Sanders' plan would impose a one-time tax of 50 percent of AI companies' stock and give the government voting shares and the power to block corporate decisions.
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…
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.
Republican Spencer Pratt, known for his TV role on The Hills, appears to be in a tight race with two Democrats in Los Angeles.
The $1.8bn fund would have paid people the Trump administration decided were unjustly and politically targeted.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday promised to abandon plans to move forward with an “anti-weaponization” fund criticized as a slush fund for President Trump to dole out money to his allies, potentially saving a $72 billion legislative package in the process. “We are not moving forward with the fund. Period,” Blanche told House…
When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) first started his war on artificial intelligence and robotics, his excuse was that the technologies would destroy jobs of the working class at the behest of the “oligarchs,” which is to say billionaire entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and Sam Altman. He wanted to put a stop to the technology, […]
President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to elevate Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to serve as acting director of national intelligence is raising a new question on Capitol Hill — whether the appointment helps resolve growing tensions inside the intelligence community or makes them worse. The move comes as a bitter internal dispute between […]
Veteran CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley has been fired from the network following an explosive confrontation with CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over new leadership at 60 Minutes. Pelley, a correspondent for 60 Minutes since 2004 and one of the most recognizable faces in broadcast journalism, was terminated effective immediately on Tuesday after a contentious […]