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The prospect of a growing new spending measure related to the Iran conflict has GOP leaders getting ready for their own battle.Fiscal hawks are said to be deeply unsettled by the cost estimates being floated on the spending request, Politico reports. They will likely be demanding offsetting spending cuts, even as pork is added to new proposals.Closed-door briefings this week delivered the bad news on what was termed a “staggering price tag” for the Middle East conflict, with current spending for the Iran conflict estimated as high as $2 billion per day. The rapid depletion of munit

Experts in military law are flagging that there is a huge legal problem that President Donald Trump faces as he heads into another Middle East war. Reporting Friday, ABC News noted that the White House is running into a problem after it blew up an

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to go to war with Iran is triggering heated debates in right-wing media. While former Fox News host Tucker Carlson — like ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) — considers Trump's military strikes against Iran a betrayal of his American First platform, current Fox News hosts Mark Levin and Sean Hannity are applauding the president's foreign policy.The Dispatch's Michael Warren examines this right-wing media infighting in an article published on March 6."Since Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury last week," Warren explains, "one thing has been clear: The

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is being targeted by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), CNN reported Friday.Loudermilk is known for being the lawmaker who gave tours to Jan. 6 attackers casing the U.S. Capitol ahead of the attack. After years of allegations against him, he was appointed chair of the Republican Party's investigation into the Jan. 6 committee. Hutchinson was the aide who said that U.S. Secret Service agents faced off against President Donald Trump, lunging at the steering wheel of the security vehicle, trying to

President Donald Trump’s cavalier approach to the Iran war is built on pure fantasy,That’s the contention of Lydia Polgreen, who writes in a NY Times op-ed how Trump seems surprised by what the combat has wrought so far, starting with his admitted “biggest surprise” (as told to CNN) that Iran would attack its neighbors. The Times notes he was warned by “just about every country in the region” that would be the result of attacking Iran.Such thoughtlessness is part of a pattern, Polgreen contends, starting with t

Faced with a revolt among his MAGA faithful over his decision to join Israel in starting a war with Iran, our increasingly demented and delusional president declared this week that “MAGA is Trump.” He was responding to, among others, MAGA stalwarts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly who rightfully called him out for abandoning his vow to “abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change” and his endlessly repeated lie of an “America First” agenda.Indeed, the nation and world watc

Many prominent U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) alumni — including former federal prosecutors and MS NOW legal analysts Joyce White Vance and Barbara McQuade — are scathing critics of President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's criminal justice policies. Trump and Bondi, they argue, are using DOJ as a tool of retribution against political foes and doing things they never would have considered when they were federal prosecutors. But at the same time, Trump isn't shy about issuing presidential pardons for his allies. On his first night

President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is exacerbating America’s already-poor economy, prompting Republicans to worry that the longer this goes on, the worse it will be politically — “full stop.”“The longer this goes on, the worse it is politically, full stop,” Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett, who Trump appointed to the State Department during his first term, told The Wall Street Journal. He added that Trump is focused on foreign policy to the neglect of domestic affairs.“‘America first’

Indystar reports Indiana’s Gov. Mike Braun has signed a new bill forcing state colleges and universities to include a “classics-based” examination embraced by religious colleges in Republican states.For decades, the ACT and the SAT have been the gatekeepers and the standard-bearer of college admissions to measure a student's aptitude in core subjects like math, science and reading. But proponents said the test “would better assess students who received a classical education, typically offer

President Donald Trump’s administration is allowing prediction markets to gamble on war, prompting one conservative critic to describe the practice as “satanic.”“Like dogfighting, gambling on war is the sort of hobby that is best described in simple, direct moral terms,” Joe Perticone of The Bulwark wrote on Thursday. “(‘Satanic’ was the one that came to my mind.) But I wanted to pose the question about regulating or banning this industry to some of the lawmakers who are familiar with prediction markets.”After Kalshi CEO Tarek Manso