Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we ask the question: What’s in a question when you won’t believe the answer anyway? Plus, we reveal (sort of) what President Donald Trump will say in his Thursday speech and explain why there is good news for the brains who thought Graham Platner was such a […]

The Trump administration has lifted its freeze on roughly $10 billion in federal childcare and social services funding for five Democrat-led states, prompting a legal fight over whether the lawsuit challenging the funding halt should continue. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services sent nearly identical letters to officials in California, Colorado, Illinois, […]

Several Maine Senate candidates running to replace former Democratic nominee Graham Platner have spoken out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since an agency-involved shooting killed a Colombian man in the state on Monday. The top contenders, such as former Maine state Sen. Troy Jackson and former Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will oppose an amendment aiming to cut off aid to Israel.  In a letter to his colleagues, Jeffries wrote that the amendment, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), is “overly broad” and could limit “humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, peace-building and U.S. embassy operations.” The Democratic […]