The Democratic Governors Association on Friday called for an aggressive retaliatory response that matches Texas‘s redistricting efforts designed to build the House Republicans’ narrow majority. Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS), who leads the organization, urged her peers to actively oppose the Trump-backed efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional districts. “It’s incumbent upon Democrat governors, if they have […]

President Donald Trump on Friday said he wants his administration to release “everything” in the Epstein files but urged caution in doing so, warning that people could get hurt in the process. “We’d like to release everything, but we don’t want people to get hurt that shouldn’t be hurt,” he told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty […]

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would most likely not remove Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve because it would cause financial disruption. “They say it would disturb the market. I would remove him in a heartbeat, but they say it would disturb the market,” he told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty […]

The Senate on Friday broke a multiday impasse by passing the first three fiscal 2026 spending bills, the first time the upper chamber has passed appropriations bills before the August recess since 2018. The vote on the package of bills combining the Military Construction-VA and Agriculture-FDA bills passed 87-9. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) […]