EXCLUSIVE — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) doesn’t have much to say to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), his Democratic counterpart, these days and, more strikingly, believes the way out of the shutdown doesn’t involve Schumer at all. “I’ve always felt like the solution to this isn’t going to come from him. It’s going to […]

New Hampshire State Sen. Dan Innis, a Republican, has dropped his effort to redistrict the Granite State after Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) refused to endorse the plan. Innis had been pushing to redistrict the congressional map in New Hampshire since early August, coming as part of a broader redistricting push from Republican lawmakers in several […]

The United States has appointed its civilian head of operations for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s peace plan. U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Steven Fagin will take the position at the Civil-Military Coordination Center, established earlier this month as the headquarters of reconstruction efforts. “Fagin will serve as the civilian lead of the Civil-Military Coordination […]

John McEntee, who served in multiple senior roles during the first Trump administration, received $175,000 from Chinese tech giant Tencent for his lobbying work between July and September, according to a recently released document.  McEntee was President Donald Trump’s body man following his 2016 electoral victory and was later promoted to director of the White […]