Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday confirmed to a Senate panel that the United States military is prepared to carry out President Donald Trump’s decisions when it comes to Iran, but that right now he is advising the president on the various options.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he is still deciding how to handle the Israel-Iran conflict, but maintained that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been grappling with infighting and a decline in donations in recent months, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
DNC Chair Ken Martin, who was elected in February, has overseen slowing fundraising from major donors, the NYT reported. Some top DNC officials have even floated the idea of whether it may be necessary to start borrowing money to continue paying the bills, according to the NYT.
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Americans have strongly voiced their desire for tougher illegal-immigration enforcement policies, most notably at election booths and in polls, but recent federal deportation raids appear to have also resulted in the unintended consequence of increasing truancy rates in U.S. schools.
A recent study by Stanford University Professor Thomas S. Dee shows a 22% increase in truancy in the first two months of this year in the Central Valley region of California – where parents living in the U.S. illegally fear they will be detained, resulting in their child or children returning from school to an empty house.
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The Trump administration is seeking to increase accountability for federal employees by implementing new performance standards and training.
The Office of Personnel Management issued a memorandum published online Tuesday to fulfill President Donald Trump’s mandate for a federal workforce that prizes excellence, deals with underperformance, and fulfills its mission.
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A national-security watchdog group is asking members of Congress to take a closer look at an energy transition advocacy nonprofit that has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to State Armor, the watchdog group, nonprofits are coordinating with U.S. climate groups to influence climate policy, advance the interests of the CCP and undermine U.S. national security.
A new report by State Armor argues that the CCP is co-opting the American progressive climate change lobby to advance a transition away from fossil fuels. The alternative technologies being pushed by this lobby, according to the report, create significant economic and geopolitical advantages by undermining U.S. energy dominance and leaving it dependent on Chinese supply chains for its energy production.
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Randi Weingarten announced plans to exit the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), announced in a June 5 letter to DNC Chair Ken Martin that she would not seek renewal as an at-large member of the party committee, Politico reported Sunday.
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Far-left Democratic New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani, once a long-shot candidate, appears to have emerged as a top contender in the New York City mayoral race — with disgraced former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo no longer viewed as the sole frontrunner.
While several recent polls have shown Cuomo leading ahead of the June 24 the Democratic primary, one survey showed Mamdani, an open socialist, ahead by 4 percentage points. The two men, along with five other candidates, clashed during the final New York City Democratic mayoral debate on Thursday night, with both Cuomo and Mamdani facing heated attacks from each other as well as some of the lower-polling candidates.
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Curbing illegal immigration, increasing border security, and deporting illegal criminals are important pillars on which President Donald Trump won the popular vote, and border security continues to be one of the president’s greatest strengths according to new public opinion data.
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The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of a torched car as Los Angeles police stood by, will soon be famous. His identity remains unknown, his image iconic – but for all the wrong reasons.
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The Senate confirmed former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner on Thursday in a 53-44 vote.
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The Senate confirmed former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner on Thursday in a 53-44 vote.
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Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was handcuffed and removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday after causing a disruption.
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The ongoing riots in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement have taken on a decidedly nationalist character, with rioters and supporters invoking Mexico’s past ownership of much of the western United States to claim a heritage and tie to the land that predates American ownership.
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Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and over 30 other mayors of nearby cities on Wednesday called for an end to federal immigration enforcement raids amid protests.
Protests in Los Angeles turned violent over the weekend after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted raids last week, resulting in detentions and deportations of illegal immigrants. The violent protests led to President Trump sending the National Guard and Marines to the city over California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) objection.
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The rioting in Los Angeles may dominate the headlines this week, but progressives in America—and their corporate allies—have two cards to play. Along with fomenting racial strife in order to achieve “equity,” they are systematically shutting down production of affordable energy to cope with the “climate emergency.” Both of these cards are strategic, part of a multi-decade effort, with the ultimate objective being the destruction of America’s cultural unity and material prosperity. The motive is as old as history itself: centralization of power. The goal is a reversion to the mean, written across the centuries, of an elite few oppressing the many.
The irony is thick. A narrative of oppression drives the rioters in Los Angeles, even as they strive to tear down the least oppressive civilization the world has ever known, a civilization that defied the momentum of history, a civilization that embraced meritocracy and the opportunity for private ownership. A civilization where a middle class actually formed a majority of the population. A civilization where discrimination and racism had all but disappeared, a country where anyone who worked hard could join the ranks of the prosperous. That was the American reality until around 2008.
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The debate over the Big, Beautiful Bill went next-level last week when Elon Musk sent out a series of rage posts on X targeting President Trump that were more personal than substantive. But for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the bill from the likes of Elon, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie – even Andy Biggs, who felt the need to commiserate with Rocket Boy about voting for it – there really is no debate. Senate Republicans get to pass this bill. That’s right, and for the pleasure of getting to pass it, they can also feel a certain amount of pride in codifying Trump’s campaign promises, a concept which is in short supply these days. Most politicians will lie to get elected. Not Trump. He actually fully intends to keep his promises, which makes him one of the most honorable people in the public arena.
But let me explain why Republicans should be eager to pass this bill: their own self-preservation, which is one of the most motivating forces for the overwhelming majority of them. The Big, Beautiful Bill makes the Trump tax cuts permanent. That alone, right there, should be more than enough incentive to pass the bill, because if they don’t, Republicans will trigger upwards of a 60% tax increase, and, according to Russ Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, also trigger a recession. Now I’ve been in D.C. for 25 years, with a dad who served in Congress for a decade. I’ve seen Republicans in D.C. up close for many years, and I’ve reached the conclusion that many of them are intellectually impaired and will go out of their way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But not passing this bill and raising taxes and triggering a recession, going into a midterm year? That would be viciously stupid.
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A George Soros-backed political action committee (PAC) is launching a multimillion-dollar effort to flip Texas blue, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in the Republican stronghold in decades. However, Texas Majority PAC, which has received millions of dollars in funding from Soros, hopes to change that trend with its new “Blue Texas” initiative, according to the WSJ.
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A nonprofit founded by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams to protect voting rights paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses, according to tax and state incorporation filings and other records obtained by RealClearInvestigations.
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The American Dream is back in reach and our nation is back on the path to prosperity, security, and sanity, thanks to the actions of the House of Representatives last week. With the House’s passage of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” we’ve shown that it is possible to return common sense to our government, protect taxpayers, secure our borders, and chart a course for national Golden Age – all in one package.
It’s a declaration that the American people – not bureaucrats, radical liberal activists, or unelected judges – are in charge again. This bill delivers on the promises that President Trump and Republicans made to voters last fall.
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Now-departed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk on Wednesday has launched an effort to block the “big, beautiful bill” over his frustrations about the level of spending cuts in the legislation.
Musk left government in May after working to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in order to help balance the budget. His efforts led to DOGE claiming roughly $175 billion in savings, though the White House has only sent about $9.4 billion in cuts as part of a rescissions package. Musk, for his part, is livid with the efforts of lawmakers to reinforce his moves.
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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would not have supported the budget bill if she knew it had a clause that banned states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years.
Greene, R-Ga., said in a social media post she did not know the “big beautiful bill” contained the clause when she cast her vote.
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The White House on Tuesday sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress in order to codify some of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts as DOGE Chief Elon Musk publicly excoriates the GOP for its failure to address the debt in the “big beautiful bill.”
“Today, we have officially received the rescissions request from the White House to eliminate $9.4 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending at State and USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS,” House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed, according to The Hill.
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Longtime Texas Sen. John Cornyn, R, appears vulnerable to a primary challenge from conservative firebrand Ken Paxton, the current state attorney general, a recent poll has shown.
Paxton led Cornyn in a one-on-one match up, with 50% of Republican primary voters backing him, to the incumbent’s 28%, in a recent UpOne Insights survey.
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President Donald Trump took to social media to urge congressional Republicans to “work as fast as they can” to send the massive budget reconciliation bill to his desk by July 4.
This four-week deadline is a tall order, especially because the Republicans are facing significant internal divisions over the contents of the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill.’
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A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.
The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed an emergency motion Thursday asking an appeals court to pause a lower court ruling that ordered President Donald Trump to unwind most of his tariffs within 10 days.
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The U.S. Court for International Trade on Wednesday struck down President Donald Trump’s national trade emergency, the reciprocal tariffs he put into effect on April 2 and other tariffs in 2025 including those seeking foreign assist to repel the fentanyl trade, throwing the subsequent tariff negotiations with the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan, South Korea and so forth into chaos.
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Former State Department official Mike Benz told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that he believes the “worst of the worst offenders” still receiving funding is the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
President Donald Trump, since his campaign, vowed to gut wasteful government spending in Washington, D.C.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk say the Department of Government Efficiency that he led “is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” including matters in which the agency was not involved.
Musk made the comment in a Washington Post interview released Tuesday about the agency, which has attempted to significantly reduce the size of the federal government in large part by slashing government jobs and shuttering entire agencies. Such efforts have frequently been met by lawsuits.
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As President Donald Trump trades barbs with the Kremlin, both the administration and the Senate are mulling imposing tougher sanctions on Putin’s Russia to force the country to the negotiating table and end its war in Ukraine.
Despite reported deliberations inside the second Trump administration, the president has so far declined to ratchet up sanctions on Putin’s regime in the hopes of facilitating good-faith negotiations. The administration’s options in generating incremental financial leverage over Russia are somewhat limited.
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Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced he is running for governor of Alabama in 2026, leaving yet another open Senate seat to be filled in next year’s midterms.
The senator launched his campaign website Tuesday afternoon, Politico first reported, but the news has been expected since the Alabama Republican reportedly told donors his gubernatorial plans during Easter recess.
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A Maryland congressman failed in an attempt to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia over the Memorial Day weekend, making him the latest in a string of Democratic lawmakers to fly to El Salvador to advocate for the alleged MS-13 gang member deported from the U.S.
Maryland Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey posted a video Monday on social media, revealing that he was denied entry into the prison facility holding Abrego Garcia. The Maryland lawmaker — joined by the alleged gang member’s lawyer and a representative of a Maryland-based workers’ union — had hoped to speak to Abrego Garcia and repeated calls for him to be returned to the U.S.
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The threat to the United States from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is multifaceted, long-term, and aggressive. Whether it’s from military modernization to economic coercion, cyber warfare to space competition, the PRC’s national security challenge is global, and it targets U.S. interests, values, security, and standing in the world.
While much of the focus of U.S. policymakers has been on the military threat from China, the communist country has also implemented a multi-pronged approach to weaken the United States economically, politically, culturally, and diplomatically. It is enlisting a whole-of-government strategy blending civil and military approaches with tactics short of war to expand its influence and improve its geopolitical position.
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President Donald Trump gave a Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, where he paid tribute to America’s fallen service members. He pledged to “never forget out debt” to those who served this country in uniform.
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Doug Burgum, the soft-spoken Interior secretary responsible for managing the more than 507 million acres of federally owned land, is haunted by a fear that seems, at first glance, outside his mandate. He worries the free world will lose dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, and with it, the future.
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Some Democrats have expressed concerns over the likelihood of their party being able to win back the House in the 2026 midterm elections amid mounting fears of potentially chaotic and overly-crowded primaries, according to Politico.
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The upcoming season of a long-running reality competition show will feature several interesting cast members, including a top staffer for a Democratic congresswoman.
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Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is launching a probe into former President Joe Biden’s health while he was in office, Axios reported.
Johnson’s probe arrives on the heels of Biden’s announcement that he has aggressive metastatic prostate cancer, as well as reports alleging that the White House attempted to cover up his declining health while he was president. The senator told Axios he plans to send letters requesting information on Biden’s health to “a couple dozen people” whom he believes had “direct contact” with the former president, as soon as Wednesday evening.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with footage of South African politicians advocating for violence against the white population of the country after he attempted to deny claims of a genocide in his country.
The United States recently welcomed a small number of white South Africans as refugees as scrutiny over the nation’s plans for land reform, including via the seizure of farmland without compensation, fuels further fears of discrimination.
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Virginia Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly has died following a battle with cancer.
He was 75.
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Democratic Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey lost Tuesday’s mayoral primary election to the comparatively moderate Democratic Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor, dealing a blow to the Democratic Party’s left flank.
Gainey, who took office in January 2022, conceded the race on Tuesday night after projected results showed O’Connor as the winner, according to The Associated Press. Gainey centered his campaign around priorities that included opposing the Trump administration, hiring more black people to the police force and making the city use only renewable energy by 2030.
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As President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” moves toward a final vote in the House, conservative budget hawks are livid that it largely fails to offer spending cuts to their satisfaction, marking the latest in a long line of punts for the House GOP that has repeatedly vowed to address the national debt.
Republicans have long campaigned on addressing the debt, with the Tea Party movement notching historic election wins under President Barack Obama. In 2010, Republicans won control of the House and reduced the Democratic majority in the Senate. Yet, even when Trump first took office, Congress did not pass a balanced budget.
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President Trump stormed Capitol Hill today, delivering an ultimatum to the GOP’s fractious factions: vote for his “big beautiful bill” or face the consequences.
Gone was the dealmaker’s smile. In its place—raw political muscle. Trump confronted the conservative hardliners in the Freedom Caucus with unmistakable clarity: he’ll slash waste from Medicaid but won’t tolerate benefit cuts. His message boiled down to six words: “We are NOT ‘f-ing’ cutting Medicaid.”
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A spokesperson for former President Joe Biden on Tuesday pushed back on speculation that the former president was previously diagnosed with prostate cancer, and that his White House had hidden his condition.
Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday, which had already spread to his bones. The form of cancer, which is characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5), is not untreatable but is incurable. The cancer does appear to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday ordered a review to be conducted of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which occurred under the Biden administration.
The final troop withdrawal in 2021 led to the death of 13 U.S. soldiers.
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Several doctors seem to be part of the developing consensus that former President Joe Biden’s advanced prostate cancer likely began several years ago — in the midst of his presidency — raising further concerns about an administration that fought against transparency in the decision-making and health concerns of its chief executive.
Joe Biden’s diagnosis with “aggressive” metastatic prostate cancer, which was announced by his personal office on Sunday, comes just about four months after the former president left office in January. It also comes as the former president and his staff are battling scrutiny again over the administration’s lack of transparency about apparent memory issues and fitness for office.
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Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore has vetoed a reparations commission bill passed by the state legislature, saying it was “not the time for another study,” but it “is the time for continued action.”
Moore, the country’s only black governor, wrote his veto letter on Friday regarding the bill that would have created a commission to study and recommend reparations for slavery and racial discrimination, The Hill news outlet reported.
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For the second consecutive month, both consumer and producer prices slowed down, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to 2.3 percent and 2.4 percent annually in April, respectively.
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A Michigan court Tuesday struck down three safety laws that allegedly violated the state’s constitutional right to abortion.
The case was brought against the state of Michigan by an abortion clinic challenging three laws that mandated a 24-hour waiting period before performing an abortion, required clinics to provide counseling materials that the abortion providers claimed were “biased” and allowed only qualified medical staff to perform the procedures. Michigan residents voted to enshrine a right to abortion into the state constitution in 2022, an amendment that left no room for restrictions of any kind to be placed on the act.
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It looks like your liberal neighbors will have to take down their “refugees welcome” signs now.
A small group of South African refugees arrived in the United States on Monday bearing American flags.
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