Politics

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on Wednesday it has decreased its annual non-defense federal obligations by an additional ~1.9% since last month.As of June 8th, annual non-defense federal obligations are down 22.4%, or ~$25B, as compared to 2024, DOGE announced on X.The cut marks an additional ~1.9% reduction from last month's figures, which were announced on May 8. DOGE'S GREATEST HITS: LOOK BACK AT THE DEPARTMENT'S MOST HIGH-PROFILE CUTS […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) argues the courts should deny California's request for a restraining order against the Trump administration over its decision to activate National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles after violent riots broke out over the weekend amid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the city.Democratic leaders in California claim President Donald Trump abused his authority by invoking a provision of Title 10 that allows the president […]

House Republicans have formed their own Golden Dome Caucus as President Donald Trump continues to push for a nationwide missile defense system.Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., and Rep. Dale Strong, R-Ala., launched the caucus to be an "educational clearinghouse" as the policy effort for the dome kicks off."Golden Dome will only be successful if we meet President Trump's timeline," Crank said in a statement Tuesday. "This means that is imperative that […]

FIRST ON FOX: The rioting in Los Angeles has quickly made its way onto the campaign trail.Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia, who a month ago launched a Senate campaign in the 2026 race against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, on Wednesday went up with a new ad targeting the senator over the unrest in the nation's second-most populous city.Aiming to extinguish escalating protests in Los Angeles sparked by immigration raids […]

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is rehiring more than 450 previously fired employees belonging to multiple divisions within the agency's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to an HHS official familiar with the matter.The rehired workers come from four different operational divisions within the CDC: the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention (NCHHSTP); the National Center for Environmental […]

"Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., downplayed the recent riots in Los Angeles, attributing the chaos to unruly teens – not violent anarchists – and blaming former President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown for the unrest.Ocasio-Cortez took to the social media platform Bluesky on Tuesday and said Democrats don’t need to "answer for every teen who throws a rock" and that her party was falling into a Republican trap by trying to […]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned the protest and riots in Los Angeles as "shameful" on Wednesday, blasting California officials for failing to reign in "left-wing radicals."Leavitt made the comments as soon as she took the podium at a Wednesday press briefing. She emphasized President Donald Trump's efforts to quash the "mob rule" seen in the city while accusing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass […]

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has once again emerged as the his party's "voice of reason" after he denounced the Los Angeles riots for their "anarchy and true chaos" and Democratic colleagues attempt to characterize the anti-ICE riots as "peaceful protests.""John Fetterman is once again a voice of reason within the Democrat party," University of Pennsylvania grad Eyal Yakoby, who has frequently spoken to the media about antisemitism on college […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said he has crafted a plan in the event the Trump administration arrests him after he and President Donald Trump went head-to-head over the handling of the immigration protests in Los Angeles. Newsom said he and his team have "processed" what it would mean for him if the Trump administration secured a federal warrant for his arrest, Newsom said in an interview with the "Pod […]