Ed Case

Is anyone surprised that Donald Trump is already backtracking on his campaign promises?

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams and declared the country was "not going to lose" the polio vaccine.

Kennedy, whose wide-ranging views — yes to raw milk, no to fluoride, Ozempic and America’s favorite processed foods — are raising alarms in the scientific community and beyond.

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., speaks during a news conference in the Capitol on March 22, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump announced Guilfoyle as his selection for ambassador to Greece.

“It’s every father’s nightmare, to have to hear from some detective, ‘Are you the father of so-and-so?’” Robert Daryl Bird said.

Incoming border czar Tom Homan will meet with New York City Mayor Eric Adams in NYC where they will discuss the city’s ongoing migrant crisis and ways of deporting criminal illegal migrants.

Amid the inevitable Democratic identity crisis this post–presidential election winter, there have been exasperated calls for the party to return to “the economy.” The op-ed writers, angling for their future role, are painting the usual scene. The party must sit once again at the kitchen table and talk pocketbook issues. It is a long-held idea. [...]

The announcement comes a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the position.

In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," he again suggested political rivals should be imprisoned and repeated his deportation promises.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will nominate former Sen.

The final race of the 2024 election has been called, meaning Republicans will control 220 House seats to Democrats’ 215 next year, a slim majority.

Manchester aldermen are standing by their vote last month to put on hold plans to move ahead with demolishing the Beech Street Elementary School and building a new school, after listening to more than 90 minutes of public testimony on...

If confirmed next year by the new Republican-led Senate, Atkins would replace Gary Gensler, who has been leading the U.S. government’s crackdown on the crypto industry.

The father of Trump’s son-in-law pleaded guilty years ago to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations; Trump pardoned him in 2020.

Former Gov. Ed Rendell says Pennsylvania remains very much a swing state. In 2022, he points out, Democrats swept the statewide races.

The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.By Molly Redden, for ProPublicaProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Donald Trump is entering his second term with vows to cut a vast array of government services and a radical plan to do so. Rather than relying on his party’s control of Congress to trim the budget, Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to withhold funding from programs they dislike.“We can simply choke off the money,” Trump said in a 2023 campaign video. “For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”His plan, known as “impoundment,” threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president’s control over the budget. The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively. But Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds if he opposes them or deems them wasteful.Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible. This month, he pressured the Senate to go into recess so he could appoint his cabinet without any oversight. (So far, Republicans who control the chamber have not agreed to do so.) His key advisers have spelled out plans to bring independent agencies, such as the Department of Justice, under political control.If Trump were to assert a power to kill congressionally approved programs, it would almost certainly tee up a fight in the federal courts and Congress and, experts say, could fundamentally alter Congress’ bedrock power.

The athletes banding together to stop this unjust madness deserve admiration; they're sacrificing their seasons and risking lefties' fury to save the sports they love.

Markey said that he will vote “no" to Kennedy’s appointment, and that he thinks after the Senate goes through its “advise and consent" role in the process and holds hearings on the matter, many of his Republican colleagues will as well.

Smith asked to dismiss the cases without prejudice, meaning they could still be brought again in the future.

Trump made the threats in a pair of Truth Social posts in which he railed against an influx of illegal migrants, even though southern border apprehensions are near four-year lows.

President-elect Trump’s proposed (and aspirational) Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is the latest incarnation of a new Administration’s attempt to leave its mark on the federal government. In the November 20, 2024, Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy published an Op-ed about the DOGE effort they will lead and the three kinds of reform DOGE will pursue: regulatory recissions, administrative reductions, and cost savings. We propose that DOGE add a fourth, equally important focus, to improve the efficiency and productivity of federal agencies, especially the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).With nearly everything in commerce, from autos to electronics, touched by chemistry, improving the process by which EPA evaluates industrial chemicals would be significant. EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) is charged with conducting safety reviews of existing products and is the gatekeeper for new products. If DOGE can identify ways... Read the complete article here...©2024 Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

President-elect Trump is expected to name former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) to serve as secretary of Agriculture, a source close to the transition told The Hill. Loeffler is currently the co-chair of Trump’s second inaugural committee, ahead of the January 2025 swearing in, along with real estate mogul Steve Witkoff. Loeffler briefly represented Georgia in [...]

Here is a look at some department functions, and how Trump said he might approach them.

Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. Here's how that would work.

Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured withering and often misleading GOP attacks on the issue.

'Outsider and disruptor'

Republicans who criticized Gaetz in the past urged colleagues to keep an open mind about him as attorney general

Sleazeball Matt Gaetz resigned from his seat in Congress on Wednesday. He did this just hours after Donald Trump shocked and appalled Democrats and Republicans alike when he nominated the accused child sex trafficker to be the country's top law enforcement officer as attorney general.Gaetz's resignation came two days before the House Ethics Committee was set to release a “highly critical” report on his personal conduct, including allegations that he had drug-fueled sex parties with minors and showed off images of his sexual exploits to fellow members on the House floor.His resignation means the Ethics Committee no longer has jurisdiction over Gaetz, and thus the probe into his behavior is now closed.

Donald Trump’s gains across all of the voting wards in Boston – a five percent bump from 2020 that was even bigger in blue collar districts and in South Boston and Dorchester, make it less daunting for a candidate like the Southie city councilor to take on Wu.

President-elect Donald Trump has made a flurry of announcements about key cabinet members, at least one of which has come as a shock. And, President Biden provides an intimate view of the White House.

Democrats are pinning blame for Vice President Kamala Harris' election loss on a bevy of issues, stretching from the party shifting away from working class voters to Harris' VP pick.

Immigration advocates are bracing for Trump 2.0, whose pledge of mass deportation is sending waves of panic and anger throughout the movement. Even before President-elect Trump’s resounding victory on Tuesday, immigration advocacy was facing an identity crisis after decades of relying on Hispanics as their primary voting constituency and with neither political party fully embracing [...]

New York Attorney General Letitia James vowed to continue legally pursuing President-elect Donald Trump after his massive victory last week.

BPD officers involved in the incident testified that lethal force became necessary when Yellowtail pointed a firearm at officers during a standoff. The investigation following Yellowtail’s death revealed that his firearm was a toy cap gun with the orange cap...

Democrats woke up Wednesday morning and realized that a progressive icon, first-ever Latina Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, is now 70 years old and diabetic as President-elect Donald Trump is [...]The post Dems Can't Ignore Sotomayor's Health and Age, Reportedly Considering Giving Her the Biden Treatment appeared first on The Western Journal.

In his second term, Trump could well have a chance to name two more justices.

In a disturbing new poll, my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, has found that 80% of Americans agreed at least slightly that “words can be violence."

Jamie Reed's life has had "profound" changes since she objected to practices at Washington University's transgender center. But she has no regrets.

Donald Trump and his allies “have done grave damage to the Republican Party,” Gary Reed wrote in a letter to the editor Tuesday.

A conservative think tank is trying to use a routine retention vote to gain even more control over the state government by ousting three justices appointed by Democratic governors.

Quelle horreur—Barack Obama is wrong about something Donald Trump did! At a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris this week, the former president criticized Trump for signing the pandemic-era stimulus checks that went out to Americans. xPresident Obama: I hear some folks say, ‘Well Donald Trump sent me a check during the pandemic.’ Joe Biden sent you a check during the pandemic just like I gave people relief during the Great Recession. The thing is we didn't put our name on it because it wasn't about feeding our... pic.twitter.com/UQ9AjihdhE— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 24, 2024The thing is: Trump was right to sign those checks, and Obama and President Joe Biden were wrong.

Hawaii voters will be among the last in the country to cast their ballots on Election Day, when they’ll weigh in on the races for president, U.S. Senate and House, and both chambers of the state Legislature

Aren't these things supposed to make life easier?

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is due to release the redacted appendix Thursday if she doesn’t side with Trump.

What did the vice president know, and when did she know it? It’s a spin on the old line from the Watergate hearings — and curiously enough, it hasn’t really [...]The post Watch: Kamala Harris Scrambles, Tries to Escape Questions About Biden During Tense Interview Moment appeared first on The Western Journal.