided by top brass. "The administration needs to be more...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) signaled Tuesday that he doesn’t believe the findings from the Justice Department's (DOJ) probe of files related to disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein — including the lack of a client list and the cause of his death in 2019. “I’m over it. It disgusts me," Burchett told CNN's Manu Raju. "I’m big...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem teased Wednesday that changes could be coming to the size of liquid containers allowed for passengers boarding flights in the United States. Noem said such changes were one of the things the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which reports to Noem, is weighing. “But I will tell you...
Obama is calling out the silence of Democratic leaders who spent billions warning Trump was an existential threat to democracy, only to follow it up with ... nothing.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended last week's immigration raid on a California marijuana farm where protesters clashed with federal officers. Authorities arrested about 360 people across two farms owned by the same company. “We will go places where we know there are known criminals, where we’ve built a case to go get those individuals,”...
Two recent revelations cry out for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate and prosecute criminal contempt violations against the top three officials in the Department of Justice.
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) on Tuesday defended the findings in the Trump administration’s probe of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which concluded that he did not keep a “client list.” He also praised Attorney General Pam Bondi for her handling of the case. “I think Pam Bondi has done a great, great job,"...
President Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) has the back of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) in its attempt to use an obscure law to protect her from a libel lawsuit. The administration wants to largely step in for Mace against a man’s defamation lawsuit concerning a House floor speech she gave that accused the man of being...
David Schoen, a former attorney for the late Jeffrey Epstein, said Tuesday that President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi were not withholding a so-called client list for the disgraced financier. Schoen, who helped secure Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on state prostitution charges, argued that the public’s push for the release of names is based...
Given significant war preparations, it’s unlikely Beijing’s willingness to sign the protocol to the Bangkok Treaty is the result of peaceful intentions.
