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President Donald Trump praised the billions of dollars in border security and immigration efforts included in the so-called "big, beautiful bill" he signed into law last week — though he suggested Tuesday the administration may not need to spend as much on enforcement efforts there as previously thought.Speaking to reporters at the White House Tuesday afternoon, Trump touted the billions of dollars approved in the Republican-led spending package, including billions in funding to turbocharge the hardline immigration crackdown his administration has prioritized in his second White House term.Among other things, the law includes $45 billion for the construction of new immigration detention centers, and roughly $30 billion in spending to fund Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations — including new spending on transportation, for the maintenance of ICE facilities and to support the hiring of an estimated 10,000 additional deportation officers.Trump told reporters Tuesday that his administration's border crackdown could… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

As the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran continues, the Jewish State’s leader said that he would be open to having access to some of America’s most powerful military equipment.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a stop on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson before a later confab with the Senate. It’s his first trip to Washington since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran erupted, and comes on the heels of a stoppage in fighting between the two countries.When asked if he would be open to Israel gaining access to B-2 stealth bombers and bunker-busting bombs — the same U.S. military equipment used to cripple Iran’s nuclear program — Netanyahu appeared to relish the thought.SEN. STEVE DAINES SAYS REGIME CHANGE IS THE BEST LONG-TERM PLAN IN IRAN"Would I like to see Israel have the capacities that the United States has? Of course we’d like… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

President Donald Trump compared Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to the famous "Saturday Night Live" character of "Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar." During a Cabinet meeting in which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other administration officials described the catastrophic flooding that's killed more than 100 people in Texas, Trump turned his attention to Schumer, who has tried to blame the disaster on the Republican president's leadership. "I saw a Palestinian senator. His name is Schumer. He is a Palestinian. No, he's a Palestinian. He's become a Palestinian. He's abandoned the Jews," Trump said of the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S. "But I saw him say, it's Trump's fault. 'Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's Trump's fault.' He was actually – did you ever see Jon Lovitz, The Liar? Where he goes, 'Yeah, yeah, I went to Harvard. That's right.' Because this was Schumer." WHITE HOUSE BLASTS SCHUMER, DEMOCRATS FOR… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Even amid a fragile ceasefire, Iran continues to warn the United States and Israel that it retains the ability to inflict serious damage if provoked. Iranian officials have declared the country can sustain daily missile strikes for two years — a claim drawing increasing scrutiny from military experts and Western intelligence analysts."Our armed forces are at the height of their readiness," said Major General Ebrahim Jabbari of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), speaking to the semi-official Mehr News Agency. "The warehouses, underground missile bases, and facilities we have are so enormous that we have yet to demonstrate the majority of our defense capabilities and effective missiles.""In case of a war with Israel and the U.S., our facilities will not run out even if we launch missiles at them every day for two years," he added.Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, senior military advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, echoed that… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

President Joe Biden's former chief of staff and a fixture of his re-election campaign, Ron Klain, privately announced during Biden's disastrous debate performance: "We’re f---ed.""2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," a new book released Tuesday by journalists Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal, Tyler Pager of The New York Times and Isaac Arnsdor of The Washington Post, is the latest analysis of how Biden lost the White House. The authors described how, during the June 2024 debate, "Biden’s aides winced as the president started answering the first question about the economy and voters who felt they were worse off under his presidency." And backstage, as Biden stumbled over an answer that questionably ended with, "We finally beat Medicare," back in the holding room, Klain stood up and announced, "We’re f---ed," according to the authors. BIDEN AIDES PUSHED FOR EARLY DEBATE TO SHOW OFF BIDEN’S ‘STRENGTH,’ EXPOSE… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.