Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) is set to become the fourth Senate Democrat who has an identical twin outside the upper chamber of Congress. The other three are Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ). Colom’s brother, Andrew, helped plot the script for the viral “pick another protein” campaign ad that mocked […]
Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) this week downplayed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) influence in his Mississippi race, as the upper chamber’s top Democrat faces growing turmoil within his ranks. Colom’s win against Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) was arguably the biggest surprise of the midterm elections. Last week, the New York Times interviewed Schumer for […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Thursday evening that Alexander Hamilton was right to call the judiciary the “least dangerous” branch of government, arguing that its limited power leaves it especially vulnerable to Congress and the president. “We are the least dangerous branch, which is not to say that the federal judiciary cannot be dangerous […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on Thursday criticized President Donald Trump for blaming economic issues on the previous Biden administration. The Louisiana Republican slammed Trump’s No. 2, Vice President JD Vance, for blaming the GOP’s midterm losses last week on the Iran war. Kennedy suggested that he believed voter perceptions about the economy were more to […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. As usual, we will review the president’s week with the help of our two top political strategists. Plus, has peace broken out between two election forecasters? And make sure you scroll down for the correction of the day. Sunday brought a fresh immigration controversy when 60 Minutes aired […]
DENVER – Democrats are calling on their party to get to work during the final two years of President Donald Trump’s administration, saying the risk is too high to not find areas of common ground. At the two-day What’s Next conference in Denver, a celebration of the Democratic Party’s historic election gains, strategists and lawmakers […]
White House chief of staff Stephen Miller is cracking down on internal meetings with lobbyists in Washington, D.C., marking a departure from his predecessor. Susie Wiles, a former managing partner and lobbyist at Ballard Partners, was known for cultivating relationships with the lobbying industry during her time serving President Donald Trump. But now that she […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directly blamed the Commerce Department for delaying the broader administration’s intent to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed on a special blacklist of companies that could pose a national security threat. In a CNBC interview Friday morning, Bessent said the U.S. Trade Representative and the Treasury, War, and State departments were “in favor […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he will decide in early January 2027 whether to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, putting a timetable on a decision that has fueled speculation about his political future for more than a year. “I’ll make the determination at the beginning of the year,” Newsom said in an interview […]
Iran claimed it destroyed a U.S. early-warning radar, the first attack of its kind in months, but the United States denied the claim. The U.S. and Iran have launched sporadic strikes against lower-level targets for the past several months after intensive strikes halted. Iran’s attacks usually target shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, while the […]
