Mike Johnson plans to talk to Altman about the framework for a potential bipartisan bill regulating AI companies.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio grew visibly annoyed with the Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee during his Wednesday testimony, openly voicing his exasperation in several exchanges. Rubio appeared before the committee to provide updates on the war with Iran and other foreign policy developments. Nearly every exchange with Democrats was hostile, but one […]
Senate Republicans removed $1 billion in Secret Service security funding for the White House and President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-built East Wing ballroom from the party’s immigration enforcement bill, according to new legislative text released Wednesday. The move was in response to Republican opposition over the optics of taxpayers footing the $220 million bill for ballroom […]
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) had a sharp response for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a heated hearing on Wednesday. Bessent was testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on President Donald Trump's budget request when Hassan questioned him about whether the administration was focusing on affordability concerns for Americans amid rising gas and grocery prices."What is very clear to me is that neither you, nor the president, nor this administration are willing to acknowledge how much more people are paying at the gas pump, at the grocery store, or in utilities, for healthcare — for all aspects of American life — nor have you acknowledged the number of manufacturing jobs that were lost in 2025," Hassan said.Bessent tried to interject and claimed the cost of groceries was higher during the Biden administration. Hassan then corrected him, pointing out she was referring to the Trump administration, and the two started to talk over each other in a fiery exchange."The administration has claimed that its top priority is lowering costs for American families but the president instead continues to pursue vanity projects at a significant costs to taxpayers," Hassan said. "He requested $1 billion for the White House ballroom, spent $45 million on a military birthday parade, proposed $100 million arch at Memorial Circle, and now Treasury is planning production of a $250 dollar bill with his face on it. Mr. Secretary, how does the president's requested billion-dollar ballroom, or all of these other vanity products, lower costs for American families or help constrain spending?""Senator, first of all you're incorrect. There is no cost to the American people," Bessent said in response.Bessent claimed the "decorative part of the ballroom is privately funded."Hassan pushed back on his comments."It is national security matters that the billion dollars are for," Bessent said.But the Democratic senator wasn't convinced."That's ridiculous and I think you know it," Hassan said.
Senate Republicans have stripped language providing up to $1 billion for security upgrades to the proposed White House ballroom from a revised budget reconciliation bill unveiled on Wednesday. Senate Republicans agreed among themselves before the Memorial Day recess to pull the money for President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom out of the reconciliation package but they made…
Former First Lady Jill Biden is doing a publicity tour for her new book, View from the East Wing, which comes out Tuesday.
Rubio, in back-to-back hearings before a House and Senate panel on Tuesday, faced Democrats’ ire.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on Fox News Wednesday to defend the Trump administration against Democratic criticism over gasoline prices spiking amid the president’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, and provided a stunning explanation for the record-setting price surges.Fox News’ Bill Hemmer cued a compilation clip of Democratic lawmakers criticizing the Trump administration for its war against Iran, placing the blame for rising energy costs squarely on the decision to launch the war. And yet, Wright insisted that the blame lay elsewhere.“It's a little rich, it's a little rich! We're in the middle of solving a 47-year-old problem that's a growing problem about a nuclear-armed Iran,” Wright said.“The bigger problem, the even bigger problem with gasoline prices, electricity prices, heating prices, is Democrat green policies!”Gasoline prices in the United States reached an average of $4.48 per gallon in May, an increase of 42.2% over the previous year, Fox News reported. While the price hike coincided with Trump’s war against Iran – which resulted in major disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping channel through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows – Wright continued to insist Democratic policies around renewable energy were to blame.“They've done everything they can for 20 years to drive energy prices up, and now they're upset about high energy prices!” Wright said. “I'm glad, I hope they keep that attitude going forward and will work with us to drive energy prices back down.”Energy @SecretaryWright on what the "bigger problem" is causing soaring gas prices:"The even bigger problem with gasoline prices, electricity prices, heating prices, is Democrat green policies!" pic.twitter.com/vj4U5IheDY— Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) June 3, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is back on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, where he will face questions from the House Foreign Relations Committee about President Trump‘s fiscal 2027 budget request for the State Department and ongoing conflict with Iran. Rubio, in back-to-back hearings before a House and Senate panel on Tuesday, faced Democrats’ ire over…