Month: July 2025

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that the public is “going to love the deals that President Trump and I are doing” as the administration promises forthcoming breakthroughs on tariffs. “Well, you heard in our polling some of the perceptions of the economy,” CBS News’ Margaret Brennan told Lutnick on “Face the Nation.” “Sixty-one…
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It adds to the administration’s departure from targeting the “worst of the worst” in its immigration enforcement.

When Mike Johnson gifted Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans’ tax breaks and spending bill, it was a memorable moment at the White House.

President Trump responded angrily on Sunday to a Wall Street Journal story that Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent had personally sought to talk him out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Trump, who is currently suing the Journal over its reporting on his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, has been aggressively…
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A majority of surveyed Americans oppose the way President Trump is using migrant detention facilities amid his broader crackdown on immigration, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. When asked in the survey if they “favor or oppose the way the Trump administration is using detention facilities to hold people it may try to deport,”…
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Rep. Tim Burchett, who’s called for the government to release all files on the disgraced financier, now warns against releasing names in any flight logs.

Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency last week.

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that a White House insider is warning President Trump of a “massive market reaction” if he fires Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.  “I mean, what happens if there’s a tweet that says the Fed chair is gone?” CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked Himes on “Face the Nation.” “Well, interestingly, inside…
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A proposed GOP ban on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could pump the brakes on grand visions to reshape electronic payment access around the Federal Reserve.  Republican lawmakers pushed the ban through the House on Thursday over concerns the government could use a CBDC to surveil Americans’ financial transactions. The banking industry has also lobbied against…
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The president bragged that his poll numbers have skyrocketed despite ongoing backlash over his handling of Epstein’s files.

America has never lacked political showmen. So when Elon Musk — a man as comfortable launching rockets as launching tweets — announces his intention to form a new political party, the instinctive response is skepticism, if not outright derision. Call it the “America Party,” he says, a banner for those tired of both elephants and…
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Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Sunday that President Trump “made an enormous mistake” in blaming the Russia-Ukraine war on the Ukrainians. “I think the Trump administration made an enormous mistake during the campaign and then from the election forward by putting the blame on Ukraine for the war,” Smith told anchor Shannon Bream on “Fox…
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Uncertainty is hanging over this year’s hurricane season as meteorologists predict “above-normal” activity and the Trump administration sends shifting signals over the future of the federal government’s role in natural disaster response.  Despite talk of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in its current form, the administration says it remains “laser focused on disaster…
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Despite facing a slew of current controversies, the president had his mind on other things on Sunday.

As Trump faces pressure to release more information regarding Epstein, reports are coming out that the two men knew each other well.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a moderate Republican, suggested in a Sunday interview that first lady Melania Trump deserves some credit for President Trump’s apparent pivot against Russia in its war against Ukraine. “Well, I’m glad that the President has pivoted on Ukraine,” Bacon said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.” “I think we…
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Another day, another chilling development in the fight against waste, fraud and abuse.  President Trump, who removed 17 inspectors general (including me) at the beginning of his term, continued his attack earlier this month by demoting the acting inspector general of the Department of Education — simply because she was doing her job.  That job…
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) said on Sunday that he has not yet decided whether to run for U.S. Senate in Texas in 2026. “I don’t know,” O’Rourke said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” when asked if he plans to run for Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) Senate seat, which is up…
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) called on his fellow Democrats to fight “fire with fire” as Republicans in his state move forward with an effort to alter Texas’s congressional lines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” O’Rourke said Democrats need to start playing the same game…
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U.S. special envoy for hostage affairs, Adam Boehler, called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele “a good friend” after he helped secure the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in Venezuela in exchange for the return of more than 250 Venezuelans that the U.S. had sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador. In an interview on CNN’s “State…
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) defended Democrats for jumping on Republican calls for the federal government to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even though her party largely remained mum on the issue while former President Biden was in office. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, the Minnesota…
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NASA has had a difficult early summer, between a proposed budget that would eviscerate the space agency’s science programs and President Trump’s sudden withdrawal of billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman from the nomination to be administrator of NASA. Even so, there are signs that NASA’s fortunes may be looking up. The space agency has a new administrator —…
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“It’s like the Dollar Tree version of Versailles.”

Recent polling is painting a mixed picture for Democrats as they look to chart a path forward in the wake of their loss to President Trump in November. Trump’s approval rating remains comfortably underwater as he reaches the six-month mark back in office on Sunday. But while Democrats have scored some notable victories in high-profile…
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The Justice Department has been rocked by a wave of recent firings, a sign the administration is not done culling the ranks of career officials as it seeks to shape the department under a second Trump term.  Maurene Comey, a New York-based federal prosecutor and the daughter of the former FBI director, was fired Wednesday…
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