President Trump is calling to pump $1.5 trillion into fixing America’s infrastructure while streamlining the often-cumbersome permitting process, as part of a $4 trillion-plus budget plan unveiled Monday. “World-class infrastructure is possible for the American people,” Trump said in his budget message to Congress. In the runup to the release, the president also tweeted: “This…
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Unless it’s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to “Darker, Gayer, Different.” If your goal is to win medals, that won’t work. A USOC official was quoted this week expressing pride (what else?) about taking the most diverse U.S. squad…
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Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) may be patting themselves on the back for brokering a compromise on the budget Wednesday, but conservative groups are not impressed with its contents. The deal would add $500 billion in federal spending – for both defense and non-defense spending. Conservatives lawmakers and organizations are decrying the…
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FBI lovers’ latest text messages: Obama ‘wants to know everything’ Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know everything we’re doing.” The message, from Page to Strzok, was among thousands of texts…
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President Trump said Tuesday that he’d “love to see a shutdown” if no immigration deal is reached between Republicans and Democrats to tighten border security. Trump spoke during a White House meeting on the violent MS-13 gang. “If we don’t get rid of these loopholes,” he said, “if we don’t change it, let’s have a…
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President Trump blasted the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Monday amid the mounting fight over the panel’s ‘surveillance’ memo, calling “Little Adam Schiff” one of the “biggest liars and leakers in Washington.” The president’s early Monday tweet came as Democrats, led by Schiff, continued to condemn majority Republicans for publishing the memo claiming…
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) allegedly gave the White House a “secretly altered” version of the GOP-crafted memo about government surveillance abuses, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed late Wednesday. In a letter to Nunes, the ranking Democrat on the committee accused him of making significant changes to the memo, which he said were…
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President Trump called out Democrats Thursday morning for “doing nothing” about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program even though the deadline is “rapidly approaching.” “Heading to beautiful West Virginia to be with great members of the Republican Party. Will be planning Infrastructure and discussing Immigration and DACA, not easy when we have no support…
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President Trump appealed for unity in his first State of the Union speech, declaring a “new American moment” even as many glum Democrats in the audience sat on their hands and refused to acknowledge economic gains or calls to honor veterans. While Trump held firm on his demands for border security and used the grand…
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In one of the most heartbreaking and poignant moments of President Trump’s first State of the Union address, the 45th president acknowledged two sets of parents whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants. Nisa Mickens, 16, and Kayla Cuevas, 15, were killed by MS-13 gang members in Long Island in September 2016. Their parents,…
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With many of them clad in black, the Democrats who did show up to President Trump’s first State of the Union address Tuesday night were not happy about it. In fact, they seemed so focused on opposing everything he said they couldn’t even bring themselves to applaud things that are normally considered bipartisan. They set…
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Top FBI official Andrew McCabe has been “removed” from his post as deputy director, Fox News is told, leaving the bureau after months of conflict-of-interest complaints from Republicans including President Trump. A source confirmed to Fox News that McCabe is taking “terminal leave” – effectively taking vacation until he reaches his planned retirement in a…
DetailsPolitical correctness has officially killed Chief Wahoo. The Cleveland Indians’ logo that’s been in official use since 1947 will be gone after the 2018 season, it was reported Monday. The caricature of a Native American, which is beloved by Cleveland fans far and wide, has been under attack for years by Native American groups for…
DetailsAssistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd is urging House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes to keep the memo about government surveillance abuses within the halls of Congress. “We believe it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and…
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President Trump warned Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday night that without a border wall there is no deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA,” the president tweeted. “We must have safety and…
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The Daily Caller reports that the FBI “failed to preserve five months of text messages” exchanged between two anti-Trump FBI employees who may have compromised on going investigations such as the Clinton e-mail scandal and the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports that “The disclosure was made Friday…
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Well, for liberals, year one was the darkest era in human history. It was the return of Lord Voldemort, the resurgence of Sauron from the land of Mordor, or the Galactic Empire reigning hellfire from the Death Star, whatever terrible cultural villain suits the narrative that was it. Frankly, it was probably the former because…
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It’s been nearly 24 hours since Minority Leader Chuck Schumer got Democrats in line to end the #SchumerShutdown. It was the right thing to do but leftists, who Schumer usually sides with, are absolutely enraged by the cave. ACLU: “Enough is enough. We cannot rely on empty promises from those who have already proven to…
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You already knew that both parties are trading hypocritical barbs over the current ‘Schumer Shutdown,’ but this clip from the archives is really quite special and simply too delicious not to share immediately. Back when Republicans pushed a flawed shutdown strategy over Obamacare in 2013, a certain Senator from New York pronounced himself aghast. The GOP’s disgraceful ‘hostage taking’…
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With the government still shut down as the workweek began, President Trump took to Twitter to blame the Democrats. “The Democrats are turning down services and security for citizens in favor of services and security for non-citizens. Not good!” he wrote. He also accused them of using the shutdown to appease “their far left base.”…
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