Former President Joe Biden practically dismantled the U.S. Border Patrol during his four years in office, forcing President Donald Trump to push for sweeping retention and hiring programs to restore the force, according to the union that represents 16,500 agents. In advance of a House border hearing today, the executive vice president of the National […]
House Republican leaders are holding a press conference as lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week after averting a government shutdown earlier this month. The press conference is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. REPUBLICANS JUMP-START BUDGET TALKS WITH EYE ON APRIL BREAKTHROUGH House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), House […]
Top officials from U.S. intelligence agencies will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday at 10 a.m. The hearing will be focused on the country’s global security threats and will include testimony from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh […]
President Donald Trump has reiterated his support for national security adviser Mike Waltz after Waltz added a journalist to a top secret group chat of administration officials discussing battle plans against the Houthis. “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News in an interview. In one of the […]
FBI Director Kash Patel denied a report claiming he wanted to overhaul the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. On Saturday, a CNN report citing three anonymous sources alleged Patel, who is acting director of ATF, had outlined plans to transfer up to 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, “cutting ATF’s agents by more […]
Colorado Democrats signed off on GOP efforts to remove a portrait of President Donald Trump hanging in the state Capitol that the president said was “a bad picture” of himself. On Sunday evening, the president blasted the portrait on Truth Social and said it had been “purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, […]
United States Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy stepped down from his role Monday. DeJoy was nearing his fifth year in the role and left his 10-year plan for the organization for his successor to accomplish. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has teased his own plan to privatize the service. “While our management team and the […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will be under the microscope as he fights to regain the trust of his members while also seeking to stonewall President Donald Trump’s policy agenda. Returning from a weeklong recess that included calls from some in the party for Schumer’s ouster over siding with Republicans to avert a government […]
A fierce debate over how to reform Social Security is playing out in the nation’s capital as the program’s long-term solvency is in question and amid new efforts to cut staff and restrict services from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The push to reform the program, which delivers a monthly check to some […]
Republicans will be searching for a breakthrough when they travel to the White House on Tuesday to negotiate President Donald Trump‘s sweeping second-term agenda. Congress has just three weeks to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) self-imposed deadline to approve a framework that joins tax reform with Trump’s priorities on the border, defense, and energy. […]
