Washington — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker voiced their opposition to the Republican budget plan key to enacting President Trump’s agenda as the sun rose on Sunday, holding a sit-in protest on the steps of the Capitol into the morning. Shortly after 6 a.m., the pair began livestreaming their conversation, while
The following is the full transcript of an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 27, 2025. MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov. Good morning, Minister Lavrov, I want to ask you about what happened in
‘Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,’ the president said. President Donald Trump said on April 26 that America’s military and commercial ships should be allowed to pass through the Panama and Suez canals “free of charge.” “Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,” Trump wrote on
‘Debt doesn’t go away; it gets transferred to others,’ Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. The Department of Education will resume collections on May 5 for federal student loans in default for the first time in five years, impacting some 5 million borrowers. Since March 2020, the department has not collected on default loans. When Congress
Guantánamo Bay played a major role in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term as he launched his plan to purge the U.S. of the “worst of the worst" criminal illegals.
ICE said its agents partnered with local law enforcement in Florida in an illegal immigration sweep dubbed Operation Tidal Wave. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working in conjunction with local law enforcement in Florida, have arrested nearly 800 illegal immigrants across the state in the past four days, the agency announced April 26. While
Is 100 days enough time to evaluate this president? His supporters generally don’t think so, but others do — perhaps because most Americans think President Trump is already making major changes to how the government — and the U.S. economy — work. Those opening days, in public opinion terms, have been marked by Mr. Trump’s