Trump urges Republican holdouts to pass House budget bill; RFK Jr. grilled on health cuts

Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., are introducing a resolution today that calls on Russia to return abducted Ukrainian children before any agreement to end the war is finalized.  In a statement, Grassley blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the “inhumane and unprovoked attack on Ukraine,” adding that Putin “kidnapped thousands of children to brainwash […]

Trump Talks ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’: Don’t F*ck with Medicaid

President Donald Trump met with House Republicans on Tuesday to get his “big, beautiful” reconciliation budget passed, though several Freedom Caucus and State and the Local Tax (SALT) Caucus members remain unconvinced without further negotiations. Massie, a staunch fiscal conservative who is no stranger to butting heads with Trump and fellow representatives over his unwillingness […]

Senate Democrats Grill Defiant Rubio on Trump Policies

A defiant Secretary of State Marco Rubio clashed in sometimes personal terms with his former Senate Democratic colleagues on Tuesday, calling their criticism evidence of his success.At a hearing on the State Department budget, several Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee said that they were deeply disappointed in Mr. Rubio and regretted voting for his […]

RFK Jr.’s War on Pesticides Riles Farmers and a Republican Senator

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long-running crusade against agricultural chemicals ran into pushback on Tuesday from the agriculture industry and a Republican senator, who pointedly instructed Mr. Kennedy not to interfere with the livelihood of American farmers by suggesting certain pesticides are unsafe. The admonition from the senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, came as […]

5 actions Democrats are taking against Trump’s Qatari jet push

Senate Democrats are showing no signs of slowing down in their push to combat President Trump’s potential acceptance of a Qatari jet to serve as the next Air Force One as they look to pressure the president and the GOP and scuttle any potential deal with the Gulf nation.  Members admit the tools available to […]