Category: Election 2024

There’s no deny­ing that bil­lion­aire Elon Musk has been the most vis­i­ble mem­ber of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion dur­ing Trump’s first ten weeks back in the White House. But with famil­iar­i­ty can come con­tempt, as recent polling shows the DOGE point man under­wa­ter with approval rat­ings. Musk, the world’s rich­est per­son and the chief exec­u­tive […]

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s nation­al secu­ri­ty advi­sor, Mike Waltz, has repeat­ed­ly land­ed in hot water in recent days, begin­ning with an uproar from Democ­rats over a Sig­nal chat leak with high-rank­ing nation­al secu­ri­ty offi­cials that has since snow­balled.  Trump and his admin­is­tra­tion, how­ev­er, repeat­ed­ly have defend­ed the nation­al secu­ri­ty leader pub­licly.  Waltz, who pre­vi­ous­ly served as […]

Two senior law­mak­ers have intro­duced a bipar­ti­san bill that would reassert Con­gress’ pow­ers over U.S. tar­iffs, a day after Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump announced a new wide-rang­ing tar­iff strat­e­gy dur­ing his “Lib­er­a­tion Day” speech on Wednes­day. Sen. Chuck Grass­ley, R‑Iowa, and Maria Cantwell, D‑Wash., on Thurs­day intro­duced the Trade Review Act of 2025, which would require […]

Geor­gia state House Democ­rats staged a walk­out to protest a vote on a bill head­ed to the gov­er­nor’s desk for his sig­na­ture pro­hibit­ing tax­­pay­er-fund­ed sex change surg­eries for inmates.  The bill passed on a 100–2 vote, and both record­ed no votes were from Democ­rats. The leg­is­la­tion, SB 185, spon­sored by Repub­li­can state Sen. Randy Robert­son, […]

A del­e­ga­tion of House Demo­c­ra­t­ic law­mak­ers will vis­it a por­tion of the south­ern bor­der on Fri­day to con­duct over­sight of the Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s bor­der poli­cies “first­hand” as author­i­ties con­tin­ue the pres­i­den­t’s mass depor­ta­tion pro­gram.  Rep. Ben­nie Thomp­son, D‑MS., the rank­ing mem­ber of the House Home­land Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee, will lead the del­e­ga­tion.  Also going will be […]

One Demo­c­rat in Con­gress broke ranks to offer praise of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s “Lib­er­a­tion Day” tar­iffs. Rep. Jared Gold­en (D‑ME), who hails from a hot­­ly-con­test­ed dis­trict and has a track record of coop­er­at­ing with Repub­li­cans, endorsed the 10% base­line in the new tar­iff plan. The low­er-end rate match­es the one Gold­en put for­ward in a bill […]

Speak­ing at a NATO event in Brus­sels, Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio reas­sured NATO nations that the Unit­ed States would not leave the alliance, but also warned that Euro­pean nations would have to increase their own defense spend­ing as a deter­rent to out­side forces. “We want NATO to be stronger; we want NATO to be […]

Fed­er­al immi­gra­tion enforce­ment agents arrest­ed over three dozen ille­gal aliens who they say sub­mit­ted fraud­u­lent doc­u­ments to ille­gal­ly gain employ­ment at a roof­ing com­pa­ny in north­ern Wash­ing­ton state. A total of 37 ille­gal aliens were arrest­ed by Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment (ICE), Home­land Secu­ri­ty Inves­ti­ga­tions (HSI), and Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion (CBP) at the Mt. […]