President Donald Trump said public entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicaid, will not be touched in the GOP’s contentious new budget bill currently working its way through Congress, during a town hall Tuesday night hosted by NewsNation. Earlier this month, the Republican-led House of Representatives approved $2 trillion in spending cuts. Those cuts did not include any slashes to ...
President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday evening what he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed during their viral meeting at the Vatican when both were in attendance for the late Pope Francis’ funeral. ‘I was telling him that it’s a very good thing if we can produce a deal, that you sign it, because Russia is much bigger and much stronger,’ ...
The Senate failed Wednesday to pass a resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff agenda, as several Republicans signaled beforehand they favored halting the relatively new levies, and Vice President JD Vance was called in to break an ensuing procedural tie. The disapproval resolution failed 49-49, with three Republicans joining all Democrats present in attempting to throw a wrench ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and dozens of his bicameral colleagues addressed reporters on the Capitol steps Wednesday, blasting President Donald Trump’s first 100 days. Schumer, flanked by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and others, said Trump failed the nation predominantly via his tariff agenda and purportedly cozying up with ‘dictators.’ ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed in a Cabinet meeting that the Biden administration’s State Department kept dossiers on Americans accused of serving as ‘vectors of disinformation,’ including a file on an unidentified Trump administration official. ‘We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,’ Rubio said during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting with Donald ...
Warning: This article contains graphic and disturbing accounts from Russia’s war against Ukraine. The body of Viktoria Roshchyna, 27, was one of 757 bodies of mostly Ukrainian soldiers returned to Kyiv on Feb. 14, 2025, and reportedly bore unmistakable signs of torture after more than a year in Russian captivity. Roshchyna, who was described as a determined journalist, was captured ...
The Senate Finance Committee hearing to consider Rodney Scott’s nomination to be commissioner of Customs and Border Protection began with fireworks from the panel’s top Democrat. Scott was lambasted by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon over a controversy involving a person who died in CBP custody in 2010. The criticisms prompted a Tuesday letter from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. ...
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said he feels ‘very empowered’ by President Donald Trump, telling Fox News Digital that there is ‘complete trust across the senior team,’ and ‘good synergies’ in ‘service of a common vision.’ Vance sat for an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital Wednesday in his West Wing office inside the White House. The vice president ...
The Supreme Court offered clear divisions Wednesday in a religious liberty case involving public education and whether religious charter schools can receive taxpayer funding. At issue is whether providing public money to a faith-based educational institution violates the First Amendment’s separation of church and state mandate. In more than two hours of wide-ranging oral arguments, the high court appeared divided ...
Elon Musk received a round of applause from President Donald Trump’s Cabinet as he prepares for a planned exit from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). ‘You have been treated unfairly,’ Trump said to Musk during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. ‘But, the vast majority of people in this country really respect and appreciate you. And this whole ...