Booker on Trump paying TSA: ‘Why didn’t he do this weeks ago’
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday criticized President Trump over paying Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. “I just want to continue to emphasize that we are seeing a colossal failure in presidential leadership. Because this president has said, again, ‘I have the power to pay TSA…
Booker ‘not ruling out’ 2028 presidential bid
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday did not rule out running for president in 2028, the next chance Democrats have to take the White House. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the outlet’s Kristen Welker asked Booker about his new wife and her comfort with him making a presidential bid….
Americans ‘paying’ for Iran war with higher costs: Senate Democrat
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said Sunday that the American people are paying the price of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on multiple fronts. “There’s a reason why Donald Trump is not coming before the American people for approval for this war,” Kim told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It’s because he…
Kim calls on House to pass Senate-backed TSA funding bill
Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) said Sunday that if the Senate-backed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reached the House floor, it would pass. “What we know is that we have a bill that passed the Senate unanimously, a bipartisan piece of legislation that sits over at the House of Representatives. If…
Lankford: ‘We should never get to a moment we’re not paying federal workers’
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday pushed for federal workers to be paid following recent tensions over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Congress. “We, by the way, I’ve got a bill that ends government shutdowns forever. You and I have talked about it before, this is a bipartisan bill, I believe…
Homan says ‘we’ll see’ if ICE officers leave airports once TSA workers get paid
White House border czar Tom Homan expressed uncertainty Sunday at whether federal immigration officers will leave airports once Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees receive their delayed paychecks. “We’ll see. It depends [on] how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plans [on] coming back to…
Russia took satellite images of US base in Saudi Arabia before Iran strike: Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News on Saturday that Russian forces took satellite images of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran attacked the site. During an interview in Doha, Qatar, Zelensky said he was “100 percent” confident that Russia was sharing that intelligence with Iran. On…
Pakistan holds talks with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt on Iran war
The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will meet in Islamabad on Sunday, as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran hits the 30-day mark. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote Saturday on the social platform X that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in Islamabad “along with Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and…
Hegseth injects combative Christianity into America’s military
During his briefing on the Iran war last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested that Americans take a knee and pray to Jesus for the success of U.S. forces in the Middle East. A few days later, he read out a sermon praying that “wicked souls” be “delivered to the eternal damnation” in the fight…
Iran puts Europe on notice with ‘game changer’ Diego Garcia missile incident
Iran’s firing of two missiles toward the joint U.S.-U.K. base in the Indian Ocean is putting Europe on notice that Tehran appears able to levy attacks previously considered beyond its reach. In the March 20 incident, one intermediate-range ballistic missile fell into the water and the other was shot at. Still, while unsuccessful, it attests…
Vance says he’s ‘obsessed’ with UFO files, calls aliens ‘demons’
Vice President JD Vance revealed in a new interview that he is “obsessed” with unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, vowing to get to the bottom of the mystery before leaving office. “Trust me, anybody who’s curious about this, I’m more curious than anybody, and I’ve got three years of the very tippy top of the…
FBI director pushes to release investigative files on Rep. Eric Swalwell: Reports
FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing for the release of files related to an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) interactions with a suspected Chinese spy, according to reports from the New York Times and the Washington Post. FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from…
House discharge petition on TPS for Haiti secures enough signatures to force vote
A discharge petition for a resolution that would require the Trump administration to extend temporary legal protections for migrants from Haiti earned enough signatures on Friday to force a vote on the House floor. Rep. Marie Gleusenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) was the 218th signature on the petition, which also secured support from four Republicans: Reps. Maria…
VP Vance wins CPAC straw poll for 2028 GOP presidential nod
Vice President JD Vance is the favorite to earn the Republican nomination for president in 2028, according to a new straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. Vance earned support from about 53 percent of attendees who participated in the presidential preference poll at the annual gathering in Grapevine, Texas,…
Here’s where the funding fight for TSA, ICE and other DHS agencies stands amid shutdown
Congress and President Trump have made three separate attempts to direct government money toward the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amid a funding lapse that has lasted 43 days with no end in sight. Funding toward DHS ceased after Senate Democrats blocked a bill to keep the department running. They called for sweeping reforms at…
‘No Kings’ Protester Assaulted By MAGA Fan At Event Near Mar-A-Lago: Report
MS NOW reporter Jake Traylor on Saturday said “it got physical for a moment” during an altercation in West Palm Beach.
The Memo: Pro-Iran memes go viral, striking back at Trump in propaganda war
The war on Iran is the first major conflict where the propaganda battle might be won or lost in memes. Pro-Iran accounts have unleashed viral videos in recent days mocking President Trump, casting him as a dupe of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suggesting U.S. forces could suffer major losses if the conflict continues.…
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Lee calls on Senate to ditch spring recess, reconvene to fund DHS
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Saturday called on his Senate colleagues to cut their two-week recess short and return to Washington, as funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) hangs in the balance. “If you don’t want to fight fires, don’t become a firefighter. If you don’t want to take grueling votes at difficult…
Pakistani leader working toward ‘conducive environment’ for US-Iran peace talks
The Pakistani government said Saturday that the prime minister is working to “create a conducive environment” for peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran as the conflict reaches the one-month mark. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif discussed ongoing hostilities in the region and Pakistan’s outreach efforts with the U.S….
House Dem Calls For Reparations For Children And Families ‘Traumatized’ By ICE
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) added during her congressional hearing that “the people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted.”
How MAGA divides over Iran manifested at CPAC
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas has underscored persistent divides within the Republican Party over President Trump’s military campaign in Iran. The four-day conference, which ends Saturday in Grapevine, has offered insights into how party leaders are balancing their support for Trump’s “America First” priorities amid growing concern among voters about the conflict’s…
See Some Of The Most Powerful Photos From ‘No Kings’ Protests Across The Country
Protesters across the nation rallied against President Donald Trump and his administration.
‘They Call It A War’: Trump Reveals Real Reason He Keeps Calling Iran War Something Else
The president made an apparent slip of the tongue followed by a stunning explanation.
Megyn Kelly Lists MAGA Names Who Should Be ‘Held To Account’ For Pushing’ Trump Into War
“Someone talked him into it, and those people should be held to account,” Kelly said.
A president at war needs resolute advice, not cheerleading
President Trump’s instinct now is to fight for his country. But to do so, he needs to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly surrounding every policy or potential military operation.