A nationwide group of former Federal Bureau of Investigation agents has sent a letter to Senate leadership in support of Trump FBI Director nominee Kash Patel making the case that the bureau is ‘broken’ and in desperate need of a new direction. ‘As a group of retired FBI Special Agents and former Intelligence Analysts from across the country dedicated to ...
A judge sentenced disgraced former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison on Wednesday, concluding his trial for a ‘long-running bribery and foreign influence scheme of rare gravity.’ The sentence is the harshest ever handed down to a U.S. senator. Breaking down in tears, Menendez pleaded with U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein for mercy in a New York ...
DORAL, Fla. — House Republicans have their work cut out for them in the coming weeks, with three fiscal deadlines looming and President Donald Trump pushing for a very active first 100 days of his administration. Congressional GOP leaders are working on a massive conservative policy overhaul via the reconciliation process. By lowering the threshold for passage in the Senate ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s former presidential running mate Nicole Shanahan called out various senators by name, warning that she will fund primary challenges against them if they oppose confirming Kennedy to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services. ‘Dear U.S. Senators, Bobby may play nice; I won’t,’ she wrote in a post on X. In a video, Shanahan said ...
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported into the United States from Canada and Mexico, with the levies coming as soon as this Saturday, February 1. As Cato scholars and others have repeatedly explained (and as recent history has shown), these new US import taxes, as ...
Donald Trump’s social media venture, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has unveiled plans to expand into cryptocurrency and fintech services through a new brand dubbed Truth.Fi. The announcement sent shares in TMTG—owner of the Truth Social platform—up 15% in pre-market trading on Wednesday. Under the Truth.Fi banner, TMTG says it will invest up to $250m in investment accounts and ...
Morally indignant Senate Democrats piled on President Donald Trump’s federal funding freeze Wednesday, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announcing a coordinated response with Democratic governors to come. The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo on Monday issuing a pause on all federal grants and loans aiming to eradicate ‘wokeness’ and the ‘weaponization of government’ to improve ...
The White House remains committed to freezing federal grants and loans aimed at ‘woke’ programs, Fox News has learned, despite the administration’s move to rescind the original Office of Management and Budget memo — effectively ending the legal battle and any ‘confusion’ for recipients. A federal judge on Tuesday paused the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo, ...
It didn’t take long for the confirmation hearing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to turn contentious as Senate Democrats grilled him. The verbal fireworks exploded minutes into the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, the first of two straight days of congressional confirmation hearings for ...
The Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to confirm former Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the government’s leading agency on environmental rules and regulations. President Donald Trump tapped Zeldin, who previously served as a congressman from New York’s 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2023, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under his administration. During his tenure in Congress, ...