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EXCLUSIVE: Social Security Administration touts major gains under Trump, says service ‘strongest in decades’

The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent a formal letter to Congress Thursday afternoon claiming that Americans’ benefits, processing times and service levels have improved under President Donald Trump this year. In the letter, Commissioner Frank Bisignano wrote that the agency has ‘made historic progress’ for retirees and low-income Americans through reforms aimed at transparency, call center response times and streamlined benefits delivery.’ ‘With the passage of President Trump’s historic ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ earlier this...

Senate Republicans, Dems block dueling attempts to repeal controversial Arctic Frost provision

Senate Republicans and Democrats squared off on the Senate floor Thursday, blocking attempt after attempt to repeal or change a controversial law that would allow senators to sue for hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money. The partisan back-and-forth came as lawmakers in the upper chamber were jetting from Washington, D.C., for the upcoming Thanksgiving recess.  Two different attempts to fast-track a repeal or tweak of the law that would allow senators targeted in...

GOP wrestles with Obamacare fix as Trump looms over subsidy fight

Congressional Republicans are sorting out what their plan to tackle expiring Obamacare subsidies will be, but they acknowledge that, ultimately, President Donald Trump will be the deciding factor.  Senate Democrats turned the latest record-breaking shutdown into a push to extend the subsidies, which were enhanced during the pandemic under former President Joe Biden and are set to sunset by the end of this year.  Many Republicans recognize that the subsidies must be dealt with as...

Vance says Trump admin has ‘great’ healthcare plan coming, wants to work with Dems: ‘Politics be damned’

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday teased a ‘great’ healthcare plan that the Trump administration has in the works to help bring costs down for American families, saying President Donald Trump cares about fixing a broken system, not playing political games with Democrats. Vance made the remarks during a fireside chat with Breitbart’s Matt Boyle in Washington, D.C., when asked about Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expiring at the end of the year and the...

White House shuts down reports US backtracked on Trump’s G20 boycott

The White House reiterated Thursday that the U.S. will not send a delegation to the upcoming G20 conference in South Africa, calling reports claiming the opposite ‘fake news.’  President Donald Trump said earlier in November that U.S. officials would skip the annual conference, which brings together 19 nations to discuss global economic stability and development, over South Africa’s reported human rights abuses.  Media reports and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, however, have claimed that the...

US and Russia draft peace plan for Ukraine requiring major concessions from Kyiv

The United States and Russia have drawn up a plan to end the bitter fighting in Ukraine, which would require major concessions from Kyiv. Exactly what all the concessions that would be made of Ukraine were not clear, but some include demands Moscow has repeatedly made since the start of the 2022 invasion of its neighbor, according to The Associated Press, citing a person familiar with the matter. Included in the framework would be the...

Schumer, Jeffries accuse Trump of calling for ‘execution of elected officials’

Congressional Democratic leaders warned Thursday that President Donald Trump’s posts accusing several Democrat senators of sedition, ‘Punishable by DEATH,’ would encourage political violence against lawmakers. Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social that six congressional Democrats featured in a viral video calling on members of the military and intelligence community to refuse to carry out ‘illegal’ orders from higher-ups was ‘really bad, and Dangerous to our Country.’ ‘Their words cannot be allowed to...

Six in ten founders say Labour is ‘anti-business’, new survey finds

Nearly two-thirds of fast-growth business founders believe the Labour government is “anti-business”, according to a new survey from Helm, one of the UK’s largest networks of scale-up entrepreneurs. In a poll of 400 Helm members, 63% said the government is anti-business, compared with just 23% who disagreed. A further 14% said they were unsure. Even more striking was the response to whether the government “rewards people for working hard”: 95% said it does not. The...

Business Uses For Portable Toilets: More Than Just Construction Sites

When considering portable sanitation, the immediate mental image is typically one of construction sites, with their iconic plastic units positioned near heavy machinery. While it’s undeniable that the construction industry is a primary beneficiary of these services, this perception can significantly undersell the vast utility and strategic importance of portable restrooms across the modern economic landscape. The scope of available units has expanded dramatically, moving far beyond the basic single-stall model. Businesses can now select...

Zeldin, McCain hammer Crockett on Epstein donations claim

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin — who clapped back after House Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett said that he and others had taken money from someone by the name of Jeffrey Epstein — took to social media again after Crockett defended her comments and claimed that she was not seeking to ‘mislead’ anyone. Zeldin began his Wednesday post on X with an exploding head emoji and then declared, ‘When you find yourself in a...