Politics — US

When the debt is framed as a crushing multiple of one year’s income, the conversation narrows to two unappealing options: cut spending or raise taxes on the wages and salaries ordinary Americans live on. Compare the debt to the country’s total wealth, though, and a different path emerges — one that…

The Trump administration is set to face another key test on abortion, with two months to go until the midterm elections. A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is poised to hear oral arguments next week in a case that could eventually restrict the nationwide…

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President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for diplomatic talks aimed at resuming negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Why it matters: Kushner and Witkoff traveled to Kyiv right after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. This is Witkoff…

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III on Sunday questioned the “advice” President Trump received in the lead-up to the Iran war. “What I don’t understand, frankly, about the Iran war is what advice was given to the president that led him to start this conflict?” Kendall told host Martha…

Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on four Sunday morning news programs after the U.S. and Iran traded tit-for-tat strikes this weekend. Iranian officials on Sunday took credit for an attack on an unmanned U.S. military ship in the Strait of Hormuz. That strike came after the U.S. hit three…

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday said he did not “want to have an opinion” on the direction of gas prices Americans are paying, which are above $4 per gallon on average at the pump in the U.S. “You said on this show five months ago that high gas prices had peaked, but between not…

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick called on the Senate to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act to expedite collective bargaining and protect the economic security of working families.

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III said Sunday he “couldn’t serve” in the Trump administration, blasting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership of the Pentagon. “I’ve never seen an attempt to politicize our military like the one being conducted by Pete Hegseth,” Kendall told Martha…

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday the Trump administration “may not” reach a nuclear agreement with the Iranian regime. “There may not be a nuclear agreement. It may be simply destroying their capabilities to do it,” Wright told host Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.” The Energy secretary…

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President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff on Sunday made their way to Kyiv to discuss the Ukraine war with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York Times reported that Witkoff and Kushner made it to the Ukrainian capital by train and later traveled…