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U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference during the G7 Leaders’ Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at criticism over the terms of the interim U.S.-Iran peace deal, saying those who think he hasn’t been tough

Even Donald Trump seems to know that his Iran deal is a piece of garbage. How else can you explain the sad sight of the feeble 80-year-old president trying to elevate a bad deal by inventing a story about Barack Obama at the G7? Trump tried to claim that the Iranians laughed at Obama. The

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, left, and Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, speak during a confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Senate Armed Services Committee approved

The SAVE America Act is never going to pass. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has said it over and over again. Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to abolish the filibuster, and even if they did, at least 4 Republicans are opposed to the SAVE America Act, so it doesn’t have

Donald Trump said Wednesday at the G7 conference that the U.S. will “go right back to dropping bombs” if he doesn’t like the Iran deal. The U.S. President said that the proposed agreement to bring the Middle East conflict to an end, which is set to be formalized at a signing ceremony in Geneva on

When people think about corruption in the federal government, the focus always goes to Donald Trump. There has long been an idea among Trump critics that once Trump is gone, the corruption will go away with him, but the corruption within the second Trump administration appears to be much deeper and more systemic. One of

Family homes line the streets of a neighborhood on May 23, 2026, in Thousand Oaks, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images An affordable housing bill limiting how many single-family homes major investors can buy is poised to be signed into law before the end of the month after key lawmakers in the House and Senate

Trump wants to go down in history as one of the great US presidents, but what is unfolding is one of the biggest presidential trainwrecks in American history. Through a series of bad policy decisions, Donald J. Trump has wrecked the economy. Corruption in this administration is approaching levels that haven’t been seen in the

U.S. President Donald Trump, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy take part in a working session at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 16, 2026. Thibault Camus | Afp | Getty Images Donald Trump has pledged further support to Kyiv and urged Moscow to “make a deal” to end the

Donald Trump has always inflated tentative agreements to deal status only for the American people to find out later that the deal doesn’t exist. What has been negotiated with the Iranians is a memorandum of understanding that sets the terms for future negotiations. There is no final deal. The Trump administration will not release the

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (R) speaks as his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom (L) looks on during an election night gathering at the California Democrats headquarters on November 04, 2025 in Sacramento, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday accused President Donald Trump of ordering the Department of Justice to investigate

Donald Trump would never have been president without rural America. One of the greatest contradictions, or some would say con jobs, in American history was pulled off as a New York City creature passed himself off as relatable and sharing the concerns of rural America. To anyone with a discerning eye, it was clear that

Markets are celebrating a preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement intended to end their war that triggered a global economic downturn and lasted nearly four months. Stocks surged on Monday, as oil prices and bond yields fell. No deal has yet been signed, though the sides have agreed a “memorandum of understanding” and stood down militarily, and the

The name of the Department of Defense and the title of Secretary of Defense can only be changed by an act of Congress, so it doesn’t matter if Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump change his job title to Queen of England. Hegseth’s official and legal job title is Secretary of Defense, and that is how

Charlie Javice leaves Manhattan federal court after being sentenced to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co., in New York City, U.S., Sept. 29, 2025. Jeenah Moon | Reuters Charlie Javice, who was convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase after selling her company, is seeking a pardon from the Trump administration, The Wall

Holding a UFC card at the White House is wrong. The White House belongs to the American people, not any president. The current president has vandalized the White House many times over, but his destruction of the South Lawn to hold a birthday party for himself is especially twisted. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent. Support us

Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve nominee for US President Donald Trump, is sworn in during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s officially “Chairman” Kevin Warsh, not “chair.”   The Federal Reserve website

The U.S. and Iran are “closer to a peace deal than ever before,” Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday. “With finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace deal immediately after, followed by technical level talks next week,” Sharif said in a post

On Friday, as the clock ticked on a court order that Trump’s name had to be removed from the Kennedy Center, the administration appealed to the court that ordered Trump’s name removed from the building for a stay, but the judge denied the stay, writing: Most notably, for the detailed reasons laid out in the