Sens. Ted Budd (R-NC) and James Lankford (R-OK) are pushing back against the Trump administration’s move to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug. The two Senators submitted an amendment to the three-bill appropriations minibus passed by the House on Jan. 8. Their amendment would block the Trump administration from using the bill’s appropriations to reschedule marijuana. […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday began what he hopes will be a sustained Democratic offensive on housing costs, trying to put President Donald Trump on the defensive over one of voters’ top economic concerns. Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Schumer framed housing as the starting point of a broader Democratic […]

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she gifted the Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump during a closed-door lunch the two leaders held on Thursday. “I presented the president of the United States the medal — the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters Thursday afternoon. “And I told him this, listen to this: […]

Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha said the U.S. military has “objectively” achieved what other countries couldn’t do “on their own” in the past year, crediting President Donald Trump. Concha made his remark in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed that declared the United States as “the sole superpower again,” with China following at […]