President Trump’s focus on repair and beautification projects around Washington, D.C., risks backfiring on Republicans ahead of the midterms as the issue of affordability takes center stage across the country. Just this week, Trump began an unrelated executive order signing and an energy announcement in the Oval Office talking about the completion of repairs of...

Republicans hoping to keep control of Congress in a tough election year have been thrown off-balance by President Trump’s focus on foreign policy, pet projects, and statements dismissing the importance of the midterms and cost-of-living issues. To be sure, Trump’s team is putting its shoulder into the midterm operations. The president has helped to catapult...

Pressure is growing on President Trump to back down from his controversial move to appoint Bill Pulte to lead the intelligence community in order to safeguard another priority— renewing America’s warrantless spy powers. A growing number of Democrats have threatened to not renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — even on...

President Trump told reporters on Thursday that he did not notice cognitive decline in former President Biden when they met in November 2024 after Trump won the election. “No, not really. He was the same guy I’ve been watching for a long time,” Trump said when asked if he could detect any cognitive decline in...

President Trump is slated to come face-to-face with traditional U.S. allies next week as the Group of Seven (G7) nations convene in Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France, amid simmering tensions between the U.S. leader and a number of member nations. It’s been just a year since Trump abruptly left last year’s meeting in Alberta, Canada, saying he...

President Trump sought to appeal to farmers at a roundtable in Wisconsin on Friday amid skyrocketing fertilizer and energy prices as a result of the U.S. war in Iran. “We’re going to come out, and your fertilizer prices are going to go way down, just like they were four months ago,” Trump told farmers in...

The U.S.-Iran war appears to have no end in sight, as it hit its 100-day mark over the weekend despite President Trump’s campaign promises to keep the U.S. out of long-term foreign conflicts. Trump denied ever promising not to start any new wars and disputed that Washington's conflict with Tehran constituted an "endless war" during an...

A new report on Wednesday showed inflation rising 4.2 percent in May, marking its highest level in three years and underlining how hard the Iran war is hitting consumers. The Labor Department report is unwelcome news for President Trump and the GOP in an election year where affordability is the dominant issue. Democrats were already...

President Trump called Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) “a loser” Friday when asked about the lawmaker’s threat to not support acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination unless Blanche condemns the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol.  “Sen. Tillis is a loser. He didn’t run because I wouldn’t support him,” Trump told reporters on Air Force...

President Trump's voter fraud accusations in California are already highlighting the tricky terrain facing gubernatorial nominee Steve Hilton as he navigates running as a Trump-endorsed Republican in a state where the president is hugely unpopular. The British political adviser-turned-U.S. politician touted what is the most sought-after endorsement in GOP politics at every turn on the...