President Donald Trump admitted Thursday that he was uncertain if his grip on the Senate Republican majority was slipping. Trump was asked during an Oval Office event about the controversy on Capitol Hill over funding White House security upgrades tied to the new East Wing ballroom. “I don’t know, I really don’t,” the president responded […]

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We spent Wednesday getting our FreeCon or something, hanging out with one of the factions in the Republican Party preparing for what comes after Donald Trump. Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) delivered a “fireside chat” — there was no fire or fireside — in which he said he wished […]

Russia on Thursday emphasized its “full solidarity” with Cuba, taking sides with the country against the United States as Washington escalates a pressure campaign against Havana’s Communist leadership.  The tough rhetoric from Moscow followed Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent message that appeared to tacitly call on the Cuban people to overthrow their Communist government. […]

Aimee Bock, the convicted mastermind of Feeding Our Future, was sentenced to 41 years in federal prison on Thursday, marking the longest and most severe punishment to date out of all 78 defendants indicted in the free meal delivery fraud case. The 45-year-old executive director of Feeding Our Future faced a statutory maximum sentence of […]