President Trump on Thursday said he may pull his nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general until GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis leave office. Political strategists Usamah Andrabi and Kevin Sheridan join “The Takeout” with analysis. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s chances of confirmation were derailed on Wednesday, less than 24 hours before a pivotal vote in the Senate. It’s another chapter in the troubled saga that has followed Blanche since being tapped to replace former Attorney General Pam Bondi, and one that … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The fight over President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act has moved from squabbles within the GOP to the top Senate Republican and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt publicly sniping at one another. Leavitt suggested on Thursday that Trump’s patience was wearing thin with Senate Majority Leader … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., praised the late Sen. Lindsey Graham for backing legislation that would allow victims of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake pornography to file civil lawsuits. The DEFIANCE Act, a bill Ocasio-Cortez and Graham collaborated on, passed the Senate in January by unanimous consent with Paris Hilton … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., lashed out at President Donald Trump during a recent local television interview, labeling him a “man-child” throwing a “tantrum” over his refusal to sign a sweeping bipartisan housing package. Appearing on WCVB‘s “On the Record,” the left-wing senator did not hold back her … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Deep in Trump country, a Republican vying for a seat in the Senate is wondering why his possible future colleagues can’t pass a key voter ID and citizenship verification bill. Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., cruised to a primary victory Tuesday night in the Sooner State, where he … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The flatlined bid to reauthorize the nation’s controversial spying powers may have a pulse again after President Donald Trump made a key concession to Democrats. Congress was on its way to reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire Friday, but that momentum … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Justice (DOJ) pressed pause on the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund on Monday, giving Senate Republicans runway to hammer through a massive immigration enforcement funding package in the process. The DOJ announced on X that it would abide by a Virginia federal court’s order to … Read more
Washington — Congress is returning from recess this week to resume work that went unfinished before lawmakers left town, when GOP leaders were forced to scrap plans to fund immigration agencies after a Republican revolt over the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund. Senate Republicans were preparing to begin a marathon vote series to fund the Department … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Justice Clarence Thomas declined to immediately hand Alabama Republicans a win Wednesday, but ordered their voting rights challengers to quickly defend a court-drawn congressional map that helped Democrats flip a deep-red state House seat. Alabama’s Republican Attorney General requested emergency relief, asking the Supreme Court to immediately … Read more