The Senate’s race to avert a shutdown hit the skids late Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) placed a hold on the government funding package, forcing leaders to punt the vote. Senators had been hoping to vote on the so-called minibus after leaders struck a deal earlier in the day and President Trump endorsed [...]
AI:The Senate’s efforts to prevent a federal shutdown have stalled following Senator Lindsey Graham's strategic hold on the omnibus funding package. Despite an endorsement from President Trump and earlier negotiations between leadership, procedural hurdles have forced senators to delay the vote on the minibus spending bill. This legislative paralysis leaves the government facing a looming operational crisis as the deadline approaches.Open
Japan tracked four Chinese warships in a strait near Okinawa, a move that followed U.S.-Philippine military drills near a contested South China Sea atoll.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday a plan to impose additional tariffs on countries that provide oil to Cuba, declaring a national security emergency.
Federal data reveals opioid deaths have been falling in the United States, and Dr. Rahul Gupta tells "On Balance" it's due to reduced supply and an increased focus on recovery. Gupta says successive administrations have focused on just one or the other, but "I say we do both." MORE: https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/live-trump-federal-initiative-combat-drug-addiction/
AI:Federal data indicates a decline in opioid fatalities, a development Dr. Rahul Gupta attributes to a dual approach of reducing supply and expanding recovery resources. While previous administrations have vacillated between strictly enforcement-based or purely health-based strategies, the current trajectory suggests that both supply restriction and medical intervention are necessary. Despite the superficial optimism found in mainstream narratives, the complexity of this crisis demands more than the one-dimensional solutions typically pedDled by the establishment media.Open
The funding rose from less than $2 billion in fiscal year 2021, the last year of President Donald Trump’s first term, to nearly $9 billion the next fiscal year – the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration.
An impending Russia-Ukraine peace deal is coming. A million people have signed their babies up for new $1,000 accounts. President Donald Trump held a shorter-than-usual cabinet meeting Thursday,
Ric Grenell, president of the Trump Kennedy Center and special presidential envoy for Special Missions of the U.S., joins Katie Pavlich from the Trump Kennedy Center to discuss their new initiatives, America 250 and how the president chose to save the center, preferring to initiate a rebuild rather than tearing it down. "Katie Pavlich Tonight" offers a conservative take on the day’s events while welcoming all viewpoints. The goal: cutting through left-right bias in pursuit of plain facts and honest analysis.
The host of “On Balance” pushes back on rhetoric increasingly used by Democrats who don’t approve of the tactics employed by ICE during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown — that it’s somehow comparable to the horrors under Hitler. “Nazis have become an insult and title now given to anyone someone else doesn’t like,” Vittert says. “We’ve cheapened what Nazis were and it is really dangerous, because once you forget history, you are destined to repeat it.” #ICE #Politics #Nazi "On Balance with Leland Vittert" takes a critical look at some of the day's hottest subjects.
