The Senate voted Monday to invoke cloture on Elbridge Colby’s nomination, moving the national security strategist one step closer to confirmation as undersecretary of defense for policy, the Pentagon’s No. 3 post. The procedural vote, which limits debate and tees up a final confirmation vote, passed by a margin of 53 to 49. Colby’s nomination […]
Thousands of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) employees will be terminated by September as the Trump administration restructures the agency to fall in line with the president’s ‘America First’ policy, Fox News Digital learned. ‘President Trump and Secretary Rubio are effectively stewarding taxpayer dollars while ensuring that foreign aid programs align with […]
President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will engage ‘directly’ with Iran in a high-level meeting set to occur this coming Saturday. ‘We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we’re dealing with them directly,’ Trump told reporters from the Oval Office while sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announced […]
Vice President JD Vance honored his mother, Beverly Aikins, at the White House Monday to commemorate her reaching 10 years of sobriety. ‘I remember when I gave my (Republican National Committee) convention speech, which was the craziest thing, and I even said during the speech that we would have your 10-year medallion ceremony at the […]
A communications director for former Vice President Kamala Harris created a so-called ‘death-pool roster’ of federal judges appointed by a Republican that could swear in Harris as president – in the event that President Joe Biden suddenly died, according to a new book. The book, ‘Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,’ published […]
The Department of Homeland Security is ‘unapologetic’ about using lie-detector tests on staffers as it aims to snuff out ‘leakers’ who feed internal agency information to the public, Fox News Digital learned. ‘Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS is unapologetic about its efforts to root out leakers that undermine national security,’ Tricia McLaughlin, DHS’ assistant secretary […]
House GOP leaders’ aim to sync up with the Senate on a massive bill advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda is on the rocks as of Monday morning, with fiscal hawks worried the upper chamber’s version will not go far enough to reduce the national deficit. House Republican skeptics are worried specifically about the Senate plan […]
A federal appeals court voted en banc Monday to block President Donald Trump’s firings of two federal board members, reversing an appellate court ruling and clearing the way for the Trump administration to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 7-4 […]
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., said he would oppose the Senate’s version of sweeping legislation to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda if it was voted on in his chamber this week. ‘At this point, I would vote against it,’ Harris told Fox News Digital in an interview on Monday morning. He is also […]
House Republicans are set to advance two key bills backed by President Donald Trump this week after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., resolved a weekslong standoff with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., over the issue of remote voting for new parents in Congress. The House is poised to vote this week on the Safeguarding American […]