Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R-GA) withheld an endorsement from his former primary opponent, Georgia‘s Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson, during his first time speaking publicly about his campaign for governor since his GOP runoff loss. Jones had a nearly clear path to securing the Peach State’s Republican nomination for governor before businessman Jackson hopped into […]
Justice Elena Kagan began her testimony at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday by honoring late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), referencing a famous exchange during her 2010 confirmation hearing. Kagan was testifying alongside Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court’s roughly $228 million budget request for fiscal 2027, with much of the increase […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned plans to charge fees for American policing of the Strait of Hormuz in lieu of inking new trade and investment deals with Gulf states. The president, following the breakdown of the memorandum of understanding with Iran, has said that the United States will implement a blockade of Iranian-controlled shipping […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we ask the question: What’s in a question when you won’t believe the answer anyway? Plus, we reveal (sort of) what President Donald Trump will say in his Thursday speech and explain why there is good news for the brains who thought Graham Platner was such a […]
The Trump administration has lifted its freeze on roughly $10 billion in federal childcare and social services funding for five Democrat-led states, prompting a legal fight over whether the lawsuit challenging the funding halt should continue. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services sent nearly identical letters to officials in California, Colorado, Illinois, […]
Several Maine Senate candidates running to replace former Democratic nominee Graham Platner have spoken out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since an agency-involved shooting killed a Colombian man in the state on Monday. The top contenders, such as former Maine state Sen. Troy Jackson and former Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will oppose an amendment aiming to cut off aid to Israel. In a letter to his colleagues, Jeffries wrote that the amendment, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), is “overly broad” and could limit “humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, peace-building and U.S. embassy operations.” The Democratic […]
Leading Senate Democrats are accusing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of illegally interfering in the midterm elections, saying that he is using his office to protect a GOP majority in the House. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, filed a Hatch Act election integrity complaint […]
Two of the United States’s leading news distributors suppressed negative coverage of former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner for months, according to a new study. Platner was the Democratic Party’s nominee in the race against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the 2026 election. He ended his campaign last week after months of controversies, which culminated […]
President Donald Trump is meeting Iraq‘s new prime minister, Ali al Zaidi, at the White House on Tuesday morning, after applauding his rise in the Middle East. The two men will speak to the press around 11 a.m., after Trump described al-Zaidi’s April victory as the “beginning of a tremendous new chapter between our Nations […]
