White House stands behind Commerce Secretary Lutnick as Democrats and Massie demand resignation over Epstein ties

The White House fired back Tuesday against mounting calls for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to step down, with spokesman Kush Desai dismissing the pressure campaign as a distraction from the administration's policy agenda. Desai, in an email to CNBC, framed the cabinet as unified and operational: "President Trump has assembled the best and most transformative […]

Federal judge pauses her own order to unfreeze $16 billion Hudson Tunnel funding

A federal judge in New York hit the brakes on her own ruling — just days after issuing it. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas on Monday temporarily stayed her Friday order that would have forced the Trump administration to restore federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, giving the Second Circuit Court of […]

Epstein victims air Super Bowl ad targeting AG Bondi as DOJ withholds millions of pages

Numerous women who say they were victimized by Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation appeared in a Super Bowl ad Sunday, demanding Attorney General Pam Bondi release the full trove of case files — a direct, nationally televised challenge to a Department of Justice that has released only half of what it holds. The ad, produced by […]

Jeffries digs in on all 10 Democrat demands as DHS shutdown deadline looms

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CNN on Sunday that Democrats will not accept anything less than their full slate of 10 demands from Republicans, with the Department of Homeland Security five days from a funding shutdown. Asked whether Democrats would consider scaling back their list, Jeffries stated: "Not at this point." That's the negotiating […]

John Cornyn's $50 million war chest can't buy him out of third place in the Texas Senate primary

Four-term Texas Senator John Cornyn is staring down the possibility that he won't even make the runoff in his own primary — despite his allies torching more than $50 million on campaign advertising. New polling shows Cornyn mired in third place behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt, with early voting just […]

Jasmine Crockett's Senate campaign can't even proofread its own website

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is two months into her Texas Senate campaign, and her team already can't keep its policy pages straight. A series of policy pages launched last week on Crockett's campaign website included placeholder template text — "Write out your bullet points here. Anything from a sentence to a paragraph works," — sitting right […]

Gabbard Faces Bipartisan Questions Over Delayed Whistleblower Complaint and Voting Record Seizures

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard found herself at the center of two colliding controversies this week: an eight-month delay in transmitting a whistleblower complaint to Congress and her direct involvement in FBI seizures of voting records in Fulton County, Georgia, and Puerto Rico. The combination drew fire from Democrats eager to manufacture a scandal […]

Sen. Blackburn Demands Ethics Probe into Justice Jackson Over Grammy Awards Attendance

Sen. Marsha Blackburn is calling on Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate whether Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compromised her impartiality by attending the Grammy Awards — an evening that devolved into an open political rally against federal immigration enforcement. Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, sent a letter to Roberts on Thursday requesting what she described as […]

Jon Ossoff Requires Government-Issued Photo ID at His Rally — While Opposing Voter ID in Federal Elections

Sen. Jon Ossoff's campaign team sent attendees an email ahead of his Saturday rally in Atlanta with a clear instruction: bring a government-issued photo ID. Your name would be checked against an RSVP list. No match, no entry. That same Jon Ossoff has spent the past year calling legislation that would require proof of citizenship […]

Trump Administration Moves to Expedite Removal of 5-year-old Ecuadorian Boy After Federal Judge Ordered His Release

Days after a federal judge in Texas ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, the federal government filed a motion earlier this week to end the family's asylum claims entirely. The move signals that the administration has no intention of letting a single […]
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