Month: October 2025

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told President Trump’s nominee for inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that his professional history has raised “serious doubt” about his ability to be an “impartial investigator” for the agency. In a letter provided first to The Hill, Warren addressed Thomas March Bell, Trump’s nominee for…
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In an ominous address, the president told American troops in Japan that “we can do as we want to do.”

For years, Donald Trump built his brand on an “America First” trade agenda: protecting U.S. workers, punishing foreign competitors, and pulling supply chains back home.   That was the promise. But now, in a scramble to drive down grocery prices, his administration is turning to Argentina for beef — quadrupling imports to 80,000 metric tons. That’s…
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Lawrence O’Donnell also called CNN CEO Mark Thompson “an Englishman who thinks paying Scott Jennings to lie about Donald Trump is money very well spent.”

Former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday said women need to stand up against those who might seek to silence them. In an interview with People magazine, Obama reflected on her life and explained how she embraced entering her 60s. She talked about how her father raised her to be proud of her height. “I’m…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a Monday flyer urging people to join the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) team with a graphic modeled after the Halo video game. “Destroy the flood. Join.ICE.gov,” reads text overlaid on the graphic, shared on the social platform X, which features two Halo characters driving a vehicle through…
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The 2025 Virginia attorney general race is slated to be the most expensive state attorney general race on record, according to the ad tracking company AdImpact.  A total of $36.8 million has been spent in the race so far, with Republicans spending $21.9 million and Democrats spending $14.9 million.  Last year’s attorney general race in…
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Mike Donilon, an aide to former President Biden, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he would have received a roughly $4 million bonus if the former president won reelection last year. In a video released Tuesday by the committee, Donilon said in July that if Biden won the 2024 race, he would…
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Democratic officials in 25 states sued the Trump administration Tuesday in an attempt to block a food assistance program from drying up this weekend amid the ongoing government shutdown.  The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has indicated that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, which are provided to more than 40 million low-income Americans, will be suspended starting Nov.…
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Kai Trump, President Trump’s granddaughter and a rising amateur golfer, is set to participate in her first LPGA event next month. Trump was selected by “The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican” to play in the fall series tournament set for Nov. 10-16 at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla, the event announced Tuesday. The…
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The sole statue commemorating a Confederate general was returned to the nation’s capital on Saturday, in adherence to an executive order signed by President Trump. The statue of Brig. Gen. Albert Pike was replaced in Washington after protesters took it down by hand in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives…
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) lauded her Democratic colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) for defending President Trump while speaking earlier this year with members of the European Union. Luna and Omar traveled together to meet with European counterparts in April as part of a congressional delegation for the House Democracy Partnership Institute. Luna said there…
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Democrats are blasting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after he associated himself with soybean farmers impacted by the pain of recent sale losses to China amide the Trump administration’s trade war. “You’re a hedge fund manager who rents farmland to soybean farmers. You’re profiting off their hard work while sipping champagne with billionaire elites & kissing…
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Tuesday he will be suing drugmakers of acetaminophen for “deceptively marketing Tylenol to pregnant mothers,” basing his accusations off President Trump’s unfounded claims that the medication could be linked to autism. In an announcement, Paxton, who is challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in next year’s midterms, claimed that…
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Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra (R) on Tuesday officially entered the race for governor in his state. In a campaign launch video, the Iowa congressman emphasized his relationship with President Trump and touted his support for the president’s sweeping tax and spending bill passed earlier this year. He also railed against his likely Democratic opponent, Rob…
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A trade group representing major retailers called Tuesday for lawmakers to pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government, becoming the latest organization to advocate for the measure to end the shutdown. The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) said in a statement that the ongoing shutdown threatened economic momentum as it neared the one-month mark.…
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House Democratic leaders signaled they are not shifting their position on the shutdown a day after the nation’s largest federal workers union urged them to back a “clean” funding measure to open the government. The Democrats said they empathize with the workers represented by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), but that ending the…
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The House speaker has previously misjudged the president’s intentions.

The president is pretty pleased with himself.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Monday he hopes Republicans investigate why corporations donated funds to go toward President Trump’s ballroom, set to be constructed adjacent to the White House where the East Wing once stood. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins told Blumenthal that the corporate donors won’t “tell a senator if there’s an implicit agreement with the…
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Monday the state will monitor the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) election observers ahead of next week’s general election.  During a virtual news conference, Bonta said observers will provide “oversight and accountability” of the federal monitors, according to KCRA in Sacramento. “[The federal monitors] will not be allowed to…
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New College of Florida, which saw a conservative takeover under the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), on Monday became the first school to agree to the Trump administration’s funding compact offering preferential treatment in government grants. The administration had originally sent the agreement to nine schools, including Dartmouth College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
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Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sat for an interview with The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner that turned contentious as the journalist peppered her with questions about former President Biden’s mental health and what she knew about his condition. “You feel like you had to leave the Democratic Party because of the way it…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday the U.S. military carried out three more strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Eastern Pacific, killing 14 “narco-terrorists,” while one person survived.  The first strike hit a boat with eight people, the second hit a boat with four and the third hit a boat with three, Hegseth said…
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President Trump urged a New York appeals court late Monday to overturn his hush money criminal conviction, insisting the judge should’ve recused and excluded evidence Trump asserts is protected by presidential immunity.  “This is the most politically charged prosecution in our Nation’s history,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.  A jury convicted Trump last year on 34 felony…
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