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Anti-Trump social media users mockingly embrace Musk amid feud with prez: ‘Welcome to the resistance’
“I ❤️ @elonmusk !!!! Don’t you?” conservative anti-Trump lawyer George Conway wrote on X, as Musk lambasted Trump’s support for the “One Big Beautiful Bill”working its way through Congress.
The week in whoppers: Hakeem Jeffries flips inflation on its head, Chuck Schumer scaremongers on the GOP's budget bill and more
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries falsely claimed that inflation is up since President Trump took office.
Ignore the hysteria over GOP 'cuts' to Medicaid — it would still GROW dangerously fast
Medicaid growth has outpaced that of the other two largest federal entitlement programs, and spending on it will top the Defense budget. Yet even the GOP's modest restraint to growth...
Vermont Democrat slammed over ‘disturbing’ argument for more immigration
“If we don’t have avenues for people to come here legally to work or to build a home here, I’m going to be really crude right now — we’re not...
Princeton smiles on antisemites, big savings for New York and other commentary
Protesters at “an event at Princeton featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett” called Jewish students “‘inbred swine,’ among other slurs” as they disrupted the guest’s address.
Our 'big, beautiful bill' will provide New Yorkers tax relief they desperately need
The passage "the Big, Beautiful Bill,” quadrupled the SALT cap to $40,000 and is poised to deliver significant tax relief to nearly every home and business owner in the Hudson...
How Trump world is reacting to Musk's 'big beautiful bill' blowup: ‘Knew he’d throw a fit’'
WASHINGTON — Trump White House confidants said Wednesday they were not surprised tech billionaire Elon Musk blew up at the House-passed “Big, Beautiful Bill” — noting the...
Trump's 'big beautiful' bill adds $2.4T to deficit, CBO concludes
President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will increase the federal deficit by about $2.4 trillion over a 10-year period in its current form, according to a comprehensive analysis released...
Medicaid recipients without disabilities spend their time playing video games, watching TV: study
Medicaid recipients ages 19-64 who are capable of working and don't have kids spend an average of 4.2 hours per day -- or 126 hours every 30 days -- just...
Elon Musk explodes on 'big, beautiful bill' days after leaving Trump admin: 'Disgusting abomination'
“Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it."
Powerful firefighter union endorses tax cuts in Trump's 'big beautiful' bill: 'Common sense'
The largest labor union for firefighters and emergency service workers in North America is giving the tax provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act its official stamp of approval.
House Speaker Mike Johnson backs efforts to sanction Russia ‘as strongly as we can’
"There’s many members of Congress that want us to sanction Russia as strongly as we can,” Johnson told reporters on Monday. “And I’m an advocate of that."
Why China's mineral monopoly has emerged as key obstacle in US tariff talks: 'They hold virtually all of the cards'
Beijing has infuriated Trump officials by failing to loosen its crackdown on exports of seven “heavy” rare earth metals which are essential for gadgets like smartphones and electric cars as...
GOP senator gives mock apology to lefty critics for acknowledging 'we all are going to die' during Medicaid argument
Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst has delivered a backhanded apology for acknowledging everyone dies during a town hall that included frustration over Trump Medicaid reforms.
DOGE started the war on waste —now it's up to Congress to keep it going
As Elon Musk exits his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, making the savings his team found stick is now in Congress' hands.
JD Vance sabotages self with attack on Supreme Court
If the British coined the term “too clever by half,” Vice President JD Vance might own the political update of “too smart by 99%.”
Trump needs Congress to save his tariffs, and his trade strategy
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" collided with deliberation day in the courts, and it did not go well.
James Comer ‘open’ to hauling Biden before panel for hearing on his cognitive state, autopen use
No former president has given sworn testimony before Congress since Gerald Ford in 1983.
Dems’ suicidal groupthink, Israel haters’ anti-aid insanity and other commentary
Why, asks the Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin, did Democrats’ leaders ignore years of warnings about the party’s “setbacks and travails with working-class voters of all races” and how its “economic...
Speaker Johnson lays out game plan to make DOGE cuts law of the land after conservative frenzy
House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled his game plan to enshrine into law the cuts pursued by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after conservative backlash against Republicans for failing to...