July 8, 2025
A ‘lot of interest’ in Russia sanctions, Thune says
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that he hopes to have an announcement soon on the fate of a long-stalled bill to impose new sanctions targeting Russia. “We’ll have more to say about that later this week,” Thune told reporters, adding that there’s a “lot of interest” in moving the bill authored by Sen. […]
July 8, 2025
Arrington sees another chance to notch conservative wins, spending cuts in second megabill
House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington says Republicans shouldn’t give up on advancing certain priorities that were cut out of their “big, beautiful bill” for not complying with Senate rules, telling reporters Tuesday that lawmakers will try again in follow-up budget reconciliation packages. “There may be a longer list of things that were kicked out by […]
July 8, 2025
Iran says it can strike the US and Israel for two years. Does it really have that power?
Even amid a fragile ceasefire, Iran continues to warn the United States and Israel that it retains the ability to inflict serious damage if provoked. Iranian officials have declared the country can sustain daily missile strikes for two years — a claim drawing increasing scrutiny from military experts and Western intelligence analysts. ‘Our armed forces […]
July 8, 2025
New book reveals what top ex-Biden aide was thinking during disastrous debate
President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff and a fixture of his re-election campaign, Ron Klain, privately announced during Biden’s disastrous debate performance: ‘We’re f—ed.’ ‘2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,’ a new book released Tuesday by journalists Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal, Tyler Pager of The […]
July 8, 2025
TSA expected to end shoes-off policy at many airports across US
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are expected to roll back the ‘shoes-off’ airport security protocol at a Tuesday press conference in Washington. DHS sources confirmed a 5 p.m. ET announcement at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, following widespread reporting that TSA will allow more passengers going through security to remove their […]
July 8, 2025
Trump administration moves decisively to block China from ‘weaponizing’ American farmland
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled its National Farm Security Action Plan on Tuesday morning. The plan is specifically meant to address threats from foreign governments, like China, and how those threats impact American farmers. It presents legislative and executive reforms such as banning Chinese nationals from obtaining farmland in the U.S., as well […]
July 8, 2025
Trump dishes on Milley clash over leaving military equipment in Afghanistan: ‘I knew he was an idiot’
President Donald Trump disclosed he and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley clashed over leaving equipment in Afghanistan as the U.S. withdrew troops in 2021. Trump, who historically has pushed to recover billions of dollars’ worth of equipment U.S. troops left in Afghanistan, said Milley argued at the time it […]
July 8, 2025
McConnell rips Pentagon’s ‘isolationists and restrainers’ after Trump restarts Ukraine aid
Sen. Mitch McConnell praised President Donald Trump for walking back a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine while chastising “isolationists and restrainers” in his orbit for moves that he said undermine U.S. credibility abroad. The latest broadside from the former Senate GOP leader, who has emerged as a foil to Trump on Ukraine and other […]
July 8, 2025
‘Bait and switch’: Schumer warns of bitter funding fight over GOP cuts plan
Senate Republicans are set to consider a multibillion-dollar package of cuts from the White House, but the top Senate Democrat warned that doing so could have consequences for a later government funding showdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned on Tuesday that the Senate GOP’s plan to move forward with a $9.4 billion rescissions […]
July 8, 2025
New book exposes Jill Biden’s power grab amid husband’s political demise
First lady Jill Biden’s political rise coincided with the end of her husband’s political career, according to a new book about how President Joe Biden lost the White House. One year after Biden’s consequential debate performance, the first octogenarian president’s age has inspired congressional investigations and books detailing his alleged cognitive decline. ‘2024: How Trump […]
July 8, 2025
DeSantis not keen on Musk’s new political party, has another idea for disrupting DC
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that business magnate Elon Musk push for balanced budget and congressional term limit amendments to the U.S. Constitution, rather than build a new political party. Musk, who has been beating the drum about the need to rein in government spending, announced that he is launching a new political party called […]
July 8, 2025
US will ‘have to’ send weapons to Ukraine, Trump says days after Pentagon pause
President Donald Trump on Monday said that his administration would be sending defensive weapons to Ukraine so the war-torn country could defend itself from Russia’s ongoing invasion, an apparent turnaround after the Pentagon said last week it was pausing such deliveries. His comments came as Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least 11 civilians and […]