April 4, 2025
House Republican moves to rein in tariff powers
Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon said he plans to introduce a companion bill to the bipartisan Senate legislation aimed at reclaiming Congress’ authority over tariffs, becoming the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers President Donald Trump is using to launch a massive global trade war. Bacon confirmed his plans to POLITICO on Friday as […]
April 4, 2025
Trump shakes up NSA leadership, appoints new acting director and deputy to replace Biden appointees
President Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), a high-level move driven by mounting pressure from conservative allies to purge officials they view as insufficiently loyal to the president’s ‘America First’ agenda. Gen. Timothy Haugh and civilian Deputy Wendy Noble were let go from their roles as director and deputy […]
April 4, 2025
Experts warn Iran’s nuclear double-talk designed to buy time, undermine US pressure
Senior Iranian officials are threatening to ramp up the country’s nuclear program as the Trump administration weighs a possible strike against the regime if Tehran does not come to the table for negotiations. ‘The president should be making the regime sweat, pure and simple,’ Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert and senior fellow at the […]
April 4, 2025
Democrat Rep Jared Golden says his party’s moving in ‘wrong direction’ on trade
A key moderate Democrat is warning his party they are heading the ‘wrong’ way on trade. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, was one of the few Democrats to express some optimism at President Donald Trump’s support for tariffs, specifically his move to add a 10% baseline duty to all U.S. imports. Golden noted in a brief […]
April 4, 2025
Obama urges Americans to ‘possibly sacrifice’ in resisting Trump policies
Former President Barack Obama told a crowd Thursday night that some sacrifice might be necessary in order to resist President Donald Trump’s policies. Obama spoke at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, on Thursday and accused the Trump administration of trying to destroy the post-World War II international order, according to the Washington Post. During […]
April 4, 2025
In warning to Turkey, Israel hits strategic targets in Syria amid rising tensions
Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on Syrian military airfields this week, in what officials confirmed to Fox News Digital was ‘intended to send a clear message to Turkey not to interfere with Israeli aerial operations in Syrian airspace.’ The escalation marks a turning point in Jerusalem’s stance toward Ankara, as Turkey attempts to expand […]
April 4, 2025
How we got to Liberation Day: A look at Trump’s past comments on tariffs
For decades, President Donald Trump has remained a staunch advocate for tariffs — routinely declaring the word one of the most beautiful in the dictionary and regularly accusing foreign countries of ripping off the U.S. Following through on 2024 campaign promises and building upon policies his first administration introduced, Trump unveiled a series of historic […]
April 4, 2025
Rubio, in Europe, says US has to ‘reset the global order of trade’ and Trump is ‘absolutely right to do it’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed Friday that the U.S. has ‘to reset the global order of trade’ and that President Donald Trump is ‘absolutely right to do it.’ Rubio, speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels, made the remark after taking issue with a reporter’s claim that world economies are ‘crashing’ in the wake of […]
April 4, 2025
DAVID MARCUS: Small-town America shrugs off tariff talk, puts faith in Trump
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For arguably the first time in his political career, President Donald Trump is asking his voters to take a big leap of faith regarding his administration’s tariff policy. I decided to travel to small-town Maryland and Ohio to try to find out just how much slack Trump […]
April 4, 2025
15 Democrats back Sanders’ failed resolutions to cancel military aid to Israel
The Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that would have blocked the Trump administration’s planned $8.8 billion arms sale to Israel. Sanders’ proposal was split into two votes, each of which failed, with 15 senators voting for the measure. Fourteen Democrats voted with Sanders. They were Sens. Richard Durbin, Ill., Martin Heinrich, […]
April 4, 2025
Senate sets up final budget sprint
After an hours-long delay and a last-minute rallying of the troops, Senate Republicans took the first step Thursday evening to advance a new budget blueprint that would unlock the “one big, beautiful bill” envisioned by President Donald Trump. Senators voted 52-48 to proceed to the budget resolution, which they hope can pass muster in the […]
April 4, 2025
Johnson: Trump backs me on proxy voting for new parents
Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that President Donald Trump backs his effort to block proxy voting for new parents, a day after the president scrambled Johnson’s plans and endorsed a move to allow it. Johnson thanked Trump in the X post for a recent phone call, in which he attributed Trump as saying: “Mike, you […]