EXCLUSIVE — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is planning to keep senators in town for the April recess if Democrats cannot reach a compromise with the White House on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Thune said he expects to cancel his travel plans if the […]
Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA) said he is open to caucusing with House Democrats next year if he wins a third term in November. Earlier this month, Kiley announced he had left the GOP and become an independent as he runs for reelection. The congressman will be listed as an independent on the ballot come November, […]
Former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said he thinks the Democratic Party “overcompensated” with its response to President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration in his first term. Former President Joe Biden and his administration received major criticism for their handling of border security, as the United States’s illegal immigrant population reached an all-time […]
EXCLUSIVE — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Thursday that any effort to leave NATO would require approval from Congress, pushing back on President Donald Trump’s assertion that he could withdraw unilaterally. “Yeah, absolutely, I don’t think you can make that kind of a decision unilaterally,” Thune told the Washington Examiner in a sit-down […]
The acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division denied on Wednesday that politics will play a role in the federal review of the pending merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. Democrats have raised concerns about the perceived political ties between President Donald Trump and Paramount CEO David Ellison. His father, […]
A House committee voted along party lines to advance a bill that would repeal Washington, D.C.’s authority to use traffic cameras and prohibit right turns at red lights. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform advanced the “Stop DC CAMERA Act” by a vote of 21 to 19, with all Republicans voting in favor and […]
President Donald Trump bragged that the military might of the United States against Iran had led to members of the Middle Eastern nation’s military abandoning it during a Thursday bilateral in the Oval Office. “There’s a lot of military defections. You have a lot of military defections in Iran,” Trump said while seated next to […]
President Donald Trump claimed he did not tell Japan and other U.S. allies about the joint operation to launch strikes against Iran because he wanted the element of surprise akin to the attack on Pearl Harbor. “We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” Trump joked […]
President Donald Trump pledged not to deploy U.S. troops on the ground in the Middle East, despite speculation he may need to order a special mission to secure Iran’s enriched uranium almost three weeks into the war. “No, I’m not putting troops anywhere,” Trump said Thursday at the White House. “If I were, I certainly […]
The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and the Netherlands voiced their joint readiness to contribute to an effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The United States’s European allies have given a lukewarm response to the war with Iran, with several condemning it as outside international law, and others openly questioning what the objective […]
