Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) is calling on President Donald Trump and Congress to work together and change immigration policies after the deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of immigration officers in Minneapolis this month, urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection to “reassess their current tactics.” In an op-ed to […]
Welcome back to Washington Secrets. Your lunchtime reading today includes the inside story of why Donald Trump backed down in Minneapolis and the lurid details of a former governor’s lunchtime conversation. President Donald Trump’s border policy has been one of the greatest successes of his first year back in power. But by Monday morning, senior […]
Democratic candidates in Illinois’s 2026 Senate primary are steering clear of hard takes on Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) leadership in the upper chamber. The candidates are looking to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), 80, who announced in April 2025 that he will not seek reelection to a sixth term, ending more than four decades representing […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) demanded that President Donald Trump fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over her handling of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. Tagging Trump in what the senator said was a “direct appeal” on X, Fetterman pleaded with the president to fire Noem over her perceived incompetence. “@realDonaldTrump I make a direct appeal to […]
President Donald Trump is moving toward a reset on his signature issue after a pair of fatal shootings involving federal immigration officials in Minneapolis. The question is whether Trump can successfully de-escalate without abandoning his commitment to deport illegal immigrants in the face of protests against those efforts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has become a […]
Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha suggested that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) will need to rely on voters having a “goldfish memory” to win the presidency in 2028. Newsom has not announced his 2028 presidential bid, but his latest public events have signaled he could be considering it. Concha appeared on Fox News’s Fox and Friends […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced on Monday that he is investigating whether TikTok is violating California law by allegedly censoring content critical of President Donald Trump. Newsom is also urging the state’s Justice Department to probe the allegations. He highlighted an apparent TikTok user who seemed to be stymied by the platform’s community guidelines policies […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney “aggressively” walked back his comments made at last week’s Davos summit in a follow-up call with President Donald Trump. A day before Trump accused his Canadian counterpart of being “ungrateful” to the United States in his Davos speech, Carney called on smaller […]
Alexander Vindman launched a Democratic Senate campaign in Florida on Tuesday, catapulting himself back into the limelight after emerging as a key whistleblower in President Donald Trump’s first-term impeachment. “The last time you saw me was here, swearing an oath to tell the truth about a president who broke his,” Vindman said in a launch […]
The mayor of Milan, Italy, has said Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “not welcome” at the Winter Olympics early next month after reports confirmed the U.S. agency will provide extra security at the games. Upon learning the news, Mayor Giuseppe Sala criticized ICE over its role in two fatal shootings in Minnesota this month. “This […]
