In 2015, when Donald Trump was running for the Republican nomination for president, a refrain that was often heard from his supporters and mocked by his detractors was, ‘He fights.’ It seemed empty and vacuous, but in fact, it represented a few core issues that GOP voters felt their party was ignoring, or at least
Vice President JD Vance praised President Donald Trump’s ‘bulldozer’ approach to public health, calling it a necessary force that ‘just had to happen,’ during remarks at Wednesday’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit. The summit, held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C., was centered on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Critics once called it isolationist. But national security experts now say Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ strategy is proving to be something else entirely — a hard-nosed policy of deterrence built on strong alliances, especially with Israel. Fred Fleitz, vice chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security and former chief of staff
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, will not seek re-election in 2026. The senior Republican lawmaker will have finished serving a decade in Congress when he leaves at the end of next year. ‘I have a firm conviction, much like our founders did, that public service is a lifetime commitment, but public office is
The shutdown stalemate that has dragged on in the Senate officially ended late Monday night, and it places Congress on a path to reopen the government later this week. Senators advanced a bipartisan funding package to end the government shutdown after a group of Senate Democrats broke from their colleagues and joined Republicans in their
Lawyers for roughly two dozen states will head to court Monday to block the Trump administration’s attempt to penalize them for making full payments to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. The filing is the latest in a chaotic, fast-moving legal saga centered on the status of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, which supports 42
Senators believe that after reaching a deal to end the longest shutdown on record, they won’t be in the same position early next year. The bipartisan package that advanced from the Senate late Monday night would, if passed by the House this week, reopen the government until Jan. 30. Lawmakers believe that extension would give
Frustration is boiling over among Democratic ranks against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after walking away from the longest government shutdown on record largely empty-handed. Some argue that Schumer squandered key leverage and failed to steer his caucus through the chaos to victory. ‘I think that people did what they could to get us
The House of Representatives appears to be on a glide path to ending the longest government shutdown in history, with lawmakers racing back to Capitol Hill after six weeks out of session. The House Rules Committee will meet to consider the Senate’s amended federal funding plan sometime after 5 p.m. Tuesday, two sources told Fox
Let’s put politics aside, as if that were possible, and look at how the craziness of the last few days is affecting people. A week ago, President Donald Trump announced that the 42 million Americans on the SNAP nutrition program would not be getting their benefits — this against the backdrop of a government shutdown