Lawmakers grilled Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer on the agency‘s controversial decision to pause Job Corps centers across the country during her appearance Thursday before the House Education and Workforce Committee. The Trump administration had sought to shut down the program, which provides free education and vocational training for low-income people between the ages of 16 […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) suggested the Democratic Party‘s future will consist of “a progressive takeover,” which he credited Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for fueling ahead of the 2028 election. The party is still seeking to regain its footing following the 2024 election cycle, and after it elected Ken Martin as its new Democratic National Committee […]
President Donald Trump threatened to terminate Elon Musk’s federal contracts amid a growing rift between the two. A bubbling feud between Trump and Musk exploded on Thursday, when the two bashed each other publicly. Trump escalated the fight after Musk took credit for the president’s 2024 victory, saying he ordered him to leave the White […]
More voters than not believe that former Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk failed in his mission to help President Donald Trump root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and that he damaged America in the process. In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Secrets, Musk received mixed grades on his 100-day effort credited […]
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu drew the ire of the Department of Homeland Security after she criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for wearing masks. Wu told local outlet WCVB on Wednesday that she didn’t know of “any police department that routinely wears masks” like ICE agents do. Instead she pointed out that the neo-Nazi […]
Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) signed a bill into law enabling Iowa poll workers to challenge voters’ citizenship. This week, Reynolds announced she had given the final approval to House File 954, also banning ranked choice voting in Iowa, making it more difficult for third-party groups such as Libertarians to qualify as major political parties. The […]
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), the freshly announced candidate for governor of Alabama, is asking Republicans not to shift the cost of food stamps too heavily onto states, warning that the current proposal in the House’s “big, beautiful bill” could be a budget-buster. “Just don’t bankrupt us is all I’m saying,” Tuberville said in a brief […]
President Donald Trump took a markedly different approach to his Thursday bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz compared to recent meetings with other foreign leaders. Last month, Trump derailed the visit from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa by rolling out a television in the Oval Office, playing clips of opposition leaders calling for the […]
Former President Bill Clinton urged the public to stop focusing on the Biden administration and former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, suggesting they look to “the future” instead. Clinton is among the Democratic figures who have defended Biden’s leadership following scrutiny about the former leader’s cognitive abilities while in office. The 42nd president explained that […]
EXCLUSIVE — George Mason University confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that its Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation is “no longer operational.” The university launched the center in 2021 to “aggressively confront the history of marginalization of diverse populations” and “dismantle systems based on the hierarchy of human value through narrative change, […]
