Author: Press Room
Banking groups are trying to block a White House plan to exclude millions of illegal migrants from the nation’s banking system, according to the Washington Post. The plan would pressure migrants to self-deport and so help President Donald Trump carry out his 2024 promise and mandate to deport millions of illegal migrants admitted by the Democratic Party and their business allies. “The Trump administration has delayed an executive order that could have required banks to collect and report more information on the immigration status of their customers, after Wall Street and small community lenders pushed back,” the newspaper reported on March…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said President Donald Trump and his team viewed those who serve in the U.S. military as “pawns.” Host Jen Psaki said, “You sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee. I think a lot of people out there, and I’m wondering if you get asked about this, worry about retaliatory attacks, worry about the safety of our homeland for a variety of reasons, because we’ve seen them happen and also because of the unpreparedness of this administration. What do you tell them and what do you think about that concern people have?”…
Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field and Tehran’s response signal a shift from bombing bases to targeting the backbone of global gas supply Israel’s recent strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field and Tehran’s retaliation on key energy infrastructure in several Gulf countries is more than just another escalation of the war roiling the Middle East.What began as a campaign of decapitation strikes and base‑to‑base missile exchanges has escalated into dueling attacks on energy infrastructure that risks igniting a major energy crisis globally whose effects could reverberate for years.RT takes a look at what this ominous development means…
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the unfolding U.S. operation against Iran remains “laser-focused” and decisive in achieving its objectives, pushing back on comparisons to past prolonged conflicts while outlining a campaign he said is systematically degrading Tehran’s military capabilities. Speaking at a Pentagon briefing on day 20 of Operation Epic Fury, Hegseth opened by directly challenging portrayals that the operation risks becoming a drawn-out war akin to Iraq or Afghanistan, arguing the mission is tightly defined and purpose-driven. “The media here — not all of it, but much of it — wants you to think, just 19 days…
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) discussed a potential budget supplemental due to Iran and said that the money spent on Iran could have funded “a year extension of the ACA tax credits, right? Like, people’s real affordability needs are not being met” while there is a war in Iran. Underwood said that Democrats will likely vote against an Iran supplemental. She added, “I just think that the voters are not supportive of the war, they are not supportive of the rising gas prices, they are not supportive of 13 servicemembers being killed and hundreds…
The White House offered additional immigration enforcement concessions to Democrats Friday evening as border czar Tom Homan met a second time with a bipartisan group of senators seeking to end the Homeland Security shutdown, according to lawmakers who attended. Leaving the private meeting, Republican senators said they hope Democrats respond over the weekend to the Trump administration’s bolstered proposal of immigration enforcement changes meant to address Democratic demands for funding DHS. “We need to get the government back open,” Homan said as he left the meeting. “It was a good discussion. That is all I’m going to say.” Washington Sen.…
War narratives are contrived into seeming reality – until their contradictions unravel them The battlefield determines who prevails. Yet long before that verdict is rendered, another contest unfolds: over how the war itself is to be understood. From a plurality of competing explanations, a single narrative, or at least a dominant theme, gradually crystallizes and comes to define the conflict.How wars acquire their storyAt the outset of many wars, governments advance a range of justificatory claims, from strategic interests to security threats and humanitarian concerns. Through narrative consolidation, these competing accounts are gradually subsumed into a single dominant story that…
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Thursday that Japan is “really stepping up to the plate” regarding Iran, unlike members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Trump made his comparison of Japan to NATO countries during his bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae in the Oval Office when a reporter asked if he was satisfied with Japan’s level of support on Iran. Trump replied: We’re going to be speaking about it today. We’ve had tremendous support and relationship with Japan on everything, and I believe that, based on statements that were given to us yesterday, the day before yesterday,…
The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) announced on Friday that it will impose heavy tariffs on Chinese steel after an investigation found evidence of product dumping. ITAC set the tariff rate on Chinese structural steel to 74.98 percent, which is considerably higher than the 52.81 percent duties imposed after product dumping was discovered in 2024. In both 2024 and 2026, ITAC found evidence of steel dumping by Thailand as well, and responded by imposing tariffs of 9.12 percent and 20.32 percent, respectively. The announcement on Friday said the high import taxes have already been approved by South…
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) discussed the DHS shutdown and said that funding the agency piecemeal and using it as leverage “is not a best practice. You can see that on display. It’s terrible.” Underwood said, “Well, on the Appropriations Committee, we certainly try to make sure that agencies have the resources that they need to execute their missions on behalf of the American people. And what we see now is that we have a Republican Party that is not willing to look at some harm that’s being done, a couple agencies, ICE, Customs…