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Israel accepts Trump-led ceasefire plan that could end Gaza war within 60 days

Israel has agreed to a proposal led by the Trump administration for a 60-day ceasefire, during which time President Donald Trump said all parties will work to end the war in the Middle East. ‘My Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on Gaza,’ Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday. ‘Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we...

MAGA law group fights to expose how Biden’s DEI agenda may have tainted life-saving organ transplants

A conservative legal group is trying to uncover whether the former Biden administration’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives seeped into the nation’s organ transplant system and led to prioritizing patients based on race.  MAGA law group America First Legal is suing a number of federal health agencies to obtain documents related to the nation’s organ transplant system.  Specifically, they’re targeting the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and...

Trump to meet with Netanyahu as he pushes for ceasefire between Israel, Gaza

President Donald Trump is slated to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, according to an administration official.  Trump is also pushing for Israel to reach a ceasefire with Gaza, and told reporters Tuesday that a ceasefire was likely in the next week. ‘We hope it’s going to happen, and we’re looking for it to happen sometime next week,’ Trump told reporters Tuesday.  An administration official confirmed Netanyahu’s visit to Fox News Digital.  White...

Elon Musk claims of ‘pork’ in bill not even possible, Budget chair says

The chairman of the House Budget Committee pushed back on Elon Musk’s claim that President Donald Trump’s $3.3 trillion ‘big, beautiful bill’ is full of ‘pork.’ It’s a claim the tech billionaire made when the House was considering the legislation the first time around, and he re-vamped those attacks again this week as the Senate wrestled with the bill. Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital in early June that it was not possible...

Trump urges House Republicans to ignore ‘grandstanders’ and deliver his ‘big, beautiful bill’ by July 4

President Donald Trump rallied Republicans in the House to get his ‘big, beautiful bill’ to the finish line and on his desk by July 4, reminding his colleagues the American people sent them to Washington, D.C. to ‘get it done.’ Nearly every Republican in the Senate voted to pass Trump’s $3.3 trillion megabill, though Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted against the legislation. No Senate Democrats crossed the aisle...

House Republicans call for investigation into Obama-appointed judge in Trump funding case

A pair of Republican oversight hawks escalated a complaint on Tuesday about a district court judge who is presiding over one of the Trump administration’s cases, alleging the judge has a financial conflict of interest. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman and member of the House Judiciary Committee, respectively, asked the judicial council for the First Circuit Court of Appeals to investigate Judge John McConnell, according to a letter obtained by Fox...

‘Only the beginning’: Trump admin releases data showing federal workforce slashed since January

The Trump administration released data on Tuesday morning showing that it had slashed the federal government workforce, while promising that there is more to come as Trump continues his push to rid the government of waste.  Data released by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) shows that the United States employs 2,289,472 federal workers as of March 31, which is down from 2,313,216 on September 30, 2024.  The reduction of more than 23,000 positions...

Schumer forces name change for ‘big, beautiful bill’ moments before it passes

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., forced a name change for President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ moments before the legislative package passed the upper chamber of Congress.  While Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., was chairing the Senate, Schumer raised a point of order against lines three to five on the first page of the legislative proposal that said, ‘SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘’One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”  Schumer argued the...

Tax cuts, work requirements and asylum fees: Here’s what’s inside the Senate’s version of Trump’s bill

Senate Republicans coalesced to pass President Donald Trump’s colossal ‘big, beautiful bill’ early Tuesday morning.  Senate Republican leaders and the White House have pitched the legislative behemoth as a means to turbocharge the economy, root out waste, fraud and abuse in a slew of federal programs, and to make crucial investments in defense and Trump’s border and immigration priorities.  Meanwhile, Senate Democrats have bashed the bill as a deficit-ballooning monstrosity that would boot millions of...

Why Justice Jackson is a fish out of water on the Supreme Court

Much has been written in recent days about the war of words between Supreme Court justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown-Jackson in the opinions handed down in Trump v. Casa, Inc., the case involving an injunction issued in a case challenging birthright citizenship. But as I pointed out in a Post on X Friday morning, Barrett’s decision was written on behalf of herself and the five other justices in the majority. The fact that Barrett...