The annual White House Christmas ornament is celebrating its 45th edition with a nostalgic look back at state dinners during the Reagan era. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...President Donald Trump’s “Warrior Dividend” bonus for service members, which he suggested would be funded by tariff revenue, is actually a one-time basic allowance for housing stipend already approved by Congress, according to a senior administration official. The $ 1,776 bonus payment Trump announced while addressing the nation Wednesday night will be paid using funds Congress appropriated to the Defense Department in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was passed into law in July, to supplement the basic allowance for housing. Congress appropriated $ 2.9 billion to supplement the…
Read More...Susie Wiles styles herself as a White House chief of staff who avoids being in the headlines. When cameras come into the Oval Office, she tends to sit just out of frame. She rarely gives interviews. Unlike her predecessors, she seldom tries to curb President Donald Trump’s impulses. She has been lauded in Trump world for instilling a sense of discipline in a chaotic realm, and for providing steady leadership during both Trump’s historic political comeback and the steamrolling start to his second term. Well then! That’s sure over now.…
Read More...FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL – The Oversight Project is calling for the Justice Department to keep incarcerated prisoners whose Biden autopen clemencies were voided by President Trump. The watchdog group shared a video with The Daily Signal that focused on two individuals whose sentences Biden had commuted. The Oversight Project was the first to call attention to the mass number of presidential actions taken via autopen. This prompted a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee inquiry that found senior Biden White House officials were unclear if Biden was aware…
Read More...WASHINGTON – In response to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson delaying a vote on the bipartisan ACA discharge petition, MoveOn Civic Action’s Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne released the following statement: “No ACA vote, no vacation. Thanks to millions of calls, texts, and emails from the grassroots, lawmakers from both parties are ready to vote to extend ACA subsidies and prevent health care premiums from doubling for millions of Americans. Let’s be clear: it is the Republican Party’s continued inaction that has left our health care system in crisis.…
Read More...As Brazil seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image amid protests by Indigenous groups and environmentalists. The Washington Times stories: White House
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