Way harder than it should be: Why Congress may balk on $1.7B compensation fund

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had never appeared before a congressional panel asking for money to run his department until Tuesday morning. And even though cabinet secretaries routinely make their budget requests to Congress, it appears that Blanche apparently didn’t even need to ask lawmakers for the … Read more

Senate Republicans balk at $1B White House ballroom request: ‘You made that number up’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Republicans are having a hard time stomaching an eye-popping funding request that, in part, would fund security enhancements for President Donald Trump’s ballroom. Republicans in the upper chamber still aren’t completely on board with a $1 billion request from the Trump administration and Secret Service tucked … Read more

DHS shutdown likely to continue after Johnson, House GOP balk at Senate-passed funding bill

House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to take up a Senate-passed funding bill on Friday since it did not include money for immigration enforcement, likely prolonging the 42-day partial shutdown. CBS News’ Taurean Small and Olivia Rinaldi have the latest. Source link

NATO heavyweights balk at Hormuz mission as Trump warns alliance at risk

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NATO allies are declining to join a potential effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, frustrating President Donald Trump and prompting questions among some U.S. officials about the alliance’s reliability in a major global crisis. Trump has warned the Hormuz standoff with Iran could have serious consequences … Read more

‘Not our war’: U.S. allies balk at Trump’s Strait of Hormuz demands

LONDON — President Donald Trump has berated and threatened America’s NATO allies. Now he wants these same countries to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz — and their response has not exactly been enthusiastic. “This is not our war, we have not started it,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters Monday. That appeared to … Read more