The campaign team for Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner reportedly sent out a memo on Wednesday revealing its strategy to boost the candidate after a new scandal emerged last week. Platner’s campaign plans to highlight his polling lead over incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), a strong fundraising week, and Maine voters maintaining their support […]

Senate Republicans removed $1 billion in Secret Service security funding for the White House and President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-built East Wing ballroom from the party’s immigration enforcement bill, according to new legislative text released Wednesday. The move was in response to Republican opposition over the optics of taxpayers footing the $220 million bill for ballroom […]

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York argued the new face for the director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, lacks qualifications for the position.  “It seems like a pretty poor choice here,” York said on Fox News’s Special Report Tuesday.  President Donald Trump tapped Pulte for the position after the previous director, Tulsi Gabbard, resigned […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in a tense scene Wednesday on Capitol Hill over documents that appeared to show the senator’s son met with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2016. Bessent, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, clashed with Wyden, who is the committee’s ranking member, early on in the hearing. […]