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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) are voicing their opposition to a “reckless” Republican budget by holding a sit-in on the U.S. Capitol steps on Sunday morning. The lawmakers began their sit-in just after 6 a.m. and addressed people online about the Trump administration’s proposed budget, which they say will […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday he doesn’t know whether President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have recently discussed tariffs or have begun informal negotiations on trade. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Martha Raddatz asked the Treasury secretary about apparently conflicting statements from Trump, who has indicated he has talked […]

Republicans on Capitol Hill rolled the dice earlier this month when they pushed off decisions on a host of details for their package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities. Now, lawmakers must face the music.  With the House aiming to pass the “one big, beautiful bill” by the end of May, and the Senate looking […]

A suspect was arrested in the theft last weekend of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse at a restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C, law enforcement officials said Sunday. The purse included some major belongings, including $3,000 in cash, Noem’s DHS access badge, her passport, her driver’s license, blank checks and her keys. […]

A majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s job performance ahead of his 100th day in office this term, according to a new poll. Fifty-five percent of Americans in an NBC News Stay Tuned Poll released Sunday said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of his first few months back in office, including 42 percent who […]

For decades, Taiwan operated under the assumption that if China invaded, the U.S. would intervene. However, that confidence is now waning. Under President Trump, Washington’s commitment to Taiwan has grown increasingly unpredictable. The once-unthinkable question is now being openly debated in Taipei: Is Taiwan still indispensable to U.S. strategy, or is it becoming expendable? Taiwan’s […]

Border czar Tom Homan highlighted the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and said having United States-born children does not make people “immune” from deportation. “Having a U.S. citizen child doesn’t make you immune from our laws of the country,” Homan said Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” “American families get separated every day by law […]

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday that people from “all sides” of the political spectrum are “livid” at President Trump’s “handling of the economy.” “I think that …  the Arizonans I’ve talked to, I’m seeing people from all sides of the political spectrum absolutely livid at Trump’s handling of the economy, the tariff issue […]

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called for bipartisan support for secondary sanctions on Russian goods as President Vladimir Putin “drags his feet.” “I think we ought to take up the Graham legislation, and we ought to pass it through both houses and put those secondary sanctions on Russia,” Shaheen said of GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (S.C.) […]

President Trump just drew a hard line against blue state climate activism — and not a moment too soon. His April 8 executive order, Protecting American Energy From State Overreach, takes direct aim at states like California, New York and Hawaii that are trying to sue American energy companies into submission. These lawsuits, funded by taxpayers, […]