Top Senate Armed Services Republican says Trump OMB’s budget ‘shreds to the bone’ military capabilities

The Senate’s top Armed Services Republican eviscerated President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) shortly after the White House released details of its government funding proposal for fiscal year 2026.  “President Trump successfully campaigned on a Peace Through Strength agenda, but his advisers at the Office of Management and Budget were apparently not […]

Vance touts first 100 days as ‘revival’ from Biden years

Vice President Vance described the first 100 days of President Trump’s return to the White House as a “revival” of the American spirit in a Washington Post op-ed Friday. “In just 100 days, the Trump administration has begun to tear down the barriers standing between our nation’s working class and the American Dream,” he wrote. […]

Senate GOP chairman knocks Trump budget over military spending

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) knocked President Trump’s 2026 budget proposal on Friday for not doing enough to keep pace with military threats from China, Russia and other adversaries. Wicker warned the spending level called by the White House budget would “decrease President Trump’s military options and his negotiating leverage.” “President Trump […]

David Horowitz Dies

I had not seen that David Horowitz died. I have said many very harsh things about Horowitz over the years, going back to one of my earliest pieces in The American Prospect in the late 90s. I even had a few personal run-ins with him. I stand by all of that but it’s not the […]

GasBuddy pushes back on Trump price claim

GasBuddy, a company that tracks fuel costs across the country, is refuting President Trump’s claims in a Friday morning social media post touting record low prices at the pump. “Gasoline just broke $1.98 a Gallon, lowest in years, groceries (and eggs!) down, energy down, mortgage rates down, employment strong, and much more good news, as […]

Trump education budget hits preschool funding, civil rights, but boosts charter schools

President Trump is proposing massive cuts to education in his Friday budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2026, including reduced funding for preschools, adult learning and the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights. “The President’s Skinny Budget reflects funding levels for an agency that is responsibly winding down, shifting some responsibilities to the states, […]

Trump proposes steep cuts in first budget request of second term

President Trump unveiled the White House budget request for fiscal 2026 on Friday, a set of proposals that would make steep cuts to nondefense programs including in education, health care and foreign aid. In a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought announced that the […]

Fla. AG to rebuff judge who ordered halt to state immigration enforcement: ‘The court has overstepped’

EXCLUSIVE: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will rebut a judge’s demand that his office order state law enforcement to halt enforcement of a state immigration law she ordered paused under suspicion of unconstitutionality. The law allows for misdemeanor charges against illegal immigrants who enter Florida and hope to avoid federal immigration officials. “The judge wants […]