Category: National

Senate Advances Bipartisan Permitting Reform Bill in Return from Midterms Recess

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Congress

The Republican-led Senate voted Monday to advance a bipartisan permitting reform bill as the chamber returns from its month-long recess for the November midterm elections.

The legislation, which passed in a bipartisan 73-25 split, aims to speed up the construction of energy and other infrastructure projects. It also makes it harder for opponents to sue to block projects on environmental grounds and hampers the ability of states and the Environmental Protection Agency to preemptively block them, according to The Hill.

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Hegseth ‘Not Worried’ About Upcoming U.S. House Vote to Impeach Him

The Center Square
Pete Hegseth

The U.S. House may vote this week on impeaching Secretary of War Pete Hegseth after Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., re-filed a resolution accusing Hegseth of committing high crimes and misdemeanors.

According to the eight articles of impeachment, Hegseth “abused the powers of the Department of Defense” in numerous ways, mainly by waging unauthorized military hostilities in Iran.

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Trump Stands Firm on No Amnesty After Controversial Interview

The Daily Signal
Illegal Immigrants

President Donald Trump vowed there would be no deal for amnesty in the next two years, a day after he signaled an openness to working with Democrats on the issue.

“We have a very strong deportation policy. There is no amnesty,” Trump said at an impromptu White House press conference Monday. Accompanying Trump at the briefing was Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White.

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Supreme Court Greenlights Trump Border Wall in Texas

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Supreme Court

President Donald Trump received the green light to resume border wall construction in Texas.

The Supreme Court paused a federal judge’s order on Monday which had halted construction of the president’s southern border wall in Texas, according to the order. After Democrats swept statewide offices in the Lone Star state, the Trump administration can resume building border barriers while legal battles continue.

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Midterm Losses, Iran War Appear to Have Widened Likely Top GOP 2028 Field Beyond Vance, Rubio

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Rubio and Vance

Democrats’ big midterm wins last week have rattled what previously appeared largely as a two-man race between presumptive frontrunners Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, opening the door for other potential bids.  

Each have presided over the United States’ unpopular war with Iran that in no small part resulted in midterm voters taking control of Congress away from the GOP and giving it to Democrats. 

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Russiagate Lawyer Marc Elias Lands at Center of DOJ Probe into Alaska ‘Decoy Dan’ Scheme

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A key Russiagate lawyer known for his bare-knuckle election and legal tactics has landed at the center of the alleged Democrat plot in the Alaska Senate race to recruit a decoy candidate to siphon votes from their Republican opponent.

Marc Elias departed from the Perkins Coie law firm in 2021 and set up his own firm, catering to Democratic Party candidates. About the same time, the Justice Department was investigating its role in the Steele Dossier and its Trump-Russia collusion allegations, and he could face questions about the role his law firm played in representing multiple participants in the alleged scheme to recruit the candidate known as “Decoy Dan” in the Alaska race and whether there was any illegal coordination under federal election law.

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Trump Teases Deal with Democrats on Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants

The Daily Signal
illegal immigrants

President Donald Trump said he would like to work with the new Democrat majority in Congress on a plan to give some illegal immigrants legal status.

While Trump never used the word amnesty in an interview with CBS News’ Ross Douthat that aired on Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” he said many illegal immigrants who are working stable jobs and paying taxes should be allowed to stay in the United States.

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Trump Admin Hits Indian Solar Panels with Tariffs Topping 100 Percent

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solar panels

The Trump administration hit solar panels from India, Indonesia and Laos with steep tariffs Monday after finding that the imports hurt American manufacturers.

U.S. importers of Indian solar cells and panels face a 126.09 percent tariff to offset government subsidies, the Commerce Department said in a Monday order published in the Federal Register. A separate order requires an additional 107.17 percent cash deposit on the same imports to cover estimated duties on sales below fair value, according to the department.

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U.S. Adds 156,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Steady at 4.1 Percent

The Center Square
Job Interview

The U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in October and unemployment remained steady at 4.1%, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday.

The unemployment rate has remained in a narrow range between 4.1% and 4.3% since March. Employment in professional and business services shot up by 70,000 in the month of October, well above the 15,000 job monthly average over the last year.

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Commentary: EPA Enhances Federalism, Takes Aim at Costly Oil and Natural Gas Regulations

RealClearWire
Lee Zeldin

President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking another step toward restoring a more practical balance between environmental protection, economic opportunity, and the role of the states.

Last week, on Oct. 27, the President and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced proposed revisions to federal oil and natural gas regulations under the Clean Air Act, commonly known as OOOOb/c. The proposal reconsiders several requirements finalized in 2024 and, according to EPA, could reduce regulatory costs by $45 billion while allowing an estimated 210 million additional barrels of oil and 1.41 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to be produced.

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Big Name Brands Signal Americans Have More Price Pain to Endure

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heinz products

Americans could face another round of price increases on everyday household products as major consumer brands raise prices to offset soaring costs, with one manufacturer reporting an 18% price hike even as customers bought fewer products.

Reynolds Consumer Products, Kraft Heinz and other household names are warning that rising commodity, transportation and manufacturing expenses are squeezing their businesses, prompting price increases that threaten to deepen Americans’ affordability struggles. Recent corporate earnings reports show companies are already passing higher costs to consumers while confronting declining sales volumes, suggesting shoppers are increasingly resisting higher prices.

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Top Prosecutor in Office That Carried Out Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Probe Resigns from DOJ

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Jason Quiñones

by Kevin Killough   Atop prosecutor who worked in the South Florida office where President Donald Trump’s so-called grand conspiracy probe was carried out resigned from the Justice Department. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that Jason Reding Quiñones submitted his resignation. On social media, Quiñones said, “From serving our Nation in uniform to serving at the Department of Justice and on the bench, public service has been the honor of my lifetime. But leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office in my home district has been especially meaningful. I am grateful to President Trump for his trust and to the extraordinary men and women of the great Southern District of Florida for their dedication, friendship, and unwavering commitment to justice and the rule of law.” Quiñones added, “It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve alongside them and our law enforcement officers who work tirelessly to keep our communities safe. I leave with immense pride in what we accomplished together and profound gratitude for the opportunity to serve our great Nation.” Blanche said in a post on X, “We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combating violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime, including the indictment of Raúl…

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GOP Sen Ron Johnson Seeks Delay in GOP Senate Leadership Elections, After Big Midterms Losses

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Thune Congress

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson obtained the five signatures he needed Friday to request a meeting of the Senate Republican Conference to discuss postponing next week’s leadership election in light of the midterms.

Johnson made the request after Republicans lost at least seven seats in the upper chamber in Tuesday’s midterms and after President Donald Trump’s adviser Alex Bruesewitz questioned whether Senate Majority Leader John Thune should remain the GOP leader next year, according to The Hill.

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Secret Service Arrests Armed Illegal Migrant near White House Who Threatened the President’s Life

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Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos

United States Secret Service officers reportedly arrested an illegal migrant outside the White House on Thursday after he was allegedly found inside a stolen vehicle carrying multiple firearms and threatening to kill President Donald Trump.

The officers approached the suspect Thursday evening after spotting him “acting suspicious in his car while it was parked on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.,” the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.

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British Climate Activist’s Hedge Fund Holds Major Stake in Firms Who Can Make or Break U.S. Communities, Businesses

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Chris Hohn

British billionaire Chris Hohn’s hedge fund holds billions of dollars in shares of two powerful credit-rating companies while seeking to push their climate priorities on the firms whose decisions can influence how much American businesses, schools and local governments pay to borrow money.

Moody’s and S&P Global wield enormous influence over borrowing costs across the American economy, with their credit assessments affecting everything from corporate investments to public infrastructure projects. Hohn’s TCI Fund Management holds major stakes in both firms and previously pushed them to adopt climate policies, raising questions about the influence wealthy investors can exert over institutions whose financial judgments carry significant consequences for American communities.

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Key Lawmaker Suggests GOP Go Big in Lame-Duck Congress to Foil Democrat Defunding, Spending Plans

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Harriet Hageman

One of the few House Republicans to win a U.S. Senate seat in Tuesday’s blue-wave election is urging her GOP colleagues to aggressively use the remaining days of the lame-duck Congress this year to pass multi-year budgets to protect agencies that Democrats want to defund and to codify President Donald Trump cuts to foreign aid that the left wants to restore.

Rep. Harriet Hageman, soon to be sworn in as Wyoming’s next U.S. senator, told Just the News on Thursday night that she is urging fellow Republicans to replicate their last budget reconciliation law that funded Trump’s Homeland Security agenda until the end of his presidency and codify other GOP priorities and foil Democrats’ ambitions in the next Congress.

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Newsom Moves to Spare 548 Death Row Inmates, Including Child Killers and Notorious Serial Murderers

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Gavin Newsom

In a shocking decision, Gov. Gavin Newsom has commuted the death sentences of 548 death row inmates in California, including some of the most notorious killers in state history.

In Newsom’s letter to Californians explaining his decision, he stated that he “firmly believes state sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values” and that “we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency.”

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Trump Names Stephen Miller as Next Chief of Staff, Starting Monday

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Stephen Miller

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff.

Calls for Wiles’s ouster abounded in recent days, after Republicans were crushed in the House and Senate midterms. She had long been a focal point for criticism of the administration from conservative hawks, who blamed her for steering Trump away from some of his more hardline policies.

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Ex-Assistant AG Dhillon Returns to Law Firm She Founded to Fight Unlawful DEI Policies

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Harmeet Dhillon

Former Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who resigned her position at the Justice Department Thursday, returned to Dhillon Law Group, a law firm she founded in San Francisco in 2006. 

Dhillon said in a statement she will spearhead two major national litigation initiatives aimed at unlawful discrimination in corporate hiring and contracting, as well as that by financial institutions who discriminate against businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals as a result of their political or religious beliefs. 

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GOP Insiders Split over Who’s to Blame for Midterm Losses

The Daily Signal
people voting

Republicans lost Congress on Tuesday because voters felt the administration and the GOP stopped caring about them, several insiders told the Daily Signal.

“This is a middle finger,” one former senior administration official said of the midterm election results. “I think it comes down to affordability and the war, and Americans feeling like the administration and Republicans at large, including an unproductive Congress, don’t really give a damn,” the former official added.

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Dems’ Senate Wins Almost Assures Trump Won’t Be Able to Get a New Supreme Court Justice Confirmed

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Justice Sam Alito

Democratic wins in key Senate races have set up an uphill battle for President Donald Trump to replace any potentially retiring Supreme Court justices once the opposition takes power in the chamber.

While the Senate abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations long ago, Democrats are set for an outright majority, meaning Trump would need Democratic support to confirm anyone to the bench. 

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Immigration-Related Referendums Pass Easily in Eight States Where Republicans Suffered Defeats

Tom Pappert
voting

Republicans on Tuesday lost control of both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, were defeated in gubernatorial races in five states, and suffered losses in state legislatures across the country, but public referendums on immigration-related issues passed easily in eight of the same states where the party lost.

In Kansas, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) lost reelection to controversial pastor Adam Hamilton, and Kansas State Senate President Ty Masterson (R-Wichita) is projected at press time to narrowly lose the gubernatorial race to State Senator Cindy Holscher (D-Overland Park).

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Trump Says He Can Work with Dems on Immigration After GOP Gets Smoked in Midterms

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Trump media

President Donald Trump told Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Wednesday that he could work with Democrats on immigration following a midterm sweep that gave Democrats control of the House of Representatives and Senate.

Republicans lost the House and Senate as Democrats swept multiple races in the South and Midwest, including flipping open seats in Iowa, North Carolina and Texas while ousting incumbents in Ohio, Kansas and South Carolina. Trump drew hard lines regarding an “open border,” biological men playing women’s sports and child sex changes, but expressed optimism on working with Democrats on other issues, such as immigration.

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Democrats’ Huge Midterm Victory Could Weaken the New Socialist Bloc

The Daily Signal
Melat Kiros

The Democratic Socialists of America emerged from the 2026 midterms significantly stronger, but in a strange twist, the Democratic Party’s overwhelming success may deprive the DSA’s seven House members of the leverage they expected to wield.

The DSA expanded its congressional footprint, helped elect allies at the state and local levels, and can point to Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Senate race as evidence that a candidate closely associated with its agenda can win statewide in a presidential battleground. That said, the sheer scale of the Democrats’ House victory could make it easier for the rest of the party to ignore socialists’ demands.

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Democrat Acton Defeats GOP’s Ramaswamy in Ohio Governor’s Race, Abbott Loses Reelection in Texas

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Amy Acton

Texas GOP Gov. Gregg Abbot lost his reelection bid Tuesday night in a strong showing for Democrats in statewide and national races. 

The Associated Press called the race for Democrat challenger Gina Hinojosa, who becomes the state’s first Latina governor. Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton lost his bid to keep the GOP-held seat held by retiring Sen. John Cornyn.

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Commentary: The Weaponization Ledger Comes Due

American Greatness
Merrick Garland

In the space of two weeks in October, federal agents searched the Washington residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) under a judge’s warrant, and two former senior FBI officials surrendered on charges that they lied to Congress about the Bureau’s Hunter Biden investigations. Furthermore, former FBI director James Comey is fighting a federal indictment in North Carolina and, as of October 26, a third set of federal charges in Washington accusing him of directing a classified leak to the press. Former CIA director John Brennan’s own lawyers have disclosed that prosecutors formally told him he is a grand jury target.

The response from Democrats has been a single word, repeated at every podium: weaponization. One hundred seventy-five of them even issued a joint response complaining about the “weaponization of law enforcement” after a pre-dawn FBI raid was conducted on the Washington, D.C., residence of Ilhan Elmi (Omar) under a warrant signed by a Democrat-appointed judge who donated to the Clintons. The evidence must be strong with that one, Obi-Wan!

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Democrats Win Control of Senate, Poised to Take House in Rout That Reorders Washington Power Balance

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James Talarico

The Democrats decidedly won the Senate on Tuesday evening, sweeping competitive contests and pulling off a string of upsets in formerly solid Republican bastions as they marched toward realigning the power structure in Washington by taking full control of Congress.

As of press time, the Associated Press projects the party to claim at least 51 seats in the upper chamber, but has yet to make race calls in hundreds of House contests.

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Trump to Help Musk If Democrats Target Him Post-Election

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Musk and Trump

The president vowed to protect Elon Musk and hand out pardons if Democrats win control of Congress after the midterms.

President Donald Trump pledged to shield SpaceX CEO from “very evil” Democrats and suggested he was willing to grant preemptive pardons to his staff, he told Miranda Devine on an episode of the New York Post’s “Pod Force One” podcast released Monday. Just one day before the midterm election gets underway, the president committed to keeping his former detractor, who launched a third party to oppose him in 2025.

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Dem Senate Candidate Pushed Church-Backed Private Real Estate Venture That Broke Securities Laws

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Adam Hamilton

In 2000, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, was the most visible advocate for a development company that raised millions from church members but failed to deliver on its promises.

Hamilton was the founding pastor of the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, just outside Kansas City when the church used a for-profit company, COR Development, LLC, to buy 47 acres to develop commercially, with 15 acres to be set aside for the church. 

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Analysis: 2026 Midterms Could Be Headed for a Post-Election Legal War

The Daily Signal
voting here

Which party controls Congress might not be determined until long after Election Day due to lengthy state counting timelines and election litigation.

Election litigation began well before Tuesday and the counting of ballots will almost certainly persist for days. More than a dozen states have laws on the books to keep counting mail ballots arriving after Election Day.

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Commentary: Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, and Paradoxes

American Greatness
Donald Trump

In June 2022, the price of gasoline topped $5 a gallon and stayed around $4 a gallon through October, on the eve of the midterms. It is currently about $4.30.

The inflation rate in 2022 hit a 40-year high of 9.1 percent—and would average 5.1 percent over Joe Biden’s four-year tenure. The 2026 inflation rate is estimated to be about 3.5 percent and, over the first two years of the second Trump administration, will likely average around 3 percent. GDP for the third quarter of 2026 is higher than it was in the same quarter of 2022. The poverty rate is now lower and the annual family income higher than in November 2022.

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