Congress turned down President Donald Trump's request for funding for his modernization efforts at the White House " mainly out of concern that he would tap taxpayer dollars for his proposed ballroom. Now, the president is turning to a pot of money Congress approved last year for the U.S. Secret Service. Records show that the White House Office of Management and Budget last week quietly apportioned $352 million from Trump's tax cuts law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for "White House Security Measures."
When Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" took its chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy last year, it created bottlenecks that may have hampered the fight against the screwworm infestation currently menacing the southwest while making it much more expensive. read more
Sean Penn will direct a movie about a police officer who was at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. Following his Oscar-winning performance in "One Battle After Another," Penn will direct the as-yet untitled film from his own script. Bradley Cooper is in talks to star, though no deal has been finalized. Representatives for Penn and Warner Bros. didn't comment Tuesday on the movie's protagonist but said he's based on a real person. When Penn attended the 2022 hearings of the House Select Committee investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol, he sat between Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges, both of whom responded to the attacks. Fanone testified that he rushed to the scene and was "grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country."
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade ripped the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran during a Wednesday morning interview with the Hudson Institute's Rebeccah Heinrichs. "Rebeccah, can we just start on the Israeli portion of it? Israel has to, I guess, stop fighting back against Hezbollah, who's lobbing missiles at the northern part of their country," began Kilmeade. "This makes absolutely no sense." "It makes no sense. And we also know, Brian, that there have been diplomatic attempts over and over and over again since the early 2000s to try to get Hezbollah to disarm. They will not disarm, it has never worked through negotiations and diplomacy. At this point, if this is tied to this deal, the United States would essentially be restraining Israel, our greatest ally in the region and the reason that we had such success in [Operation] Epic Fury," replied Heinrichs.
President Donald Trump told the New York Times over the weekend that President Xi Jinping of China and Russian leader Vladimir Putin helped him to secure a peace deal with Iran to end the war. The Times diplomatic correspondent Edward Wong pointed out on Monday just how remarkable a claim that truly was, given that both Russia and China helped Iran to attack U.S. troops in the region during the conflict. "What he didn't mention: the State Dept. has imposed sanctions on companies for sending Chinese arms to Iran. And Russia has given intelligence aid to Iran," Wong wrote, while sharing the report on social media. read more
MTG skewers the bloated orange chomo.
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