The United States is racing to secure a domestic supply of critical minerals essential to our national and economic security. For years, we have relied on foreign countries — i.e., China — that have weaponized this dependence to advance their own agenda. For the last several decades, China has been making strategic investments to build […]
Reflecting on the career of former President Barack Obama, the author Andrew Ferguson lamented that “we have lost a writer and gained another politician.” Can the same be said of Vice President JD Vance? The similarities between the 44th president and the 50th vice president of the United States are striking: broken homes, absent fathers, […]
President Trump says he doesn't think that the U.S. was responsible for a deadly strike on a school in Iran at the beginning of the war. "I don't think it was us," Trump tells reporters during an Oval Office briefing alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
The US Senate rejected a resolution to end the war with Iran as two Republicans flipped their votes hours after President Donald Trump confronted GOP senators for backing an earlier resolution to end the conflict. Kate Ackley of Bloomberg Government has more. (Source: Bloomberg)
Trump suddenly scrapped the signing of a pivotal bipartisan housing bill yesterday, demanding the Senate pass his voter ID bill Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.A dramatic day is in store in Washington DC as Donald Trump heads for a crucial meeting with Mike Johnson, the House speaker, in an attempt to break a legislative gridlock as huge political fireworks have detonated on Capitol Hill far ahead of anything resembling a Fourth of July celebration.Maryland’s Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen is endorsing the progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate primary, a split with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, the Associated Press reports as an exclusive.The US supreme court is expected to issue opinions at 10am ET and most of the big cases have not yet been ruled upon. We await immigration and finance-related opinions in particular.Huge focus on the Hill where the House speaker, Mike Johnson, meets with Trump at 2pm, with both hoping the House will be persuaded to take a vote and end a rebellion from within the right wing of the Republican caucus over the Save Act to tighten up on who can vote in US elections.Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana got into a shouting match with Trump at the Senate lunch on Wednesday after Trump admonished four senators, including him, for backing a resolution to rein in the war in the Middle East. Kennedy reportedly responded: “You have not told the American people what’s going on” with the war, adding afterwards to reporters: “It was supposed to last four weeks. It’s lasted four months,” according to Politico. Continue reading...
President Donald Trump’s administration appears unconcerned with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s gloating and insults about the peace plan signed this month, but is willing to make serious threats when Tehran negotiators consider breaking the agreement. Iranian leaders seem to have zero fear that trash-talking the Americans could blow up their memorandum of understanding with […]
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that the United States is in a position to maintain normal flows of oil through the Strait of Hormuz even if the U.S. is unable to strike a broader peace deal with Iran. His comments add to recent assertions from Trump administration officials that the U.S. can control the […]
Trump says he’ll sign housing bill aimed at lowering costs only after Senate passes restrictive voting measure – key US politics stories from Wednesday 24 June at a glanceDespite rare and overwhelming bipartisan support, a US bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing for Americans is being held hostage by Donald Trump.The president said he won’t sign the 21st Century Road to Housing Act until the Senate meets his demand to pass the Save America Act, which would dramatically change voting regulations by requiring proof of citizenship at voter registration and significantly curtail mail-in voting. Continue reading...
President Donald Trump has sarcastically congratulated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for helping elect three Communists in the state's Democrat primaries on Tuesday. The post President Trump Congratulates NYC Mayor Mamdani for Securing Victories for ‘3 Solid Communists’ in Democrat Primaries appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.