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The US war with Iran — launched without a Congressional vote and now in its fourth week — is beginning to fracture the Republican unity that Trump typically relies upon for military and foreign policy initiatives. A closed-door briefing for the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday involving Department of Defense and intelligence officials left…
Markwayne Mullin was sworn into office as the ninth Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday in an Oval Office ceremony administered by Attorney General Pam Bondi, the day after the Senate confirmed his nomination in a 54-45 vote. His arrival at DHS comes at one of the most turbulent moments in the…
Monday was the most consequential day for US markets since the Iran war began on March 1, and it started not with a policy announcement or a diplomatic breakthrough, but with a Truth Social post. Trump wrote that the US and Iran had held talks, that strikes on power plants were being postponed five days,…
Three weeks of air strikes, thirteen American military deaths, over 230 wounded, and a $200 billion funding request sitting unanswered at the White House — and still no formal congressional vote authorising any of it. The Iran war has entered a phase where the political architecture around it, carefully constructed by the administration through party…
The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14, and the practical consequences are no longer limited to the policy debate in Washington. At airports across the country, TSA officers are quitting or calling out rather than work without pay, and the lines at security checkpoints are growing longer by the day….
The Third Amendment protects US citizens from being forced to house troops, and it was especially pertinent at the time of it being ratified. Of all the amendments in the Bill of Rights, one stands out for being the least litigated, the least controversial, and — to modern eyes — perhaps the most historically distant:…
More than five years after departing the Trump White House, Kellyanne Conway remains one of the most visible figures in Republican political circles, splitting her time between media commentary, corporate consulting, and high-profile speaking engagements. Conway served as Senior Counselor to the President during the first Trump administration from 2017 to 2020, and made history…
Acting IRS commissioner Scott Bessent has announced a “gigantic” tax refund for millions of Americans due to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Millions of Americans filing their 2025 federal tax returns this spring are receiving significantly larger refunds than in previous years, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicting what he called a…
The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold its benchmark interest rate in the 3.5% to 3.75% range on Wednesday was the most anticipated non-event of the year — until Jerome Powell started talking. What followed his opening remarks sent traders scrambling for the exits in a session that turned a routine hold into a full-blown risk-off…
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, Republicans didn’t just win an election — they inherited unified control of government and, with it, a mandate they treated as a license to govern at speed. Fourteen months later, the party looks considerably different from the one that swept into power, and not…