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Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that he will not support the House spending bill because it has “real Medicaid benefit cuts.” Hawley said, “It ought to be just a basic foundational principle, it is wrong to cut health care for the working poor, and that’s what we’re talking about here with Medicaid. My state is a Medicaid expansion state, over 20% of Missourians, including hundreds of thousands of children, are on Medicaid.” He added, “I don’t like the idea of decreasing funding for rural hospitals. I’m worried that the House bill goes way too far...

More than 8 in 10 likely voters want President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts extended before they expire at the end of this year, according to a new poll released as Congress rushes to finalize a “big, beautiful” bill making those provisions permanent. A Public Opinion Strategies survey exclusively obtained by The Post found 84% of possible US voters would back keeping the current tax rates if they were in Congress — while just 16% would favor a tax increase. By party affiliation, 95% of Republicans, 81% of independents and 74% of Democrats prefer the status quo in terms of taxation....

A State Department list of 898 approved government grants and contracts authorized by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) includes over $2.5 billion of authorized funding to organizations that have previously supported the charitable infrastructure of designated terrorist organizations. In March, the State Department provided a document to Congress listing some 5,341 awards terminated as part of the administration’s decimation of USAID, alongside 898 surviving grants. Surviving beneficiaries that have supported terrorist charitable infrastructure are set to receive, the Middle East Forum has found, a total of $2.5 billion across 103 awards [see Appendix], for projects that the USAID...

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) is blaming the mainstream media for the Democratic Party’s cratering national support. In an interview Friday on MSNBC’s The Last Word, Clyburn claimed the media was distorting political narratives– and that Dems are losing ground not because of the exceedingly leftward tilt of their message – but because the press isn’t properly telling its story. “I think the message coming from the Democratic Party is a good message,” Clyburn said. “The problem we’ve got is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver it.” “There were people who said the [2024] protest movement didn’t...

For one Colorado father, something felt off with the family investigator working on his case case. He filed a complaint with the state.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) reacted to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) partially praising tariffs by saying that most Democrats support some tariffs, but “the challenge is, in this context, there are so many folks on my side, myself included, who strongly oppose President Trump and what he’s doing, and, every single day, find ourselves disturbed by the things he’s doing,” and “a lot of folks on our side, and not just on our side, some Independents and Republicans as well, want to see us fighting and making sure that we are fighting...

So Saturday was the day that the radical leftists came out to throw their 'Tesla Takedown" tantrum protests around the country. Tesla has done nothing to them; yet they're not shy about saying they are trying to tank the company and getting Elon Musk out of the government with DOGE. They don't care about who they might hurt in the process, including the Tesla dealers, owners, and workers. The protesters in New York City even held up a sign that said "Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy" in a truly threatening and delusional comment. They even had cut-out cardboard Teslas a...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow stated that after “President Trump and his top campaign donor and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, all started threatening Americans who don’t support Elon Musk’s car company, they started threatening people that they’d be hit with terrorism charges” people still engaged in protests at Tesla dealerships. Maddow said, “Even after President Trump and his top campaign donor and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, all started threatening Americans who don’t support Elon Musk’s car company, they started threatening people that they’d be hit with terrorism charges or that these —...

The newly appointed Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney made one of his first conversations with a foreign head of state a phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, vowing to continue prioritizing Ukraine in Canadian foreign policy as predecessor Justin Trudeau had done. Carney became prime minister on Friday after being appointed the new leader of the far-left Liberal Party in an election closed to eligible Party members last week. Trudeau announced he would vacate the position in January after a decade in power, responding to loud pressure from within his party to step aside as his...

Amazon, Google, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta have joined a growing list of energy-intensive companies calling for governments and utilities to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, signaling a significant boost for the nuclear industry’s revival. The Financial Times reports that tech giants Amazon, Google, and Meta have stepped forward to support the goal of tripling nuclear power capacity by 2050. The companies, along with oil group Occidental and chemical producer Dow, signed a pledge coordinated by the World Nuclear Association (WNA), an advocacy group for the sector. This move follows a similar pledge made in September by 14 of the...

The bulk of President Donald Trump’s policies receive “strong majority support,” a recent Harvard-Harris survey found. The survey listed several Trump policies and found a solid majority supporting most of them. For example, 81 percent across the board said they support “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes.” Perhaps what is more, there is partisan agreement, as 92 percent of Republicans, 74 percent of independents, and 62 percent of Democrats agree with that policy.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) garnered a miserable 6.6 percent favorability in a poll conducted with hundreds of his city’s residents, the majority of whom voted for Kamala Harris in the last presidential election. The survey, conducted by Illinois-based firm M3 Strategies on February 20 and 21, found that Johnson is “overwhelmingly unpopular” after receiving responses from 696 randomly-selected Chicagoans. “79.9 percent of voters disapprove of Johnson, with just 6.6 percent holding a favorable view—a net favorability of -73.3 percent,” the survey’s findings stated.

Ukraine will enter into peace talks with President Putin as long as the U.S. and Europe give “more security guarantees” not to “abandon” the country in future, its President says. President Volodymyr Zelensky told an interviewer he would agree to sit down to “any form of discussion” with Russia as long as his international partners first guaranteed their long-term support to deter future Russian aggression. This would be essential to prevent the Ukraine war simply becoming a frozen conflict that Russia could re-start when convenient to Moscow in the future, as it had been between 2014-2022, he said. Speaking to...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to a question on whether he would support deportation raids that focused on people with criminal convictions by stating that “this has happened under previous administrations, whether it’s President Obama or President Biden. This is not anything new. I think what the President is attempting to do is to create hyperbolic fear and tension in this country, and that’s not what we need right now.” Co-host A Martínez asked, [relevant exchange begins around 6:35] “Mayor, quickly, about 30 seconds, if these raids were to focus on people with...

A new poll found the public is sympathetic to the president-elect’s plans to deport migrants and reduce America’s presence overseas.Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald J. Trump share his bleak assessment of the country’s problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Ipsos. A little more than half of the country expresses some desire to see Mr. Trump follow through with his harshest threat to deal with illegal immigration: deporting everyone living in the United States without authorization. The poll, which surveyed 2,128 adults...

A recent poll of registered New York voters conducted by the Siena College Research Institute finds that a clear majority supports President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport illegal migrants. The Sienna poll, taken early this month, asked respondents if they support Trump’s plans: “When it comes to any efforts the Trump Administration will take to deport migrants living illegally in New York, do you think New York State should support or oppose the federal government’s efforts to deport migrants?” The response was stark with 54 percent overall saying that the Empire State should support the federal government’s efforts to deport...

Thursday on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) declined to support former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary. The Iowa Republican said that the vetting process needed to continue. “I did have a very long, lengthy discussion with Pete yesterday,” she said. “I appreciate his service to the nation. I, too, am also a combat veteran. So we talked about a number of those issues and will continue with the vetting process. I think that is incredibly important. So again, all I’m saying is we had a very frank and productive discussion. And...

Kentucky Bishop John Stowe has expressed his “dismay” over the overwhelming Catholic voter support for Donald Trump, insisting the U.S. Bishops should have warned Americans about the “danger” of the election. Stowe, a well-known liberal prelate, said the bishops should have issued a public statement of disagreement with Trump’s policies following the election, the way they did in the case of Joe Biden four years ago. There is the issue of Trump’s character, Stowe told Crux, an online Catholic news service, “and when somebody has such a flawed character that has been manifestly obvious throughout his previous presidency and the...

President Biden reiterated the United States’s support for Ukraine as it deals with the recent “horrific” Russian attack. “Overnight, Russia carried out a horrific aerial attack against Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities report that Russia launched nearly 200 missiles and drones against Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure, depriving Ukrainian civilians of access to electricity,” Biden said in a statement. Biden said the recent attack, which occurred as the United States prepared for its Thanksgiving holiday, was outrageous and is another reminder of the importance of supporting Ukraine. Biden said his administration has “for months” been working to help Ukraine increase its resilience...

The State Department said Tuesday that the Biden-Harris administration would not cut off weapons supplies to Israel in reaction to what it said was a declining humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, due to Israeli mitigation efforts. As Breitbart News noted in October, the Biden-Harris administration threatened a partial arms embargo if Israel did not take steps to comply with its demands on humanitarian aid to Gaza, and referred to U.S. human rights laws. The Times of Israel noted:US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel appears to confirm a report that Joe Biden’s administration will not, for now, withhold weapons shipments...