Bad policy ideas have a way of returning from the dead in the nation’s capital. In 2011, following years of opposition from multiple presidential administrations and the Department of Defense (DOD), along with a coalition of taxpayer organizations, the alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) was finally killed off. Before it was supposed...
Top Trump campaign advisers Monday sought to tamp down a spate of reporting about possible second-term policy and personnel plans that former President Trump would implement if he wins reelection next November. The statement from Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita appeared to be addressing reports from The New York Times and Washington Post about Trump’s...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday did not rule out slowing down passage of the stopgap spending bill that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) proposed over the weekend. Paul, a vocal opponent of spending bills that don’t include cuts, left the door open to slowing down the process and argued that House Republicans should proceed on...
Oil giant ExxonMobil is making a foray into electric vehicle batteries, saying it will extract lithium from water in Arkansas. The $100 million Exxon reportedly put into leasing the area where it plans to get the lithium is miniscule, however, compared to its recent $60 billion acquisition of oil company Pioneer Natural Resources. The company isn’t straying...
Former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis told Georgia prosecutors that then-President Trump did not plan to leave the White House "under any circumstances" after losing the 2020 election, according to video obtained and published by ABC News. The video shows part of an interview Ellis conducted with prosecutors in Georgia investigating Trump's efforts to overturn...
Paul Pelosi, husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, testified Monday at the trial of the man accused of attacking him with a hammer in the couple's San Francisco home.
Jake Sullivan dismissed a reporter asking whether President Biden found it "embarrassing" to have to clean up San Francisco's streets ahead of his summit with China's Xi Jinping.