SCOOP: House fiscal hawks warily accept Senate’s $9B Trump spending cuts package

Some House fiscal hawks are cautiously readying to accept the $9 billion spending cuts package passed by the Senate overnight. The House of Representatives must pass the bill, called a rescissions package, by Friday. Rescissions packages are spending cuts requested by the White House of funds that Congress already appropriated for that fiscal year.  It’s […]

Two Republicans vote against Trump’s $9 billion clawback of foreign aid, NPR funding

Though Senate Republicans were successful in their mission to pass President Donald Trump’s clawback package, not every member of the conference was on board. Only two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined with every Senate Democrat to vote against the $9 billion package geared toward clawing back foreign aid and public […]

Big government, big problems: Public corruption highest in places with large bureaucracies, report says

A new think tank analysis finds that public corruption is a significant problem in the U.S., and is most prevalent in state and local governments that have larger bureaucracies and higher regulations. The libertarian Cato Institute said it analyzed Department of Justice data on public corruption convictions in the nation’s 94 federal judicial districts and […]

These are the Republicans who voted against Trump’s $9 billion clawback of foreign aid, NPR funding

Though Senate Republicans were successful in their mission to pass President Donald Trump’s clawback package, not every member of the conference was on board. Only two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined with every Senate Democrat to vote against the $9 billion package geared toward clawing back foreign aid and public […]

Trump urged to aid Yemen’s anti-Houthi forces as terror group escalates attacks on shipping

The State Department on Sunday blasted Yemen’s Iran-sponsored Houthi terrorist movement for lethal attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea and on Israel as new calls emerged for President Donald Trump to support Yemen’s legitimate government to topple the Houthi regime. Walid Phares, a leading American expert on the Middle East, told Fox News […]

Capitol agenda: Brutal day ahead for Mike Johnson

Turns out President Donald Trump didn’t have the magic touch House Republicans were expecting. Another day of crypto drama has now put the House in a severe time crunch, setting members up for a mammoth day of voting Thursday. To recap: Speaker Mike Johnson headed into Wednesday confident that Trump had struck a deal with […]

‘Long overdue’: Senate Republicans ram through Trump’s clawback package with cuts to foreign aid, NPR

Senate Republicans blasted through Democratic and internal opposition to pass President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package early Thursday morning. The final vote tally was 51-48, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining every Democrat in voting against it. The package will now be sent to the House, which has […]

Newsom taunts Trump with series of comments about president’s ties to Epstein amid efforts to avoid subject

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has made several comments in recent days pointing out President Donald Trump’s ties to deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, as the president seeks to shut down questions about his administration’s refusal to release documents surrounding Epstein’s case and its claims that there is no ‘client list.’ Earlier this week, […]