The Senate minority leader said Democrats would use Senate procedure to try to kill President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, forcing Republicans to vote to preserve the compensation money.
Retirements among Senate Democrats are paving the way for younger and fresher successors who are more vocal about abolishing the filibuster. Efforts to create policy carveouts for the 60-vote threshold under Democratic majorities fell short thanks to centrist holdouts. But Senate hopefuls in several states have a stronger desire to repeal the filibuster in its […]
With the midterm elections five months away, many Americans who backed President Trump are wrestling with pain at the pump and the war in Iran.
Former attorney general Pam Bondi testified behind closed doors Friday about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. She effectively let it be known that Todd Blanche, now acting AG, has been responsible for this debacle, creating a new target for Democrats to pursue that will be fraught for Trump. Bondi also went mum on how Trump instructed her to handle the Epstein files, basically declining to back Trump’s spin that he was very pro-transparency, raising still more questions for Democrats to pursue. Meanwhile, Trump’s sinking approval, Iran debacle, ballroom and slush fund are fracturing Trumpworld and the GOP: One Republican told The Atlantic that he has “lame-ducked himself.” We talked to historian Nicole Hemmer, author of several books about the right. We discuss why the Epstein scandal continues to fracture the MAGA movement, the deeper reasons for Trump’s weakening hold on the GOP, and why MAGA will go into deep turmoil once Trump passes from the scene. Listen to this episode here.
Senate Democrats are launching a coordinated effort to kill the Trump administration's $1.7+ billion "anti-weaponization fund."
President Trump on Sunday said it is “very good” that thousands of lawyers have chosen to no longer work for the administration, referring to The New York Times’s reporting on the exodus. The Times story reported that more than 10,000 lawyers working for the federal government have left since the end of 2024 to March…
US President Donald Trump said talks with Iran over an interim peace deal will “work out well,” even as the countries’ forces clashed again near the Strait of Hormuz.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell took a subtle dig at President Donald Trump on Sunday as he accepted the John F. Kennedy "Profiles in Courage" award, according to a new report. Axios reported that Powell said the central bank is under a "stress test" and that the institution's credibility is at stake. Powell's remarks are the first he's made since stepping down as the Federal Reserve Chairman on May 15. "Congress wisely chose to insulate monetary policy decisions from political pressure," Powell said, according to the report. "These protections have served the public well, and administrations from both parties have respected them.""If any administration finds a way to remove Fed officials over policy differences, then future administrations will do so as well. The public would lose faith that the central bank will make decisions based only on what's best for all Americans," he added. Trump and Powell had a contentious relationship during the second Trump administration. Trump tried to fire Powell because the former chairman did not want to reduce interest rates as Trump desired. The president also tried to embarrass Powell on live television during a trip to the central bank, a confrontation that ended with Powell fact-checking Trump to his face. "What the public has every right to expect is that we will make our decisions based only on our best economic analysis of what would most benefit the people we serve," Powell said. "We do not take into account the fortunes of any political party or politician in making those decisions," he added.
Marxist influencer Hasan Piker defended the Singham-funded activist network at a New Jersey ICE protest and dismissed federal scrutiny of his Cuba travel.