by Zachery Schmidt | Mar 10, 2025 | National, News, Policy
Secretary of Defense Marco Rubio announced Monday that the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) funding will be slashed by 83 percent. According to usa.gov, USAID “is the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering...
by Zachery Schmidt | Mar 3, 2025 | National, News, Politics
Democratic Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said on Sunday that they regretted voting for Marco Rubio as the secretary of state. The Senate approved Rubio 99-0 to be secretary of state. Last week, after a tense meeting between President Donald...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 27, 2025 | National, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, World
Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said the Trump administration foreign policy is being executed “by design” and is free from “accidents.” “It’s abundantly clear at this point that there’s no accidents being made in American...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 20, 2025 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The South, World
Tennessee U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) released a statement on Wednesday professing his support for Ukraine and his admiration for its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for being “on the front lines of democracy.” “As the House Ranking Member of the Helsinki...
by Christina Botteri | Jan 16, 2025 | National, News, Policy, Politics
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tapped state Attorney General Ashley Moody to replace Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio in the US Senate. “Today I am proud to announce that I am selecting our Attorney General Ashley Moody to serve as our next U.S....
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 6, 2025 | National, News, Politics, Tennessee
President-elect Donald Trump announced last week he is appointing Fox News on-air contributor Tammy Bruce to serve in his incoming administration as spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State. Bruce would work closely with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who Trump...
