Several California cities are cracking down on homeless encampments, defying the whims of homeless “advocates” whose practices make sure encampments are blossoming all across their cities. After the Supreme Court allowed localities to ban homeless encampments in public areas, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) ordered cities across the state to begin clearing encampments. Newsom even threatened […]
What’s green about Congolese children mining in Africa for rare earth minerals? What’s green about China’s coal-fired factories churning out solar panels? What’s green about wind turbines that scar landscapes, slaughter birds, and rely even more on critical minerals from China? The answer is simple: nothing. President Donald Trump’s reentry into the White House will unlock affordable and reliable energy avenues, all while bulldozing the previous administration’s faulty […]
The promise to cut spending and restore accountability in the federal government is usually dismissed as an unreachable political platitude. But the early returns on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are promising, and they should call on Congress to make the cuts permanent. DOGE is poised to disrupt a complacent […]
President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that formally established an energy council that he previously said would aim to achieve “ENERGY DOMINANCE.” The text of the executive order was not immediately released. However, in announcing the plans for the council last year, Trump said that it would “oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY...
President Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the head of the Department of Education are directed to create a plan to end these mandates and end federal funding for entities that...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he expects former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to vote with Senate Republicans on the “big stuff ahead of us,” after McConnell voted against three of President Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees. "He's got views on some of these nominees that maybe don't track exactly with where...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against future asteroid threats, but government budget cuts are threatening to prevent this opportunity.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Trump’s recent decision to study the proposed reciprocal tariffs instead of immediately enacting them. “As we've learned that with President Trump, you should take him at his word. This is not theater. The April 1 deadline is for a study that the Commerce Department is doing on global tariffs...
The Trump administration slashed funding for Affordable Care Act navigators, which help people sign up for ObamaCare coverage on the law’s exchanges, by 90 percent. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday announced health insurance navigators will receive just $10 million per year over the next four years. Navigators received $98 million...
Another prosecutor in the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has quit in light of the Justice Department directing the charges against him be dropped, daring Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to find a “fool” to do it. A letter from former Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten to Bove, obtained by The...