Category: Uncategorised

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) urged Interior Secretary Doug Burgum this week to “explore the addition” of President Trump’s likeness to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, citing “the scale and scope of recent achievements,” including the president’s domestic policy megabill that Congress passed Thursday and his administration’s ongoing border security efforts. “The legacy of Mount Rushmore…
Read more

With the signature policy bill of President Trump’s second term hanging in the balance this week, the president and his allies got to work, using a mixture of vinegar and honey to win over skeptics and ensure its final passage. It was a week of late night meetings and phone calls, stern posts on social…
Read more

They whined and objected for months, but in the end, they all voted for Donald Trump’s massive bill slashing taxes and the Medicaid health insurance program.

Former President Biden said President Trump’s tax and spending bill is “reckless” and “cruel” after it passed the House on Thursday. “The Republican budget bill is not only reckless — it’s cruel. It slashes Medicaid and takes away health care from millions of Americans,” Biden said on the social platform X. “It closes rural hospitals…
Read more

China knocked the newly announced U.S. trade deal with Vietnam, saying Beijing “firmly opposes” any deal that disadvantages its economy and pledged to take “countermeasures” to protect its own interests. The trade deal with Vietnam, which President Trump announced on Wednesday, sets the tariff rate on the country at 20 percent, with Vietnam giving the…
Read more

House Republicans on Thursday approved a massive package of President Trump’s domestic priorities, ending months of fierce debate and internal GOP clashes to deliver a huge victory to the president just before the holiday weekend. The legislation delivers virtually all the key promises of Trump’s 2024 campaign, including an extension and expansion of his 2017…
Read more

The podcaster launched into a rant about POTUS’ controversial attacks against migrants.

Three Democratic senators said Thursday they were launching an investigation into the Trump administration’s more than five-month pause on new sanctions against Russia related to its war in Ukraine. “Instead of taking clearly available steps to pressure the aggressors, President Trump is doing nothing and we will be investigating this missed opportunity to push for…
Read more

The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a case seeking to revive a Montana law that required parental consent for minors seeking abortions.  The state argued the law should be allowed to take effect, because “fundamental parental rights” outweigh a right to privacy that has long protected abortion in the deep red state.  …
Read more

The “big, beautiful bill” is heading to President Trump’s desk. House Republicans passed the core of Trump’s domestic policy agenda Thursday afternoon — including sweeping tax cuts, a crackdown on immigration, a boost in energy production and huge cuts to Medicaid — overcoming months of bitter infighting on Capitol Hill to deliver what could be…
Read more

Despite all the bad things Republican lawmakers said about the “big, beautiful bill,” the holdouts caved and delivered for Donald Trump.

CBS News anchor John Dickerson referenced the recent settlement between the network’s parent company Paramount and President Trump as part of his sign-off on the broadcaster’s evening newscast. “The Paramount settlement poses a new obstacle. Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded…
Read more

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) ripped the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” Thursday as the House scrambles to get the reconciliation package to President Trump’s desk by a July 4 deadline, claiming the U.S. would be “sicker, hungrier and less well-off” if it is signed into law. “Once Americans realize the real cost of this bill, they…
Read more

First lady Melania Trump visited with patients at Children’s National hospital in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, decorating rocks and asking the kids about their favorite hobbies. The first lady took part in crafts activities with the children and met privately with heart and kidney patients and their families, according to the White House. Trump also…
Read more

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday set a new House floor speech record with a “magic minute” address that clocked in at 8 hours and 44 minutes. The marathon speech was the only thing that stood between the debate and vote on the Trump administration’s policy megabill. Jeffries began speaking at 4:53 a.m.…
Read more

Podcaster Joe Rogan continued to knock the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raids that have become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, calling the effort “insane” on Tuesday’s episode of his show. “It’s insane,” Rogan, who endorsed President Trump in his reelection bid last fall, said on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”…
Read more

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman has become the latest political influencer to publicly urge former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to step aside from the New York City mayoral race, even as his name is set to appear on the ballot. Cuomo will appear on the November ballot representing the Fight and Deliver Party…
Read more

(NEXSTAR) — Within the several hundreds of pages of the megabill the House is expected to pass on Thursday are a $6,000 tax deduction for seniors, no taxes on tips or overtime pay, big changes to student loans, massive Medicaid cuts, and numerous other provisions. That includes appropriating $40 million for a “Garden of Heroes”…
Read more

The veteran CBS journalist expressed sincere disappointment in Paramount for “kneeling down” to President Donald Trump.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called on Europe to stand up to President Trump on tariffs and said Vice President Vance’s views on “freedom” represented a threat to democracy, during an event in Greece promoting her memoir. According to Politico, Merkel recalled that Trump declined to shake her hand during a March 2017…
Read more

“Trump is not trying to do anything bad,” the man said, defending the president whose administration has ramped up fears toward immigrants like his wife.

House Republicans early Thursday morning advanced President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” teeing up a final vote after a marathon day of negotiations and a dramatic overnight vote. It was the second overnight session for Congress in a handful of days. But before the House can take a final vote, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) gets…
Read more

Conservative political commentator Bill O’Reilly predicted the GOP tax and spending bill will improve the economy, thereby boosting Republicans’ chances in the midterm elections. In an interview on NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” anchor Chris Cuomo asked O’Reilly what “win” President Trump would get from passing the megabill, which is headed toward a final vote Thursday, noting it…
Read more

Democratic strategist James Carville on Wednesday predicted that the country will “probably” enter a recession, regardless of whether or not the Republican tax and spending bill passes through Congress. In an interview on NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” anchor Chris Cuomo asked the longtime strategist to address the claim from many Republicans that failure to pass the bill…
Read more

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed a waiver allowing 17 miles of “waterborne barrier” to be constructed quicker in Texas as part of a broader effort to erect President Trump’s border wall. “A capability gap has been identified in waterways along the Southwest border where drug smuggling, human trafficking and other dangerous and illegal activity…
Read more