Compared with CBO projections from January 2025, before Mr. Trump took office, the federal government is now expected to run a $23.1 trillion shortfall over the next nine years, rather than a $21.8 trillion one, a $1.4 trillion wider gap.
In a Facebook post stretching three times the length of the Gettysburg Address, a North Carolina senator praised Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance as "the most American halftime show I have even seen," an experience that drove him to tears and kept him writing nearly to midnight.
Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie named the Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem as the individual Jeffrey Epstein had emailed about a "torture video". read more
Khanna named, US businessman Leslie Wexner of Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch and Bath & Body Works fame; Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem; and Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, and Nicola Caputo.
After getting the opportunity to view the unredacted files, Rep. Thomas Massie threatened to read the names on the House floor to secure justice for survivors. read more
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has defended the administration's handling of the files, while acknowledging that most people would not be satisfied by the information contained inside the documents.
"There's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents and ... there's nothing I can do about that," Blanche said last month.
"There's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about, that we're covering up, or that we're choosing not to prosecute," he continued at the time. "That is not the case."
"I don't know whether there are men out there that abuse these women. If we learn about information and evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will," the deputy attorney general added. "But I don't think that the public or you all are going to uncover men within the Epstein files that abuse women, unfortunately."
GOP senator on Epstein files: Now I see what the big deal is'
Crockett: "Unanimous consent to enter into the record: El Paso air space reopened after FAA quickly rescinds ten day flights restriction. This was published and it says it was because of an impasse with the DOD over the use of unmanned military aircraft"not triggered by Mexican cartel drones."