Politics

President Donald Trump is preparing to dramatically increase U.S. arms sales to Taiwan as part of a strategy to deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific. According to two U.S. officials, the sales under Trump’s second term could easily surpass the $18.3 billion approved during his first administration. This is a sharp reversal from the Biden years, when arms sales to Taiwan fell to $8.4 billion.

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) compared ICE authorities to the Nazi police force, the Gestapo, during a press conference.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) has introduced a bill to block federal funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) unless it adjusts its "bureaucratic stagnation" and renames the Metrorail.

The Department of Homeland Security released a list of every sanctuary city and county in the United States refusing to cooperate with ICE.

The Trump administration is developing a new training course for government employees centering on constitutional literacy.

Hawaii Governor Josh Green, a Democrat, signed a bill that implements a "climate impact" tax on tourists in the state.

The Supreme Court has stayed a lower court ruling that blocked the Trump administration's efforts to remove parole status for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

An IT specialist with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested after attempting to share classified information with a foreign government.

FBI leadership sent an email to agents directing them to refrain from engaging in Pride Month activities while on the clock.

The State Department has sent a plan reorganizing the State Department to Congress in an effort to eliminate bureaucratic bloat.