A majority of voters are against President Trump’s plans to close the Education Department, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University. The survey released Thursday found 60 percent of voters oppose such plans, while 33 percent support the president’s goal of abolishing the federal agency. Democrats strongly oppose the dismantling of the...
House Oversight Democrats are encouraging President Trump to abandon his plans for a crypto reserve, calling it a strategy to enrich himself at taxpayer expense. The reserve, announced by Trump last week as both a strategic bitcoin reserve and “digital asset stockpile” for other forms of digital currency, would be akin to other reserves and stockpiles...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is open to a 30-day ceasefire, as proposed by the U.S., but suggested vague terms for his support, including wanting to eliminate the root “causes of this crisis.” Ukraine agreed to support the framework in talks with the U.S. earlier this week, and the Trump administration has called on...
The Senate must pass a short-term funding bill before the government shutdown, while the White House has pulled its nominee for the CDC and President Trump has threatened Europe with more tariffs on wine and Champagne.
President Trump said he will meet with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) at the White House on Friday to discuss plans for an energy pipeline that would run through the Empire State. “The governor of New York Kathy Hochul, who’s a very nice woman, she’s coming in tomorrow morning at nine o’clock to meet...
President Trump on Thursday called the European Union (EU) "nasty" while sitting alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. Trump complained about the steep tariff on U.S.-made cars in Europe and a Court of Justice of the European Union decision in September that required tech giants Apple and Google to pay billions in fines over antitrust issues....
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he believes a government shutdown would plunge the United States “into chaos” and risk sending the country into a recession. “Shut the government down, plunge the country into chaos, risk a recession, or exchange cloture for a 30-day CR [continuing resolution] that 100 percent fails,” Fetterman posted on X. The...
President Trump on Thursday said he hoped Russia would “do the right thing” as his administration presses for a ceasefire agreement between Moscow and Ukraine. Trump told reporters he was getting “good signals” about where Russia stood on agreeing to a ceasefire, though he acknowledged nothing was certain. Trump also expressed an openness to speaking...
House Democrats of all stripes have spent the entirety of President Trump’s first two months denouncing his governing strategy as chaotic and hammering his policy prescriptions as harmful to working class people — even those who supported the president. Few have sent that message as colorfully as Rep. Andrea Salinas, a second-term Oregon Democrat, who...