Tag: Donald Trump

Vice President JD Vance speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington.

The inside story of how JD Vance ‘landed the plane’ on Trump’s TikTok deal

Christian Datoc · January 23, 2026 4:53 pm

Committee Ranking Member Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., questions Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins during a Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing to examine veterans at the forefront, focusing on the future at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, on Capitol Hill, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

More than a million veterans lost their VA primary care provider because of staffing losses, watchdog warns

Samantha-Jo Roth · January 23, 2026 4:46 pm

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One.

Beltway Confidential

China is toasting Trump’s repellent Afghanistan rhetoric

Tom Rogan · January 23, 2026 3:50 pm

Sheena Long uses a T-shirt to shoo away flies as workers clear a homeless encampment along the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles.

Leader of California charity arrested for defrauding the homeless out of millions in aid

Claire Carter · January 23, 2026 3:32 pm

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon speaks.

Jamie Dimon may be the defendant in Trump’s lawsuit, but JPMorgan Chase isn’t the actual target

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 23, 2026 3:32 pm

Anti-abortion activists march near the U.S. Capitol during the annual March for Life rally on January 23, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Anti-abortion activists attended the annual march to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court's, now-overturned, 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in all 50 states.

Vance tells March for Life that Trump administration is on their side, despite movement’s misgivings on abortion pill and Hyde Amendment

Mabinty Quarshie, Gabrielle M. Etzel · January 23, 2026 2:55 pm

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Treasury Department targets Iranian revenue with new sanctions on shadow vessels

Claire Carter · January 23, 2026 2:33 pm

Vice President JD Vance addresses the 2026 March for Life.

March for Life participants say Vance is future of movement for GOP

Gabrielle M. Etzel · January 23, 2026 2:17 pm

Acting director of Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought listens during a television interview at the White House, Oct. 21, 2019, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is seeking to distance himself from a plan for a massive overhaul of the federal government drafted by some of his administration officials, including Vought. Some of these men are expected to take high-level roles if the Republican presumptive nominee is elected back into the White House. Trump is saying on Truth Social that he "knew nothing about Project 2025."

‘Political retribution’: Democrats blast Trump for putting blue-state funding under microscope

Mabinty Quarshie · January 23, 2026 1:55 pm

A worker carries a solar panel on the roof of the Alta Sea building, an urban, ocean-based research and blue technology innovation campus, at Berth 58 in the Port of Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Energy and Environment

Energy Department cancels millions of solar funding for Puerto Rico

Claire Carter · January 23, 2026 1:28 pm

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order.

Beltway Confidential

Ignoring the TikTok divestment law remains Trump’s biggest abuse of power

Zachary Faria · January 23, 2026 12:33 pm

Protesters march and chant amid fiery demonstration in Iran

Iranian prosecutor denies canceling 800 executions as Trump claimed

Timothy Nerozzi · January 23, 2026 12:23 pm