Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York criticized Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, who is running to be the state’s governor, for trying to ignore her socialist roots. “Right now, she is running away from all of her record,” York said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Thursday. York questioned Hong’s campaign, which denied […]
Welcome to Washington Secrets. It’s Friday. Another week over and another week closer to the midterm elections. As usual, we run the rule over President Donald Trump’s week. Plus, we have details of a new gig for Mike Pence, his former vice president. On Monday, President Donald Trump visited General Motors’s Milford Proving Ground in […]
Sen. John Fetterman (PA) is having doubts that the Democratic Party is “big” enough to welcome his values despite Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) pressing the nonconformist Democrat to remain in the party. Fetterman has been dodging speculation that he may cross the aisle, but the idea seemed far-fetched until fellow Democrats started backing […]
President Donald Trump will host a Cabinet meeting at Camp David in Maryland on Friday at about 11:00 a.m. TRUMP VOICES SUPPORT FOR ANTI-WEAPONIZATION FUND IN RANT AGAINST CORNYN According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, this will be the first-ever live, televised Cabinet meeting at Camp David. Friday’s meeting also marks the 13th […]
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong has pushed a socialist wish list during her time in the state Assembly, backing everything from publicly funded grocery stores and a state-owned bank to race-based grant programs and doulas for pregnant women in solitary confinement, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of her record. Hong is the front-runner in […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued prediction market platform Kalshi on Friday, accusing the federally regulated exchange of operating an illegal gambling business in the state, escalating a growing legal battle over whether prediction markets fall under state gambling laws or exclusive federal oversight. The lawsuit seeks to block Kalshi from continuing to […]
President Donald Trump on Friday argued in favor of the anti-weaponization fund that his administration previously said was dead, as Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) continues to hold up acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination over concerns about the fund. “Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history,” […]
Dozens of people have died after mass migrant crossings from Morocco into the Spanish port territory of Ceuta reached a boiling point overnight. The eyes of the European Union have been fixated on the seven-square-mile city of Ceuta this week as thousands of migrants have poured into the city from Morocco and neighboring African countries. […]
A high-profile FIFA aide and White House Task Force for the World Cup representative resigned in protest Saturday over a controversial proposal to sell a stake in the organization’s commercial business, warning that the plan would sacrifice one of the world’s most valuable sports properties to private investors. Victor Cordeiro, a former president of the U.S. […]
Laura Loomer, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential outside allies, recently returned from Ukraine with an unexpected message for the Make America Great Again movement: she had been wrong about the war. Like many of Trump’s supporters, Loomer had long opposed U.S. military aid to Ukraine, reflecting the Republican Party’s broader divide between traditional national security hawks and the increasingly […]
