Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) said he is traveling to El Salvador on Wednesday to check on the status of a deported legal resident. Kilmar Abrego Garcia made headlines after being removed by the Trump administration in an “administrative error” and sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT maximum security prison to be detained. “Following […]
A group of Democratic senators are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to keep a proposed Biden-era rule that would have allowed Medicare and Medicaid to cover drugs used to treat obesity after the Trump administration decided not to finalize it. Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Cory […]
By Wayne Allyn Root First of all, let me state the most important point about Trump’s tariffs… I’ve supported President Donald J. Trump since the moment he came down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015. That was ten years ago. Since that day, Trump has been right about every economic policy to support […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has expanded the power of adviser Elon Musk’s government-cutting team over the State Department, making a Musk lieutenant acting head of foreign assistance.A senior U.S. official confirmed the new job for Jeremy Lewin, an associate of the Department of Government Efficiency earlier appointed to help finish dismantling the U.S. […]
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) defended student visa holders, saying the U.S. should treat them “fairly.” Lankford joined KFOR, a local Oklahoma station, for a panel discussion as the Trump administration has revoked hundreds of foreign student visas at dozens of colleges. “I do understand that if a student’s here, they’ve gotta follow American law, they […]
Admin responds by pulling $2.2 billion in grants and contracts Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) and Alan Garber (Harvard) Harvard University told the Trump administration to pound sand—and take $9 billion in federal grant money along with it. The school has advised its attorneys not to pursue a deal with the administration over a series […]
‘I am cutting off the money for this madness,’ said Sen. Joni Ernst L: Sen. Joni Ernst (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) R: The Wuhan Institute of Virology (Getty Images) American taxpayers will no longer be forced to finance brutal animal experiments in Chinese labs if Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) gets her way. Ernst on Tuesday […]
Vice President JD Vance appears on CBS’s Face the Nation on January 26 with a message to Catholic bishops. (Credit: Face the Nation screenshot) In his first major interview with European media, Vice President JD Vance asserted that Europe must not remain a “permanent security vassal” of the United States, arguing that the enduring […]
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China has suspended exports of rare earth minerals and magnets used by auto manufacturers and military contractors, among others, in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s 145% tariffs on the country… Source link
