The senator appeared Tuesday on “The Last Word” after a grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers over a video they released in November.
Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who chairs the body, accused her of trying to “hijack” a hearing on antisemitism this week. “No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda…
A new poll from Gallup released Wednesday shows that few Americans see immigration as the country’s biggest problem compared with other nations where more respondents say it’s an issue. Gallup found that 8 percent of Americans said immigration was their top concern, placing the U.S. in a tie with Germany and Switzerland. Pollsters found that…
President Trump lashed out at Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, calling him a “RINO” after the National Governors Association (NGA) announced it would not hold its annual meeting at the White House. “The RINO Governor of the Great State of Oklahoma, in which I won all 77 Counties, three…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the housing market has improved in defense of the economy under President Trump. “President Trump is laser-focused on the housing market, and things have gotten better. Last month, we hit a three-year low in mortgage rates. The Fed, subsequent to, I believe the appearance you were talking about, it…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said calls for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to resign for misrepresenting his previous interactions with Jeffrey Epstein are “absurd.” “It’s absurd. Howard Lutnick is a great Commerce Secretary. He’s done an extraordinary job for the country,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and a growing number…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Tuesday that he expects the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis to end in a matter of days. Walz told reporters that he spoke with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles earlier that morning and with White House border czar Tom Homan on Monday. He noted that while…
Trump’s attorney general responded to questions from the House Judiciary Committee with insults, sarcasm and eye rolls.
President Trump on Wednesday afternoon will hold an event at the White House to tout his administration’s support for coal mining. Trump in his second term has made moves to nix climate change rules and restrictions on power plants that use coal and other fossil fuels, despite experts’ warnings about the effect it will have…
The federal deficit and national debt are expected to grow by trillions of dollars over the next decade, according to 10-year projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO projected that the U.S. budget deficit will reach $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2026 — around 5.8 percent of GDP — and roughly the…
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is endorsing Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate primary, making the first Senate endorsement in his race against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). Heinrich told Semafor that Talarico is “running a really smart campaign” and making a “very accessible” pitch to voters in the Lone Star State. The outlet cited another…
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday said she is ending a task force launched last year to target politicization within different U.S. intelligence agencies, a task force she said was meant to be temporary. “The Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) was created as a temporary effort to surge resources to deliver on high-priority…
What’s going on with all the “Chinamaxxing” on social media?
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said “something needs to be done” on the issue of affordability in America or Republicans will be imperiled in the upcoming midterm elections. “Fiscal conservatism has not been talked about at all during this administration,” Haley told Fox News’s Bret Baier on Tuesday evening. “And I think now…
A pair of Senate Democrats on Wednesday warned that the Justice Department’s attempt to indict six members of Congress who reminded active duty military members they are able to refuse unlawful orders represents a “master alarm flashing for our democracy.” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), standing with Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), derided the move by the…
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance was a celebration of America’s cultural diversity, which was a defeat for Team MAGA in the culture wars, as evidenced by the failure of the Melania Trump documentary and the controversy surrounding Kid Rock’s lyrics.
The progressive Democrat razzed the president and Republicans amid fury over the Puerto Rican superstar’s Spanish-language set.
Rasmussen Reports has released a national survey polling more than 1,000 likely U.S. voters.
President Trump is considering sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East to beef up U.S. military presence in the region as he threatens to authorize strikes on Iran if diplomacy falters. “We have an armada that is heading there and another one might be going,” the president said during an interview with Axios…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday questioned President Trump’s latest evaluation on the state of the economy, saying that if the president’s assessment is true, “God help us.” “You wonder whether Trump is completely crazy and delusional or just a pathological liar,” Sanders told MS NOW host Chris Hayes. “But the idea that anybody would…
The FBI raid of a Fulton County, Ga., election office late last month was based on widely unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday. The affidavit, signed by FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans, cited “allegations of electoral impropriety relating to the voting process and ballot counting”…
May this flag ban be met with more flags — and the loudest, most insufferable amount of gay possible.
Attorney General Pam Bondi rebuffed a request from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) to turn around and address victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who were in the audience of a House Judiciary Committee hearing, resulting in a shouting match during which the attorney general accused the lawmaker of “theatrics.” Jayapal used her questioning to criticize…
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Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) will give remarks Wednesday afternoon after a grand jury failed to indict the duo and four other lawmakers in connection to a video released last year urging service members and intelligence officials to defy illegal orders. The controversial video, which was lambasted by the Trump administration as…
J.P. Cooney, a former top deputy to ex-special counsel Jack Smith, launched a campaign on Wednesday as a Democrat for Congress in Virginia. “I’m running for Congress because never before in the history of our country has a president of the United States posed a graver threat to our Democracy, our rule of law, and…