Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday that the White House is on board with a substitute amendment to the rescissions package that would exempt PEPFAR, the global anti-AIDS initiative from cuts. Vought said that the president could accept the substitute amendment to exempt the President’s...
The latest attempt by House Democrats to force a vote on releasing files related to the disgraced, late financier Jeffrey Epstein failed on Tuesday. Democrats unsuccessfully urged the chamber to oppose a routine procedural vote — known as the motion on ordering the previous question — since failure would have triggered a vote on Rep. Ro Khanna’s...
Just three percent of Americans say they’re satisfied with the amount of information the federal government has released in the case involving disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a CNN/SSRS survey released Tuesday. Meanwhile, 50 percent of U.S. adults say in the poll that they are dissatisfied with the amount of...
The frigid waters that surround Antarctica may be inhospitable to human inhabitance, but they are churning with the manmade relics of toxic chemical production, a new study has found. Certain types of “forever chemicals” are present in ocean areas west of the Antarctic Peninsula at levels comparable to those in the North Atlantic, according to...
President Trump is in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to tout his technology and energy agenda. Trump, participating in a conference alongside Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), is expected to announce tens of billions of dollars of investments in the sectors within the Keystone State. The president, since returning to office in January, has repeatedly pledged "energy dominance"...
President Trump said he hopes Texas Republicans will pick up five seats in the House from a redistricting plan they hope to enact in a special legislative session later this month. Trump told reporters that it’s “OK” if other Democratic-leaning states like California or New York also seek to redraw their congressional district lines to...
President Trump told reporters Tuesday that Ukraine should not target Moscow with military attacks and that the U.S. was not looking to give long-range missiles to Kyiv in its ongoing war against Russia. “No, he shouldn’t target Moscow," Trump said of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he departed the White House for a trip to...
President Trump’s former national security adviser, Mike Waltz, emerged Tuesday from a Senate confirmation hearing largely unscathed over his role in mistakenly adding a journalist to a group chat discussing sensitive military attack plans against the Houthis in Yemen. While some Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee promised a “brutal” hearing for Waltz’s nomination...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called President Trump a 'son of a b----' over immigration raids, and he criticized the administration's approach as "weakness masquerading as strength."