WASHINGTON — “Weak sauce.” “A joke.” “A performance artist.” That’s how a West Point grad and Army vet on the Armed Services Committee described Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, who is running the Department of Defense in the middle of a war.Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) didn’t mince words Wednesday after Hegset…
Trump brought on the manager of his New Jersey golf club to advise on a major Lincoln Memorial project despite having no engineering background, according to reporting by The New York Times. David Schutzenhofer has run the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster for 20 years, and he’s been playing a …
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) had a serious response on Thursday to reporting involving allegations of FBI Director Kash Patel’s conduct and excessive drinking.In an exclusive interview with Raw Story, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee described what could come after midter…
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) interrupted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday to tell the Texas Republican she felt “personally aggrieved” by his lecturing — only to have Cruz fire back by invoking the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, snapping, “You’re not Dianne Feinstein….
WASHINGTON — The Senate may have done its part, but House Republicans made clear Thursday they will not rubber-stamp a Department of Homeland Security funding deal they say leaves agencies out in the cold that are tasked with immigration enforcement.The Senate passed a $70 billion budget resolution …
A controversial Democratic candidate in Texas has proclaimed she would use Immigration and Customs Enforcement centers for a new purpose — to round up “American Zionists.”According to the San Antonio Current, Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist running for Texas’ newly-redrawn 35th Congressional Distri…
Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman sat around joking about Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom like a couple of wealthy guys at a country club joking over cocktails as the republic burns outside the window.Maher dismissed the outrage by calling the cost “couch money.” Fetterman rolled his eyes a…
WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving, according to a new Gallup survey. That ties this 119th Congress with the 112th Congress (2011-2012) as the least popular in contemporary American history.Whi…
Trump’s head of the Department of Homeland Security bluntly rebuffed requests from houses of worship for more security in the wake of a shooting. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Fox News that houses of worship should “hire their own security” while speaking about the mass shooting at the Isla…
The White House is bizarrely floating the idea of Donald Trump pardoning 250 people on June 14th, a number sinisterly tied to America’s 250th anniversary, a date that also happens to fall on Flag Day.And what a stunning coincidence that June 14th is also the day Donald J. Trump turns 80 years old.Th…