House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) blamed House Republicans for stalling a bipartisan Department of Homeland Security funding bill, arguing the impasse centers on GOP demands over Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding in the wake of the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting. Jeffries stressed that DHS funding for the Secret Service, TSA, FEMA, and other […]

The Department of Justice is urging the National Trust for Historic Preservation to drop its lawsuit against the White House ballroom, arguing it’s more necessary now than ever that the project continues unhindered by legal obstacles after the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. One gunman charged a security checkpoint and shot a Secret Service […]

President Donald Trump on Sunday said U.S. negotiators will communicate with their Iranian counterparts over the telephone instead of traveling abroad for talks to end the war. The president elaborated on his decision over the weekend to cancel the U.S. negotiating delegation’s planned trip to Pakistan. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had been […]

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on Sunday said he would vote to confirm Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.  The development comes after Tillis, a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, had previously said he would place a hold on any nomination until the […]