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04-03-2026 Vol 19

Month: June 2025

Padilla says Trump is on a ‘tour of retribution’ in first post-handcuffing floor speech

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) castigated President Donald Trump as a “vindictive president on a tour of retribution” and warned of what the administration was doing to Americans around the...

‘Insensitive, to say the least’: Mike Lee deletes Minnesota posts amid GOP criticism

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, amid widespread outrage, has deleted a pair of social media posts associating the deadly Minnesota shootings last weekend with "Marxists” and the state's Democratic governor....

Vance on the megabill: ‘We’re in a good place to get this done by the July 4 recess’

Vice President JD Vance expressed confidence Congress could deliver President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by July 4 as he left a closed-door lunch with GOP senators Tuesday at...

Massie, Democrats move to block US strikes on Iran

Rep. Thomas Massie said Tuesday he has filed a House resolution seeking to block U.S. involvement in the burgeoning conflict between Iran and Israel. Announcing the move on X,...

Bessent reveals the biggest misunderstanding people have about Trump

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that many critics fundamentally misunderstand that President Trump is driven by "his love for people" and "cares deeply" about Americans. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...

Trump reveals US knows where Iran’s supreme leader is ‘hiding’ but won’t take action for now: ‘Easy target’

President Trump on Tuesday said the US knows “exactly” where Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is hiding from Israel’s persistent airstrikes on Tehran leaders and nuclear program infrastructure, warning...

Trump splits with Gabbard’s assessment that Iran isn’t pursuing a nuke: ‘Don’t care what she said’

President Trump broke with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's assessment that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon and warned that the theocratic regime is "close' to having...

Former Sen. Bob Menendez reports to prison for 11-year sentence

The onetime powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is now at Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill in Minersville, Pennsylvania.

Senators get security briefing following Minnesota shootings

Senators used a closed-door briefing with law enforcement officials Tuesday to push for more funding for lawmaker security in the wake of the past weekend's fatal shootings in Minnesota....

Vance says Trump may ‘take further action to end Iranian enrichment’ but acknowledges concerns about ‘foreign entanglement’

"The president has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military's focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens," Vance wrote in a lengthy post on X. "The president...