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05-03-2026 Vol 19

Month: February 2025

USAID staffers told to stay out of DC headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to shut it down

WASHINGTON — Staffers of the US Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them,...

NYC GOP slams effort to have its voters re-enroll as Democrats for mayor’s primary race

New York City Republican leaders are blasting a campaign to persuade its GOP voters to re-enroll as Democrats to vote in the Democratic primary for mayor on June 24. Voters have...

Lindsey Graham’s new challenge for Mike Johnson

Graham is ready and waiting if Johnson’s plan for the Trump agenda blows up.

RFK Jr. is persona non grata among Democrats

If the reception Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received from Democratic senators last week is any indication of how they’ll vote on his confirmation to serve as President Donald Trump’s...

Hard-liner rebellion forces House GOP leaders to scramble for deeper cuts 

Budget Committee conservatives rejected the minimum targets outlined at least week’s Republican retreat.

Canadian toll deadbeats cost NY, NJ millions as Port Authority sees overall loss of $1.53B in 4 years

President Trump President Trump says Canadians aren't doing their fair share amid a tiff over trade. The  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agrees, with receipts showing that...

Why Trump is digging in his heels on huge tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China

Trump also suggested the tariffs were an attempt to level the playing field against three nations with which the US had a combined $450 billion trade deficit in 2023....

Republicans hold their breath as Trump ignites trade war with Canada, Mexico and China: ‘Tariffs are simply taxes’

Republican lawmakers are treading carefully as President Trump deviates from traditional party orthodoxy by slapping large tariffs against America's three largest trading partners in a simmering trade war. Republican...

Vance tempers expectation on US taking over Greenland but says it’s still ‘possible’

Veep JD Vance on Sunday refrained from setting expectations too high about President Trump’s chances of usurping Greenland from Denmark, although he still called it “possible” and dismissed European...

Transportation chief Sean Duffy claims department traded core mission for DEI, vows to add air traffic controllers

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said one major question in the crash between an army chopper and a commercial jet in DC last week is why the helicopter didn't conduct...