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Laura Loomer, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential outside allies, recently returned from Ukraine with an unexpected message for the Make America Great Again movement: she had been wrong about the war.Like many of Trump’s supporters, Loomer had long opposed U.S. military aid to Ukraine, reflecting the Republican Party’s broader divide between traditional national security... Read more

EXCLUSIVE — Steve Bannon is predicting that President Donald Trump’s increasingly strained relationship with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is headed toward an irreparable break, arguing that a showdown over acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination may be the final straw.Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and a close outside... Read more

Anthony Fauci’s diary details a June 2020 phone call in which President Donald Trump berated the infectious disease expert over comments he made about COVID-19 vaccine immunity before White House officials later sought to smooth things over.The account is included in a more than 1,000-page collection of Fauci’s writings released... Read more

President Donald Trump is set to hold an event announcing the new “Freedom Haulers” trucking program on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the White House.The program is aimed at helping U.S. veterans begin careers in trucking, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced as he unveiled the program earlier Thursday on X.... Read more

This time, Republicans said, it was going to be permanent.Republicans had passed massive tax packages under Presidents George W. Bush in 2001 and Donald Trump in 2017, but most of the provisions were temporary. After Trump won a second term, GOP leaders had a more controversial idea.From the start of... Read more

President Donald Trump urged two Republican holdouts to do the “right thing” and stop blocking his nominee for attorney general, threatening on Thursday to renominate Todd Blanche next year, when both will have retired from office.Trump said on Truth Social that Blanche, who once served as his personal lawyer, was... Read more

Dr. Anthony Fauci recalled the chaotic aftermath of President Donald Trump’s infamous suggestion that disinfectants could be used to treat COVID-19, writing that he was “thankful” he was not present at the White House briefing and describing then-White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx as nearly fainting during the... Read more

“It’s the president at his best” when he has to deal with lawmakers who want something for their yes votes, Bessent said.Trump would dial up legislators on the fence from the Oval Office on multiple occasions. And they knew who was calling, Bessent added, because it “comes up all zeros”... Read more

President Donald Trump‘s legal team on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reverse a New York jury’s 2024 verdict that found him liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.Trump’s petition to the Supreme Court comes after a federal appeals court in late April declined his request to rehear the $83... Read more

The United States is reportedly weighing whether or not to reject the French government’s selection for its next ambassador to Washington, D.C., as the two countries feud over human rights.Aurelien ​Lechevallier, the French foreign ministry chief of staff, was selected by President Emmanuel Macron to be the nation’s next ambassador... Read more

President Donald Trump said he respects the pardon power, even if it is former President Joe Biden‘s preemptive pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci.Trump’s admission came hours after Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Biden’s chief medical adviser, took the Fifth Amendment more... Read more

President Donald Trump is adding another project to his efforts to beautify Washington — updating the grass across the parks in the nation’s capital.“We’re changing all the grass at all the parks,” Trump said Wednesday afternoon during an Oval Office event.“Grass is like human beings,” the president continued. “Grass has... Read more