By Robert Romano Almost 40 days into another partial government shutdown and Congress is no closer fully funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and so instead appear poised to fund all parts of the department except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which would be further funded in another budget reconciliation bill similar to the […]

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By Robert Romano “Very easy. If we have a deal with them, we’re going down and we’ll take it ourselves.” That was President Donald Trump responding to a reporter’s question outside Air Force One on March 23 of how the U.S. would retrieve Iran’s highly enriched uranium that it had told U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was enough to make 11 nuclear bombs, prompting the U.S. and Israeli military offensive to […]

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By Manzanita Miller After a tense week of President Donald Trump calling on European allies to condemn Iran’s attacks on shipping vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz and asking them for help to secure the strait, six U.S. allies released a statement Thursday strongly condemning Iran’s […]

By Robert Romano “The [Intelligence Community] IC has high confidence that we know where it is… We can speak more about this topic in the classified setting.” That was Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s answer to U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) in a March 19 House […]

By Robert Romano Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned from his post in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on March 17 due to what he stated was because President Donald Trump had allegedly taken the U.S. to war with Iran on behalf […]

By Manzanita Miller    Republicans are facing several headwinds leading into the 2026 election cycle. They are members of the incumbent party in a midterm cycle tasked with defending their positions in the House and Senate, and President Trump’s approval rating is still underwater, though he did […]

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By Robert Romano “[T]hey should be thanking me because many of them get 90 percent… [of] their energy from the straits and or as they call it the strait and they should be not only thanking us, they should be helping us. What does surprise me is […]