Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his primetime slot at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas to deliver a blistering indictment of the modern Democratic Party: the same party with which his family has been synonymous for generations.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that Republicans need more time calling the shots to deal with what he described as the mess they inherited from President Biden and Democrats in Washington.
President Trump said he would speak Monday morning with the leaders of Canada and Mexico after imposing a fresh round of tariffs on imports from those countries and made clear it would take significant action to lift the tariffs. “They have to balance out their trade, number one. They’ve got to stop people from pouring...
Tariff talk is making its way to the Grammys stage, with host Trevor Noah quipping that fans of Beyoncé won't be able to buy concert tickets because of a potential trade war ignited by President Trump. "Yesterday Beyoncé announced her new tour," Noah said Sunday as he kicked off the 67th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. "I will...
President Trump on Sunday slammed the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), arguing it is poorly run after recent news reports that he is considering merging the agency with the State Department. The president told reporters that his administration will get the “lunatics” out of the agency before a decision is made about its future. “It’s...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he believes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a “criminal organization” that should “die.” “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,” Musk posted to the social platform X, which he owns. Musk was responding to the news that senior officials at USAID physically attempted to...
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) said the Democratic Party should take notes from campaigns in Virginia after a survey found the party was struggling in popularity. Kaine joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where he was asked by host Jake Tapper about a recent poll from Quinnipiac University that found the American people...
Fifty-five victims of the Wednesday collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport between an American Airlines plane and Army Black Hawk helicopter “[have] been positively identified,” according to a local official. “During our salvage surveys in preparation to lift the aircraft, additional remains were located and removed from the river and taken to the medical...
President Trump on Sunday ripped The Wall Street Journal for criticizing his recent tariffs. “The ‘Tariff Lobby,’ headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE,...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is weighing a primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn (R) in what could be the next high-profile proxy battle between the two competing wings of the state’s GOP. Paxton told Fox News in an interview on Monday that he is considering a bid for Cornyn’s Senate seat in 2026...
Republican Rep. Brian Mast (Fla.), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he supports “purging” personnel at the State Department. Mast joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where host Margaret Brennan asked him about President Trump imposing tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, and what national security threat is coming from the countries....
Tech billionaire Elon Musk called GOP Sen. Todd Young (Ind.) a “great ally” after he previously criticized the lawmaker over Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to become director of national intelligence. “Just had an excellent conversation with @SenToddYoung. I stand corrected,” Musk posted to his social media platform X. “Senator Young will be a great ally in...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) criticized President Trump’s decision to impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods and a 10 percent tariff on Chinese exports. In an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Klobuchar said Americans are likely to see prices continue to rise with Trump’s tariffs imposed on goods. “This is just...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to “enhance the strong bilateral relations” between their two countries the same day President Trump enacted tariffs on them, according to a readout on Trudeau’s website. “Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum. Prime Minister Trudeau and President...
Chrystia Freeland, former Canadian deputy prime minister, said on Sunday that President Trump’s decision to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods is a “betrayal” and an “act of economic warfare.” Trump, on Saturday, signed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, which are set to go into effect on Tuesday. Canadian energy imports will only...
