Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent snapped “Don’t be absurd!” at a Democratic lawmaker Thursday after getting cornered on the administration’s rosy claims about the Iran conflict — a tense exchange that exposed the widening gap between White House spin and reality on the ground.During a House Ways and…
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A Republican lawmaker clashed with an anchor during a live CNN broadcast on Thursday over the Iran war after four GOP House leaders broke from President Donald Trump and voted to rebuke the president over the military operation.Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) and CNN’s Brianna Keilar got into a heated …
The Kennedy Center is moving to comply with a federal court order to strip President Donald Trump’s name from the iconic Washington arts venue, according to a memo obtained by CBS News.The center’s general counsel sent the memo to staff Thursday, instructing them to “immediately change email signatu…
Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes plans to seek a new indictment against allies of President Donald Trump who aided his bid to overturn the 2020 election, her office announced Thursday after the state Supreme Court rejected her appeal to revive the original case.The high court’s brief, …
Nancy Pelosi and a conservative reporter who has made a habit of confronting her in Capitol hallways went at it again Thursday — and the former House speaker didn’t hold back.Alison Steinberg, a congressional correspondent for LindellTV, the media outlet founded by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, approac…
A new Fox News poll could signal a serious problem for President Donald Trump, CNN anchor Dana Bash reported on Thursday.Bash referred to new polling from Fox News showing Ohio’s Senate race could put Republicans in a tough position ahead of the midterm elections after Trump’s approval rating has ap…
Far-right podcaster Steve Bannon’s War Room took an X-rated turn Wednesday when guest Mike Davis, a Trump insider and founder of the Article III Project, called Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) a “p—” — twice.”John Thune is such a p—, and he just proved it with that statement,” Davis said, r…
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and now pick for attorney general, Todd Blanche, might be confronted with tough questions from the Senate over his “cozy relationship” with the lawyer for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, according to a report on Thursday.David Oscar Marku…
A House Agriculture Committee hearing erupted Thursday into a sharp clash between Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), with Rollins sniping that Congress’s behavior explains why “the American people don’t like Congress” as Brown repeatedly cut off Rollins’s attempts to…
Despite former White House chief of staff Karl Rove’s prediction on Fox News on Thursday morning that the Democratic “blue wave” in November may not be as damaging to the Republican Party as has been predicted, the Republican commentator was the target of the president’s ire on Truth Social.Toward t…