Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha called out Democrats for being hypocrites over President Donald Trump’s military strikes in Iran, when members of the party supported air strikes in Libya under former President Barack Obama. The United States launched joint military strikes with Israel against Iran on Saturday as part of Operation Epic Fury. A bipartisan […]
The House Republican leadership is pushing for a second party-line reconciliation bill and plan to discuss it at their upcoming policy retreat in Doral, Florida, next week. Sources close to GOP leadership told the Washington Examiner that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is pursuing the effort. A second megabill reflecting the GOP’s tax and spending priorities […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we run the rule over the president’s week, and there’s good news for Republicans thinking about the midterm elections. Was that the most consequential week of Donald Trump’s second term? He announced strikes on Iran with a video posted in the early hours of Saturday morning, and […]
The Department of Justice released additional Epstein files on Thursday, including uncorroborated accusations from a woman claiming she was sexually assaulted by President Donald Trump. Last week, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, claimed there were missing files from the government release in January. The DOJ claimed […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said the partial government shutdown over the Department of Homeland Security funding is “absolutely crazy.” York questioned how long the partial government shutdown can continue when the country’s transportation system is not funded. “We’ve talked about government shutdowns in the past, and this is not that. It’s essentially […]
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is jetting across the Atlantic today, hoping to make it to Mar-a-Lago in time to affirm Washington’s opposition to the United Kingdom’s “worst deal in history.” Farage, speaking at the “Save Chagos Boat Party” event organized by British outlet Guido Fawkes on Thursday, told attendees that he would be heading […]
The bunker created for former Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reportedly still in use by senior Iranian figures when it was obliterated in a bombardment from 50 Israeli Air Force jets Friday. Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the opening rounds of attacks on Saturday morning. However, he was killed in his above-ground […]
Iran cultivated a network of seemingly impressive friends ahead of its war with Israel and the United States, but once the bombs started falling, those friends were nowhere to be found. Iran’s aggressive Shiite revolutionary ideology left it isolated for the first two decades of its existence, making enemies of virtually all its neighbors and […]
The Israeli Air Force has launched a new wave of 26 airstrikes in Beirut targeting Hezbollah facilities as part of its defense against the Iranian-backed group based in Lebanon. Israel’s strikes on its northern neighbor are part of its broader aerial offensive against what it has called the Iranian regime’s “terror network,” expanding beyond Iran’s […]
President Donald Trump questioned former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s approval of a costly ad campaign prominently featuring herself. Noem has repeatedly claimed, including during congressional testimony on Tuesday, that Trump personally asked her to craft the DHS ad campaign, which cost over $220 million. But the president publicly disputed the secretary’s story on Thursday, […]
