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09-03-2026 Vol 19

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Kremlin denies Trump’s claim that Putin is ready for peacekeepers in Ukraine

Russia's foreign minister last week called the move "unacceptable'' -- and a Kremlin rep Tuesday said nothing has changed. Russia's foreign minister last week called the move "unacceptable'' --...

Johnson brushes off Musk, but GOP budget holdouts stand firm

Speaker Mike Johnson said in a brief interview Tuesday he's not worried that a late-night post from Elon Musk signaling concerns with the GOP budget plan could tank support...

Top Committee Dem goes after Trump’s interim U.S. attorney

Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, plans to investigate Washington’s top prosecutor for making threats against the Trump administration’s political adversaries...

Capitol agenda: Big, beautiful budget on life support

Mike Johnson has about 12 hours to get his conference behind his plan for enacting the president’s sweeping agenda. It’s not looking good. The speaker insists he’s not changing...

Democratic Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani emerging as a serious contender for NYC mayor: poll

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate running for mayor, is emerging as a serious contender for City Hall, a new poll claims. Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate running...

Tech guru admired by Elon Musk estimates ‘over $100 billion’ in taxpayer money is being wasted or stolen

The tech expert is using artificial intelligence to expose cases of government waste, fraud and abuse and goes by “DataRepublican” on X, where her posts are regularly shared by...

UN Security Council adopts US resolution on Ukraine war after it failed to pass in the General Assembly 

The United Nations Security Council adopted a US-led resolution on Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday after it failed to pass earlier in the day in the body’s General Assembly. ...

Elon Musk warns fed government workers who don’t respond to a second ‘what you accomplished’ email will face ‘termination’

“The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!” Musk wrote on X. “Yet so many failed...

House GOP advances budget framework for border, energy and tax priorities for final vote

All nine GOP members of the House Rules Committee approved the blueprint to cut at least $1.5 trillion and as much as $2 trillion in government spending, while capping...

The House GOP’s Medicaid holdouts are coming around

Some of the House Republicans who have doubted Speaker Mike Johnson's budget plan said Monday night that they’re more inclined to support the blueprint after GOP leaders ruled out...