Jails in mostly liberal cities sped up the release of criminal illegal immigrants during former President Joe Biden’s last years in office, ignoring pleas from federal authorities that the law-breakers be turned over for deportation. Newly obtained U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement numbers showed that some 25,000 criminal illegal immigrants were released since Oct. 1, […]
Cornell and Northwestern Universities were the latest to see their federal funding stopped as the Trump administration continues to review higher education grants. Some $1 billion in funds were frozen for Cornell, while $790 million were frozen for Northwestern. Both universities claimed they were not notified by the White House on the matter. This follows […]
EXCLUSIVE — Groups that feed malnourished children abroad with edible paste are asking a divided Congress to make their program a bipartisan priority after freezes in funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development threaten their existence. Two U.S.-based companies that manufacture the nutrient-dense paste, MANA Nutrition and Edesia Nutrition, and a non-profit supporting them, […]
The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service reportedly plans to resign from the agency, shortly after a data sharing agreement between the IRS and Department of Homeland Security was announced. According to the Washington Post, Melanie Krause will resign via the deferred resignation program set up by the Trump administration over disagreements with the […]
The Trump administration celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday that tossed out a lower court’s order blocking Alien Enemies Act deportations and that restricted outside groups who bring lawsuits about the deportations from shopping around for friendly courts. But the high court crafted the order in a way that also creates new complications for […]
The term New Right has come to define the philosophy of President Donald Trump and, by extension, the modern Republican Party, paving the way for new conservative thought leaders such as Vice President JD Vance. This Washington Examiner series will look at the history of the New Right, the matters that define it, the movement’s major players, […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) agrees with President Donald Trump on a portion of his tariff policy, a rare harmonization across the aisle as Democrats rail against the president’s wider agenda. Baldwin, the third-term Democrat who narrowly secured reelection last November in Trump-won Wisconsin, is on board with the president’s executive order closing the so-called de minimis tariff […]
President Donald Trump’s wave of tariffs went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday as the vast majority of U.S. trading partners look to head off the barrier taxes with last-minute deals with the White House. Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement outlined a two-phased rollout of the new tariffs, which Trump has described as reciprocal. First, the […]
President Donald Trump assured Republicans that his “Liberation Day” tariffs will have a positive impact, teasing coming levies on pharmaceuticals as well. Speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington, D.C., Trump sought to assure Republican critics that the chaos surrounding his tariffs is only temporary. “Companies are pouring back into our country […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced his campaign to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). After weeks of teasing a run, Paxton declared his decision in an appearance on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday. “I’m announcing that I’m running for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, who apparently is running again for his fifth […]
