Democrats are demanding answers after reports of dire conditions for sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. MS NOW political analyst Tim Miller, MS NOW senior White House reporter Vaughn Hillyard, and retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Amy McGrath discuss the situation with Alicia Menendez.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as time ticks for Congress to pass its legislative priorities, including passing a long-term extension of the government's warrantless spying powers and a spending bill to fund immigration enforcement. The House is set to take up a $69.5 billion budget reconciliation package that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through 2029 after it passed the Senate on Friday. Johnson will need near-unanimous support on the measure, which is not expected to get any Democratic votes. #gop #mikejohnson @house
Six Republicans joined Democrats in stopping a vote to extend enhanced surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
A new proposal would allow the administration to block grants if they do not satisfy President Trump’s agenda or support what it calls “anti-American” values.
Iran's foreign minister arrived in Russia on Monday, after a whirlwind weekend of diplomacy, seeking to gain political leverage and foreign backing as peace talks with the U.S. remain on hold.
Senate Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision not to put a Senate-passed bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the House floor for a vote as they fear the White House could soon run out of money to pay federal workers affected by the partial [...]
Senate Democrats voted against the funding for the fifth time, which makes the current partial government shutdown tied for the second-longest shutdown in history at 35 days. The vote to invoke cloture on the funding bill failed in a 47-37 split.
President Trump told Axios on Thursday that Israeli President Isaac Herzog must pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "today" — calling Herzog "a disgrace" for failing to act over the last year. - "Every day I talk to Bibi about the war. I want him to focus on the war and not on the f*cking court case. I want the only pressure on Bibi to be the fighting against Iran," Trump said in a phone interview. Why it matters: Trump has been pushing for a Netanyahu pardon since last June, arguing that his trial on corruption charges — ongoing since 2020 — is a "witch hunt" akin to the U.S. president's own legal troubles. - But Thursday's comments — which Trump raised himself, unprompted — marked a dramatic escalation and direct…
'I'm not going to vote for funding'