While public attention has largely been focused on the Middle East and on President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, Republicans in Congress are on the verge of passing massive Medicaid cuts as part of a budget bill that could lead to millions of Americans losing their health insurance benefits and, according to one recent estimate, thousands … Read more
While President Trump has repeatedly declared that the United States’ military strikes on key Iranian enrichment and research sites “totally obliterated” the country’s nuclear facility, the intelligence community and other officials within his administration have quietly insisted that reaching a diplomatic solution was just as critical as ever. On Tuesday, multiple officials told ABC News … Read more
President Donald Trump is now the most unpopular he has been during his second term. More than half of American adults disapprove of the job he is doing, and he’s underwater on nearly every important issue of the day. The polling averages show this net disapproval clearly: On the economy, he’s down 13 percentage points. … Read more
Over the past week, President Trump claimed he would make a decision about Iran in “two weeks” and repeatedly pressed it to come to the negotiating table. But the swiftness of the attack on Saturday night suggests that plans were underway after Israel began its bombing campaign against Iran a little more than a week … Read more
President Donald Trump has framed his strikes on Iran as a costless triumph. The president is not asking Americans to accept sacrifices in service of destroying the Iranian nuclear program — only to applaud his already successful destruction of it. “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump declared Saturday night. … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough defended President Donald Trump on Monday over his decision to strike Iran’s nuclear program, suggesting other presidents might have made the same choice. “I said on Thursday or Friday, the president had no good options. What would Monday look like if he hadn’t have … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Democratic Party advisor Dan Turrentine said the “unhinged calls for impeachment” in the wake of President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran was “truly [Trump Derangement Syndrome]” on display on Sunday. The White House launched “Operation: Midnight Hammer” on Saturday and struck three of Iran’s key nuclear … Read more
With his strikes on Iran, President Trump is betting that the United States can repel any retaliation, and that the U.S. has destroyed the regime’s chances of reconstituting Iran’s nuclear program. David Sanger, the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, explains the risk. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded CNN retract a story on Sunday that claimed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries were not briefed on President Donald Trump’s strike on Iran. Trump launched “Operation: Midnight Hammer” on Saturday and struck three of … Read more
When Vice President JD Vance appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday morning, anchor Kristen Welker asked him a simple question: Is the United States now at war with Iran? In response, Vance said, “We’re not at war with Iran; we’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.” This is akin to saying that, in attacking … Read more