Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said his department's workforce is diminished and key projects are behind schedule after a record 76-day shutdown that ended Thursday.
President Trump arrived at his Doral golf resort on Sunday, as the PGA Tour returned to the venue for the first time since 2016. The president was caught on camera in a spectator suite during the Golf Channel broadcast of the final round of the Cadillac Championship. He was joined by his son, Eric Trump,...
Democrats see an opening ahead of the midterm elections with increasingly disappointed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) voters. Many activists in the MAHA base are furious with the Trump administration over its backing of a controversial weed killer and pesticides more broadly. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defense of those moves...
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that there are no “timeouts” when it comes to the 60-day War Powers Act deadline. “The language of the statutes — is, does not provide for timeouts like in a football game. From the day you begin — 60 days...
Former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) former chief of staff said in an email that Swalwell “rightfully has no one working for him anymore,” following the California Democrat’s resignation from Congress amid allegations of sexual assault. Swalwell’s resignation took effect at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The California Democrat, who ended his gubernatorial bid over the weekend, said...
The union for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) plans to hold a vote of no confidence for two House side leaders over what they called “job conditions that have exhausted officers” working on that side of the complex. The April 22 vote comes after the union said officers were “hung out to dry by USCP...
Vice President Vance will join Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk in Athens, Georgia, on Tuesday afternoon as part of the organization's tour focused on college campuses across the nation. Kirk, the widow of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has already thrown her support behind Vance for a potential 2028 presidential bid. The...
President Trump on Tuesday called for Republican unity in renewing the nation’s warrantless spy powers. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the government to spy on foreigners located abroad, but in doing so it can sweep up information on Americans who are communicating with the surveilled targets. Trump has previously called...
Most Americans are against having President Trump’s signature on paper currency, a move the Treasury Department announced last month. In the The Economist/YouGov poll, 59 percent of respondents said they either “somewhat disapprove” or “strongly disapprove" when it comes to “Donald Trump’s signature being added to all U.S. paper currency.” Twenty-four percent said they either...
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Tuesday said Russia is the "real winner" of the U.S. blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, where a holdup of oil exports has contributed to increased prices across the globe. Crow questioned the blockade's endgame given that Iran "was already blockading the Straits of Hormuz," he told CNN's Kate Bolduan....
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was sold to a nonprofit publishing group on Tuesday and will no longer shut down next month. Block Communications Inc., the Post-Gazette’s parent company, sold the paper to the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism. The institute is financed by hotel magnate and former Maryland state Sen. Stewart W. Bainum Jr. (D). Bainum...
The field for the upcoming Inside California Politics gubernatorial debate is likely to shift following the sudden exit of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who dropped out of the race over the weekend amid allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct. On Monday, Swalwell announced he would also resign from Congress. Because the lawmaker led all candidates, regardless...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Tuesday said it would be “crazy” for the Trump administration to impose tolls on ships carrying oil, natural gas and other commodities through the Strait of Hormuz, something that President Trump recently contemplated. Trump told reporters last week that he would like the United States to impose tolls on ship...
A dangerous typhoon bore down on two U.S. territories in the western Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, bringing strong winds and life-threatening flooding. Typhoon Sinlaku was downgraded from a super typhoon early Wednesday local time as it battered the Northern Mariana Islands, according to the latest advisory from the National Weather Service (NWS) in Guam. ...
President Trump on Tuesday slammed the United Kingdom, which has frustrated the president by not backing the Iran war, over not drilling for oil in the North Sea. “Europe is desperate for Energy, and yet the United Kingdom refuses to open North Sea Oil, one of the greatest fields in the World,” Trump wrote on...
