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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday attempted to trash President Trump over bogus poll numbers. The fake news media attacked President Trump this week with reports claiming he has the lowest 100 day approval rating in 80 years. “Twice as many people said President Trump deserves a grade of F rather than an A for how he’s handled his first 100 days in office, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll,” NPR reported. “Forty-five percent said Trump deserves the failing mark, compared to 23% who would pass him with flying colors. It’s understandable that partisans would have strongly polarized...

Sprayberry and 18 other suspects were arrested by the Muscogee Sheriff in connection with the operation and charged with various crimes ranging from human trafficking to child pornography crimes. A two-time Democratic candidate for the Georgia State House was arrested in connection with a sting operation targeting sexual predators and charged with human trafficking, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday.

* Co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies * Was associated with the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s Marcus Raskin was born April 30, 1934 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second son of Russian Jewish immigrants. At age 16, he left home to study piano at New York’s Juilliard School. In 1954 Raskin graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in liberal arts, and three years later he earned a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. In 1958 he moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as legislative counsel to a group of Democratic congressmen....

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday credited a lack of Congressional funding for immigration enforcement and “rogue district court judges” for the Trump Administration’s inability to follow through on mass deportations. As of April 1, 2025, over 100,000 individuals had been deported since January 20, 2025. But this is far slower than the rate necessary to deport the tens of millions of illegals in our country right now. To deport the more than 20 million illegal aliens that Leavitt says entered the U.S. in the last four years, the Trump Administration would need to execute upwards of ten...

Bills would check district courts from issuing nationwide injunctions like those issued against President Trump’s executive orders.. In the opening three months of President Trump’s ambitious “flood the zone” second term, we have witnessed activist federal courts issue a tsunami of national injunctions against the executive branch. Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., recently described the third branch’s overzealous blocking of Trump’s executive orders as a “judicial coup d’etat.” The Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports there had already been at least 17 national injunctions against the Trump administration between Inauguration Day and March 27 — on everything from the firing of federal...

After the embarrassing meeting that Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) had in El Salvador with illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, where even the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele trolled him, you would think that the Democrats would have scaled back on the terrible optics they've been putting out over this controversy. But I guess not. Because now it comes out that at least two more people have requested Congressional funding to go to El Salvador themselves, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL). But the head of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is having...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration took its first step Monday toward ending federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) — informing key members of Congress that it’s asking for them to eliminate “all” such spending while also codifying foreign aid cuts identified by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The major funding changes are contained in a long-awaited “rescissions” plan, obtained and first reported by The Post, that pitches a clawback of $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and $8.3 billion from USAID. A memo drafted by White House budget...

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there was “enough of an offense” to trigger congressional hearings questioning whether anyone traded improperly after President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements. Host Kristen Welker said, “Some of your Democratic colleagues are actually calling for an investigation into whether or not there was insider trading. The president saying it’s a good time to buy and then, of course, hitting the pause button on some of those tariffs. Do you believe that democrats have any real evidence that anyone in the administration profited off of the president’s policies and announcements,...

In 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation to connect lower-income Americans involved in civil disputes with free legal help. The law that established the agency stipulated that authorization for its funding would expire in 1980, when lawmakers were required to vote on whether to keep it alive. They never did. Still, Congress has funded LSC every year since. In fiscal 2025, its 51st year, LSC’s 135 employees will spend 95% of its now $560 million annual budget paying legal groups to represent Americans in cases such as eviction, domestic violence, and disputes over government benefits, according to Ron Flagg,...

After sitting back for four years while the leader of the Democrat Party allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade the country, 208 Democrats voted against legislation Thursday that would keep foreign nationals out of American elections.The Republican-led House passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act 220-208. The legislation, introduced by Texas Rep. Chip Roy, would require documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.“Despite the ridiculous attacks and purposeful misinformation spread about the bill, I am pleased to see that the House of Representatives once again passed the SAVE Act on a bipartisan basis to ensure...

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is planning to introduce legislation Monday that would restrict President Donald Trump's tariffs, as GOP opposition grows against the president's signature economic policy—though House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is reportedly so far telling lawmakers to back the president. Key Facts House Republicans should “hold the line” on Trump’s tariffs and not oppose them, Johnson told his colleagues on a call Sunday, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, saying they should trust that Trump and his instincts will ultimately improve the economy, and just give the tariffs “time” to play out. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked...

Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has filed a resolution to remove U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg for failing to uphold the Constitution’s “good behavior” clause—without requiring the traditional two-thirds Senate vote. The resolution, submitted in the House of Representatives, alleges Judge Boasberg—currently Chief Judge of the powerful United States District Court for the District of Columbia—knowingly abused his position to interfere with the constitutional authority of President Donald Trump. The resolution declares Judge Boasberg’s conduct a breach of constitutional order, particularly his unlawful meddling in President Trump’s lawful directive to deport members of Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang...

Some in the U.S. Senate stayed up way past their bedtimes on Friday night, voting into the wee hours in a battle against mainly Democrat amendments attempting to derail President Donald Trump's agenda before managing to pass a budget plan. After the six-hour vote-a-rama ended, the legislation passed nearly along party lines, with "no" votes from Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Susan Collins (R-ME), 51-48, around 2:30 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday morning. Here is what we know so far about the plan:On paper, the new Senate budget outline allows for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts, a seemingly modest amount....

VIDEOTesla terrorists now have a Congressional Cheerleader in the form of Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal who told Tesla protestors to be strike and street ready as well as to increase their "risk tolerance." Yeah, the risk is you get arrested and then either pay for damages or go to jail or both. But Jayapal need not worry. While she tells others to increase their "risk tolerance" she will keep her own "risk tolerance" down to ZERO while luxuriating in her cushy congressional gig. NO street nor strike ready for her.

We've all been having a lot of fun following the triumphs of the second Trump presidency. All of us to the right of the Democratic Party, which right now would appear to be about 80 percent of the country if polling is any indicator, are watching as the Trump administration proceeds doggedly on the path set for it by President Trump, and by the voters who put him back in the Oval Office by a comfortable, mandate-indicating margin. It sure seems like Donald Trump has been back in office for a long time, doesn't it? But it hasn't yet been...

On January 20, 2025, President Trump began his second term, having won the electoral vote and the popular vote, but in the next two months, his administration experienced an unprecedented 132 legal challenges by liberal judges. Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer explained his strategy in a PBS interview, March 21, 2025: “We did put 235 judges—progressive judges … last year on the bench, and they are ruling against Trump time after time after time.” Justin Evan Smith, writing for The Federalist, March 21, 2025: “Judge Boasberg’s ruling is just the latest example of a judge substituting his own political...

...A staffer for New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license after being escorted into the U.S. Capitol by a member of Congress and allowed to bypass security by Booker himself. According to reports, Booker led the aide around a U.S. Capitol Police security checkpoint on Monday night, later resulting in the arrest....

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film "JFK" portrayed President John F. Kennedy's assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, called Tuesday for a new congressional investigation of the killing during a hearing that aired conspiracy theories about it. The freewheeling hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, where partisan grievances were aired, followed last month's release of thousands of pages of government documents related to the assassination. The task force's Republican chair opened the proceedings by questioning the Warren Commission investigation's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in fatally shooting Kennedy...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) abruptly canceled all votes for the remainder of the week, halting progress on critical conservative legislation—including the SAVE Act and measures to rein in rogue judicial activism—despite having full authority to keep the House in session. The move comes after a humiliating defeat on the House floor Tuesday when Johnson attempted to torpedo a controversial rule that would allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely. Luna, who’s been locking horns with Johnson over this, celebrated the outcome as a “historical day,” crowing that “parents deserve a voice in Washington.” Teaming up with Rep. Brittany...

Capitol Police arrested a staffer for Sen. Cory Booker who was carrying a gun Monday evening, hours after the New Jersey Democrat kicked off a marathon “filibuster” speech in the upper chamber. “Yesterday afternoon a Member of Congress led an IDed staff member around security screening at the Hart Senate Office Building. Later that evening, outside the Senate Galleries, the IDed staff member — who is a retired law enforcement officer — told our officers he was armed,” a rep for US Capitol Police said in a statement Tuesday. “The staff member, 59-year-old Kevin A. Batts of New Jersey, was...