Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday morning on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request for DHS. The White House is asking for $63 billion in budget authority for the department in 2027, a $2.2 billion decrease from 2026 enacted levels — just over a…
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…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will testify Wednesday morning before the Senate Finance Committee on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request for the department. The White House is seeking $11.5 billion in budget authority for the Treasury Department’s domestic programs in 2027, a 12 percent decrease from 2026. The hearing comes as affordability concerns and the…
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin is testifying before Congress for the second day in a row regarding his department’s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. The Department of Homeland Security is requesting $118.4 billion in overall funding for fiscal 2027, starting Oct. 1, as proposed by the White House. Nearly $23 billion of […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading back to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for his second day of back-to-back testimonies before House and Senate committees. Rubio will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 10 a.m. about the State Department’s budget for fiscal 2027, which requested 30% less discretionary spending funds than last year. RUBIO TAKES ISSUE WITH ROSEN SAYING IT’S ‘EMBARRASSING’ […]
The Justice Department's No. 3 official briefly admitted on X that the agency was moving to revive a controversial fund to compensate Jan. 6 defendants — then deleted the post on Wednesday.Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. responded to a post from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with a terse three-word reply — "We're on it." — before quietly scrubbing it. Politico's Josh Gerstein flagged the deletion.The admission came just hours after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies that the DOJ's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was finished — permanently. "Look, we're not moving forward with the fund. Period," Blanche told the panel. Asked by Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) if that meant never, Blanche said: "Correct."Graham had proposed threading the needle on the dead fund. While acknowledging Blanche's announcement, he argued that "there are many victims of the weaponized Biden Justice Department" and proposed routing claims through the existing Federal Tort Claims Act process instead of creating a new system.Critics in both parties had hammered the fund as a "slush fund" — a nearly $1.8 billion pot of taxpayer money with no judicial review, no congressional oversight, and commissioners the president could fire at will. A federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia had already temporarily blocked it.Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, called it a "racket" designed to funnel taxpayer dollars to "insurrectionists, rioters, and white supremacists." Even roughly half of Senate Republicans were unhappy with the fund, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).Woodward's deleted post raises fresh questions about whether the administration intends to pursue Graham's workaround — and whether Blanche's "period" means what he said it did.
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