Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced his campaign to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). After weeks of teasing a run, Paxton declared his decision in an appearance on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday. “I’m announcing that I’m running for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, who apparently is running again for his fifth […]
The United States has lowered El Salvador’s travel advisory to its lowest level in another sign of warm relations between the two countries. The travel advisory change was long a concern for El Salvador as the country looks to boost its new tourism industry. Throughout most of the Biden administration, El Salvador was granted a […]
President Donald Trump expressed openness to a new tax on millionaires to offset the cost of his legislative agenda, according to two sources familiar with the matter. In a meeting last week with Senate Budget Committee Republicans, Trump was receptive to allowing the top marginal tax rate to revert back to 39.6%, where it was […]
A handful of Republicans withholding support for a GOP budget resolution changed their minds after meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, but not enough movement to secure passage in the House. Before the White House meeting, at least 30 House Republicans were standing firm against the Trump-backed budget resolution coming back from the Senate […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) accepted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) challenge to debate the House Republicans‘ budget resolution. On Tuesday, Jeffries formally requested a one-on-one debate on the House floor with Johnson, known as a colloquy. When a Fox News reporter asked him about the challenge, Johnson said he hadn’t heard about it […]
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the Associated Press‘s access to key presidential events, ruling the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by barring the outlet over its refusal to adopt the name Gulf of America, formerly the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee to the D.C. Circuit, said the government […]
EXCLUSIVE — Since taking office three months ago, freshman Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO) has shied away from breaking with President Donald Trump, aside from condemning his Jan. 6 pardons. But that changed after Trump announced his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs that would impose new duties on about 90 countries without any congressional approval. Hurd, who […]
President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner at 6:45 p.m. The Washington, D.C., dinner is considered one of the largest fundraising events for the NRCC. LIST: THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT Trump headlined the event in 2019. Republicans currently hold a majority […]
The White House has replaced the magnolia tree planted outside the residence with a new sapling that is a “descendant” of the original tree planted approximately 200 years ago. President Donald Trump revealed at the end of March that the original tree was in “terrible condition” and would have to come down as it posed […]
Vice President JD Vance took aim at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for his vote against one of President Donald Trump‘s Pentagon nominees. Elbridge Colby, Trump’s pick for undersecretary of defense for policy, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday in a 54-45 vote. McConnell was the only Republican to vote against Colby’s confirmation, while three […]
