Author: Business Insider

The Biden administration is sounding the alarm over Republicans’ hopes to enact far-reaching spending cuts, saying that the contours of the GOP’s plans would result in a 30% slash to a slew of popular federal programs.In a memo, Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, breaks down the math on Republicans’ desired funding…

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy isn’t inspiring confidence that the US can avoid an unprecedented and catastrophic default on its debt.Last week, President Joe Biden met with McCarthy and the three other top lawmakers in Congress to come to an agreement on raising the debt ceiling before the US defaults, which Treasury Secretary Janet…

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who is running for president in 2024, tells “Face the Nation” that the U.S. shouldn’t return to Trump-era immigration policies. But, she said, that the immigration crisis needs to be treated as a “national security issue” and “we shouldn’t wait for another 9/11 to realize that Republicans and Democrats have…

Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the debt ceiling crisis this week — and he thinks Republicans’ best bet is to hurdle into economic catastrophe. Ohio’s freshman GOP senator is listening.During a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night, the network’s anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Trump how he views the current debt situation in the country.…

“A real war is being waged against our motherland!” Vladimir Putin boomed at crowds in Moscow’s Red Square this week. Yet even as his armoured cars and military trucks rolled across the cobbles in the annual Victory Day Parade, Western cyber experts were delivering the Russian leader a gift to remember.The Snake malicious software (malware)…

Stephanie Grisham, who served as White House press secretary under Donald Trump, said she witnessed the then-president’s sexual harassment firsthand.She told CNN that she had to try to protect one staffer in particular that Trump would request accompany him on trips.“He one time had one of my other deputies bring her back so that they…

The Washington Post has reported that the Russian Ministry of Defence has planned to discredit Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner PMC, citing leaked US classified documents.Source: WPDetails: After Prigozhin’s harsh attacks on the ministry’s leadership, the ministry began planning an information war against him.The Russian Ministry of Defence did not want to fight…

The Russian presidential administration said Wednesday that the Kremlin was attacked by drones overnight in an attempt on President Vladimir Putin’s life.Moscow residents had reported hearing two explosions behind Kremlin walls shortly after 2 a.m. local time, after which the lights went out. Footage shared by residents in a local Telegram channel captured the incident,…

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan said President Joe Biden’s cracks about Fox News went over well at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.But there was one table at the event that didn’t quite see the humor, he said during Sunday evening’s show: Fox News.“It was stony-faced silence throughout,” said Hasan, who was seated one table away…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis met with prominent business leaders in London as a part of a four-stop international tour but leaders told Politico that his speech was less than exciting.Multiple figures at the Friday event described the DeSantis as “low-wattage” and “horrendous.”One business person, who remained unnamed, told Politico that DeSantis’s message wasn’t “presidential” and…