Month: July 2025

One person pointed out on social media that the president is the “best spokesman for Coke since Dr. Cosby.”

Maurene Comey was also a federal prosecutor in the Sean “Diddy” Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.

President Trump said the Coca-Cola Company has agreed to use real cane sugar, at his request, in the American version of their flagship drink. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I’d like to thank all of those…
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96 <!– Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!–   The Big Story  GOP split on whether Trump should fire Powell Republican lawmakers are split over if President Trump should fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, with some pushing him to nix the central bank head…
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The lack of courage in Congress to reassert its constitutional power of the purse has left senior lawmakers of both parties deeply frustrated.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told Kevin McCarthy to “get help” Wednesday after the former House Speaker from California said his life is better after leaving Congress because Gaetz isn’t in it. “This is so sad, Kevin,” Gaetz wrote on social platform X, posting a video of McCarthy’s remarks at the Hill Nation Summit. “Get…
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More than 900 former Justice Department attorneys are urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove for a lifetime judicial appointment.  Bove, who previously served on President Trump’s criminal defense team, is now in the No. 3 role at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and has been nominated for a judgeship…
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Trump sent the U.S. stock market on a jagged round trip after saying he had “talked about the concept of firing” the head of the Federal Reserve.

“It is intolerable to us that anyone who disgraces the Justice Department would be promoted to one of the highest courts in the land,” they wrote to senators.

Trump’s former national security adviser is also a big adherent of the QAnon conspiracy theory that claims political elites are involved in satanic rituals and sex trafficking.

Most Americans say President Trump isn’t prioritizing the most important issues facing the country, according to the latest CNN/SSRS poll. In the survey, conducted over the weekend, 63 percent of respondents said Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to today’s problems, compared to 37 percent who said Trump has the right priorities. That’s a slight change…
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President Trump on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal fentanyl and toughening prison sentences for those who traffic the drug. Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act at a White House ceremony, where he was joined by lawmakers and individuals whose family members have died from fentanyl overdoses. The…
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“Release the damn files,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed in an interview Wednesday that Republicans rarely cross President Trump when they disagree with him because they are scared of the president. “Hardly anybody is speaking out because everybody’s afraid,” Pelosi said in an interview on SiriusXM’s “Mornings with Zerlina.” “And there’s real justification for fear because Trump…
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“I’ll say whatever the f**k I want about whatever president is in power,” Andrew Schulz said in a conversation with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna.

Most American voters said they would not consider joining an Elon Musk-founded third party, according to a new poll. When asked in the Quinnipiac University poll if they would “consider joining a third party, if Elon Musk created it, as an alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties, or not,” 77 percent of registered voters…
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Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, a longtime ally of President Trump’s, said in a new interview that she’s concerned that the federal government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case could threaten to “consume” the president’s second term. In an interview Wednesday with Politico, Loomer compared the latest intrigue to the media’s fascination with Russia during the president’s…
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Maine Family Planning filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration seeking to restore Medicaid funding that is set to be stripped under the president’s sweeping tax and spending package.   A provision in the law bans health care providers that perform abortions and receive more than $800,000 in federal reimbursements from receiving Medicaid funding…
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said President Trump has told him he is not ready to endorse in his contentious GOP Senate primary against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). “I’ve talked to him about it a number of times. He is not ready to make that endorsement,” Cornyn told NBC News on Tuesday. “I think…
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Congratulations, Mr. President.

As he approaches retirement, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis isn’t looking to turn the other cheek.

City dwellers are just as American as those who reside in more rural areas. Here’s why conservative politicians trash-talk them, according to political scientists.

Amid reports that President Trump may attempt to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that it’s unclear if the president has the power to do it.  “Can the president fire Jerome Powell? I’m really not sure,” Johnson, a former constitutional lawyer, told reporters in the Capitol. “I have been not…
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The Democratic Women’s Caucus is demanding an investigation into the treatment of women in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, accusing the Trump administration of “medical neglect” in cases that include the loss of one woman’s unborn child. The Trump administration recently rescinded Biden-era guidance on treatment of migrants in detention, including those detailing…
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The president’s latest Truth Social post suggests he’s digging in and willing to alienate his MAGA supporters.