Staff for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), known for his public stance against reckless federal spending, cost taxpayers nearly $18,000 on a private-jet trip other lawmakers’ aides made for a fraction of the price, according to a new report.Six aides working for Paul, then the top Republican on the Senate Hom…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly angry that he can’t get rid of a scandal-plagued aide with ties to President Donald Trump’s closest aides.According to a Thursday report by The Daily Mail, Rubio wants to get rid of Gavin Wax, the chief of staff in the State Department’s Washington headqu…
If you were an adult 25 years ago, politically aware, and a Democrat, you remember the horror of watching George W. Bush win the presidency without winning the popular vote. I remember being up into the wee hours of the morning on election night in 2000, astonished and beleaguered that Bush was bein…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was asked by Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Thursday whether he would support President Donald Trump’s $5,000 “dividend” checks to voters in return for keeping Republicans in control of Congress.Cruz awkwardly tried to shift the proposal into a very different form that he would be c…
Vice President JD Vance quietly went around the Pentagon to call military commanders directly for blunt assessments of the Iran War.The New York Times reported Thursday that Vance wanted the commanders’ individual judgments as they saw them before those views were merged into an official Pentagon po…
Vice President JD Vance was interrupted during his speech at the GOP midterm convention by a protester, leading to taunts from the MAGA crowd.Vance spoke on the last night of the GOP convention in Dallas, where he repeatedly invoked the word “birthright” in his grievance-laden speech. At one point, …
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. flew a military jet to campaign for Republican candidates in Iowa ahead of the midterms.Kennedy was given access to military aircraft for travel across the country, including as part of the GOP’s push before the November midterms, The Washington Post reported o…
President Donald Trump’s Dallas convention took a bizarre direction as the screen played a video, resurfaced from 2024, that essentially treated Trump as a modern-day Messiah.”On June 14, 1946, God looked down on this planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’ so God gave us Trump,” the video …
A former GOP operative was caught off guard when he heard Vice President JD Vance’s comments about Charlie Kirk and the Iran war.On Thursday, Vance gave the keynote speech at the second night of the GOP midterm convention in Dallas. Through the evening, speakers kept bringing up Kirk because the dat…
President Donald Trump made the crowd at the GOP convention in Dallas take a pledge to vote in the midterms on Thursday night, which included a stipulation to “cheat like hell.””Please raise your right hand!” Trump commanded. “I pledge, to the greatest president in the history of the United States, …