On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Kevin Hassett, White House National Economic Council director, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, join Nancy Cordes.
Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser at the White House, signaled he’s confident that an eventual drop in oil prices will create space for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates.
The following is the transcript of the interview with Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 24, 2026.
Rep. Ro Khanna raised a suggestion over the weekend that Donald Trump might be "intentionally sabotaging" JD Vance.Khanna appeared on NBC News, where he pointed out that Vance is being tasked with defending things he has spoken out about for years. He was asked about Vance's recent decision to defend the purported IRS Jan. 6 "slush fund."Laughing, Khanna said, "I feel sorry for JD Vance." He then laid out exactly how it looks from his perspective.The California Democrat noted on Sunday that the president has repeatedly deployed Vance as his public defender on the administration's most toxic and politically radioactive issues — the Iran war, the Epstein slush fund, and the administration's cozy relationship with what critics have dubbed "the Epstein class.""Trump is trotting out JD Vance to defend the Epstein class, Iran and foreign wars, and now his $1.7B slush fund," Khanna wrote on X. "Intentional sabotage? I almost feel bad for him."
5/24/1870: Justice Benjamin Cardozo's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 24, 1870 appeared first on Reason.com.
The third round of May Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this payment on May 27. The first round went out on May 13 to those born on or before […]
Proposed framework hinges on a 60-day truce, reopening strait of Hormuz, and revived talks on limiting Iran nuclear programme• Middle East crisis: live updatesDonald Trump has said a “memorandum of understanding” in talks to end the US-Israel war on Iran “has been largely negotiated”.Official details of the deal remain scant and it remains possible some aspects of the memo could change, but here is what we know so far about the potential agreement that could bring an end to the war. Continue reading...
President Trump on Saturday said a deal with Iran to end the war is getting closer, but a number of Republicans and other conservatives said they feared the emerging agreement was not a good one for the United States. The emerging deal is likely to take center stage on the Sunday talk shows over Memorial…
Cuba shared a pointed message to the United States Saturday, warning it had "full and exclusive sovereignty over the airspace above its territory," in an apparent attempt to deter a Maduro-style incursion to capture indicted Raul Castro.