Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett was ripped by conservatives on social media this week after claiming President Donald Trump is ‘occupying the White House’ and is an ‘enemy to the United States.’ ‘Unfortunately, we have someone that is occupying the White House, and as far as I’m concerned, he is an enemy to the United States,’ Crockett said on MSNBC on Sunday. ...

Chris Edwards Republicans must cut federal spending to tame exploding deficits. DOGE is trimming the bureaucracy and the House budget plan trims entitlements, but more cuts are needed. A new Cato study identifies $181 billion a year in federal spending on corporate welfare, or business subsidies. The government hands out subsidies to agriculture, broadband, semiconductors, energy, airports, automobiles, and many ...

Stephen Slivinski Last week, the new Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson created a task force that, among other things, lists “harmful occupational licensing requirements” among its list of top concerns. All indications suggest that the FTC under President Trump is likely to be just as activist as the Biden FTC in equally bad ways but against different targets (like ...

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s congressional address on Tuesday night, the Concord Coalition launched their new ‘fiscal responsibility’ advocacy group, Concord Action, designed to pressure Congress to tackle America’s $36 trillion debt crisis.   Former Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-GA, the new executive director and president, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital urged Trump to show he is serious ...

The European Union has a new plan to spend $840 billion more on its own defense after President Donald Trump paused aid to Ukraine and peace negotiations hit a wall. ‘I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face, or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those threats would come ...

A conservative nonprofit group will blanket the airwaves with an ad before and after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night, touting his tax cut plan and promising more ‘winning’ as his term unfolds.  ‘He’s back,’ says the 30-second ad from the Plymouth Union Public Advocacy, a conservative nonprofit organization that ‘aims to advance public policies that make America ...

Tonight’s speech is technically not a ‘State of the Union.’ They usually eschew that title this time around, since the president has only been in office a few weeks. Interestingly, nothing in the Constitution requires a speech. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says the ‘President Shall from time to time give Congress information on the State of the ...

Ian Vásquez This past Saturday evening, March 1, Argentine President Javier Milei opened up a new session of his country’s Congress with a speech that is worth listening to in its entirety. But on a day that the United States continues down the protectionist path and imposes high tariffs on its three largest trading partners, I thought it useful to ...

Josie Zayner, a prominent figure in the biohacking community, often captures the public imagination with experiments that test the limits of self-directed genetic engineering. However, Zayner’s approach, characterized by self-experimentation and minimal regulatory oversight, has raised serious ethical and safety concerns. Their work exemplifies the darker, more perilous sides of biohacking, where the pursuit of scientific discovery can sometimes eclipse ...

Cashflow management platform Lenkie has announced £49 million in fresh Series A funding—comprising £4 million in equity and a £45 million debt facility—to boost its payables financing solution for UK SMEs. Led by a major US private credit fund, the round aims to tackle a reported £22 billion shortfall in UK SME funding as banks continue to retreat from business ...