Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) on Monday introduced legislation to block the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) scrapped earlier in the day. The bill, dubbed the Drain the Slush Fund Act, would bar the use of taxpayer money for payments to President Trump,…
GOP Rep. Kat Cammack (Fla.) on Monday morning criticized the Trump administration’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which the administration scrapped later in the day after intense backlash from congressional Republicans. Cammack, the chair of the Republican Women’s Caucus, said on Fox News’s “Mornings with Maria” that government weaponization is a “very real” and “rampant” problem….
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Sunday said it could take a “very long time” for the U.S. to secure a deal to end the war in Iran. Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Issa on “The Sunday Briefing” about when the conflict will be “officially, officially over,” after joking that the ceasefire in place between the…
President Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at the White House on Monday to discuss the Justice Department’s controversial $1.776 billion antiweaponization fund, sources in the Speaker’s office confirmed to The Hill and to NewsNation’s Joe Khalil. The meeting comes as Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate have voiced frustration over the fund,…
Monday was supposed to be the deadline for getting an immigration enforcement funding package on President Trump’s desk. Instead, the Senate will return Monday evening, preparing for a showdown over the bill after negotiations on the measure blew up more than a week ago following the White House’s announcement of the creation of a separate, controversial “anti-weaponization” fund that would issue payouts to those…
Republicans on Capitol Hill are battling a bad case of déjà vu, as intraparty disputes over an immigration enforcement funding package and an extension of the government’s warrantless spying powers have left lawmakers no closer to a resolution on the two matters than they were a month ago. Senate Republicans departed Washington last week without…
For Americans fed up with partisan redistricting, there’s bad news on the horizon: The gerrymandering war is just heating up. Even while the ink is still drying on the new House maps of the midterm cycle, the 2028 redistricting battle is already taking shape — and it threatens to eclipse the current map-drawing fever in…