I'm George Gerbo and welcome to Washington Times Weekly, where we get a chance to sit down with our reporters and talk about their coverage of the latest news and events. And joining me today is Washington Times National Reporter Tom Howell Jr.
I recently came across an amusing meme: President Donald Trump, dressed as a magician, lifts his wand and declares, “For my next trick, I’ll make Democrats support the drug cartels.” And indeed, he has. Over the past 10 months, Trump has forced Democrats into defending some of the most indefensible, anti-American positions imaginable: fierce opposition […]
It is not a coincidence that the six congressional Democrats released a video urging active military members to “refuse illegal orders” just days before billboards saying the same thing went up outside of U.S. Southern Command in Florida and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Nor is it a coincidence that just days after that, media […]
President Trump told attendees at the McDonald’s Impact Summit on Monday that they are “so damn lucky” he won the 2024 presidential election, arguing the economy would have been a "catastrophe" under former Vice President Kamala Harris. “Welfare was going up. Everything was going up. Government jobs were going up, real jobs were going down,”...
President Trump’s abrupt U-turn on the Epstein files looks like an effort to take the sting out of an imminent defeat on Capitol Hill. But the Epstein matter is just one of several issues that have caused discontent among Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) base in recent months, feeding questions about whether the president’s...
The Justice Department’s prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey is facing death by a thousand procedural errors. Federal judges overseeing the criminal case have increasingly raised concerns about the department's efforts to investigate and indict the adversary of President Trump, from the evidence presented to grand jurors to the prosecutor who made the government’s case. ...
Presented by the American Association for Cancer Research — People are going to be paying more for health insurance next year. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Medicare Part B premiums are rising. So are private health insurance costs. Americans are going to be paying more for health insurance next year. As rising...
More than 74,000 people have had their lives disrupted by Trump administration cuts to clinical trials supported by the National Institutes of Health, according to a new report released Monday. From the end of February to August, the administration’s unprecedented broadside against NIH resulted in funding losses for 383 clinical trials, new research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found. The cuts impacted trials disproportionately studying...
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump “put the gun on the table” with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro amid tensions between the two countries. “I mean, do you think these boat strikes are stopping the flow of drugs to the United States, for one, and do you think they are doing...
President Trump is planning to deliver a speech focused on his efforts around affordability at the McDonald's Impact Summit Monday evening. The audience will include McDonald's owners, operators and suppliers gathered in Washington, D.C. It comes as Trump has said Republicans need to focus more on messaging their efforts to bring down the cost of...
(TestMiles) - The future of electric vehicle adoption shifts now that the $7,500 tax credit is gone; affordable models, tech pivots, and new market dynamics emerge. Why does this matter right now? On September 30, 2025, the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles vanished. No fanfare, no final countdown. For the EV industry, this is...
Democrats say the Jeffrey Epstein files are capturing the President Trump they have tried to portray for years, predicting the controversy will paint the darkest image of Trump to date. They have dug into the issue and see it as a crisis for Trump because it cuts a wedge between the president and his core supporters. “The...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has scheduled the runoff election for the vacant House seat in the Lone Star State’s 18th Congressional District for Jan. 31. The seat has been vacant since March, when former Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) passed away. Turner, the former mayor of Houston who was first elected to Congress in November...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the Democratic Party should welcome Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — a longtime MAGA supporter who’s grown increasingly critical of the GOP — should she choose to switch sides. Speaking at the 2025 "Blue Bash Brunch" Democratic fundraiser in Miami on Sunday, Raskin encouraged his party to be a big...
The Trump Organization said Monday it plans to tokenize the development of a new hotel project in the Maldives, merging the Trump family’s newfound interest in cryptocurrency with its long-standing real estate business. The company, owned by President Trump and led by his two eldest sons, is partnering with Saudi real estate developer Dar Global...
