The Senate kicked off a marathon vote series on Friday night, which Republicans need to get through in order to approve their changes to the House’s plan for President Donald Trump’s budget.  The endless amendment votes began after nearly a day of debate concluded. Republicans passed a key motion on Thursday to begin the process, […]Read More

Former President Barack Obama sought to distance himself from the Democratic Party after leaving it in shambles following his departure from the White House, according to a new book.  The book, ‘Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,’published by William Morrow and Company, claims that Obama was never a Democratic Party loyalist. Instead, […]Read More

: Sen. Jacky Rosen plans to introduce amendments ahead of Friday night’s ‘Vote-A-Rama’ that would roll back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on certain materials on key tourism partners, likely forcing her Republican colleagues to go on record defending the policy again.  ‘President Trump broke his promise to lower costs, and has enacted reckless tariffs that […]Read More

FBI Director Kash Patel is tackling China’s influence on American farmlands head-on, as both a food supply and national security concern.  Patel’s early focus on Chinese influence over American land — particularly farmland near sensitive sites — reflects a broader second-term push by the Trump administration to confront the Chinese Communist Party’s presence on U.S. […]Read More

Whether Russia is ‘serious’ about achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine should become apparent in a ‘matter of weeks,’ Secretary of State Macro Rubio told reporters Friday. ‘The Russians know our position in terms of wanting to end the war, and we will know from their answers very soon whether they are serious about proceeding with […]Read More

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 […]Read More

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 […]Read More

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 […]Read More