Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe will testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday at around 10 a.m. JOE KENT, TRUMP’S COUNTERTERRORISM DIRECTOR, BECOMES FIRST ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL TO RESIGN OVER IRAN WAR This will be Gabbard’s first public testimony since the start of the war in Iran, […]
EXCLUSIVE — The Sentinel Action Fund has endorsed Mike Rogers in Michigan’s closely watched Senate race and will spend more than $15 million to boost his bid, injecting significant outside money into one of the GOP’s top pickup opportunities of the 2026 midterm elections. While Rogers has reported the largest cash-on-hand totals in the race, […]
Neither Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) nor Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped out of the competitive Senate race on Tuesday before the 5 p.m. deadline passed. Both GOP primary candidates are set to face off next in the May 26 runoff election. In the primary election earlier this month, Cornyn performed slightly better than Paxton. […]
President Donald Trump’s dislike of multilateral alliances and organizations has only increased since the start of his war with Iran. Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States no longer needs assistance from North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to secure the Strait of Hormuz, despite spending the weekend putting pressure on countries, including China, France, […]
Two Democratic senators and likely presidential contenders have unveiled plans to cut taxes, a shift in strategy for the party heading into the midterm elections and the 2028 presidential election. Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) each released tax plans in recent weeks that equate to middle-class tax cuts and are advertised as moving families off the tax rolls. […]
The second round of March Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued today. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, March 18. The first round went out on March 11 to those born on or before the […]
The April 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be issued to recipients in 14 days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. For months when the first day of a month falls on a weekend or holiday, these payments are issued on the last business day […]
Republicans on Capitol Hill have begun discussing with the White House a supplemental funding bill for the conflict in Iran, and even fiscal hawks seem to be on board. Fiscal hawks in Washington are known to be rabble-rousers when it comes to demanding offsets for spending in an effort to decrease the more than $38 […]
Israel Defense Forces targeted a top Iranian official and a Hamas commander in separate airstrikes in the Middle East overnight. Hamas commander Yahya Abu Labda was reportedly killed during an IDF airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to the Times of Israel. Esmaeil Khatib, Iran’s intelligence minister, was targeted in a strike conducted […]
Both political parties have found rare agreement in a divided Washington, convinced that the GOP’s federal voter ID and election bill is a slam-dunk messaging opportunity. But that’s where the bipartisanship quickly ends. The two sides are diametrically opposed over the merits of the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE America Act, […]
