The government says this is about national security. But given the history—and ongoing litigation—between the White House and Anthropic, something more may be going on.
Anthropic has sent senior technical staff to Washington, D.C., to meet with Trump administration officials this week in hopes of ironing out issues after the White House raised national security concerns about the company’s top artificial intelligence models, a source close to Anthropic told the Washington Examiner. The White House on Friday imposed export restrictions […]
Josh Hokit made made sure he went viral on Sunday night at the UFC White House card.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is expected to bring landmark housing legislation back to the Senate floor this week after negotiators reached an agreement, signaling a win for the backers of the bill, who say it will increase housing supply and address high prices. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will be voted […]
UFC CEO Dana White told reporters at a press conference early Monday morning that, while his Freedom 250 fights at the White House were successful, his company would not repeat them. “I can’t afford it,” White responded when posed a hypothetical scenario where President Donald Trump asks him to return to the South Lawn next […]
Donald Trump has again upended efforts to renew a critical surveillance statute just as lawmakers had begun to reopen stalled talks.The president declared on Truth Social Monday that any work to renew FISA Section 702, a statute that allows federal agencies such as the NSA and the CIA to surveil foreigners on U.S. soil without warrants, must be passed alongside his voter ID bill, the SAVE America Act.That legislative measure sparked nationwide controversy earlier this year, particularly over a detail in the bill that would have made it more difficult for married women to vote. The backlash on Capitol Hill was grave, so much so that it gummed up efforts to fund Homeland Security for several months. Republicans eventually had to bail on the package to end the congressional gridlock.The SAVE America Act suggests numerous amendments to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, including line items that would abolish mail-in voting, require voters to bring proof of citizenship and proof of residency to register to vote, require voter ID, and mandate voter roll purges every 30 days—an enormous bureaucratic task that would place undue burdens on local election officials. The measure would also add a federal law to prevent men from competing in women’s sports, and a ban on “transgender mutilation surgery.”Last week, Democrats logjammed conservative efforts to renew the FISA section in direct protest against the president’s temporary pick to run national intelligence, real estate developer Bill Pulte, who they argued had run afoul of the law by accepting the position. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence explicitly, legally requires its chiefs to have national security experience.As a result, the spy bill expired on Friday, and Republicans were able to convince Trump to withdraw Pulte and nominate a new—if equally unqualified—candidate for the job. That man was Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who would also come to Washington with zero national security experience.Yet as he gears up for his initial committee hearing Wednesday, Democrats have signaled that they might actually be willing to work with Clayton. Senate Intelligence Ranking Member Mark Warner—a Democratic lawmaker from Virginia—told CBS News on Sunday that he’s interested in confirming Clayton as quickly as possible to advance talks to renew the FISA section.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's jobs may be at stake if they continue to oppose President Donald Trump's Iran deal, a senior White House official warned.The threat emerged in a report published Sunday by the right-leaning Israeli daily Israel Hayom, which detailed a bitter internal White House battle over the emerging memorandum of understanding with Tehran."The debate has been settled. Those who oppose it may pay a personal price," a senior US official told the outlet.According to the report, Vice President JD Vance, envoy Steve Witkoff, and Trump envoy Jared Kushner have driven the push for a deal, arguing the Iranian regime is unlikely to collapse soon and that Gulf states — particularly Qatar — have pressed hard for an agreement.Rubio and Hegseth argued the opposite: that Iran is buckling under economic pressure and Washington should tighten the screws, not ease them. The two men had been the public faces of that harder line — touting "Project Freedom," a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force, only for Trump to shelve it hours after they publicly praised it.Trump has since sided firmly with the deal camp. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly warned that lifting sanctions would be nearly impossible to reverse, but the Israel Hayom report said his objections changed the terms only slightly."This is an American game being managed with utter foolishness…Trump is acting badly and against the American interest, not only the Israeli one," Oded Ailam, a former senior Mossad official, told Israel Hayom.Sanctions on Iranian oil sales are expected to be lifted — at least in part — after the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens, according to the report.
Just months after The Gateway Pundit exposed Bette Midler’s deranged anti-Trump music video for her reworked Woody Guthrie protest song “All You Fascists (Bound to Lose),” the washed-up Hollywood has-been is back at it, this time weaponizing the same tired fascist smears to protest President Trump’s milestone 80th birthday. The post Bette Midler Sings “All You Fascists Bound to Lose” to Protest Trump’s 80th Birthday — Meanwhile UFC Freedom 250 at the White House Was Peak Patriotism appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
