October 7, 2025
Government limps deeper into shutdown crisis with no deal in sight
The Senate remains deadlocked on a path to end the shutdown as it nears its second week, and Republicans’ meager support across the aisle to reopen the government may be crumbling. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., needs at least eight Senate Democratic caucus members to join Republicans to reopen the government, given that Sen. […]
October 7, 2025
Sen. Josh Hawley falsely says FBI ‘tapped’ senators’ phones during Jack Smith probe
Sen. Josh Hawley falsely claimed Tuesday that newly disclosed records revealed that the FBI “tapped” the phones of eight sitting U.S. senators during special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election. Hawley was describing an FBI document, publicly released Monday by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, that referenced […]
October 7, 2025
Cruz clashes with Nigeria over his claims 50,000 Christians killed since 2009 in religious violence
A diplomatic battle is being waged between leading Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Nigerian government officials. Cruz has warned he will hold those officials accountable for the reported ‘mass slaughter’ of tens of thousands of Christians in Nigeria. Officials have claimed Cruz is lying, with one claiming that despite even the pope publicly calling […]
October 7, 2025
House committee withdraws James Comey subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein testimony
The House Oversight Committee has dropped its subpoena for former FBI Director James Comey, after he said he had no knowledge relevant to the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, The Hill reported, citing a letter Comey sent to the committee. In the Oct. 1 letter sent to Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky, Comey said he […]
October 7, 2025
Mike Johnson brushes off Marjorie Taylor Greene’s health care attack
Speaker Mike Johnson sought to play down fiery criticism of his leadership from GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in comments to reporters Tuesday, after she accused top Republicans of having no plan to address the pending expiration of federal health insurance subsidies. “Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has […]
October 7, 2025
Peter Navarro, Trump’s embattled trade adviser, on hand for Bondi’s Hill hearing
Poised to face tough questioning from Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats about President Donald Trump’s weaponization of the Justice Department against perceived enemies, Attorney General Pam Bondi has brought a retort: Trump’s economic adviser Peter Navarro. Bondi is testifying Tuesday at the panel’s annual oversight hearing of the DOJ, with Navarro in attendance in the Capitol […]
October 7, 2025
Pam Bondi wasted no time before going on offense during her Hill testimony
Attorney General Pam Bondi didn’t wait for Senate Democrats to ask their own pointed questions before she went on the attack Tuesday while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “You voted to shut the government down,” Bondi said in response to a question from Sen. Dick Durbin about the legal basis for sending National Guard […]
October 7, 2025
Biden didn’t want intel disseminated showing Ukrainian concerns over family’s ‘corrupt’ business ties: records
Then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015 told the CIA he would ‘strongly prefer’ an intelligence report documenting Ukrainian officials’ concerns with his family’s ties to ‘corrupt’ business deals in the country ‘not be disseminated’ — and so it wasn’t, according to a newly-declassified email and records made public by the agency. CIA Director John Ratcliffe […]
October 7, 2025
Capitol agenda: At least they’re talking about talking
President Donald Trump and Democrats spent Monday afternoon giving reporters conflicting messages about whether they were talking to each other about the health care impasse at the center of the shutdown. Long story short: They’re not. But Trump’s suggestion that he was speaking with Democrats about their health care demands raised the possibility that an […]
October 7, 2025
Oct 7 anniversary: Netanyahu finds unlikely ally amid concerns of government collapse, uncertain hostage deal
Two years since the horrific events of Oct. 7, 2023 when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel and killed 1,200 men, women and children, before they took 251 others into the Gaza Strip, there is still no hostage deal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is facing possible collapse. Netanyahu has found an unlikely ally in […]
October 7, 2025
Mass firing threats don’t faze Democrats
President Donald Trump said Monday he’s on the verge of enacting mass firings of federal workers. But Democrats say it won’t make them budge in the increasingly rancorous shutdown standoff. The mass layoffs, dreamed up by White House budget director Russ Vought, would be the most significant pressure point yet as the shutdown enters a […]
October 7, 2025
Trump slams Democrats for ‘shutting down’ government, demands it reopen ‘tonight’
President Donald Trump on Monday evening slammed Democratic lawmakers for shutting down the government amid one of ‘the most successful economies,’ calling on them to reopen the government tonight. ‘Democrats have SHUT DOWN the United States Government right in the midst of one of the most successful Economies, including a Record Stock Market, that our […]