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By Nick Arama Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) was in fine form during an appearance on Fox Business with Larry Kudlow.  He went off on the subject of the SAVE America Act and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), and said he was prepared to stay until they got it done. He said if he were in charge, he would have had it on for a reconciliation vote. 🔥 WOW! Sen. John Kennedy is GOING OFF, saying John Thune should force a reconciliation bill with SAVE America to the floor immediately with NO VACATIONS "I am prepared to stay here AS LONG AS IT TAKES. I've been to a squillion meetings to stuff that could've been an email! I'd… pic.twitter.com/zzQRdCIqXj — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 6, 2026 Kennedy said he didn't know when they were going to be holding a vote, but that it needed to get done, he insisted.  "I am prepared to stay here as long as it takes. I've been to a squillion meetings to talk about this stuff that could've been an email! I...

By Ben Smith Congress banned illegal aliens from welfare in 1996. Nearly thirty years later, $18.3 billion in cash assistance has gone to households with a parent who didn't qualify, and the loophole is still open. The money flows through "child-only" cases in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The eligible child is listed as the beneficiary, while the parent receives and controls the payment. In fiscal year 2024, those cases accounted for nearly $760 million, roughly 9 percent of all TANF basic-assistance spending. More than 85,200 families collected through the pathway, with the cases tied to over 100,000 adults who were ineligible because of their immigration status. The child-only designation dates to the creation of TANF under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Congress designed it largely for childre n being raised by grandparents or other relatives. States also use it when a parent is ineligibl...

By Sister Toldjah The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has become persona non grata for an increasing number of Democrat public figures and wacktivists, primarily for having the audacity to oppose candidates who are anti-Israel and/or otherwise work against the safety and security interests of the millions of Jewish people who call America home. The bad blood between Democrats and AIPAC has gotten so intense that even some Israel-supporting Democrats, including Jewish Dems, have actively worked to distance themselves from AIPAC in the course of their political campaigns. This is something we saw, for instance, in a mid-April announcement from failed Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow (D), a state senator whose husband is Jewish. There’s a lot of misinformation out there, so let me be clear. I have not, am not, and will not take money from AIPAC. pic.twitter.com/OZdIIfuQZG — Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) April 17, 2026 Later that same month, McMorrow...

By Dan Burmawi So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from an Italian winning an election? Let me tell you. An Italian has a national identity, Italian, that is tied to a defined territory: the borders of Italy.  He may celebrate Italian holidays, follow Italian politics, send money home, or even dream of returning one day. None of this is inherently antithetical to the American nation-state. The Italian American immigrant does not believe Ohio is part of Italy. His attachment is territorial. It is confined to a nation whose boundaries are recognized by everyone, including himself. Islam presents something fundamentally different. Islam is not merely a religion practiced by people from many nations. Muslims belong to a single civilization that transcends every nation.  A Muslim may be Egyptian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Bosnian, or Indonesian, but he belongs to something larger than the natio...

By Cameron Adams President Donald Trump unleashed a furious rant about “treasonous leakers”—apparently confirming a bombshell report of a clash with Pete Hegseth. The president lashed out in a raging 12:34 a.m. Truth Social post after the Washington Post revealed how he had berated Hegseth at Camp David on Friday. Trump was furious at Hegseth because he felt the Defense Secretary had misled him about the Iran war leaving U.S. arms stockpiles seriously depleted, the Washington Post said. Trump’s aide Karoline Leavitt first called the report “100% fake news” and said it had “literally never happened.” But then Trump’s rant made clear that it had. In his Truth Social post, he insisted America has “massive amounts” of munitions, adding cryptically “especially of certain types.” Karoline Leavitt calls out "FAKE NEWS" on X. X He also claimed “large amounts” were being shipped to the U.S. as required, and that defense companies “are building the largest number o...

Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney general also said he is “not worried” about making it through the Senate, even though he can only stand to lose one more Republican vote. By Sydney Carruth Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday stood by President Donald Trump’s criticism of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who has drawn the president’s ire for dropping charges against a former Olympian and others accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.  Trump’s Justice Department indicted former Olympian David Hearn in July, charging him with one felony count of destruction of property after the president repeatedly said the costly renovation of the landmark had faced major setbacks because politically motivated actors were vandalizing the project.  The DOJ moved to drop the felony charges against Hearn on July 31. Pirro filed the motion to dismiss after prosecutors obtained information that showed the damage was caused by “botched work” performed by the p...

By William Vaillancourt The Trump administration has officially refunded about $100 billion in illegally obtained tariff revenue—and there’s still much more to be paid back. The administration’s action is the result of the Supreme Court’s February ruling that the “reciprocal” tariffs Trump announced on “liberation day” under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unconstitutional. For many companies that had to import costlier foreign goods, Tuesday marked their liberation day from Trump’s overstepping of his powers as president. In the Tuesday filing, Customs and Border Protection official Brandon Lord said that, as of July 31, the entity created to track and deliver tariff refunds had received 252,496 refund declarations encompassing 25.1 million import entries. Approximately $100 billion in refunds is all set for disbursement by the Treasury Department, Lord wrote. Trump's "reciprocal" tarif...

A Tehran-Oman agreement could restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, but at the cost of Iranian oversight and possible transit fees. Washington warns that recognizing state control over an international shipping lane would set a troubling precedent. By Dudi Kogan Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed Wednesday that Iran and Oman had agreed on the "coordinates" of a new shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz and were putting the final touches on a joint statement formalizing the understandings. According to reports, the plan would combine the two existing routes, the northern lane in Iranian waters and the southern lane in Omani waters, into a single two-way corridor. Iran would be granted oversight of vessels entering the Persian Gulf in exchange for reopening the strait to global trade. Baghaei said, however, that publication of the agreement depended on "third parties not disrupting the process," an apparent referenc...

By Efrat Lachter Iran’s top Revolutionary Guard commander declared Wednesday that Tehran would continue working on nuclear weapons as long as the United States and Israel possess them, intensifying concerns that Iran is using negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz to postpone concessions on its nuclear program. "As long as the United States and Israel possess nuclear weapons, we will continue working on them for our national security," IRGC commander-in-chief Ahmad Vahidi said, according to a translation of remarks circulating Wednesday. "If they disarm, we will disarm." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by vowing that Israel would continue preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, with or without a diplomatic agreement. A map shows damage to Iran's Fordow nuclear site after being struck by the United States in Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22, 2025. (Fox News) "Today, we heard the commander of the Revolut...

By Kyle Becker An Obama-appointed federal judge used the dismissal of the final Oath Keepers prosecution not simply to close a criminal case, but to deliver a lengthy rebuke of the Trump administration's handling of January 6 prosecutions. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ultimately concluded he had no legal authority to stop the Department of Justice from dismissing the indictment against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other defendants.  The Justice Department asked the court to dismiss the indictment after the D.C. Circuit vacated the convictions and remanded the case. President Donald Trump had previously commuted the sentences of Rhodes and several other defendants, while issuing pardons to hundreds of other January 6 defendants. Rather than simply grant the motion, Mehta issued a 15-page opinion questioning nearly every justification advanced by the Department of Justice. "The government thus asks to absolve these Defendants of crimes against the United Sta...

By Teri Christoph Lovers of the Second Amendment got some good news Wednesday after a federal judge out of the Northern District of Texas ruled that large portions of the National Firearms Act (NFA) were rendered unconstitutional after Congress eliminated the transfer tax that had historically provided the constitutional basis for registration and recordkeeping requirements governing suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns. U.S. District Court Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled in the case Jensen v. ATF that “[b]y zeroing out the transfer and making taxes for most NFA firearms, Congress eliminated the constitutional basis for the regulations that formerly supported the taxes for those firearms.” The Court’s injunction applies to “the plaintiffs and, where applicable, the plaintiffs’ agencies, political subdivisions, members, and customers—both current and future,” but does not take effect for seven days “to allow the defendants to seek relief, if any, at the...