Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, that “Israel has no choice but to seek the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza.” “There simply is no diplomatic solution or ‘measured response’ available,” Rubio …
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called out Coca-Cola on his podcast this week for supporting Black Lives Matter after the organization’s Chicago chapter posted in a now-deleted X post a picture of a paraglider with the text “I stand with Palestine” — a reference to Hamas terrorists who paraglided into an …
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-Ala., colleagues pleaded on the Senate floor early Thursday morning –from midnight until nearly 4 a.m. –to drop his objection to military promotions, which has placed more than 400 positions in limbo for nine months, over the Pentagon’s abortion policy Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Todd Young, R-Ind., …
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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is pressing the U.S. Army for answers on behalf of former service members who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Nearly 2,000 service members were let go from the military after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Amid recruitment troubles in 2023, the Army recently …
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., likely doesn’t have the votes to pass President Biden’s $106 billion national security supplemental package as is, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday evening. Senate Republicans have been rallying behind adding stricter border security provisions in the package, …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) may have a few new lyrics to add to the holiday season staple “The 12 Days of Christmas.” On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… A partridge in a pear tree. Tuesday was the “first day of Christmas” on Capitol …
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More GOP senators are rallying behind former President Trump for the 2024 general election, boosting his momentum in the Republican Party. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., announced last week on X he is endorsing Trump in the GOP primary. “I am honored to stand with Donald J. Trump as he embarks …
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Distillers of American whiskey and bourbon were close to drowning in their own whiskey river. Instead, they avoided a torrent of tariffs. The European Union was slated to slap a staggering 50 percent tariff on distilled spirits produced in the U.S. as of Jan. 1. But an emergency truce brokered …
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President Donald Trump vowed to sue over a Senate practice that allows a lawmaker to block his U.S. attorney and district court nominees, as the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee stood firm against doing away with the tradition. Trump homed in on the “blue slip” tradition in the …
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Democratic lawmakers, including the two top congressional Democrats, are calling for gun control in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Minneapolis school on Wednesday. “I’m horrified by the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis and closely monitoring the situation. I’m thankful for the first responders on the …
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