President Donald Trump on Wednesday revealed he plans to speak directly with Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te, marking a departure from decades of U.S. precedent. Such talks promise to antagonize China, where Trump recently traveled to meet with President Xi Jinping and discuss Taiwan. Beijing has long sought to assert communist control...
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A White House meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss a $70 billion party-line immigration bill was canceled on Thursday amid uproar from Republicans over the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund and money for White House security upgrades.The meeting was scrapped after the Senate postponed a vote on the party-line bill until...
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President Donald Trump said that he was going to try to attend his son’s wedding this weekend, but isn’t making any promises.Reports suggested that Donald Trump Jr. is set to marry Bettina Anderson over Memorial Day Weekend, which the president himself seemed to confirm while fielding questions from reporters during...
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The monument would be built on Columbia Island at Memorial Circle on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.The arch would rise 250 feet from its base to a torch-bearing figure resembling Lady Liberty at its top. Two gold-colored eagles would flank...
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President Donald Trump denied that he deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean to intimidate Cuba one day after his Justice Department indicted former Cuban President Raul Castro.“No, not at all,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday when asked if the deployment was an intimidation...
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States has “more corrupt elections” than some third-world nations. Trump made the remarks during an Oval Office event when expressing his frustration with Senate Republicans for not passing the SAVE America Act.“We have more corrupt elections than third-world countries have, and...
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President Donald Trump admitted Thursday that he was uncertain if his grip on the Senate Republican majority was slipping.Trump was asked during an Oval Office event about the controversy on Capitol Hill over funding White House security upgrades tied to the new East Wing ballroom.“I don’t know, I really don’t,”...
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“The bigger problem is that there’s cold feet among some Republicans about backing the ballroom — just the idea of ballroom funding at all, regardless of how it’s written to survive the procedural hurdles,” Bedford said on The Hugh Hewitt Show on Wednesday. Bedford said the snag is funding for...
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The Trump administration‘s EPA has rolled back numerous Biden-era environmental policies as part of its deregulation effort. Most recently, the EPA eliminated diesel emissions requirements for farm equipment to reduce costs and mechanical burdens for farmers dealing with increasing prices....
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President Donald Trump has increasingly succeeded in pushing out Republican members of Congress who have rejected his authority over the GOP. But the victories risk complicating his remaining legislative agenda ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) lost his reelection bid last week to a Trump-backed challenger in...
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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he “may release” his current tax returns to the public after the IRS reached a settlement over a leak of his past tax records.The leaked returns from Trump’s first term “showed I pay a lot of tax,” he told the Washington Examiner. “I may...
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President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that the United States is “freeing up Cuba,” but indicated that he does not believe it will require a military intervention.Earlier in the day, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced an indictment of former first secretary Raul Castro, the brother of former Cuban leader Fidel...
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