Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is making it clear that he’s not a fan of President Trump’s proposal earlier this week to raise taxes on wealthy income earners, but he’s willing to listen to what the president has in mind. “I don’t want to see taxes go up on anybody,” Thune said in an […]
NASA’s leadership chart is starting to fill out.On Wednesday (May 7), President Donald Trump announced that he’s nominating Matt Anderson to be NASA deputy administrator.Anderson is slated to be second in command at the space agency behind Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut who has funded and flown two missions to Earth orbit […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill Friday that would require chip exports to have location-tracking systems to prevent American technology from reaching adversaries. The bill, titled the Chip Security Act, would direct the Commerce Department to require a “location verification mechanism” on artificial intelligence (AI) chips subject to export controls. Chip exporters would then […]
President Donald Trump says he will appoint Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.Trump announced the pick in a post on Truth Social.The selection comes as Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday that Ed Martin, who is currently serving as D.C.’s interim top […]
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Hanna Trudo, who most recently worked as a senior political correspondent at The Hill, is considering jumping into the Democratic primary to replace Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., as Pappas runs for Senate next year.Trudo, who is a New Hampshire native, wrote in a memo that she is “exploring running” in the primary in New Hampshire’s […]
Senate Republicans on Monday grew increasingly nervous after President Trump’s comments over the weekend that some of his tariffs could be permanent and that things would be “OK” even if the U.S. experienced a short-term recession. Republicans have been on edge for weeks as the Trump administration’s hemming and hawing on tariffs have created instability […]
California High-Speed Rail Authority California’s high-speed rail project is a lesson in the inefficiency of big government. The project was started nearly twenty years ago and they have not even started laying down tracks. One of the reasons it’s in the news right now is because it has gone way over budget and the people […]
Nike, the self-proclaimed champion of sports apparel and athletes, has been exposed for funding a horrific study on “trans adolescents” — a term that’s as absurd as it is dangerous. The New York Times Magazine dropped this bombshell in an April 20 piece about transgender athletes in women’s college sports, and the silence from Nike […]
Secretary Hegseth’s emphasis on warfighters has dramatically transformed the Department of Defense in just the first hundred days of his tenure. When President Donald Trump was elected, he promised the American people a consequential cabinet with brash picks that would change the executive branch and Washington, D.C. for good. With his first big-name choice, the […]
