Pour one out for USAID, the biggest victim of the Department of Government Efficiency. Monday was the final day for the U.S. Agency for International Development — the wasteful, swampy foreign development bureau beloved among the Beltway elite. On Tuesday, the agency responsible for spending your taxpayer dollars on Peruvian transgender comic books and DEI […]

The Senate early Tuesday voted to quash an effort to impose a 10-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence. The vote removed the AI provision from President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that Senate Republicans are struggling to pass. The Senate began a series of nonstop votes on the bill around 9:30 a.m. Monday morning […]

Top O’ the Briefing Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is spending the day as an intimacy coordinator during a taping of “The Great British Baking Show.” There has been a lot of attention given here in conservative media to the Democrats’ four-year-long […]

Homeland Security has collected more than $106 billion in tariff revenue since President Trump took office, and most of that — $81.5 billion — is directly tied to the new levies the president has imposed on worldwide goods. The department announced the eye-popping totals late Monday, saying it’s evidence of Mr. Trump’s America First trade […]

Zohran Mamdani is the latest sign that establishment Democrats don’t know how to handle a populist challenge. They haven’t learned anything from the defeats right-wing populism inflicted on them with Donald Trump. Now they’re knocked on their backsides by a new generation of left-wing populism in their own party. […]