Vice President JD Vance participated in his first sit-down interview since taking office, appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. Vance began by sparring with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on issues such as President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees, grocery prices, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The highlight of the interview, however, occurred when the topic […]
President Donald Trump has nominated a few questionable, lifetime Democrats to the Cabinet. Among his worst picks is a former one-time Republican representative who wants to force workers into labor unions. Trump nominated former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as secretary of labor after she lost her first reelection campaign last year. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has […]
One of the main messages of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign was that he would put “adults” back in charge of foreign policy. Four years later, Donald Trump has returned to the White House and must clean up the mess these supposed “adults” left behind. Trump and his foreign policy team have their work cut out for them […]
Critics of President Donald Trump’s deportation plans are proving manifold despite the Democratic Party’s brief switch to tough-on-immigration rhetoric during the campaign season. Every opposing argument now centers on some humanitarian concern, and as a result, humanity is lost in the mix. Complaints focus on a few aspects of Trump’s immigration policy: arrests, asylum, and […]
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said President Trump is addressing everything “but inflation and prices” in his first week in office. Beshear joined CNN on Tuesday, where he weighed in on Trump's mass deportation plan and arrests of migrants taking place in various communities across the country. “What I’ve seen out of his executive orders...
Leveraging the return-to-work order could facilitate the relocation of tens of thousands of federal workers within months by building on where they already live and work.
The Trump White House on Tuesday defended a widespread pause on federal grants and loans in the face of confusion among nonprofit groups and outrage from Democrats over the order. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded several questions at her first briefing about the pause, which was announced late Monday and goes into effect Tuesday at...
More than a dozen U.S. and Canadian Jewish groups said Tuesday they will leave the social media platform X, stating it "has become rife with toxic speech" amid Elon Musk's changes to the popular social networking app. "More than a dozen U.S. and Canadian Jewish groups said Tuesday they will leave the social media platform...
Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), said President Trump is aiming to have the Department of Justice (DOJ) return to “pre-1970s days” after the agency fired several prosecutors who handled the president’s criminal investigations. “This is a complete undermining of that system and essentially a return to those pre-1970s days...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) likened President Trump’s onslaught of executive action to a “blitzkrieg” whose ultimate goal is to “collapse our democracy.” “The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence — does everybody not see what’s happening?” Murphy wrote in a post on X on Tuesday. “In a blitzkrieg,...