President Trump’s political director James Blair expressed his confidence on Wednesday for GOP midterm election victories, despite falling economic approval ratings and a recent loss on a redistricting measure in Virginia.  “We’re not ignorant of the history of the midterms obviously, right, but it’s way too soon to declare defeat,” Blair told CNN’s Dana Bash...

President Trump’s fiscal policies are becoming increasingly unpopular amid economic strains resulting from the Iran war, according to new polling. The Associated Press-NORC Research Center survey, released Wednesday, showed the president’s economic approval rating slumped down to 30 percent this month. This is an 8-point decrease from March and 9-point fall from February.  The April...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel turn over information to Congress related to accusations that he has regularly consumed alcohol in excess during his time leading the counterintelligence agency. “These glimpses of your relationship to alcohol would be alarming to see in an FBI agent; for us to...

A group of NASA veterans came together on Tuesday to launch a new nonprofit organization aimed at defending Americans’ constitutional rights.  Astronauts for America is a group of over 100 former astronauts with common “patriotic, not partisan” goals, the founding members wrote in an open letter.  “We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents from many different...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned on Tuesday that his department will be unable to pay out employee salaries starting in early May amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.  The lapse in funding, which impacts DHS’s 22 agencies, has now stretched for a record 66 days.  “Fortunately, what President Trump did through...