President Trump is participating in a roundtable on agriculture Friday afternoon from Wisconsin. The Trump administration has felt pressure from farmers over rising fertilizer costs associated with the war in Iran and restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a key shipping channel for the product and a fifth of the global oil supply. The House on Thursday also passed its second fiscal 2027 appropriations bill, including funding for the agriculture and rural development. The event is Chippewa Falls, Wis., is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. EDT.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins will testify before a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee panel on President Trump's fiscal year 2027 budget request for the department. The White House is seeking $144 billion in discretionary funding for the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) — with a focus on military housing, health care for veterans and combatting homelessness. The hearing comes less than a week after the House passed its first appropriations bill for fiscal 2027, which included funding for military construction and the VA appropriations bill.
Funding for the department lapsed in February after Senate Democrats refused to help pass an appropriations bill that would fund DHS for the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends in September.
The hearing comes as Congress faces an imminent deadline to reach a funding agreement on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill.
House Republicans joined Democrats last week in shameful Congressional votes that defeated two common-sense amendments in a national display of the Uni-party flexing its muscle. First, an amendment by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) to strip Senate-inserted earmarks from the FY2026 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill failed in a lopsided 136–291 vote. While the House version of the […] The post The Main Street Caucus Keeps the Uni-party in Charge of Washington D.C. appeared first on StoneZone .
House Republicans joined Democrats last week in shameful Congressional votes that defeated two common-sense amendments in a national display of the Uni-party flexing its muscle. First, an amendment by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) to strip Senate-inserted earmarks from the FY2026 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill failed in a lopsided 136–291 vote. While the House version of the bill contained no earmarks, the Senate added roughly $1.3 billion in pet projects including the funding of abortions, gender procedures on children, DEI activism, and other wasteful pork-barrel projects for special interests with 76 House Republicans joining Democrats to save the profligate spending . The second betrayal came when an amendment to block a…Open
The chances of a partial government shutdown are growing following the second deadly shooting by immigration officers in Minneapolis. NewsNation's Joe Khalil joins "NewsNation Live" to discuss why Democrats support shutting down the government over DHS funding in the appropriations bill. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
AI:A government shutdown is looming as Democrats hold the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill hostage, prioritizing radical political agendas over national stability. Following two deadly shootings involving immigration officers in Minneapolis, the left-wing media establishment remains silent on the escalating violence at our borders while partisan actors refuse to fund essential security infrastructure. The administration's refusal to secure the perimeter has created a vacuum of authority, and now, rather than addressing the chaos, the obstructionist elements in Washington are willing to let the entire government grind to a halt just to protect their failing immigration policies.Open
