The House voted to repeal a Senate GOP measure allowing lawmakers to sue the government for $500K, attaching it to a funding bill that could keep the government open.
Republicans advances a $1.2 trillion spending package in a House rule vote Thursday, overcoming GOP rebellion threats over ICE funding and ethanol restrictions.
The Trump administration's military action in Venezuela on Saturday continues to roil the government, and as Congress rolls back into town, the operation is drawing support, opposition and opinions in between. Some Republicans have expressed wariness over the Trump administration's nation-building, and MAGA is on edge. A classified briefing on Monday night did little to...
President Trump on Monday dismissed comparisons between past U.S. involvement in Iraq and the recent military operation in Venezuela, saying the difference is that the Trump administration plans to keep the seized oil. “The difference between Iraq and this is that [former President George W. Bush] didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who’s been in hiding for more than 16 months, said Monday that she plans to return home “as soon as possible.” In an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity,” the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner told host Sean Hannity that she plans to continue serving her cause of fighting for...
President Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is giving him an opportunity to redefine “America First” as pro-intervention — but risks fracturing the MAGA coalition. There was some predictable pushback to the strikes from some of the biggest isolationist voices in the Republican Party who have turned into Trump antagonists. Now-former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said the strikes represented...
It is not just the teaching of this ideology alone that is of concern, but also the requirement that the youth engage in radical activism to help drive this movement.
Former conservative lawyer-turned-Trump-critic George Conway officially launched a Democratic bid for New York’s 12th Congressional District on Tuesday, joining an increasingly crowded field to represent the Manhattan-based seat. “We have a corrupt president, a mendacious president, a criminal president whose masked agents are disappearing people from our streets, who’s breaking international law, and he’s running our...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), on her last day in Congress, expressed hope that Americans will speak out against the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela. “I really hope to see the American people push back and say, ‘Let’s focus on the United States of America, Mr. President,’ because that’s what the American people deserve,” Greene...
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller backed President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. will govern Venezuela in the wake of the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. “What the president said is true. The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition, that’s true,” Miller told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “The...
Top Senate and House lawmakers from both parties emerged from a classified briefing given by President Trump‘s most senior officials with little clarity on the future of Venezuela, days after the president declared the U.S. would “run” the country after apprehending its president, Nicolas Maduro. Trump has given a green light for Venezuela’s Vice President...
Conservative Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday pointed the finger directly at his colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Ky.), as the primary instigator behind President Trump’s surprise mission to send U.S. special operators into Caracas to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Paul lamented what he sees as a reversal from Trump’s previous staunch opposition to nation-building...
