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Senate Confirms Lori Chavez-DeRemer As Labor Secretary

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Former Republican Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Labor in a bipartisan vote of 67 to 32 on Monday, marking the most bipartisan vote since the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent to be Secretary of Treasury in January. Chavez-DeRemer had bipartisan support throughout…

EPA Scraps $1.7 Billion Worth Of DEI And Environmental Justice Grants

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin took to social media Monday to announce the cancellation of over 400 diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and environmental justice grants. Zeldin posted on X, previously known as Twitter, to declare the termination of these initiatives. The cuts span across nine grant programs, amassing a…

Brit Hume Says Dems Will Suffer If They Refuse To Vote On Bill To Avoid Government Shutdown

Veteran political analyst Brit Hume appeared on Fox News Monday and said the potential for political fallout exists for Democrats if they refuse to support a bill designed to prevent a government shutdown. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is preparing for a Tuesday vote on legislation that, if…

CNN Steps On A Rake After ‘Fact-Checking’ Trump’s ‘Transgender Mice’ Funding Claim

CNN issued a correction after the network inaccurately asserted that President Donald Trump “falsely claimed” the Biden administration spent $8 million to make mice transgender. During his joint address to Congress on Tuesday, Trump cited several examples of “appalling waste” he had cut, including $8.2 million in NIH-funded studies on…

Dem Governor Seems Hellbent On Making Arizona’s Election Counting Laughing Stock Of Nation

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a commonsense bill that would have allowed our state to provide voters with same-day election results, moving us further away from the disastrous reporting system that is found when California voters go to their polls. Rather than our current operation of keeping Arizona voters in…

Left’s Attempts To Help Disabled Workers May Be Doing More Harm Than Good

While various Democrats and disability rights groups have been advocating in recent years for disabled workers to get paid higher wages, slashing certain low-wage job programs could potentially harmfully impact such workers. Many workers with intellectual or developmental disabilities rely on sub-minimum wage job programs, which were established…

Don’t Fall For Left’s Selective Outrage About Government Data Collection

The left has panicked lately that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access to federal databases. However, they have been perfectly content to let career bureaucrats collect such information from the American people. There was no massive outcry, for example, when Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA),…

Biden’s Dumb LNG Pause Has Rightfully Met Its End

Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum held a joint appearance in south Louisiana Thursday to tout the restart of the growth of America’s liquefied natural gas(LNG) industry. The event celebrated the kickoff of a planned $18 billion expansion of the existing Plaquemines Parrish LNG export facility operated…

Al Green Plays Race Card While Complaining About Being Censured For Disrupting Trump’s Speech

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Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green suggested on Friday that the House of Representatives censuring him for disrupting President Donald Trump’s congressional address was rooted in racial “discrimination.” Green was removed from the House chamber after refusing to stop interrupting Trump during the Tuesday speech, prompting the House of Representatives to…

Gregg Jarrett Slams Secret Service Failures In DOJ’s ‘Strongest’ Case Against Routh

Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called out the Secret Service Friday evening on Fox Business over what he said were its failures to prevent President Donald Trump’s alleged attempted assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, in Florida last year. In September 2024, Routh was formally charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to assassinate…