President Donald Trump made lowering prices a key part of his successful 2024 campaign for a second, nonconsecutive term. “Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again,” Trump swore last year during a Montana campaign event. “This election is about saving our economy.” A bit over six months after Trump […]
The Treasury Department announced it sanctioned a North Korean company on Thursday that helped funnel money to the communist country’s weapons programs. The Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company was sanctioned by the U.S. for its role in avoiding sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the United Nations. Additionally, the U.S. sanctioned the company for its “efforts […]
House Republicans, fresh off a win from passing their “big beautiful bill,” already have another debate looming: whether to save expanded tax credits for Obamacare health premiums that expire at the end of this year. Reauthorizing the enhanced Affordable Care Act credits, created and then extended under the Biden administration, will make it difficult to […]
President Donald Trump’s administration’s fondness for AI art, seen controversially in its depiction of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center and anime-fied targets of ICE, is well-known if not widely appreciated. This visually arresting technology lurched onto the scene only about three years ago, but it has been glommed on to by upstarts on the […]
NUUK, Greenland — President Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland again. Since returning to the White House, he has revived talk of purchasing or annexing the world’s largest island from Denmark and refused to rule out using force to “get it one way or the other.” He argues Greenland is vital to U.S. security. Greenland may […]
Something remarkable occurred on Capitol Hill this month: Congress and the president partnered to make a law that cut the budgets of a few federal entities. A rescission of funds has not occurred since 1999, when former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, struck a deal with the Republican-held House and Senate. This legislation cuts various […]
RICHMOND, Virginia — Four years ago, Glenn Youngkin, a political upstart, flipped the Virginia governor’s mansion red for the first time since 2009, foreshadowing Republican gains in the 2022 and 2024 cycles. His running mate at the time, Winsome Earle-Sears, became the state’s first woman lieutenant governor. Four years later, Earle-Sears is betting she can […]
The Obama-appointed federal judge who this week authorized the release of suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia donated money dozens of times to Democrats, spending sizable sums totaling approximately $43,000, according to a Washington Examiner review of campaign finance records. Federal Election Commission filings show that Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr., the United States district […]
EXCLUSIVE – A Pennsylvania Republican has informed the House Ethics Committee of new restraints he has placed on his financial advisers regarding his stock portfolio. In a letter to Ethics Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS), obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner, Rep. Rob Bresnahan’s (R-PA) lawyer stated that the congressman has placed two guardrails for his advisers to follow while managing his […]
Although President Donald Trump did not sign his sweeping agenda proposal into law until July 4, the White House maintains that the tax, spending, and immigration legislation is already paying policy dividends. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is making the media rounds to boast of what he calls the “capex comeback,” touting benefits derived by the […]
