: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Republican senators on Thursday are expected to roll out a measure that would prohibit the use of U.S. foreign aid funds for abortions, Fox News Digital has learned.  The bill, titled ‘the American Values Act,’ would permanently enact and expand existing prohibitions on the use […]Read More

President Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel pledged in his confirmation to end the ‘targeting’ of Americans by the government specifically as it relates to citizens who were in the crosshairs of the Biden administration for religious reasons. ‘Is it appropriate for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to attempt to recruit spies or informants into […]Read More

The Senate is set for a Thursday confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.  The upper chamber voted to advance Burgum’s nomination to a confirmation vote on Wednesday by a 78–20 margin.  Burgum appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in mid-January, […]Read More

The Senate is set for a Thursday confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.  The upper chamber voted to advance Burgum’s nomination to a confirmation vote on Wednesday by a 78–20 margin.  Burgum appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in mid-January, […]Read More

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled President Donald Trump’s DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard over her previous remarks praising whistleblower Edward Snowden.  ‘Until you are nominated by the president to be the DNI, you consistently praised the actions of Edward Snowden, someone, I believe, jeopardized the security of our […]Read More

President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel was grilled Thursday over the FBI’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia connections in the aftermath of the 2016 election, known colloquially by its nickname ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ and which has emerged as something of a partisan lightning rod in the years since the investigation was closed. Sen. Lindsey Graham, […]Read More

Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard slammed the Democratic narrative that she is a puppet for U.S. and world leaders, saying she is loyal to only God, the Constitution and her own conscience in her opening remarks before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.  ‘Before I close, I want to warn the American people […]Read More

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pushed back in his confirmation hearing after he was grilled on the president’s pardoning of January 6 rioters. ‘So do you think that America is safer because the 1600 people have been given an opportunity to come out of serving their sentences […]Read More

Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President Donald Trump nominated the former congresswoman.  ‘There is not a great deal in the public record about what you and Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad discussed […]Read More

House Republican leadership is encouraging lawmakers to back up President Donald Trump’s desire to return the Panama Canal to U.S. ownership, a new memo suggests. The House GOP Policy Committee, led by Chairman Kevin Hern, R-Okla., the No. 5 House Republican leader, sent the document to legislative directors across the conference on Wednesday. The two-page […]Read More