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House GOP fiscal hawks warn Trump tax cuts in danger of expiring under new Senate-backed plan
Republican tax hawks are worried that key Trump administration tax policies could expire at the end of 2025 if congressional leaders follow through on a plan to break up a massive conservative budget bill into two parts. Reconciliation is a way to fast-track legislation on issues like taxes, the debt…
Read More »NEWT GINGRICH: Biden may be president but Trump is already leader of the free world
It is clear Donald J. Trump will be a remarkable second-term president. His courage and endurance over the last nine years have already made him an historic figure – even before he made the greatest comeback in American political history on Nov. 5. The four years he spent out of…
Read More »Outgoing Treasury Sec. Yellen ‘sorry that we haven’t made more progress,’ believes deficit must be decreased
Outgoing Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen said that she’s ‘concerned about fiscal sustainability’ and thinks the deficit must be decreased. She made the comments during the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit after Greg Ip, chief economic commentator for the outlet, noted that President Joe Biden and Yellen are leaving behind…
Read More »Senators call on Biden to brief upper chamber on efforts to return Austin Tice from Syria
In a rare bipartisan push Wednesday morning, senators on both sides of the aisle called on President Biden to instruct his administration to brief the upper chamber by Dec. 20 on efforts underway to free Austin Tice from Syria. A letter, first obtained by Fox News Digital, was sent to…
Read More »Biden admin extends $10B Iran sanctions waiver 2 days after Trump election win
The Biden administration has renewed a controversial sanctions waiver that will allow Iran access to some $10 billion in payments from Iraq – an action that came just two days after President-elect Trump emerged victorious on Election Day. Secretary of State Antony Blinken again extended the waiver for humanitarian trade,…
Read More »Biden, Democrats back away from bill that would give Trump more federal judges to appoint
President Biden and key Democrats are now opposing a once bipartisan bill that would have authorized 63 new permanent district judgeships now that President-elect Donald Trump would be the one to fill 21 of those slots once he takes office. The Senate in August passed the ‘Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting…
Read More »A kinder, gentler Trump? President-elect taking a more moderate stance
Donald Trump is making a deliberate effort to soften his tone. Or is he? I’ve given this a lot of thought, having interviewed Trump twice this year, including two weeks before the election. He was focused and substantive, trying to reach a more independent audience, and while he took some…
Read More »Trump shooting task force says DHS, Secret Service haven’t produced docs on golf course incident
The House Task Force investigating the assassination attempts on President-elect Trump’s life has released its final report on Tuesday, detailing ‘preexisting conditions and leadership failures’ that led to the deadly campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July. While the bipartisan panel was given ample information on that shooting, the report suggested…
Read More »Meet Natalie Harp, Trump’s ‘valuable resource’ who lawmakers say is ‘critical’ to his operation
President-elect Trump’s assistant Natalie Harp said ‘confidentiality, speed, accuracy, and adaptability’ are key to delivering for the president, as lawmakers who communicate with her regularly told Fox News Digital that she is ‘critical’ in ensuring Congress is a ‘real partner’ for the incoming administration. Harp has worked alongside the president-elect…
Read More »Speaker Johnson says ‘still some concern’ about Elon Musk-backed online safety bill
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he still has lingering doubts about a children’s online safety bill that Elon Musk threw support behind this weekend. ‘There’s still some concern about the free speech components of that, and whether it might lead to further censorship by the government of valid, you…
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