Almost all Senate Democrats voted down a bipartisan effort to reopen the government on Tuesday as the funding lapse hit the 14-day mark. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the vast majority of his caucus rejected a clean funding measure, arguing Republicans must address rising healthcare costs in the government funding bill. Republicans have consistently argued that they will not negotiate unrelated healthcare policy until Schumer supplies the votes to end the shutdown. The failed vote was the eighth time that Schumer has led his caucus in rejecting the House-passed continuing resolution (CR). The clean CR contains no partisan policy…
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The president vowed continued American support for Israel while saying “the hand of friendship” is open toward Tehran. President Donald Trump addressed the Knesset at Jerusalem Monday, pronouncing “the historic dawn of a new Middle East” as Israel celebrated the release of the remaining hostages from Gaza. The hour-long speech drew a standing ovation as Trump was introduced to lawmakers. He thanked “the Arab and Muslim world,” Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and others for their roles in ending the conflict and facilitating the release of hostages. “We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve given a lot to…
In March of 2023, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) signed a bill into law that allows illegal immigrants to receive a state driver’s license. According to the far-left PolitiFact, about 81,000 people live in Minnesota illegally. And now we know why the unquestionably heterosexual Walz signed that law… In a meeting of the Minnesota House this week, an election confirmed that this driver’s license law allows illegal aliens to cast votes. Watch for yourself… QUESTION: So we give a driver’s license to anyone here. You don’t have to be a citizen… So if someone comes in, they register, they have the driver’s license, but they…
Google will invest a staggering $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new AI hub in southern India, marking the company’s largest AI investment outside of the United States. CNBC reports that Google has announced plans to invest $15 billion in a new AI data center hub in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The investment, which will be rolled out over the next five years, represents Google’s largest AI investment outside of the United States. The announcement was made by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at an event on Tuesday. The deal comes after a year of intense…
Netter now works for a group chaired by Marc Elias, who helped run the Russia collusion hoax. The Department of Justice official who signed off on $2 million in taxpayer-funded payments to disgraced Russia collusion hoax participants left the Department of Justice to help lead the “legal resistance” to President Donald Trump and other duly-elected Republicans, new records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist reveal. FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, sued the Department of Justice over the release of messages detailing their role in pushing the Clinton campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. They said the release of…
The FBI secretly monitored the phone records of eight sitting Republican senators in an abusive fishing expedition done with impunity. In 1972, a small team of operatives connected to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex to install listening devices. To this day, there is no conclusive evidence that Nixon personally ordered — or even knew of — the break-in beforehand. Yet Watergate shaped American political consciousness for decades. It gave the world a permanent suffix for scandal and became the ultimate symbol of abuse of power, a crisis so severe…
Peace through strength” has long been a nebulous phrase in political rhetoric. While it has been marshalled by both political parties, it has been used by Republican hawks and their supporters to assail liberal Democrats as both reckless and feckless, too quick to commit troops to war and too weak to lead them to victory. While users of the phrase have presented it as a departure from liberal interventionism, it has preserved the core assumptions of a fundamentally liberal postwar order. Advocates of “peace through strength” have used it to advocate for seemingly every foreign policy position, from containment to…
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had its 15 minutes (plus a little more) of fame four decades ago. During the 1950s the U.S. offered a supposedly temporary military shield behind which the continent’s western war-ravaged states could recover economically. Although hindsight suggests that Moscow was unlikely to launch a war of conquest, no one wanted to trust the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin. Unfortunately, even as the Europeans revived economically and rehabilitated Germany, adding it to NATO’s ranks, the U.S. stayed. This violated the assurances of alliance founders that the American garrison was only a short-term palliative until NATO’s European members…
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday. Kirk’s wife, Erika, accepted the award on her late husband’s behalf, speaking of his crusade for freedom. “The very existence of the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that the national interest of the United States has always been freedom,” Erika said. “Our Founders etched it into the preamble of our Constitution, and those words are not relics on parchment. They are a living covenant. The blessings of liberty are not man’s invention. They are God’s endowment.”…
Left-wing violence receives legal cover from judges and political cover from politicians and commentators, sending one very loud message to their militants: Don’t stop. Two teenagers who brutally assaulted former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine did not receive any jail time in yet another instance of left-wing judges protecting militant thugs from being held accountable in any meaningful way. D.C. Superior Court Judge Kendra Davis Briggs, a nominee of former President Joe Biden, sentenced two 15-year-olds from Hyattsville, Maryland, to probation after they were arrested for an Aug. 3 attack on 19-year-old Coristine that left him bloody…